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Oscar song criteria
June 27, 2009
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Academy Awards organizers say they will give out no Oscar for best song next year if none of the tunes is considered good enough. Rules for the 82d Oscar show next March will require that at least one song achieve a minimum score of 8.25 on a scale of 6 to 10 by voting members of the academy’s music branch. If no song scores that well, there will be no best-song Oscar awarded. If only one song reaches that score, then it and the tune with the next-highest score will be the category’s two nominees. The number of nominees in the category can range from two to five. (AP)
McMahon memorial
Ed McMahon’s publicist says a celebration of the late “Tonight’’ show sidekick, who died Tuesday, is set for this coming Wednesday. Howard Bragman said yesterday that NBC will host the untelevised event at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in North Hollywood. McMahon died at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. He played second banana to host Johnny Carson on NBC’s “Tonight’’ show from 1962 until Carson retired in 1992. (AP)Rosie on the radio
Comedian Rosie O’Donnell will return to the talk show format but this time with her own morning satellite radio show. The comedian, actress, and former cohost of “The View’’ will host her own show on Sirius XM Radio, the satellite radio provider said in a statement Thursday. Sirius is also home to programs by shock jock Howard Stern and Oprah Winfrey. (Reuters)‘Bruno’ edited
The filmmakers behind “Bruno’’ have decided to delete a scene involving La Toya Jackson following her brother’s death. Universal Pictures, which is releasing the comedy, said the decision came “out of respect for the Jackson family.’’ The moment was first cut out of the movie’s Los Angeles premiere Thursday night, which took place just hours after Michael Jackson’s death. “Bruno,’’ starring British comic Sacha Baron Cohen as a gay Austrian fashion correspondent, is set to come out July 10. (AP)A TV reunion
Former “ER’’ star Noah Wyle has signed on as the lead in TNT’s untitled alien-invasion pilot, marking a reunion with producer Steven Spielberg. The project is set after aliens have wiped out most of the human population. Wyle will play the leader of a ragtag group of soldiers and civilians who struggle against the occupying force. “It is a privilege to be starting a second series with Noah,’’ said Spielberg, whose company was behind “ER.’’ “The first didn’t do too badly.’’ (Hollywood Reporter)Like fine wine
"Girls my own age are not really an option." -- Actor Daniel Radcliffe, 20, to Parade magazine on his preference for older women
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