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Attn ad # 1734 200 Quality Circle College Station, TX 77845 (979)595-2609 (979)595-2613-fax AGGIELIFE Page 4 THE BATTALION Monday, MarcL r And the Oscar goes to 72nd annual awards show takes some risks, but still has undeserving wim wv* Come and learn about The Women’s Museum: An Institute for the Future Cathy Bonner and Lillian Murray will share information about the newest museum that is dedicated \th to the history of women in the 20 Century. The museum is located in the Dallas FairPark area. Monday, March 27, 2000 2:30 - 4:30 p.m. 206 MSC For more information, contact Diane K. Carr at 845-4016. To learn about The Women’s Museum: An Institute for the Future, check the web site at:www.thewomensmuseum.org 0/ WM ,o o m To learn more "about Women’s Week, check the web site womensweek.tamu.edu t ^ecause the 72nd Annual Acade- my Award were produced by a m M couple of honest-to-goodness movie producers, there was talk of how the Oscars might actually be over in a reasonable amount of time this year. Had these people ever heard how many months a movie can be in pro duction? Even small movies are in production for several months. So the Academy brings in people who work in terms of months to pro duce a show that is only supposed to run for three hours. Smart, huh? All talk of an early evening went out the window when only one Oscar, one for costume design or something, was presented in the first 25 minutes. Thankfully, most of the early min utes were spent watching Billy Crys tal do his ritual song-and-dance rou tine, which is the most entertaining part of the show, anyway. They obviously hoped to keep the Oscars short by limiting the time each recipient had to thank everyone they have ever known in their life, which surprisingly, seemed to work. Not. Don't these producers realize that if they were to do away with all the dedications to past movies and pro grams, the awards would be over in half the time, even if all those bloated Hollywood egos were allowed to talk as they wanted to at the podium? Now everyone knows the Acade my Awards have been know n to pick movies w hile everyone else in the world asks themselves, "How in the heck did that win an award?” This year's awards actually started off promisingly as the first two main awards presented, best supporting ac tress and best supporting actor, went to the actual two most-deserving nominees, Angelina Jolie for Girl, In terrupted and Michael Caine for The Cider House Rules, respectively. 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The awards for best original screenplay and best adapted screen play went to American Beaut}' and The Cider House Rules, respectively, which makes a lot of sense consider ing these movies led the way with eight nominations and seven nomina tions, respectively. It was fitting that Hilary Swank won for best actress for her brilliant performance as a girl pretending to be a guy in Boys Don't Cry. The Acade my must be celebrated for taking such a big risk by giving her this award. It was obvious that the ABC cam era operators were really rooting for Kevin Spacey for best actor since he was given more camera time than Bil ly Crystal. Could Spacey have possi- JEFF SMITH/Tm BaTTaijon ble looked any more smug, though? Not quite surprisingly, Spacey won despite my cursings at the TV. What the heck were those people thinking though to give the Oscar for best actor to Kevin Spacey? The guy is a good actor, but he has given the same deadpan performance in every role of his career. Having met the "esteemed" actor, it just does not seem like he really did that great of a job of acting in this movie. In fact, he gave the same performance in Ameri can Beauty as he did in Rocket Gibral- ter — minus the flat-top hairdo. Ifone hasn’t heard of that movie, go rent it and watch the now-superstar Spacey struggle in a "blah" role. The Academy could have picked nearly any of the oilier aetors nominated and not gone wrong, but this decision was nothing short of a disgrace to the other nominees. It was as disgraceful as giving! statue for best director to Sam Max for American Beauty. I am not®! that this movie is bad — it isagrea extremely inventive movie. The problem is that thescnpi Alan Ball, which won exactly* deserved, and the rest ofthepeopi involved in the movie are what it this movie great. Sam Mendes said it himselfit interview that without Conrad Hi his cinematographer and his edits the movie would have beennothipW YES SiP., The Academy gave the award fa rector to a man who had no film exp! ence. It is obv ious that he reliedka on his underlings to tell the story for Of course, the film went onto best picture as well. 1 agree choice. 1 think this film eamedte picture and best original screenpt and best cinematography. These awards are all richly deserved. I low ever, the actor and directa did not deserve to win the.award! w hen compared to the other tab represented in their categories.te because Mendes manages to tell I® actors w here to-stand does not him a great director. The only explanation one caa for these lapses in the voters better judgment is that American momentum, evident by itv live of the eight awards it wstt® nated for. That, however, isnoex- [onday, March (?I6H7 E £r'5 £a£< U££K , UJ/ Of PttJfdO' :/)/v|pAl6A£f DO |Tt':S qoor < cuse, particularly after theydisplaye such courage in giving the bestac- tress award to Swank. All in all, the show this year w decent, albeit long. When will the Academy reafe that many people in Americawoii be so much happier if the shown! somewhere close to its allottedti instead of more than an hour over The next time the Academy tries j pretend it will end on time, people should take that with about the sarw amount of belief they had wh Clinton uttered the words, “I did not have sexual relations with that woi Yeah, riuht. 254 Final stAi Kraft M* $Ait> He v Matt McCormick is a junior agricultural development ma\ The Battalion Classified Advertising • Easy • Affordable • Effective For information, call 345-0569 BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND, EXPANDED FOR MORE POSSIBILITIES! UTA MAYMESTER Earn credit hours during semester break! May 15-20th and 22-26th Final Exam • June! 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