Oscar sweepstake prize announced
Thanks to a suggestion made by Virginia and Larry Michie, we have done a switcheroo on the nature of the award to be given to the winner of the Simesite Oscar Sweepstakes.
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Oscars
by PETER BESAS
It’s Oscar time once again, the third round on the Simesite. So all you film buffs, gamblers, hotshots, filmic psychologists, put on your thinking caps and send us your picks for what you think will be the winners of the Academy Awards for 2005.
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Moskowitz, Makk and Love on the Croisette
by RON HOLLOWAY
Nearly everyone in my crowd flashed the same puzzled look as we left the press screening at the Palais on the Croisette during the 1971 Cannes film festival.
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George Gilbert (Gilb) passes away
Veteran Variety, film scribe and copy editor George Gilbert, 92, passed away in a hospital near his home in Crystal River, Florida, on the evening of February 12. His daughter, Corinne Pinkos, was with him at the end and says his illness was sudden. He was suffering from a bad cold that he just couldn’t seem to kick.
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On a mission with Watt
By MORT BRYER
It was late on a raw, chilly, damp November day in 1978 that I was sitting next to Roger Watkins in the back seat of one of those wonderful London cabs, creeping up a narrow street somewhere in the bowels of London, already late for appointments with a several clients, including one at the Beeb. The cab inched along in the usual heavy traffic in central London. A 90 year old, with a walker and a bad case of bunions, could have made better time.
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