Oscars by Maxin Mathew

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Bengaluru ● Tuesday ● 9 March 2010 Taylor Swift not finished writing about ex-lover Joe Jonas in her songs.

Jade Goody leaves £3 million to her two sons, widower Tweed gets nothing.

Megan Fox hates attention-seeking clothes because she doesn’t want to be recognised.

International WINNERS Best Picture The Hurt Locker

Best Director Kathyrn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker)

Best Actress Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side)

Best Actor Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart)

Best Supporting Actor Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds)

Best Supporting Actress Clockwise from left: Kathyrn Bigelow with Barbara Streisand, Jeff Bridges, Ben Stiller, Sandra Bullock, Christoph Waltz, Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin at the Oscar Awards ceremony. — AP, Reuters

Mo’Nique (Precious)

Best Foreign Film El Secreto de Sus Ojos (The Secret In Their Eyes) Argentina

Best Original Screenplay The Hurt Locker

● BIGELOW FIRST WOMAN TO WIN BEST DIRECTOR IN 82 YEARS; LOCKER SHUTS OUT AVATAR WITH SIX GONGS

HURTBREAK AND HISTORY AT OSCARS Los Angeles, March 8: Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman in the 82-year history of the Academy Awards to take the prize as her gritty Iraq War movie The Hurt Locker outshone Avatar after a nail-biting campaign season. The Hurt Locker also took home the top prize, best picture, and four awards in other categories. Avatar, the 3D smash directed by Bigelow’s ex-husband, James Cameron, ended up with three awards, all in technical categories. The acting races finished as expected and all four honorees took home the first statuettes of their careers. Jeff Bridges won for his James Cameron congratulates ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow after she won the Oscar for Best Director while he lead role as a drunken country — AP , Reuters singer who gets a shot at rede- (right) jokingly attempts to strangle her at the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday. mption in porting field, the prizes went She sent him a Crazy to Austrian actor Christoph Bullock to put Razzie and Oscar side by side Heart.” Waltz for the Nazi revenge beautiful gift SANDRA Bullock collected the Worst and Best Actress in Sandra fantasy Inglourious Basterds, just two days and the actress says that she’s going to disbasket, with a Bullock and comic Mo’Nique for the play display her Oscar and Golden Raspberry trophies to timer. And he got the dark urban drama Precious: remind her of the highs and lows of the movie industry. gold for Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by “They’re going to sit side by side, as they should. We’re in reciprocated playing Sapphire. the entertainment business. That’s what we’re supposed to by sending do. You take the good with the not so good,” Bullock said. a suburThe biggest shocks were in ban mom the adapted screenplay and her a Toyota.” who gui- foreign-language film cateBigelow hopes to be ‘first of many’ to win Oscar Host Steve Martin on des a hom- gories. Geoffrey Fletcher Bigelow and Cameron THE Hurt Locker filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow hopes she is eless black became the first Africanthe first of many woman directors to win the coveted award. teen to American to win the writing is one of the least-commercial Asked whether she’s now ready to be called a female direcfootball prize, for his work on Pre- best-picture Oscar winners tor, Bigelow said, “First of all, I hope I’m the first of many. stardom in cious. ever. And of course I’d love to just think of myself as a filmmakThe Blind The prize had been expected Only three other women had er...But I’m very grateful if I can inspire some young, intreSide. to go to Up in the Air, a six- ever been nominated for the pid, tenacious male or female filmmakers and make them In the time nominee that was directing Oscar, most recent- feel that the impossible is possible.” supsnubbed. ly Sofia Coppola for Lost in The Argentine crime drama Translation in 2004. No more Nazis for Oscar winner Waltz The Secret in their Eyes (El Bullock, 45, ran a close race AN Oscar triumph tops an extraordinary year for Austrian secreto de sus ojos) with Meryl Streep for “Julie actor Christoph Waltz, who has now won 18 prizes for playclaimed the country’s sec- & Julia.” It’s now been 27 the devilish sadistic Nazi officer Hans Landa, but has ond prize in the field. years since 16-time nominee ing vowed never to play such a role again. “The role of a Nazi, I With North American Streep won her second Oscar. will never play again. Oscar and Penelope, that’s an uber ticket sales of about $15 Waltz, 53, became the first bingo,” Waltz said as he accepted his award from Penelope million — about half of actor to win an Oscar for a Cruz. It’s a role that not only took me 30 years, it’s one that what Avatar earned in its film directed by Quentin most actors never get,” he noted. first day — The Hurt Locker Tarantino. — Reuters

Why ginger hair is common among Scots London, March 8: Blame the prevalence of ginger hair among the Scottish people on genes and even the weather, says a new study. A genetics research student Emily Pritchard, 26, revealed her insights in an article about her sister’s red hair for a University of Edinburgh magazine. She explained the love of ginger hair among the Scots through a formula - genetic mutation + bad weather = red heads. And said that the formula “was speculation rather than scientific study, but it is plausible.” It has been observed that while redheads amount to 1-2 per cent of the European population, an estimated 8 per cent of Scots and Irish are ginger. — ANI

antioxidants. One study at the University of Washington among 2,000 women, found those who drank one or more cups of green tea a day had a 54 per cent reduction in their chance of getting the cancer. Lemon grass fights headaches Native lemon grass has the potential to relieve headaches and migranes, researchers say after proving that lemon grass plant Cymbopogon Ambiguus may be as good as aspirin. “We tested extracts of the plant on blood platelets and one fraction showed strong biological activity,” a reasearcher said. — PTI, IANS

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Shhhh. I’m live tweeting from directly under Sandra Bullocks chair. — Rainn Wilson, actor. Charlize Theron would like to thank R. Crumb and my 16year-old kid for designing her outfit. — David Itzkoff, New York Times reporter. Just got lost for a minute, sorry. Where was I? Oh yeah, Zach Effron’s eyes! — Rob Corddry, comedian. Looks like a Young Victoria sweep. — David Wain, comedian.

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Shortest Oscar story in history: ( ! > $ ) — Roger Ebert, film critic.

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Oscars Fun Fact — Samuel L. Jackson spends 40 per cent of his yearly income on Kangol hats ... — Eric Stangel, Late Show With David Letterman writer-producer.

Precious

Best Animated Feature Film Up

Art Direction Avatar

Cinematography Avatar

Visual Effects Avatar

Costume Design Young Victoria

Make-up Star Trek

Music (Orig. Song) Crazy Heart: The Weary Kind by Ryan Bingham and T. Bone Burnett

Original Score Up

Sound Editing The Hurt Locker

Sound Mixing ◗

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Oh, Sam Worthington, your glasses make me think you’re imperfect and therefore accessible. — Mindy Kaling, actor-writer. Oprah’s about to tell everyone in the audience there’s an Oscar under their seat. — Foster Kamer, blogger. Cameron is going into his own hurt locker right now. — Paul Scheer, comedian.

The Hurt Locker

Film Editing The Hurt Locker

Short Film (Live Action) The New Tenants

Best Feature Documentary The Cove

JFK condolence letters published

Tea reduces risk of ovarian cancer London, March 8: Scientists have come up with yet more evidence of why tea is good for health — the drink can significantly reduce a woman’s risk of developing ovarian cancer. Previous research showed the tea also helps the heart, boosts the brain and lowers levels of “bad” cholesterol. Now, two studies have found that women women who drink two cups of black tea or one cup of green tea everyday could slash their risk of developing ovarian cancer by nearly half, the Daily Express reported. The scientists have hailed the cancer-protecting properties of both teas which are packed with health-boosting

FUNNY TWEETS

Best Adapted Screenplay

Victoria Beckham at the 18th Elton John AIDS Foundation Viewing Party in California on Sunday. — AP

Concord, March 8: Among the 1.5 million condolence letters sent to President John F. Kennedy’s widow after his assassination in 1963 were more than two dozen from Jane Dryden, a dogged and dramatic 11-year-old who churned out a letter a week for six months straight. “I know that you hate the whole state of Texas. I do to,” she wrote to Jacqueline Kennedy from Austin in January 1964. “I wish I lived in Washington, D.C. where maybe I could maybe see you standing on your porch. I am determined to move there as soon as I can. I would feel safer there.” Given the overwhelming volume of mail — 800,000 letters in the first seven weeks alone — most of condolence letters were

The book includes more than 200 never-before published letters dealing with vivid recollections of the day he was killed; letters that express views on society and the presidency; and personal experiences of grief and loss. destroyed. But at least one of Dryden’s notes ended up among the 200,000 pages that were sent to the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, where they sat largely ignored until historian Ellen Fitzpatrick decided to write Letters to Jackie: Condolences From a Grieving Nation. The book, released last week by HarperCollins, includes more than 200 never-before published let-

ters divided into three categories: vivid recollections of the day Kennedy was killed; letters that express views on society, politics and the presidency; and personal experiences of grief and loss. Larry Toomey of Upper Darby, Pa., didn’t even wait until Kennedy’s death was announced before starting his letter. “My dear Mrs Kennedy, Even as I write this letter, my hand, my

body is trembling at the terrible incident of this afternoon. I am watching the CBS-TV news report. No official word as yet.” Writing two days later, eighth-grader Mary South described learning that the president had been shot just as she sat down to play the church organ at her Catholic school in Santa Clara, Calif. “I tried to tell myself he would be all right but somehow I knew he wouldn’t. ... the tears wouldn’t stop. The slightly damp keys were hard to play but I offered it up that the President might live,” she wrote. In return for her letter, she received a small card printed with the words “Mrs. Kennedy is deeply appreciative of your sympathy and grateful for your thoughtfulness.” — AP