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2 SHOWS PLANNED FOR OSCARS
Posted by Ryan Adams on Jan 30th, 2008

From MSNBC, details about Plan B revealed. (’B’ as in Boring.)
A contingency plan that would include history, film clips and out-of-the-ordinary concepts for the 80th annual Academy Awards show is in the works, academy president Sid Ganis told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
With the writers strike dragging dangerously close to the Feb. 24 telecast, the film academy is planning two Oscar shows: “The show we would love to do and … a show that we would prefer not to do,” Ganis said…
The traditional, star-studded glamour-fest is in the works in case an agreement is reached. If not, organizers are working on a second show that will include “history and packages of film and concepts that are not normally ones that we would have for the show if we were moving straight ahead.”
…Meanwhile, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is talking with striking writers, said spokeswoman Leslie Unger. She declined to provide details.
“We have made contact with the guild,” Unger said. “We want to be able to do the kind of Oscar show that we always do, and we want to create the circumstances that will allow us to do that.”
Does it look like she’s negotiating? Let’s hope so.