DeGeneres delivers safe Oscar monologue
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Ellen DeGeneres kicked off the 79th annual Academy Awards with a low-key, low-risk monologue that set a warm tone for the evening.
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The common complaint about Oscar fashion choices of the past few years is that stars played it too safe. Not so this year.
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LOS ANGELES  - Just in time for the  holidays, "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" got a nice gift for the  week ending Dec. 19. The syndicated talker averaged a 2.4  household rating -- its best weekly performance ever.
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LOS ANGELES  - If the opinions of the nation's critics are anything to go by, Daniel Day-Lewis can pretty much pick up his best actor Oscar right now.
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Bill Clinton is one Oscar-worthy supporting actor who can sometimes upstage his leading lady simply by breathing.
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LOS ANGELES  - There's no official starting gun to the annual Oscar race, and the finish line for the 80th Annual Academy Awards isn't until February 24. But a number of races already have begun -- some quietly, some not so quietly.
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Heard at the 56th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards:
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Ellen DeGeneres has been tapped to host next year's Oscars, the Academy of Motions Pictures Arts and Sciences said Thursday.
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Oscar De La Hoya is many things. An ATM with legs. A clap-on, clap-off smile. One of the million Americans with their own reality TV show.
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LOS ANGELES  - If you wanted to take a few swipes at Sunday night's Oscar ceremony, it wouldn't be that hard.
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&quot;I&#39;m blessed, you know,&quot; says Oscar De La Hoya of those matinee idol looks which have survived the baddest intentions of hundreds of envious fighters.
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Hosting any live television show is  fraught with peril but adding the world's top movie stars makes  taking on the Oscars seem more like a dangerous thrill ride,  comedian Ellen DeGeneres said on Friday.
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Oscar winning actor George Clooney spoke candidly about his physique and his flops like Batman & Robin.
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Quotes from Associated Press entertainment coverage:
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Oscar winning actor George Clooney spoke candidly about his physique and his flops   like "Batman & Robin".
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Daytime talk show host Ellen  DeGeneres drew a million more U.S. TV viewers to the Oscars  than last year's telecast, but some critics found her  easy-going style too low-key for Hollywood's biggest night.
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Will there be any kind of recognizable Oscars show if the writers strike continues?