Less Preening, More Fun and a Touch of Dignity at Awards Show
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The Screen Actors Guild Awards moved fast, looked effortless and fun, and turned out to be a worthy substitute for the more glamorous Golden Globes.
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NEW YORK  &#151; Ellen DeGeneres can probably put anyone at ease. Even nominees for the biggest awards in show business.
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Oscar organizers hope Hollywood's  biggest stars will let down their hair and have fun at the  Academy Awards on Sunday, giving a much-needed spark to a show  that runs over three hours and can grow tiresome.
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Stars come down with style at the MTV awards.
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Hollywood's stylish stars got right back to their red carpet routines Sunday night, even if they'd been a bit out of practice. Glamorous gowns Â especially strapless and metallic ones Â dominated the fashion show that preceded the Screen Actor Guild Awards.
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You don't have to be a starlet on Oscar night to wear gorgeous clothes.
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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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Adiences of an exhibition are being invited to see what they would look like if they had cosmetic surgery.
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It&#39;s sad when it looks like the actors and crew are having way more fun on the set than the audience is having, and that&#39;s what it seems like with &quot;Ocean&#39;s Twelve.
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Fox&#39;s Emmy telecast  proved that you don&#39;t need to have a comedian serving as host.  You can sneak jokes into presenter speeches. You can have  &quot;Family Guy&#39;s&quot; Brian and Stewie hurl clever insults. You can  use taped pieces and a rant from Lewis Black. You can do all  that and put together an acceptable though unspectacular show.
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NEW YORK  - An Oscarcast first: the award show host (or in this case hostess) running a vacuum cleaner in the audience. As amusing as it was, DeGenerously speaking, it did take the glamour of the Oscars down a notch or two.
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A look back at some of the more memorable elements of Oscar broadcasts past.
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The longer you wait, the sweeter it is to win. At least that's what veteran performers Rod Stewart and Jerry Lee Lewis were feeling as they celebrated their awards from the Recording Academy.
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MIAMI - The MTV Video Music Awards show on Sunday featured typical frenetic energy and sexy style, and a few musical surprises, but it was mostly a kinder, gentler version of past shows. There was no Madonna-Britney Spears kiss, no partially clad Howard Stern coming down from the rafters, and certainly no wardrobe malfunctions...
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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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A low-key atmosphere  enveloped the Golden Globes on Sunday in place of the usual  red-carpet chaos as sponsors of the widely watched Hollywood  awards headed to a news conference to announce winners.
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The end of the Hollywood writers strike means the Oscar show will be the usual star-studded, fashion-filled extravaganza, organizers promised