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Halifax filmmaker returns with Oscar

CNN.com – Pentagon: Iraqi forces engaged in ‘deadly deception’ – Mar. 24, 2003

Check it out. I got an email from the artist who did West Hollywood Lifestyle Whatever.

CBC News: B.C. sells fast ferries Someone got the $454 million ferries at a $19 million steal. That’s $19 million total folks – a $435 million or 95+% firesale! Argh!

Where is Glen Clark, our former Premiere, hiding today?

Although Chicago, a film we haven’t seen yet, won best picture and 6 other Oscars, “The Pianist” won some of the biggies. The coolest of which was Adrien Brody’s for his protrayal of Jewish pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman in “The Pianist,” win in the Best Actor category.

His acceptance speech was especially moving alluding to the timing of his recieving the award for this particular role and this point in time. He said, “It fills me with great joy, but also great sadness, because I’m accepting this award at such a strange time. Let’s pray for a peaceful and swift resolution,” to a standing ovation, and paid tribute to a friend from Queens serving in Kuwait.

“The Pianist” also won a Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for Ronald Harwood’s adapatation of Wladyslaw Szpilman’s harrowing tale and Roman Polanski, also a Holocaust survivor, (absent dues to legal issues over his statutory rape of an underaged girl in the 1970’s) won Best Director.

Here’s the complete list of winners. Note especially Eminem (also absent) winning the Oscar for Best Song with his Lose Yourself from the semi-biographical 8 Mile.

Some U.S. POWs ID’d by families “Red Cross trying to get access to prisoners on both sides of war.”

Since we’ve been doing the low carb/high protein diet I’ve been eating a ton of eggs. I used to be able to say Iloveegg, but have frankly tired of them fairly quickly. Ugh!

Even if you don’t read arabic Al Jazeera TV is an interesting site with a different perspective on the war in Iraq. Have a peek at the pictorials. They tell a different story than what we’re seeing. Far less sanitized so if you’ve got a weak stomach don’t bother.

It’s a new season for Boo and Cari

Their internal clocks aer synced up just right with the seasons. The first full day of spring was yesterday.