No Globes, No Grammys and No Oscars?

Amid the pervasive uncertainty created by the WGA strike, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences is forging ahead with plans for the Feb. 24 Oscar ceremony. But the Academy is also planning two different shows -- the usual kudocast and an alternative event if the scribes are still out.

Oscarcast producer Gil Cates supplied few details as to what form the alternative show would take, simply saying at a meeting at Acad headquarters that they'd have to "play it by ear," according to one attendee.

But it's likely that the alternative show would rely on industry heavyweights penning their own speeches and presenting the awards.

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The Internal Revenue Service and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences yesterday announced they have reached a settlement on undisclosed taxes owed to the government on the "gifts" received at the Oscars in the last several years, through 2005. The academy also announced it will no longer give out the bags, saying the board quietly voted last April to end the practice. In recent years, the academy has given the bags -- also known as gift bags or swag -- to as many as 200 hosts, performers and winners on Oscar night. "There's no special red-carpet tax loophole for the stars," IRS Commissioner Mark W. Everson said in a prepared statement. "Whether you're popping the popcorn, sitting in the audience or starring on the big screen, you need to respect the law and pay your taxes."

Typically, if the IRS finds someone has failed to pay taxes but no fraud is involved, it assesses back taxes, interest and penalties for only the preceding three years. In this instance, if 200 people received $100,000 baskets in each of the three years through 2005, the taxable non-cash income would be $60 million. Neither IRS spokesmen nor Academy spokeswoman Leslie Unger would confirm or deny that number. Nor would they say whether, under the terms of the settlement, the IRS forgave back payment, interest and penalties. Nor would they say whether the Academy has paid a lump sum on behalf of past recipients.

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Other winners included Jeopardy!'s Alex Trebek, who beat Who Wants to Be a Millionaire's Vieira for the Emmy as best game-show host, and Caroll Spinney (a.k.a. Big Bird), who won a lifetime achievement award for his work on Sesame Street – which was also named best pre-school children's series.

In terms of the awards for soap operas, Guiding Light won four Daytime Emmys, including actress Kim Zimmer as lead actress (her fourth career trophy). The show also had three first-time winners: Gina Tognoni (supporting actress), Tom Pelphrey (younger actor) and Jordan Clarke (supporting actor).

General Hospital was named best drama and directing, bringing the ABC soap a record nine trophies in the drama category. The show's Tony Geary (who plays Luke Spencer) won his fifth Daytime Emmy as lead actor. His first was in 1982.

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Everybody loved Raymond one more time, honoring the show Sunday as best comedy series for its final season. That denied the prize to newcomer Desperate Housewives while giving best drama honors to another first-year hit, Lost.

"All year long they've been asking us, 'Do you think, now that your show is going, is this the end of the sitcom?'" said Everybody Loves Raymond executive producer Phil Rosenthal. "I want to say, yes. Beyond that, it's the end of laughing and the end of smiling."

Felicity Huffman and Patricia Arquette became first-time Emmy winners as they received lead actress honors while Tony Shalhoub and James Spader once again proved favorites in the best actor category.

"I've turned into one of those actresses and I'm sorry," Huffman, who plays an overwhelmed homemaker on ABC’s Desperate Housewives, said as she teared up at the start of her acceptance speech.

She thanked "the women of Wisteria Lane," her co-stars Marcia Cross and Teri Hatcher - also nominees in the category - and Nicollette Sheridan and Eva Longoria.

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Desperate Housewives, TV's most watched new series of the 2004-05 season, now becomes TV's most nominated series in the race for the 57th Annual Primetime Emmys. It is a title shared with NBC's Will & Grace, which despite declining ratings scored nods for all of its stars (save Debra Messing), and several of its game stunt-casting participants. Only the HBO made-for-TV movies, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers and Warm Springs, hoarded more nominations--16 each--as the award-show field was announced at a predawn press conference in North Hollywood, California.

Though not short on drama, ABC's suburbia-skewering Housewives is competing as a comedy. As such, stars Marcia Cross, Teri Hatcher and Felicity Huffman will vie for Lead Comedy Series Actress honors against Everybody Loves Raymond's Patricia Heaton, a past winner, and Malcolm in the Middle's Jane Kaczmarek, a six-time nominee.

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Ellen DeGeneres Wins Five Daytime Emmys

Among all programs, ABC's "All My Children" and the syndicated "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" won the most with five each. CBS's "As the World Turns" and "The Young and the Restless" and PBS's "Reading Rainbow" and "Sesame Street" each won four. Three each went to ABC's "General Hospital" and "One Life to Live" and the syndicated "Oprah Winfrey Show." Two awards each went to CBS's "The Bold and the Beautiful," Food Network's "Easy Entertaining," PBS's "Jakers" and the syndicated "Live with Regis and Kelly" and "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire."

It was the first outstanding drama series win for "General Hospital" since 2000. DeGeneres, who also hosted the show, won for talk show host and talk show.

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Christopher Award Winners Announced

The 2005 Christopher Awards have been announced. The Christopher Awards are given to books, films and TV/cable programs that "affirm the highest values of the human spirit."

Feature Films:
Finding Neverland, Hotel Rwanda, The Incredibles, and Miracle.

Television and Cable:
ABC News Primetime Thursday -- A Survivor's Story (ABC-TV), The Brooke Ellison Story (A&E Network), Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me (HBO Family), Independent Lens: The New Americans miniseries (PBS) and Something the Lord Made (HBO).

Adult Books:

Children's Books:

Posted on March 3, 2005
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