By Jay Sekulow
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Some firsts and other rarities are possible at Sunday night's Academy Awards. But if the Oscars could be just a little less predictable, the show might really be one for the record books.
Christoph Waltz really owes Quentin Tarantino. Waltz won his second supporting-actor Academy Award on Sunday for a Tarantino film, this time as a genteel bounty hunter in the slave-revenge saga "Django Unchained."
You think the Academy Awards are boring? Try the nominations. They only last a few minutes, but it's generally a sleepy academy suit and a sleepy starlet droning a list of names at 5:30 in the morning.
The folks behind Hollywood's glitziest night have imported some help this year _ from Broadway.
You know those tall, leggy beauties that normally carry the Oscar trophies so the stars can present them?
The Hollywood Reporter's list of its 10 best stories of the week:
Academy Awards producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron have run out of rehearsal space. Dressing rooms, too.
The producers of the Academy Awards have good news for those watching at home: They're trying to cut out the boring parts.
The Broadway show within a show on NBC's "Smash" is getting its own cast album.
Oscar won't be the only chiseled man in the spotlight at the 85th Academy Awards.

Oscars host Seth MacFarlane is inviting college students to join him onstage at the Academy Awards.

Oscar host Seth MacFarlane is inviting college students to join him on stage at the Academy Awards.
Oscar host Seth MacFarlane is inviting college students to join him on stage at the Academy Awards.
The onscreen love between Queen Latifah, Alfre Woodard, Jill Scott and Phylicia Rashad in the updated version of "Steel Magnolias" is real.
"Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane says being invited to host the 2013 Academy Awards "was the greatest call that I could have gotten in show business."
"The question is always said, are the Oscars still relevant?"
"If we hire him and we don't let him say anything, then we're idiots," Zadan said. "Then why do we even go to him?"