By Mark Mix
Home day care providers would be forced into unions
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."
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.
The folks behind Hollywood's glitziest night have imported some help this year _ from Broadway.
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You know those tall, leggy beauties that normally carry the Oscar trophies so the stars can present them?
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.
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 will host the 2013 Oscars ceremony in Los Angeles.
"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 producing team that helped to create such musicals as "Chicago" and "Hairspray" is overseeing the next Academy Awards ceremony.
"It's been good, yeah?" she asked producer Neil Meron, who nodded in approval.
Oscar producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron said there's no leash on MacFarlane _ they'll allow him to get as edgy as he wants.