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Attend Oscar Events in Hollywood Without Becoming a Stalker
So, you wanna take part in the Oscars but don’t have a nominated film, fancy gown or any Hollywood connections? Don't worry, there are still plenty of Oscar-related events for you too. Lindsay Lohan, you might want to take note.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences traditionally sets up bleachers along the red carpet so fans can watch all the stars arrive. Every September, they hold a week long online lottery giving away tickets for the spots. Anyone can put their name in but you have to have pretty good luck to win considering last year over 20,000 people entered but only 300 seats were available.
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'Slumdog Millionaire' Tour: Effective or Exploitative?
First comes the critical accolades, next come the tourists: The same week "Slumdog Millionaire" got ten Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, a Mumbai company announced it would start offering the "Slumdog Experience," giving film lovers the chance to see the real-life neighborhoods in Danny Boyle's movie.
Reality Tours and Travel is no flash in the pan: The joint India-English owned company was founded two years ago to introduce visitors to the Dharavai slum outside of Mumbai. Cameras are not allowed and visitors travel on foot in order to be as inconspicuous as possible, with the guides speaking to local residents as they travel.
Of course anyone who has seen "Slumdog Millionaire," in which our hero works for a spell as a tour guide in Agra, knows the, er, perils of shady operators on the road. But we're liking the do-gooder aspect of pumping the profits from these tours (a 2.5-hour trip is $10) back into the surrounding communities, including into an associated NGO providing vocational training and English lessons. It seems like a better way to enact change than, say, trying to win a milli on a national game show.
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· Slum Tours [Reality Tours and Travel]
· Slumdog Millionaire: The Experience [Faded Youth Blog]
· Slum Visits: Tourism or Voyeurism? [NYTimes article via Realitytoursandtravel.com]
· Movie Set Travel coverage [Jaunted]
[Photo: Guardian.co.uk]
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Oscar Nominations Announced
"We have a new camera focused on the press, so try not to fall asleep," joked Michael Seligman, longtime Academy Awards producer in the waning minutes before this year's Oscar nominations were announced at 8:30 this morning. We're not actually in the room, but we're as restless as a basket of kittens over here. (Go Team Winslet!)
Best Picture: "The Reader" (set in Berlin); "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (New Orleans, mostly); "Frost/Nixon" (London), "Milk" (San Francisco) and "Slumdog Millionaire" (India).
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2008 Emmys Travel: Fey's Funny, "Race" Wins Again
What, no beehive and glasses? Fresh off her turn as Sarah Palin on "SNL," Tina Fey walks the red carpet before the Emmy Awards ceremony last night in Los Angeles. Fey's series "30 Rock" walked away with best comedy and she and costar Alec Baldwin took home statues for best lead actress and actor, respectively.
Other big winners of the night: "John Adams" (Best Miniseries), which takes place in Revolutionary-era New England, and the New York-set "Mad Men" (Best Drama) for its portrait of the '60s. And Jaunted obsession "The Amazing Race" scooped up its sixth consecutive reality-competition prize.
Biggest losers: All the television shows whose themes Josh Groban mangled, medley-style.
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· 60th Primetime Emmys: A Night of Firsts [The Hollywood Reporter]
· Movie Set Travel: Baby Mama [Jaunted]
· Celeb Travel coverage [Jaunted]
[Photo: Just Jared]
