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• Perhaps the big surprise (besides Juno getting nominated for Best Director and Best Picture) was Ruby Dee for her work in American Gangster (its only other nomination was for art direction)

THEATER: Wolf Lane Productions presents Victims of the Zeitgeist (The Tragedy of Martin Luther King, Jr.), written & directed by Ellwoodson Williams. The production "offers an exciting and telling insight into just who Martin Luther King, Jr., was as leader and simply as a sensitive and intelligent human being who loved life and who had a sense of humor, a deep understanding of the human condition - its strengths and weaknesses - and a profound belief in justice."

Want to just watch it on TV? Too bad -- unless you're willing to haul ass over to a college campus that gets mtvU. Ummmm, if you want to know about live performances from Rilo Kiley, Lupe Fiasco, Tokyo Police Club, The Academy Is… and Spank Rock, you're going to have to come crawling to our MAD EXCLUSIVE livebloggery! 9:55pm: Damn, kids are punctual these days! Show's over!?!?! What happened to being late for...

Pitchfork-approved blog darlings Tokyo Police Club have spent the last year and change transitioning from flavor of the month boy band to reputable musicians with an enviable knack for short, hook-happy hits. On Thursday night these clever Canucks will have the chance to further extend their fan base when they perform at the “Woodie” Awards; they’re nominated for a “Breaking Woodie”. Broadcast on the 24-hour college network mtvU, the award show will feature performances by...

EVENT: The Academy presents Meet the Oscars. On top of learning fun facts about Oscar, you'll get to see the little gold guy (and tons of tourists) up close and personal, as the statuettes are on display in Times Square. We suggest you bring a fake acceptance speech with you.

Robert Altman, maverick film director, died on Monday night in Los Angeles. He was 81 years old.

1. A girl was shot after a community center Halloween party on Saturday - and there may be a link to the Chicken Noodle rappers
2. From Upper East Side mansion to 7 World Trade Center: The Academy of the Sciences have moves downtown
3. Fun fact: 73% of the city's registered domestic partnerships are for straight couples
4. Alan Hevesi is persona-non-grata the Democrats' Election Day party... politics is so like high school!
5. Buy your own CBGB's chairs on eBay:
6. Le Cirque and Hawaiian Tropic Zone have really good publicists, given the ink they get... and why aren't we surprised that Mets hottie David Wright would be at Hawaiian Tropic Zone?
7. NBC might be a one-show-about-sketch-comedy network, as it could be axing Studio 60
8. The Knicks waive Jalen Rose... it's too early to say anything about season's Knicks team, but they've gotta be better than last season's (maybe they'll just have the second worst season ever)

After last year's mess of an awards show and this year's joke of nominations (where is love for Lauren Graham, Academy of Television Arts & Sciences?), we were going to swear off this year's Emmys. But then we realized Conan O'Brien was hosting, so we must watch and liveblog. And there's the hope of a good Steve Carrell bit, not to mention awkward reaction shots of Candy and Tori Spelling during the Aaron Spelling tribute.

It's the itch we can't scratch - the Academy Awards. We make sure we see the announcements at 8:30AM and then rush to work, thinking about the nominations while on the train. This morning, Academy President Sid Ganis and Mira Sorvino (who isn't doing anything else, anyway) announced the nominations. As expected, Brokeback Mountain, Good Night and Good Luck, and Capote earned many nominations, and Crash made a surprising showing with Best Picture, Best Director and even a Best Supporting Actor nomination for Matt Dillon. Other surprises/interesting things:

Media boo-boos:

It's both a Godsend and blaspehmy: there will be no red carpet at the Oscars this year, due to the impending war. (Thanks a lot, Bush and Saddam...no Joan or Melissa Rivers asking stupid questions...hey, really, thank you, Bush and Saddam!) Apparently celebrities don't want to seem frivolous, answering questions about "who are you wearing" while there may be air strikes. Ha. I bet they didn't want to be distracted by the inane tactics of the Rivers gals or Steven Cojocaru. I'm on the fence with red carpet coverage. I like Rogert Ebert, because his questions are good, but I also like knowing who people are wearing. But, thanks to People and the Internet, that'll be easy enough to know the next day. I bet all the fashion houses are freaking out even more than E! about this missed opportunity of free publicity.