Now this is embarrassing. The Oscars have always bothered New York. An event so celebrity-ridden and trivial ought to take place in Manhattan, dammit. Harvey Weinstein, Michael Bloomberg and pals, having failed to trade September 11th sympathy for an East Coast Oscars, are still hoping the telecast will at least cut briefly to New York. Else the terrorists will have won.
Group to lobby for greater N.Y. presence in Oscars [AP]