It's Oscar Night! (3/23/98)

The Academy Awards, Hollywood's annual paean to the best and brightest in the movie industry, will be given out tonight.

The Academy Awards differ from other industry awards shows, like the Grammys, in that every three years or so, the Oscars try to maintain credibility by giving awards to movies that don't make tons of money.

Insiders predict this will not be one of those years.

The leading contender, is, of course, James Cameron's "Titanic", which just completed its 14th week on the top of the box office charts. Titanic even beat out Jackie Chan's "Mr. Nice Guy", which came in sixth.

This, of course, proves that New Line Cinema was probably wrong to cut the "scaffold fight scene", which included Kate Winslet nude.