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- mayo0
"Can you center it a little better?"
- Jaline0
"Favorite highlights of Sunday night's 79th Annual Academy Awards telecast posted on YouTube by viewers were removed Tuesday and replaced with a message reading, "This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences," Daily Variety observed today (Wednesday). Academy executive administrator Ric Robertson told the trade publication that the organization had asked YouTube to remove the clips "to help manage the value of our telecast and our brand." Meanwhile film exhibitors are grumbling about Jerry Seinfeld's quips during the telecast about the high prices at theater concession stands. ("You rip us off on overpriced crap.") In a message to L.A. Weekly columnist Nikki Finke, Gene Oliver, a theater owner in Pryor, OK, wrote, "My theater works on a profit margin of 8-10 percent and we work very hard to keep movies available to the public. The only reason that theaters MUST charge the prices for concessions is to survive. Without concessions there would be NO venues for the exhibition of film. Without popcorn there would be no industry, it is that simple.""
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