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C6 Entertainment The Leader-Post Regina Friday, March 20. 1 998 ijuyngr Mara Oscar votes expected ffop Titanic' erreetion, as dance ever comes Evening Times-Ctobe, 1996 I gible Academy voters, then six to eight employees count the ba'lefs, along with Garrison and another partner, Lisa Pierozzi. They check that the ballots are valid and discard those that are mismarked or tardy. Totals are tabulated in such a way that only the two partners know the results. St.

Patricks Day was the deadline for this years balloting. Following several days of tabulation, the two partners will meet Monday morning to prepare envelopes. Price Waterhouse competitors have tried to win over the Academy account, since its about the best publicity an accounting firm could ever have. But the Oscar folks remain loyal, and once each year Price basks in its fame. Canada's RoyalWinNipegBallet Artistic Dir Andre Lewis run iking George Balanchine's Bmlo Della Regina Antony Tudor's The Leaves Are Fading? Mark Gooden's The Rite Of Spring -j (wrw; RWB ToMOnamtsA- NOWlOPEN, WEEKENDS INOWIOPEN) WEEKENDS TOMMY LEE JONES LOS ANGELES (AP) Last years Oscar ceremonies honored the independents.

Monday night, the 70th Academy Awards will likely mark a return of the major studios to Hollywoods rite of spring, with James Camerons shipwreck saga Titanic favored to win big The English Patient, Shine, Sling Blade and other films produced outside the Hollywood system dominated the awards last March. This years nominees are headed by three big bucks, establishment movies: Titanic; As Good As It Gets, about a hateful novelist who learns to love, and LA Confidential the film noir tale of police corruption in 1950s Los Angeles. Another favorite, Good Will Hunting, about a blue-collar genius trying to confront personal demons, was released by Miramax Films, a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Co. Only the British male-stripper comedy The Full Monty ranks as totally independent. Curiously, Canadian director Atom Egoyan believes the solid performance by the epic Titanic this year will actually give his little film The Sweet Hereafter, a fair chance.

People are talking about a backlash against independent films. So because there was such a successful studio film, maybe people were able to focus on that Its hard to say. Egoyan is up for best director and best adapted screenplay. But as trends come and go, one Academy Awards feature never changes: Price Waterhouse the accounting firm that year after year delivers the envelope, please. Those stiff guys from Price have paid a price, enduring endless jokes by emcees from Bob Hope to Billy Crystal as they try to fit in with the evenings glamor Price Waterhouse began counting Oscar votes in 1936.

There was no sealed-envelope secrecy in those days. The results were given to reporters before the ceremony even began. But in 1940, guests arriving at the gala event were astonished to read about the winners in an early edition of the Los Angeles Times. Oops. After that, a veil of secrecy descended on the balloting, and it has yet to be violated.

Sometimes the race is close, says Frank Johnson, who retired last year after 21 years as the firms man at the Oscars. In that case we recount the ballots to make sure of the results. Once we had a tie. That was for best actress of 1968. Katharine Hepburn, The hum Winter, and Barbra Streisand, Funny Girl Johnson has been replaced by Greg Garrison, 44, a Price partner.

We work with the Academy the year round as their financial auditors, Garrison said. There are two separate processes in the vote-counting- the nominations and the final result. Price Waterhouse makes sure the ballots go to the 5,371 eli March 24, 8 pm the Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts Call 525-9999 tickets 9.00 includes GST DISCOUNTS AVAILABLE FOR STUDENTS, SENIORS, CHILDREN CROUPS 14 Violence, Coarse Language 14 Violence, Coarse Language -G2D- SPHERE TWILIGHT Investors MJumupn PREMIER SPONSOR CANADIAN TOUR 14 Violence, Coarse Language 14 Violence, Coarse Language CARlOADTSUNDAY Get the savings habit! Read the Classified ads to learn where the real bargains are. txjrvviLi tssesi otdogs DIGITAL SOUNDS 2102 11THAVE. 522-3F MOVIE GUIDE Gen.

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