DEADLINE HOLLYWOOD

Speaking of the Times … it ain’t easy reporting the Oscar show, as Sharon
Waxman proved with her deadline coverage. She got Peter Jackson’s nationality wrong, calling
him an Australian — all those New Zealand jokes notwithstanding. She got the number of
Sean Penn’s Oscar nominations wrong. It’s four, not three. Trivial errors to be sure. But how
about this? Despite reporting many times on Hollywood’s most notorious mogul, Miramax
co-chairman Bob Weinstein, she apparently doesn’t know what he looks like.
Weinstein was not the guy that Renee Zellweger kissed after winning her Oscar, as Waxman’s
story claimed. See the correction (scroll
down).

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