Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for February 28, 2004

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Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling Did You Know? This week -- the OSCARS 2004! Thar's GOLD in them thar Hollywood hills! OSCAR gold!! Astound your friends with these Oscariffic fun facts and academ-azing info-bits, and they'll say, "I'd like to thank...YOU!" If every twenty-something aspiring screenwriter could get Bill BILL MURRAY in his/ her self-indulgent, naval-gazing, "nobody understands me" script, they'd be up for Oscars, too! The MAORI LANGUAGE has 18 different words to describe RENEE ZELLWEGER'S weight fluctuations! Ben Kingsley gets together with Tom Cruise every Tuesday night, and kicks his butt in acting! In order to prepare for his role in "Mystic River," SEAN PENN had a daughter, had her killed, then dipped himself in a vat of seltzer and Pop Rocks! Lovely CHARLIZE THERON answers her phone, "Z-99 plays all the hits, all the time." It's the phrase that pays. If she were cloned, the proper word for a group \of MARCIA GAY HARDENS would be a "PLETHORA." The Academy ruled that JACK NICHOLSON'S performance in "Something's Gotta Give" did not qualify for Best Supporting Actor because he's technically not human.