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January 25, 2009

'Slumdog' star sightings

84449834 Second best moment tonight for Anil Kapoor -- meeting international star and smokin' hot babe, Angelina Jolie.

Second best moment for Dev Patel -- meeting his big-screen first-love Kate Winslet. "And she knew who I was!"

Or then again, maybe those were the best moments for the "Slumdog Millionaire" actors. They're Hollywood newbies after all.

Backstage, the quartet of actors who'd just accepted the best cast award for the rags-to-riches Mumbai-set love story shared their star sightings (Kapoor enlisted his co-star Irfan Khan to do the Angelina intro) but said perhaps the most meaningful result of the mounting "Slumdog" pile o' kudos is that India and its entertainment crews are poised for more opportunity.

It couldn't come at a better time.

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  • So "The Dark Knight" didn't make it into the final five after all, never mind that critical and popular support. Let's just call the comic-inspired mega-hit "The Biggest Snubee."

    Here are the best picture contenders in a race that, two weeks away from the Oscars, seems to be a foregone conclusion ("Slumdog") unless there's a come-from-behind possibility ("The Reader" anyone?)

    "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," with Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett; the politically timely "Milk;" rags-to-riches fairy tale, "Slumdog Millionaire," Holocaust best-seller-based drama "The Reader," and Watergate-era biopic "Frost/Nixon."

    Could "Button" and "Slumdog" split the vote, allowing another film to take the prize? Doesn't seem likely. After having clung to "Button" for months as what we thought would be the Academy voters' top vhoice, our money's now on "Slumdog." Momentum can't be ignored.

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