Small Talk
Newcastle Herald
Monday December 8, 2008
AUSTRALIANS will be able to watch the Academy Awards live on free-to-air television next year for the first time. The Nine Network will broadcast the red-carpet arrivals and ceremony from late morning (Australian time) on February 23. The coverage of the 81st Academy Awards will be repeated in prime time.
NEW Zealand's popular folk parody duo Flight of the Conchords has been nominated for a Grammy the American music industry's biggest award. The funnymen have been nominated for best comedy album of the year for their self-titled CD. The duo won the 2007 best comedy album Grammy for The Distant Future. The Flight of the Conchords have their own television series in the United States, which screens on Network Ten in Australia. The Grammy award winners will be announced at a ceremony on February 8. IT's hard to be a working mother, even for Christina Aguilera. The 27-year-old pop star said she was navigating the "balancing act" she expected when she took on parenthood with her husband, Jordan Bratman. "I wasn't going to give up who I was before I had the baby," Aguilera said on the red carpet outside the Nokia Theatre, where she performed during the Grammy nominations concert. "It's important to stay true to that as an example also for my son to find out what his goals are, what he's passionate about doing, so it's sort of leading by example in that sense," she said.
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