Primping for Oscar
BEVERLY HILLS -- Inside room 507, 12 people, three on cell phones, swirl around American Beauty starlet Mena Suvari as she tries on Stuart Weitzman shoes. Upstairs in room 617, there's chaos because the U.S. Customs Service has held up the delivery of 27 Daniel Swarovski handbags from Paris. Next door in Thierry Mugler's suite 618, they've run out of champagne flutes. And imagine the horror -- a CNN reporter is stuck in a Pamela Dennis gown down in suite 517.

TV Times addenda
Here is a listing of today's television news shows.

The nation in brief
Fugitive killers holed up in home

The world in brief
Blair: Elgin Marbles will stay in British Museum