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By Times staff
© St. Petersburg Times, published March 25, 2001
Broadcast of the 73rd annual Academy Awards begins at 8 tonight on WFTS-TV Ch. 28, and is bound to go past midnight.
Among the televised coverage:
E! Entertainment Television devotes the entire day to Oscar coverage, starting with celebrity profiles on the half-hour from 7 a.m. to noon, then six hours of Countdown to the Red Carpet. At 6 p.m., E! continues with celebrity arrivals at the Oscars. For night owls, E! comes back at midnight with a few hours of post-Oscars programming.
The WB (locally, WTTA-Ch. 38), has an hour of Oscar preshow activities starting at 7 p.m.
Barbara Walters does her traditional pre-Oscar special at 7 p.m. on WFTS-Ch. 28 with actors John Travolta and Kelly Preston, comedian/actor Ben Stiller and his parents Anne Meara and Jerry Stiller, and singer Faith Hill.
See Monday's St. Petersburg Times for Steve Persall's report on the Oscar show, plus our annual look at Oscar fashion. In Tuesday's Times, Ed. Cassidy will have some awards of his own to hand out from inside the ceremony and the parties.