Academy Awards: A dozen ideas to help fix the Academy Awards ceremony

By AP LOS ANGELES — The Academy Awards are the film industry's biggest night of the year, and movie fans deserve their own Oscar celebrations. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and ABC, which broadcasts the Academy Awards, suggest OscarNo, that's not a synopsis of "The Artist," the delightful French silent film that's the odds-on favorite to sweep Sunday night's Academy Awards. It's a description of recent Oscarcasts themselves, rote affairs in

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