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Thursday, June 16, 2005

This is NOT a Publicity STUNT - but it does involve stuntment and PR

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--AND THEY ARE TAKIN' IT TO THE STREET -- IN AN OSCAR PROTEST!

Hollywood's stunt community will take the action to the doorstep of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Thursday in a bid to get a long-desired Oscar category for stunt coordinators.

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The stunt groups say they have wide industry support including Screen Actors Guild president Melissa Gilbert, directors Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese and Sidney Lumet, producer Jerry Bruckheimer, and actors Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Michael Douglas, and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Reuters/Hollywood Reporter

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