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Oscar-Show Director Gets Seat in a Truck

Friday, February 23, 2007 6:12:02 PM
By SANDY COHEN

Louis J. Horvitz, director of the 79th Academy Awards, talks during an interview with the Associated Press in the broadcast trailer at the Kodak Theatre in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, Thursday, Feb. 22, 2007. The 79th Academy Awards are scheduled for Sunday, Feb. 25. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)LOS ANGELES (AP) - Most people watch the Academy Awards on a single TV screen — but not Louis J. Horvitz. He watches on 85 screens at once.

Horvitz, 60, directs the Oscar show. But he won't be rubbing tuxes with the fancy folks inside the Kodak Theatre. His seat is out back in the parking lot, past the loading dock and smoking area, inside a high-tech production truck that controls Oscar's television operations.

"We're in the space shuttle," Horvitz says, "and they're on land."


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