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To: JakeStraw who wrote (19331)	3/17/2000 10:25:00 AM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Respond to of 49844

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To: JakeStraw who wrote (19331)	3/17/2000 10:26:00 AM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 49844

Oscar Awards Apparently Stolen Friday March 17 8:53 AM ET dailynews.yahoo.com BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) - It's Hollywood's latest caper: Who took the Oscars? Nine days before the Academy Awards, police today searched for the coveted statuettes, which vanished from a trucking company loading dock. Spokesman John Pavlik said the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said late Thursday that it is believed the Oscars ``have been stolen.' He declined to give other details but said the statuettes disappeared from Bell, a Los Angeles community about 15 miles from Beverly Hills. According to a brief statement from the academy, the Oscars disappeared from a loading dock used by Roadway Express, the academy's regular delivery company. The company did not immediately return a phone message. It wasn't exactly clear how many Oscars were missing. Pavlik said he believed all 54 that were to be on hand for the March 26 ceremony were missing, while Academy President Robert Rehme said ``a crateful' was missing. Entertainment Tonight, a television magazine show, reported that academy officials remained confident that replacement statues would be available for the awards show. New statues are expected to arrive from Chicago by March 24. Officials at R.S. Owens, the Chicago company that makes the Oscars, did not immediately return a telephone call today. The company also makes the Emmys and a variety of other awards. Rehme told The Hollywood Reporter the uninscribed statuettes were being shipped from Chicago when they vanished. ``There were some Oscars that we had on a truck that are either missing or stolen,' he said. ``We don't know how, where or why. We never had them in our possession. It's been two days.' Each Oscar is 131/2 inches tall, is covered with gold-plated britannium and weighs about 8 pounds. Awards are to be given out in 23 categories plus three special awards, whose winners have already been announced. The precise number of statuettes given out will depend on how many people wind up sharing awards in various categories. The origin of the Oscar nickname - the statuette is officially called the Academy Award of Merit - is unclear. One legend has it that an academy official, Margaret Herrick, exclaimed in 1931 that it ``reminds me of my uncle Oscar.' Earlier this month, sacks containing 4,000 ballots were misrouted after delivery to the Beverly Hills Post Office by an accounting firm. The Academy was forced to print and mail new ones. The deadline for returning the ballots was extended from March 21 to March 23, just three days before the awards show. -