A blog from Woodford Times sports editor Tom Batters, covering Eureka High School Metamora High School and Eureka College sports.
I-80 has long been a sore point for many downstate residents.
Whatever happened to the youth movement at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences? Younger hosts, hipper movies and A-list stars were supposed to be the recipe for alleviating anemic ratings for the annual Oscar telecast. But you’d never know it judging by this year’s crop of nominees, two of which are in their 80s, or the show’s host, 63-year-old Billy Crystal. Even the nominees for Best Picture are set in days of old.
