• TheWrap, Tuesday, March 1, 2011 3:01 PM

Though we found this year's actual ceremony as boring as everybody else did, we're still a sucker for Oscars tidbits -- most of which are, admittedly, fluff news. Consider, for example, director Tom Hooper's admitting his astonishment at how often viewers say his Oscar-winning The King's Speech" "has changed their lives."

Then there's The Atlantic's fun roundup of the silliest things celebrities said on the red carpet. We especially liked this one: "She's pushing boundaries now, and I applaud her for it," which Kelly Osbourne noted about "Scarlett Johansson wearing purple."

There is an odd and more substantive red carpet story, though -- the tale of how Oscar officials stopped Natalie Portman from answering a question about anti-Semitic statements allegedly made by Dior designer John Galliano. Spurred by angry comments Portman has made about the designer since then, Dior has reportedly fired Galliano.

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