Gina Piccalo and Robert Welkos do a good enough job of rounding up the strike/Oscar situation as it is now in today's LA Times.  The overwhelming tone from sources on the story is one of anticipation of the usual, planes and hotels being booked like normal, plans remaining in place, etc.  Even telecast producer Gil Cates wheels out the same old quote he offered a month an a half ago, with four weeks shaved off this time:

"I don't want to say 'read my lips,' but it's not going to be canceled," said Cates, who also chaired the Directors Guild of America's negotiating committee. "It's a big moment for the town. The granddaddy of all the shows. . . . The strike could be settled by then. Who knows? . . . Four weeks is a long way off."

Earlier in the story:

The tentative settlement reached this week between the Directors Guild and producers bolstered hopes that talks would resume in the writers strike, but it wasn't enough to relieve the queasy reality settling on Hollywood that the Academy Awards may go the way of the celebrity-free ratings downer that was Sunday's Golden Globes.

However, Gilbert Cates, producer of the award telecast, remains adamant that on Feb. 24 there will be a red carpet outside the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood and an Oscar telecast on ABC despite the Writers Guild of America strike and the threat of a boycott by George Clooney, Angelina Jolie and the rest of the Screen Actors Guild. He hinted that he might not need actors onstage.

"There are enough clips in 80 years of Oscar history to make up a very entertaining show," Cates said in an interview Friday with The Times. "We'd have a lot of people on stage." He declined to give further details but added, "I just hope that the actors are there. I pray that the actors are there. I'm planning that the actors are there."

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