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Title: Toasting an Oscar Win, Hoping for Greater Rights
Post by: Shana A on February 25, 2008, 07:41:07 AM
Toasting an Oscar Win, Hoping for Greater Rights

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/25/nyregion/25equality.html?ref=movies (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/25/nyregion/25equality.html?ref=movies)

By NATE SCHWEBER
Published: February 25, 2008

WEST ORANGE, N.J. — It was part Oscar party and part civil rights rally.

More than 300 people filled a theater here to standing-room-only capacity on Sunday evening to watch "Freeheld," which won the Academy Award for best documentary short subject.