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I'd be remiss in not noting the small Fort Worth tie to last night's Oscar ceremony. At the DFW.com watch party at the Modern, a huge roar went up when T Bone Burnett and Ryan Bingham bagged a prize for best song (The Weary Kind from Crazy Heart), not only because of Burnett's contributions to the film, but also as a final tribute to native son Stephen Bruton, who died in May after completing work on the film's soundtrack.
ABC's bone-headed Web site won't allow embedding, so you'll have to click over here for the minute-ish-long clip of Ryan Bingham's brief acceptance speech from last night, in which he does give a shout-out to Bruton. (Reportedly, since Burnett did all the talking at the Golden Globes, he deferred to Bingham for the Oscars, hence his silence onstage.)
