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Oscar on Hollywood Blvd. ~ Photographs by Tom Andrews

2:14 PM PST on February 26, 2014

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Our favorite living street photographer, Tom Andrews, sends this dispatch from the streets of Hollywood, where Oscar is being installed. Meanwhile, a tuxedoed man stalks the boulevard, four days early and a short-skirted reporter gets ready for the big day...

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