No, it did not. The staple of cable television did not win the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1994. The ceremony, the 67th annual edition, was held March 27, 1995, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.

The ceremony is also memorable because it's the one at which David Letterman crashed and burned as host.

Forrest Gump, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Pulp Fiction, Quiz Show and The Shawshank Redemption all earned nominations for Best Picture. Gump won, one of six for the Robert Zemeckis-directed film.

Shawshank, directed by Frank Darabont and starring Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins, earned seven nominations - Best Picture, Best Actor for Freeman, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Original Score and Best Sound.

But it was Gump's night to party, and Shawshank went home alone.

However, Shawshank's legacy is its own reward. It's considered one of history's finest films. In 1998, it wasn't listed in the American Film Institute's 100 Years … 100 Movies, but finished 72nd in 2007, ahead of both Gump (76th) and Pulp Fiction (94th).

In 1999, film critic Roger Ebert listed Shawshank on his "Great Movies" list. In recent reader polls by the film magazine Empire, the film finished fifth in 2004 and first in 2006 on the lists for greatest movie of all-time.

The 80th Academy Awards took place Sunday in Los Angeles. Poke around online or find an old copy of this paper if you want to know who won.

How much trash does the average American throw away every year?

A lot.

You, dear citizen, generate four pounds of waste each day. That's 1,460 pounds per year. And we dispose of roughly 200 million tons of waste each day.

In 2001, U.S. residents, businesses and institutions produced more than 229 million tons of municipal solid waste, approximately 4.4 pounds of waste per person per day, up from 2.7 pounds per person per day in 1960.

Less than one-quarter of the waste is recycled, leaving the rest for landfills, incinerators and your neighbor's doorstep.

Recycling efforts in 2001, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, diverted 68 million tons of solid waste from our landfills. We recycled only 34 million tons in 1990.

Car batteries are the most commonly recycled item, according to the EPA: 94 percent are not thrown away. However, we still represent just 5 percent of the world's population, but generate 40 percent of its waste.

So why not have fun doing it? For more information, check out

http://www.dumpsterdiving.net

Where can you dispose of old paint cans?

Your neighbor's doorstep is not an appropriate place to dispose of old paint cans. Neither is an empty field.

Racine's Public Works Department sports its own Web page at http://www.cityofracine.org/Depts/public_works. It's an informative page and, among other things, details how one should dispose of an old paint can.

I'm shamelessly ripping off the Web site. Check the paragraph below, but there's a nifty PDF file you can download on the Public Works' page with more details about paint can disposal.

Away we go … For latex paints "pack can with absorbent material such as dry kitty litter, sand or sawdust in sufficient quantity to soak up the liquid. Leave lid off of can and place on curb/alley line for collection."

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