Fawcett omission of Oscar-segment is not a coincidence

LOS ANGELES - The executive director of the Film Academy said on Tuesday that Farrah Fawcett was not included the Oscars' In Memoriam segment, because the actress is best known as a TV star. It was a difficult decision for the committee that assembled the segment to omit Fawcett said Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences executive director Bruce Davis, adding that he is not surprised some fans and family members unhappy family. Fawcett has said in a statement through a publicist on Tuesday, they were "deeply saddened" and "without saying, except by such an international icon who has inspired so many reasons for so many years." Davis, the Committee of the Academy raised many debates also Fawcett and Gene Barry, an actor of long standing, who died in December at the age of 90, in the memorial segment, including but not both. Davis and his colleagues thought the two actors in films, they were better for their "known to work in television is remarkable," and it would be better honored by the Academy of Television at the Emmy Awards. The group was kind enough to figure that probably Farrah Fawcett Gene Barry and omissions ones we further comments, he said. He acknowledged that he "did not get a letter from Miss Fawcett." Said the director of the Academy, "a unusually high number of very famous authors "who died this year, has the Academy to meet more of them in the short segment of the memorial to try." In all the categories will, miss you wonderful people, "says Davis, who at assembly "Oscar's" In Memoriam montage since its introduction in 1993. When asked why Michael Jackson was taken when the players were left out, Davis said that Jackson appeared in a popular cinema recently. Fawcett and Jackson died, both on 25 June. "Think of all the blogs, we would have obtained if we had left out," he said. But he said he understands that Fawcett and omissions Sting Barry. "There is nothing you people say, mostly relatives in one or two days, the program that helps everyone, "says Davis." They tend to be surprised, and wounded, and we understand and we are for their suffering. "___ Http: / / www.oscars.org On the Net: Academy Awards