The host of 'The Bachelor' will host ABC's Miss America Pageant, again
Tony Danza has been named to host this year's 81st annual Miss America pageant, set for Sept. 22 in Atlantic City, NJ.
SANTA MONICA, Calif., March 11, 2000 -- Has Oscar's Best Director race already been decided? Don't worry. We're not talking about another Academy security breach here. We're talking about Saturday night's Director's Guild of America awards where "American Beauty" helmer (and Oscar nominee) Sam Mendes took top feature honors. Since the gala's inception in 1949, only four DGA winners have not gone on to repeat on Oscar night. "A year ago, I was not even a member of the DGA," stage-vet Mendes told the black-tie audience at Los Angeles' Century Plaza Hotel, "although I am now." With his victory, Mendes beat back fellow Best Director contenders Spike Jonze ("Being John Malkovich"), Michael Mann ("The Insider") and M. Night Shyamalan ("The Sixth Sense"). Frank Darabont, who wrote and directed the death-row drama "The Green Mile," also was up for the DGA's Outstanding D