Hello from the Oscars' backstage press room! I'll be your trusty guide through the evening here, where I have joined some 300 fellow journalists in a ballroom of the Hollywood Renaissance Hotel to pepper the winners with questions both insightful and inane. (The hotel, see, is adjacent to the Kodak Theater, though how winners make their way back to us remains one of the most enduring mysteries of the Academy Awards.) Oh, and by the way: All times here are Pacific — the show's happening on the West Coast, after all. Onto the fun!

3:35 p.m. After a circuitous tour of the back hallways of the Hollywood and Highland shopping complex (home to the Kodak Theater), I've arrived in the press room, gone through security, plugged in my laptop, hooked into the high-speed Internet, and updated my Facebook profile. Now begins the Oscar press-room waiting game; things don't get going back here for at least 30 minutes into the show. So, let's check out the food!

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Craig Cove

Craig calls the west coast home, having been born and raised in California. He is the product of a electronics engineer father, and a medical assistant mother who married and settled down in the beach town of Santa Monica. Growing up in a large family was nothing but bliss; Craig was related to most of the kids on his block. Every other house on his street owned by a relative during the fifty’s and sixties, just imagine how wild and creative a huge family of independent kids and their friends could be.

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