Guerillas in the midst: indie players balance grit with glitz as kudos turn 20.(Independent Spirit Awards) From: Daily Variety | Date: February 25, 2005| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2005 Reed Business Information. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

Every year, the Independent Spirit Awards are forced to prove their independence from studio and corporate forces. The scrutiny has clearly intensified in the last decade, but it plagued the rogue kudo gathering even in the early years.

"Lights, cameras, funereal music, expensive tables--with silverware ...," Spirits host Buck Henry lamented back in 1991, when the ceremony was held at the Beverly Hills Hotel. "Remember just a few years ago when this once modest event took place in a now justifiably defunct restaurant on an unfashionable section of La Cienega, where dressed in ...

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