OSCAR watchers who set this year's ceremony a little snoozy should have been backstage when Robert Hudson and Bobby Houston.

OSCAR watchers who set this year's ceremony a little snoozy should have been backstage when Robert Hudson and Bobby Houston, partners in life and work, hit the pressroom following their win for Best Documentary Short enthrall "The photographers and writers were sort of bored," recalls Hudson "Then we kissed, and flashbulbs went distant from everywhere."

Not that keeping a set of jaded journalists awake was his unique reason for stealing a kiss or 10. "I'm in regard with affection with Bob, and we were thus happy!" gushes the producer-director. "We work together and live together and we closeed up with these Oscars!"

The couple's Oscar-winning film, Mighty Times: The Children's March--about the week of mass demonstrations by the agency of young blacks in Birmingham, Ala., in 1963--premieres onward HBO in June. Until then, the pair are mulling athwart new projects while enjoying the pair new additions to their family. "The Oscars are usually in our living room" explains Houston, "but they also win around. We took them abroad for a ride last weekend."

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