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Gore Oscar stride a 2008 trial run? - Entertainment - theage.com.au: "Gore Oscar stride a 2008 trial run? Email Print Normal font Large font Beth Fouhy, New York February 25, 2007 US vice-president Al Gore goes prime-time, red-carpet tomorrow night at the Academy Awards before tens of millions of viewers, reviving talk of a possible 2008 presidential run. An Inconvenient Truth, the documentary about the Democrat's crusade against global warming, is the odds-on favourite to win an Oscar. Mr Gore plans to attend the ceremony and the glitzy before and after parties. If the movie takes top honours, director Davis Guggenheim would accept the golden statuette and Mr Gore would join him on stage. He does not plan an endless thank-you speech, but the liberal-leaning Hollywood audience may have a different idea. And all the buzz on the West Coast and in Washington on Friday was about another special Gore appearance during the ceremony. An Oscar would be the latest accolade in a remarkable year for Mr Gore, who became a best-selling author, announced plans for a seven-continent series of concerts to fight global warming and was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. His narrow loss to Republican George Bush in the disputed 2000 presidential election is still a sore subject for many Democrats. An Oscar win is certain to spark new questions about Mr Gore's political future. He has said repeatedly he has no plans to join the field of presidential aspirants dominated by senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama. Yet Mr Gore's unwillingness to rule out a run has given some activists hope that he might change his mind. A group of key supporte"