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CRITICS ARE IN the hot-air business.
We'd like to think it's well-considered, informed, intelligent and, most of all, consistent hot air, but our day-to-day mission still boils down to telling people what we think about things. That fixation sometimes blinds us to how skewed our perspective can get. Nickelodeon, cable television's fresh and inventive kids' channel, looks at the world through kids' eyes, not surprisingly, and tries to apply that view to everything from education to entertainment.
One of the channel's niftiest traditions is the Kids' Choice Awards, now in its fourth year. Based on a poll of 1,200 kids under 16 in the country's 10 largest cities, the awards recognize favorites in television, movies, music and sports.
Winners will be announced in a one-hour special at 6 p.m. April 23 on Nickelodeon, and it's a fair bet there won't be a lot of overlap with the winners of the Academy Awards, the Golden Globes, the People's Choice Awards, the Grammys, the American Music Awards, the Director's Guild Awards and the New York and Los Angeles Film Critics awards.
Nominations, drawn from interviews with 500 kids in the same 10 cities, follow:
TV Show: "The Cosby Show," "Married . . . With Children," "Doogie Howser M.D."
TV Actress: Roseanne Barr ("Roseanne"), Alyssa Milano ("Who's the Boss?"), Jasmine Guy ("A Different World").
TV Actor: Johnny Depp ("21 Jump Street"), Kirk Cameron ("Growing Pains"), Fred Savage ("The Wonder Years").
Movie: "Look Who's Talking," "Batman," "Back to the Future II."