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'Once' Underdogs Open Nation's Hearts, Wallets

STV · 02/29/08 05:53PM

Among the paucity of feel-good stories to emerge from this year's Academy Awards, few out-heartwarmed that of Once's buskers-turned-Oscar winners Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova. Even fewer, reports Time Magazine, can yield the kind of cross-media windfall spawned by their strategically marketed songcraft: