`AMERICAN BEAUTY' SCRIPTWRITER NOT WRITING ACCEPTANCE SPEECH

`AMERICAN BEAUTY' SCRIPTWRITER NOT WRITING ACCEPTANCE SPEECH

LOS ANGELES (Wireless Flash) -- Although "American Beauty" screenwriter Alan Ball is favored to win the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, don't expect him to have an acceptance speech prepared. Ball feels writing an acceptance speech will curse his chances of winning the award. Besides, he says, "Nobody cares unless you're somebody famous."