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Lunch
With David:
Anthony Hines and
Peter Baynham
Featuring two
Academy Nominees for Best Adapted Screenplay for Borat: Cultural
Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.
"My
country send me to United States to make movie-film. Please, come
and see my film. If it not success, I will be execute."
The
Gurus o' Gold
This week, we asked The Gurus for their Most Likely and their Most
Likely To Upset in all the categories. The crystal balls remain
cloudiest in Best Picture and clearest in Actress, Supp Actress,
Director, Make-Up and Docs. The Gurus, who were 75% accurate in
picking winners last year at this time, have voted for a remarkable
12 different features to win Oscars with eight getting one statue,
three getting two, and one getting six... that one being Dreamgirls.
Interesting year.
(11:11a
- Anne Thompson's late entry changes one category, putting Babel
and The Queen in a dead heat for Score.)
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The First 13 Categories
The Next 11 Categories
20
Weeks To Oscar
Dead
Horse Beating 101
by
David Poland
Really…
think hard. I know that the Royal You will be royally thrilled
if your personal favorite wins a major award or two. But what could
possibly happen this year that would blow the roof off the place?
The Departed could win along with Marty… but it's been
so about Marty that the occurrence would be "nice." Little
Miss Sunshine could win Best Picture and Best Screenplay…
nice. Babel could win Best Picture and Best Score. The
Queen could win Actress, Screenplay and… nice. If Letters
From Iwo Jima wins anything, it will be a bit of a surprise…
but where is the constituency for the film in a nation that hasn't
seen the film?
The
Oscar Charts
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The
DVD Wrapup
In their period whodunit Hollywoodland, director
Allen Coulter and writer Paul Bernbaum scraped the dark
underbelly of post-war Los Angeles to introduce a new generation
of conspiracy freaks to the mystery surrounding the death of, well,
Superman. The 1959 untimely demise of George Reeves,
who played the Man of Steel on television, was officially ruled
a suicide. Ever since the shooting, however, all manner of sleuths,
reporters and nutballs have insisted the actor was murdered and
continue to speculate on the unknown assassin's motives. The only
culprit ruled out immediately, apparently, was kryptonite.
Also
.. Flags of Our Fathers, The Departed, The Science of Sleep, Marie
Antoinette, Running With Scissors, A Summer Place, The US v. John
Lennon and more ...
The
DVD Page
The
Hot Button
This
Thing We Do ...
by
David Poland
The standards
in web-based media vary more dramatically than they do in Traditional
Media. However, quality is quality. And standards can be judged
fairly (and unfairly) over time. But the time in which Traditional
Media attempts to dismiss New Media by putting all sites/blogs in
one pile or by pretending that web-based journalism doesn't exist
is finally turning the corner so that TM will be more embarrassed
every time they pull that stunt.
Part
I
Part
II
Part
III
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The
Ultimate DVD Geek
The
High And The Slithery ...
by
Doug Pratt
The asps on
an aircraft movie, Snakes on a Plane, a New Line Home Entertainment
Widescreen release, is utterly ludicrous, combining the worst clichés
of the Airport films with an absurd premise (they've been put there
by a mobster to cause a crash and kill a protected witness) and
a rushed exposition, but once all of the characters and reptiles
are in place, the latter dangling from the emergency oxygen mask
compartments like the story's plot points, it does indeed become
the B-movie thrill ride it only wants to be.
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throughout the day
Updated: 9:35 pm
Ryan
Larkin Dies At 64
And
- A
Clip From The Oscar Winning Short, Ryan
The
Best Alan Arkin Interview Piece Imaginable, By Andy Klein
The
Ads of Oscar
Grindhouse:
The Trailer
A
Writer's Oscar Is Never Wozed
The
Journey Of Nic Cage, From "The Jazz Musician Of Actors"
To Ghost Rider
Aaron
Eckhart Gets Two-Faced For The Dark Knight
You
Can Be The Face Of The Fan For Spider-Man 3... Though Since
Spidey Wears A Mask, Maybe You'll Be The Mask Of The Fan, But Don't
Let A Crook Escape Because He'll Kill Your Uncle And... Well...
Help Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
The
Fly:
The Opera
The
Great Effects Artists Peter Ellenshaw
Milli
Vanilli, The Movie
Oscar
Does Too Matter
"For most it is
the one time of the year movies become part of the everyday vernacular.
In short, even the worst Oscars ever are better than no Oscars at
all."
Sir
Ian Whacks The BAFTAs
For
Those Us Us Who Haven't Watched, The Reno 911: Miami Crew
Pete
Hammond Writes, Like All Oscar Writers These Days, About The Dregs
Of A Boring Season
Ain't-It-Cameron-News
Launches A Two Year Assault With A Trade Release Call To The Geek
King
Amnesty
International Recognizes J-Lo
We
Won't Have John Pavlik To Kick Around Anymore
The
Tony One Goes to Germantown
Andy
Klein Checks Out Oscar's Shorts
The
Red Elvis Gets His Own Documentary And Tom Hanks Movie
Underdog's
Super Hero Trailer
Earlier - The
Super Photos
Fox
Searchlight Hearts Little Miss Sunshine... Here They Count
The Ways
Young
Carpetbagger In Love (With So Little To Write About That Gossip
Is Looking Like News Again)
"Wait
a minute, wait a minute. We don't miss boats. Other people miss
boats, and they may have missed the Viacom boat."
Oscar
Campaigning Takes An Ugly Turn
#1 Missing
Rule - Get Lucky, Both With The Movie/Actor & The Field
Smitty
On How to Win An Oscar... More How Not to Appear Than How To Actually
Make It Happen
Were
These Movies Ahead Of Their Time? Will 300 Be The Same?
Putting
Yoru Money Where Your Issue Movie Is
"The
thing of it is, Al, the morning after you get the statue, every
studio in this town is going to be asking: What do you want to do
next? A sequel? A remake? Another Inconvenient Truth?"
NYT
Continues To Make Smart Web Moves, Looking To The Real Future
And - The
LAT/Tribune Co Stands Pat
Hugh
Grant Sings!!!
L'il
Valentine Movies
More
Cusslering Good Fun
The
Man
Selects Film Comment Selects
An
Entire Website Dedicated To The Roles Actors Didn't Get
Bradshaw
Drools On The QT
American
Gigolo'd Hits Berlin, With Woody Harrelson As The Stud In Gigolo
Winter
Zaentz
Finally Cracks, Gives Goya's Ghosts To Goldwyn... Will Be
Released In August, Faced With An Alternative Of Being Pushed Into
2008 With Bardem's Oscar-Hopeful Love In The Time Of Cholera
Arriving Via New Line In The Late Fall
Will
Hollywood Get Behind The Witch, The Wardrobe Or The Lyin' For President?
McSweeney's
Tuesday
The
Office: A Spec Script By David Mamet
Judd
Apatow's New MTV.com Column On Making A Fake Musical Biopic
Super Cool
Sends In Work From Directing Team Molly + Mariah, Here
Rehabbing Spears' Toxic & Here
In Various Flash(y) Incarnations
"Goldstein
Delivers The Year's Most Extraneous Column!"
When
Mocking The Internet Gets Too Hard, There's Always Larry King
Francis
Ford Coppola's Next Project Will Be The Fictionalized Coppola Family
Film
Fatale Checks In On Verhoeven's Russian Queen Of Crime
 The
Weta Concept Drawings For Bridge To Terabithia
Weinsteins
Get Spurlocks New Super Iraq Me Doc (bottom
of story)
VES
Awards Are Full Of Pirates, Pirates And More Pirates (And Some Cars
& Bond & Flags)
The
Great Films Of The Past Made More Obscure By The Growth Of Cable/Satellite
Hi-Def, Blu-Ray & Porn
(Even
Better If The Whispering Women Of Wicked Ad Is Still On The
Page)
Our
Miss Crabtree On Blades Of Whore-y Costumes
Cars
And No Time For Nuts Take Home Annie Awards
The
Sci Tech Awards Are Handed Out
Bob
Evans' Next Book
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