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Do I lead some uniquely sheltered life, that I have not the remotest clue who this guy is?



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And finally, while I'm not a fan of The Reader, in the real world, the world beyond this Oscar board, its inclusion in the Best Picture nominees didnt really damage the Academy's reputation - in the next years it will be quickly forgotten and it will never become as infamous as, for example, a Hell...

The song thing I barely understand, and don't much care about. But moving the Honorary's out of the main show ends their usefulness as career tributes for such as O'Toole or Altman. For the first time, I get the sense they're running scared and listening to the long-time carpers. I've never much ge...

Oscar rules get a makeover Academy alters voting process for Original Song By VARIETY STAFF Beverly Hills, CA -- The governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences approved the rules for the 82nd Academy Awards at their June meeting last week (6/23). The most significant change was ma...

The Academy's taste is just anathema to most moviegoers, plain and simple. The big problem is that the movies nominated are middle-brow prestige tailor-made for the Academy rest home. Simply put: now everybody realizes that these films are in no way the five best of the year. Sabin, I'm not sure if...

You're quite right, Sonic, that I forgot to highlight the videos -- it struck me later last night when I was watching some TV coverage. To maybe tie it in to what I did post, I'm thinking MTV's decision to reverse its essential ban on R&B videos had something to do with that rapturous response ...

I'd say this is both a shock and not a shock -- a shock in the sense that I turned on CNN (when it was still "in the hospital, reports of cardiac arrest") and went, What?!...but not a shock, in the sense that I never exactly imagined someone with so freakish a life would die in his bed of...

I was a bit embarrassed to write about the Sanford thing, since I hadn't summoned up the energy to write anything about the Iran situation, which is clearly far more important. However, a few thoughts: It's certainly satisfying on a gut-level to see a hypocrite hoist on his own petard. But I confes...

I'd also question some of that guy's assumptions -- most notably leaving off Doubt last year, which to me is precisely the sort of film whose chances (based on multiple acting mentions, a writing nod and a SAG Ensemble citation) would vastly increase with an expanded field. I'll agree that movies l...

My guess is that the Broadcast Film Critics nominations will become the key precursor for Oscar's best picture slate going forward. How anyone (that is, anyone among those who still hold the Oscars are capable tastemakers -- i.e. not me) could view this likely very true statement with anything but ...

From the L.A. Times: HOW THE ACADEMY DECIDED TO DOUBLE THE NUMBER OF BEST PICTURE NOMINEES (June 24, 2009) You can thank "Dreamgirls" director Bill Condon and producer Laurence Mark for this morning's announcement by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science that the best picture cat...

Sabin wrote:perhaps mindless in some ways

The word "perhaps" in this sentence would tell me right away I could disregard the rest -- even if I didn't know it was White.



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More thoughts provoked by this startling rule change: I wonder if we’ll start thinking of the announcement of the five best director nominees as the key moment on nominations morning. Yes, there’ll be one or two in that group that, under the time-honored system, would have been just lone director c...

I'll be content to pretend that the five true Best Picture nominees are the ones with Best Director nominations, not that it means that the winning Film will be among those five. For what it's worth, it always meant that in the old days. Though today there's the fear that a massive split of grown-u...

This is, first and foremost, a shocker. Moving the ceremony from late March to late February was a tweak -- like, say, electing a non-Italian Pope. This is like choosing a black lesbian Pope -- something that upends all the presumptions of a lifetime (for some of us, a not-short span). I think BJ's...