Technical problems kept me from live blogging throughout the Academy Awards, so let me hit the high and low spots: Just my luck! When Best Picture finally goes to the low-budget, heavily subtitled movie that normally wouldn’t stand a chance, it’s a picture I don’t even like. Yes, Milk was more conventional, but it was [...]
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I apologize for any errors. I’m not checking spelling or even if I’m getting the names right. The usual, extremely brief mention of the previous technical awards dinner. Historical error: The actress announcing it (I don’t remember her name) said that Thomas Edison invented the Kinemagraph <sp>. He didn’t. An employee of his, William Dickson, [...]
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I’ve paused the DVR about an hour into the Oscar presentation. A few quick observances: Why do I watch the pre-show, which is about beautiful movie stars in designer gowns? I want one of the interviewers to ask a star “Who are you wearing?” and have her respond “I picked this up at Woolworth.” I [...]
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The Oscar nominations were announced this morning, but I had a busy day, so I’m only writing about it now. Every year I get excited and hyped-up about the Oscars, and yet I always know how stupid the whole thing is. If the best picture of the year actually becomes the Best Picture of the [...]
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I just received the strangest press release. It was from the Insurance Information Institute, “a nonprofit, communications organization supported by the insurance industry.” Not really my kind of organization. But the subject was movies. The release proudly announced the “top ten insurance films of all time.” And no, these aren’t educational shorts with titles like [...]
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Quite a day. The Academy announces the Oscar nominations, and Heath Ledger dies in what looks like a suicide. I first saw Ledger in The Patriot and Monster’s Ball. Both performances impressed me, but they left me wondering if I would ever see this young man alive in a final fade-out. I finally did, of [...]
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