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Age & (Best) Actressing
Guess what's the most common age to win Best Actress? 29. Guess who's 29 right now? I'll give you one guess.If Natalie Portman wins Best Actress in February she'll join the ranks of seven previous...
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Christian Bale, Honorary Powerpuff Girl
Peter Travers of Rolling Stone fame is being roasted again as the all time champ of shameless Blurb Whores but that's not the point of this post.While interviewing Christian Bale and Mark Wahlberg for...
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Can the Globes be Skipped?
Michael C. here with some trivia for you to mull over as you finish digesting the Globe line-up and ponder the influence of an organization that looks at The Tourist and Red and sees awards fodder....
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Glenn Close as Albert Nobbs
Glenn Close got back in front of movie cameras two days ago. Albert Nobbs has just started filming. She plays a cross dressing woman in 1890's Ireland.[photo src]Barring the movie going to cable (these...
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Tackling the Magic Kingdom
.JA from MNPP here. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times yesterday Jon Favreau opened up about why he's not doing the third Iron Man film (Nat mentioned it yesterday), and in so doing this...
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Eight Links: Unhinged Women, Union Protests, Unctuous Celebrity
Awards Daily "Women Unhinged" fun piece on all the bat-shit crazy lady characters fighting for Oscar recognition. We're glad to see Lesley Manville (Another Year) getting some attention in her week of...
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Here She Comes!
Jose here.There are few things I enjoy more than "discovering" a new performance by an artist I adore. Such was the case last night when I screened The Harvey Girls for the very first time. I have...
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"Different Places" (Critics Awards & Dragon Tattoos)
Please read the title in your best exasperated Nomi Malone voice. Plz and thx. I can't read the words "different places" without hearing Showgirls in my head.The big critics prizes (Los Angeles and New...
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Screen Actors Guild Nominations
JoBeth Williams welcomes you! "They're heeeeeeeee--eeeere"Giggly Rosario Dawson & Angie Harmon announced the SAG nominations at 9:00 AM EST after being introduced by JoBeth Williams. Though this is...
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Good News: Black Swan Spreads Its Wide Wings
Your wait is over (or nearly so depending on where you live). Due to its constantly packed houses -- it's been landing in the top ten US box office daily despite being on less than 100 screens -- Black...
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SAG Injustice: When a Nomination is Still a Snub
In the afterglow of the SAG nominations, when publicists, stars and pundits are all aglow with congratulatory messaging of every sort and critics are bemoaning the fate of talented but snubbed...
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Distant Relatives: The Entertainer and The Wrestler
Robert here, with my series Distant Relatives, where we look at two films, (one classic, one modern) related through a common theme and ask what their similarities and differences can tell us about the...
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Oscar's Gonna Have His Way Toniiiiiight.
Jose here.The brand new poster for the 83rd Academy Awards was released today.Here it is if you have yet to see it...The main poster (which seems to be yet another variation of the "Oscar as superhero"...
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There Are 41 Songs (& Vids). There Is Only 1 CHER.
41 Songs were declared eligible for Oscar's least cinematically relevant prize a short while ago. Wheeee!We only didn't share them yesterday because every single damn thing happens in the same week....
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A Boo For Boo-Boo
.JA from MNPP here asking this weekend's most obvious question: did you know that great things come in bears? Yeah, eww.I'm sure Nathaniel will have more to say on this weekend's movies but for the...
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What are you seeing this weekend?
Do share in the comments -- or maybe you're just Christmas shopping?Sorry I've been away: internet connectivity problems today. Have you already started your holiday break?I must see several movies...
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Blake Edwards (RIP)
Mrs & Mrs Blake Edwards (1974)Our heart goes out to the divine Julie Andrews in what is surely a difficult time as her husband the writer/director Blake Edwards passed away a few days ago. We...
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I Am Love Sour Grapes
Have you seen I Am Love yet? The Globe nominee is available for rental so get on that.Director Luca Guadagnino with Marisa Berenson & Tilda SwintonI read the following quote over at Hollywood...
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Link You. Link You. And Link You.
GQ Winona Ryder's Black Swan parallels. She's being replaced! "I'm at that age I've been warned my whole life about"Lisanti Quarterly a mysterious top ten list. Such fun. Try to guess the movies ... or...
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