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Readers' Ranking: Our Streep Fixation
It's our first "Reader Ranking" project. The subject was the one and only Meryl Streep. Recently I gave you a little bit of a statistical tease about reader ballots including little tidbits like...
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Distant Relatives: Rocky and Moneyball
Robert here w/ Distant Relatives, exploring the connections between one classic and one contemporary film. Most of the time in life we view ourselves as underdogs. Nobody really feels like an expert or...
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You Better Werk... And Link
Yahoo Movies! I talk Best Actress with a bunch of other internet peeps.FourFour & The Daily "The Tao of Ru" and outtakes from Rich's week (!!!) with RuPaul, the world's most famous drag queen of...
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Oscar Symposium Day 2: Invisible Art & Self Love
Previously on the Oscar Symposium... we discussed and defined the business of actors elevating their movies, spent time at "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"'s stale office party mingling with the nine Best...
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FB Awards Flashback 2002 ~ Viola Davis Wins "Breakthrough"
I was looking up old Film Bitch Awards the other day, to verify that I had awarded Viola Davis a prize once before, because when she took home the SAG prize I felt like shouting "I SAW HER FIRST!"....
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Readers' Ranking: Streep's Oscar Noms, #16-11
Last month we asked readers to rank all of Meryl Streep's Oscar nominated performances... There were 16 of them when the polling began since The Iron Lady was still unseen by many and too fresh for...
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Randomness: Who Will Cher Vote For at the Oscars?
I'm working on a Madonna piece at the moment but couldn't resist popping in to share tweets from another legendary pop diva we adore who dabbles in the movies: the Oscar winning Cher. She regularly...
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Oscar Symposium Day 3: Farewells and Futures
On Day 1 of the symposium we partied with the Best Picture field and considered Star Vehicles. On Day 2 we discussed movies that are hopelessly in love with themselves (to good and bad effect), the...
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I Met Madonna. And Other "W.E." Stories
As some of you may recall from a couple of breathless tweets, I met Madonna two months ago at a W.E. press event though we weren't allowed to publish the pieces until this week. I was invited by way of...
View ArticleTechnical Difficulties
Apologies but it seems the link function has stopped working and stopped working retroactively replacing links with odd coding. Many of the links are malfunctioning on older posts as well as the new...
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Link on a Hot Tin Roof
Movie|Line Posters for Jean Dujardin's latest film, the sex comedy Les Infidels, have been deemed too racy for France. For France? Really? This surprises me.Guardian has a funny piece on blaming...
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Readers' Ranking: Streep's Oscar Noms, #10-6
Previously on Streep Reader Rankings we covered The French Lieutenant's Woman, Music of the Heart, Doubt, The Deer Hunter, One True Thing, and Ironweed. Now we hit the top ten. Ten and Nine were a...
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Fassbender, Fretting
Well Michael Fassbender does have a lot to worry about. How the hell is he going to follow up 2011? Fassy may only have two films in theaters this year (Haywire already released. Prometheus is next)...
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Box Office: Without Super Powers, You Are Nothing
The global love of superpowered young men hasn't even begun to decline as the star-less Chronicle, about three teenagers who develop uncanny powers opened at #1 for Superbowl weekend. It almost doubled...
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Yes, No, Maybe So: Nicole vs. Juli. September 2012
Since there weren't enough prizes in the world for Claire "Temple Grandin" Danes and Kate "Mildred" Winslet, who will be our next "Her, again?" awards gobbler? Will it be Nicole Kidman in Hemingway...
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Madonna Bowl
I was trying to make Sunday the ultimate day of productivity but finally I succumbed to laziness/excitement and just tweeted through the Superbowl. Or, well, half of it at any rate en route to...
View ArticleChanning Tatum Wins
You always win when you a) look this good and b) have this much of a sense of humor about yourself and c) are willing to shuck off your lame franchise* to work with Steven Soderbergh on your...
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Link Nation
CineEuropa Melancholia wins big at the Danish Oscars including Best Actress for Kiki!Daily Notebook Iranian hardliners not too happy with the Oscars and A Separation. (It still seems surprising that A...
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Readers' Ranking: Streep's Oscar Noms, #5-1
We started this blogging experiment by asking readers to rank all the Streep Oscar Nominated performances they'd seen. Then we shared reader stories of how you first discovered Streep. I tabulated all...
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Oscar Luncheon Photos
The Oscar luncheon was held today. So most of the nominees assembled to be a part of the big class of 2011 photo. Well done, all. Congratulations. I love that the naked gold man is just standing right...
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