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...rather, the little categories. Even if all your coworkers pick the acting and directing winners, you can take the pot if you ace the minor categories. But, again, that?s tougher this time. In almost every other year, the favorite is a film with the kind of glossy production values that earn it nominations, and wins, in the frou-frou categories: art direction, costumes and, if the actors run around a bit, editing. No such easy marks this time. Look for Memoirs of a Geisha, a critical and box office disappointment but seemingly run off from the Academy template...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Win Your Oscar Pool | 3/3/2006 | See Source »

Anyone who has seen the cinematic masterpiece, “Ace Ventura, Pet Detective,” will agree that if Dan Marino had simply followed the crucial advice of “laces out!” during his football game, the two-hour-long saga would not have ensued. I may not be intimately associated with all the particular details of your dilemmas, but I will hopefully be able to give “laces out” on-the-ball advice...

Author: By Molly E. Mehaffey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Dear Molly: An Introduction to the New | 2/27/2006 | See Source »

...ACE YOUNG, 25 Denver Sounds like: A Bee Gee Judgment call: His MTV-ready looks and lusty take on Father Figure turned the judges into doe-eyed little girls. Yes, Simon too His odds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 6, 2006 | 2/26/2006 | See Source »

...great as it seems: you must sit through the same goddamn shampoo commercial every goddamn time. The fact that I was able to enjoy the video for “Crooked Teeth” despite this critical setback, says a lot about the quality of the video. Director Ace Norton has accomplished something here: his combination of claymation and stop-motion video, a quirky homage to Steven Johnson’s video for Peter Gabriel’s “Sledgehammer,” represents yet another good directorial gamble by the boys of Death Cab for Cutie. Well...

Author: By Elisabeth J. Bloomberg, Patrick R. Chesnut, and Henry M. Cowles, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Pop Screen | 2/15/2006 | See Source »

...Bono comes here—students don’t have enough time to see them speak because they’re stuck in a room doing work for their classes,” Gillis said.Gillis added that if Harvard students attended state schools, they would “ace all the classes.”“People who get A’s do A-level work, it just happens they go to Harvard where everyone else does A-level work,” he said. But Mansfield said that “one of our main...

Author: By Lulu Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘C-Minus’ Prof To Give More A’s | 2/13/2006 | See Source »

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