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...there was one surprise at last night's Saggies (or whatever they're called - actually, the Actor, and blechh to that uninspired nickname). It was that the indie comedy Little Miss Sunshine won the Best Ensemble award, beating Babel, Bobby, The Departed and Dreamgirls. Because Crash burst out off the pack last year with a SAG win in the same category, and upset Brokeback Mountain to take the Oscar for Best Picture, Sunshine's victory has to spur it at least the realm of Serious Speculation...
...sweepstakes for this year's Academy Awards, many of the major categories seem closed. Forest Whitaker for Best Actor, Helen Mirren for Best Actress, Jennifer Hudson for Supporting Actress and Eddie Murphy for Supporting Actor - they all won the Golden Globes and many critics' prizes, and they all won again at last night's Screen Actors Guild award. If this quartet doesn't win on Feb. 25, there'll be gasps, calls for a recount and a lot of disappointed bettors in the office Oscar pool...
...then aspiring young poet left Brisbane for a 10,000-km walking trek around the Mediterranean almost 50 years ago, Hall has worked best off the leash. Much of his creatively vast colonial trilogy, which began with 1988's Captivity Captive and ended with the 1993 Miles Franklin Award?winning The Grisly Wife, was written from notes made while Hall walked his dogs at his beloved headland home on the far south coast of New South Wales. His most recent novel, The Last Love Story (2004), was another peripatetic affair, penciled between coffee shops in Melbourne and Berlin...
...Every teaching award earns a warning of how I should not wander off research,” the report quotes an anonymous Ph.D. candidate as saying...
...There are still pockets of the University where winning the Levenson award for teaching as a junior faculty member is considered the kiss of death with respect to promotion,” the report quotes one anonymous senior professor as saying...