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...relatively few theaters since its Christmas day opening; as it rolls out for wider release, will it pick up steam or antagonize the mass audience? Even if Blood doesn't cop the top prize, as I uneasily predicted, it will win Daniel Day-Lewis the Best Actor award over everybody's favorite movie star (Clooney). DDL's performance is so manic, so intense, and he slips so deeply into his roles, that Academy members will be afraid to vote against him. He might come to their homes and devour their young...
...wrote in today's Predictions box that voters might not want to give an Oscar to an actress so young, figuring she had a lifetime to win one. And now I think: what a mistake it is to defer any award to a worthy achiever of any age. Two years ago, Heath Ledger's brilliantly opaque performance in Brokeback Mountain just missed getting Best Actor. He was 26 then. And now he's dead...
Earlier this month, the vaunted theatrical society saw publications like The New York Times report that its prestigious "Woman of the Year" award would be given to Paris Hilton, the scandalous socialite-cum-TV-star-cum-jailbird. The reaction was scathing: alumni and patrons inundated the society's producers with angry e-mails, and some even demanded refunds on tickets...
...award traditionally goes to actresses with some theater experience or winners of Academy Awards: Katharine Hepburn, Julia Roberts, Scarlett Johansson," said Theatricals co-producer Joshua E. Lachter '09. "Paris Hilton is not normally considered an award-winning actress...
...February 5, primaries and caucuses in 21 states will award more than 1,000 delegates to the Republican National Convention - almost half of the amount needed to secure the nomination...