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...earner in movie history, and which kids and critics alike appreciated less as a live-action comic book than a triangular battle of stern Good, giggling Evil and two faces in between. Except for a Heath Ledger memorial citation (Supporting Actor), the film was shut out of all major award categories, taking seven other doorstop prizes like Sound Editing and Sound Mixing...
...when you have that many people over, you have to have something to do, so I set up a cardboard podium and invited people to offer up nominees for the worst film of the year." The first Razzie statues were sculpted pieces of foam, and the inaugural Worst Picture award went to Allan Carr's Can't Stop the Music, a musical comedy that fictionalized the story behind the Village People. "I happened to pay 99 cents for a double feature of Can't Stop the Music and Olivia Newton John in Xanadu and was refused my money back afterward...
...Some recipients have been happy to get in on the joke. Showgirls director Paul Verhoeven appeared in person to accept the award for Worst Picture of 1995. ("He sat through the entire ceremony," Wilson says, "and then got up at the end and said, 'Obviously my film has entertained you, but not in the way I intended it to.'") In 2005, Oscar-Winner Halle Berry made headlines with an overemotional parody of her Academy Awards acceptance speech while taking home the Worst Actress award for Catwoman...
...every community organizer and freshman Senator was considered along with President-elect Obama in selecting the Person of the Year. He has done some really good things in those roles, but is there any other basis for which he has demonstrated merit to be Person of the Year? This award was premature, myopic and reduces this distinction to meaninglessness. Let him prove himself in the very difficult role he is about to undertake. As of yet, all he has done is plan, promise and convince voters to choose him. He has wonderful potential but save this award for the outstanding...
...improved compliance by surgical teams - 57% of the teams involved in the study carried out all six checklist items, up from 34% before the study began - there were many teams that did not adhere completely to the list. That's why Dr. Peter Pronovost, who won a MacArthur "genius" award for creating the concept of medical checklists and studying them in intensive-care units, remains skeptical of the study's remarkable results. "I wish checklists were Harry Potter's magic wand, but they're not," he says. "The behavior changed trivially, not enough for that reduction to be real. Like...