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...that time again: when people, and journalists too, must pretend to care about the Oscars. With this morning's announcement of the nominations - which ignored Brad Pitt's work in Babel and Jack Nicholson's in The Departed, and gave Dreamgirls a leading eight nominations (three for original song!) but stiffed it in the writing, directing and picture categories - a six-week flood of hope and hype begins, culminating in Oscar Night on Feb. 25. Las Vegas has already established its betting line for major categories. Everyone else, thinking ahead about Oscar office pools, will start scanning websites for tips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bye Bye, Dreamgirls, Hello Babel | 1/23/2007 | See Source »

...Arnold Schwarzenegger announced Best Picture winner Babel while leaning on custom crutches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 29, 2007 | 1/18/2007 | See Source »

...Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy prize; the Las Vegas handicappers had established Dreamgirls at prohibitive one-to-10 odds. That will put it among the five Oscar nominees for Best Picture with The Queen and The Departed. Other possibilities are the indie fave Little Miss Sunshine and the polyglot Babel, which was a surprise winner of the top Globe prize: Best Motion Picture - Drama. But Babel, whose story spans four countries and five languages, was as apt a choice by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which votes for the Globes, as the actor-laden, L.A.-set Crash was for last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood With a British Accent | 1/16/2007 | See Source »

...This gives Hollywood three films to see and debate, Others may be added: Babel, Dreamgirls, Pedro Almodovar's Volver - maybe the indie hit Little Miss Sunshine. That could be a dark horse like last year's Crash, which all the critics' groups except Chicago's ignored, the better to celebrate Brokeback Mountain. The field's more open this year. In the New York Film Critics' voting, the 12 awards went to 11 different films; only The Queen won two. And though we weren't thinking about it, the 11 films had 10 different distributors; only Warner Bros. had two winners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do Movie Critics Matter? | 12/12/2006 | See Source »

...texts, “Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote,” and “The Library of Babel,” had last been seen on Nov. 12 at a fair in Hamburg, Germany, and longtime bookstore employee Saúl Roll said he discovered that the manuscripts were missing on Nov. 16 after he returned to Cambridge...

Author: By Stephanie S. Garlow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Borges Writings Turn Up in Store | 12/12/2006 | See Source »

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