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Doing Well by Doing Good So Hollywood took keen notice of the recent breakthrough of The Blind Side, an inspirational that in two months has earned around $230 million at the domestic box office on a paltry $29 million budget. It's the story of NFL rookie Michael Oher and the wealthy white woman who eight years ago saved the young Michael from a forlorn life on the streets, adopted him and encouraged him to play football. A canny mix of violent sports (for the guys in the audience) and do-gooder heart (for the women), The Blind Side...
...park our posteriors on the sofa to cheer the sublime spirals, miraculous catches and riveting runs down the sideline. It is one of our most lucrative forms of mass entertainment, celebrated not just on ESPN but in prime-time soap operas (Friday Night Lights) and Hollywood blockbusters (The Blind Side). The NFL's players and owners and the myriad industries associated with the game - fanzines, websites, merchandisers, fantasy leagues - have all been beneficiaries of the tens of billions of dollars the sport generates. But it is irrefutable that those profits have come at the expense of the long-term mental...
...pushes the actor into Wesley Snipes territory, as he plays a figure who channels both a taciturn John Wayne hero and the implacable warriors of Japanese samurai films like Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo and the Zatoichi blind-swordsman series - all of which fed on, and in turn fed, the Hollywood notion of solitary, preternatural machismo. The new movie taps Washington's coiled strength, transforms that asset into a weapon and gives him the chance to kick ass for righteousness' sake...
...same logic should help Sandra Bullock in her Oscar search. After 10 weeks in theaters, her sports-inspirational drama, The Blind Side, dropped out of the top 10 (all the way down to 11), but it ain't done yet. Bullock won Best Actress awards from the Golden Globe crowd and, on Jan. 23, the Screen Actors Guild; the former long shot is now the favorite to cop an Oscar (over previous front runner Meryl Streep for Julie & Julia). There's no question that the movie's out-of-nowhere success - a $234 million domestic gross on a modest...
...over his main rival, Up in the Air's George Clooney; and Bullock, once a long shot for a Best Actress nomination, now looks to be short-listed with Streep, as well as becoming the first actress to have a $200 million grossing movie to her name for The Blind Side. Waltz and 'Nique have had their Oscars locked down since winning a slew of awards last month from critics' groups that don't have their ceremonies on TV. (Read Tuned In: "NBC's Golden Globes: When It Rains, It Pours...