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Chocolat won't win the top prize, but it may snag a Best Supporting Actress award for Judi Dench, who has been nominated three of the past four years and won for her cameo as Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love, especially since the two strongest competitors, Kate Hudson and Frances McDormand, are from a shared film?as mother and muse, respectively, in the Age of Rock memoir Almost Famous...
...days he had just seen an old buddy, George Harrison, who was apparently in L.A. (though NOT at the EMI party he'd helped finance!). Simon was also tickled by the news that the cult 1978 Pythonesque film spoofing the Beatles, "The Rutles," in which Simon had a memorable cameo, was coming out on DVD with some outtakes of his memorable mock interview. It was interesting that he was more animated talking about a project in which he'd had just a minor part than he was speaking about his own projects...
...entirely. "It can be scary," says Mori. After the photo shoot, Beat hangs around for a few minutes to chat. He starts to talk about his next project, which will be a love story, something romantic that will give more prominent screen time to women, who typically have only cameo roles in his films. Despite being married for 23 years and having two kids, Beat allots little psychic space for women in his public persona. His brother insists that for all of Beat's showbiz bravado, at his core he is a shy man who has trouble forging intimate bonds...
...does the whole cameo work? Like in the movie, Henry Winkler gets attacked by bees. Do you just go up to Henry Winkler one day and ask him if he wants to get attacked by bees...
...jest. Vidal is anything but a gadfly in his preoccupation with U.S. public affairs. He brings to the topic a mixture of nostalgia and estrangement. He inherited strong political yearnings; he idolized his blind maternal grandfather, Senator Thomas P. Gore, a populist Democrat from Oklahoma (who makes a cameo appearance in The Golden Age). But the young Vidal's firsthand glimpses of power as he accompanied his grandfather around Washington were eventually succeeded by the realization that he lacked the temperament to achieve such power himself. That is why his sympathy in his political novels goes out to history...