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...Another week, another record-shattering performance by Avatar. According to early studio estimates, the James Cameron enviro-war fantasy won the weekend with $36 million, nearly double the take of its nearest competitor, the sci-fi epic Legion. In its sixth week out of the chute, Avatar made more money, way more, than any picture on the post-Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend, and almost all of those films were in their first days of release. (See the top 10 James Cameron moments...
...only January and the Hollywood swells are assembling in tuxedos and evening dresses, you know it must be an award show of dubious provenance but free television exposure. George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Sandra Bullock, king-of-the-movie-world James Cameron: if you offer them the chance to win a prize on TV, they will come. Thus on Friday the Broadcast Film Critics Association presented its star-clogged Critics Choice Awards, hosted by Broadway and prime-time cutie Kristin Chenoweth. And Sunday night found the Hollywood Foreign Press Association rounding up all the usual suspects, plus famous folks...
...Inglourious Basterds. Best Supporting Actress: Mo'Nique, Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire. Only in the Picture and Director categories did the two groups disagree. The Broadcast Critics gave those awards to Kathryn Bigelow, and her Iraq bomb-squad drama The Hurt Locker, while the HFPA cited Cameron, Bigelow's ex-husband, and Avatar. "Frankly, I thought Kathryn was gonna get this," Cameron generously said at the Globes. "And she richly deserves it." (See the best movies of the past decade...
...many Rolexes, Samsung DVD players, free food, and gambling trips to Vegas the studio gifted the HFPA members. Isn't that how it's done? Oh, wait, this was 20th Century Fox, the cheapest studio in Hollywood. Maybe the Avatar keychain was enough." (See the Top 10 James Cameron Moments...
...Road Ahead For its part, Britain's Conservative Party has come a long way since Section 28, which the Labour government repealed in 2003. David Cameron, the Tory leader, apologized for the law at a gay-pride event last June. In October, the Conservatives even organized an official "gay night" at their annual party conference. Among gay activists, debate still rages over whether leaders who have not gone public with their sexuality should do so. Girard, the deputy mayor of Paris, knows several elected officials who keep their sexuality private. "By not accepting their homosexuality publicly, closeted politicians are holding...