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Others are less obvious about moving right along. "I coined the expression 'walk and wave,' " says celebrity publicist Stan Rosenfield, who handles the likes of George Clooney and Geoffrey Rush on their rare carpet forays. "Slow down for the still photographers and the television cameras. And you shout back an answer. These days it's sheer quantitative numbers. Certain red carpets just go on forever." (See everything you need to know about the 10 Best Picture nominees...
...more dollars in aid and another "10 to 15 to 20 years" of international assistance to get the place on its feet. But after more than half a century of suffering in Sudan, the approach of two votes is achieving far more than sanctions, peacekeepers, the ICC or George Clooney. That's a boost for democracy in a continent that could sorely use some more...
...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...
...just the runaway blockbuster of the millennium - and dented the chances of an early Best Picture favorite, Up in the Air, which won only a screenplay award from each group. Bridges gets a leg up 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...
...real" critic, I may both deplore and secretly envy the proximity that the BFCA and HFPA members enjoy with the celebrities they chronicle. At last Monday's New York Film Critics Circle dinner, I got to chat with Clooney and Bigelow and found them both warm, smart and gorgeous. But as I retreat to my rabbit hole and watch the parade of expensive, pampered flesh on the expertly produced Golden Globe show, I can thank the HPFA for aligning certain constellations - as when Sophia Loren, still statuesque and preternaturally well-preserved at 75, presented the Foreign Film award to Austria...