Word: coens
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...Best Actor Oscar, but in retrospect, the issue isn't that Benigni beat out Nick Nolte, Edward Norton, Ian McKellen and Tom Hanks for the award; it's that Jeff Bridges wasn't even nominated. His deft, hilarious, thrillingly perfect performance as Jeffrey Lebowski, a.k.a. the Dude, in the Coen brothers' genius film The Big Lebowski should have been showered with prizes. Instead, the only official honor Bridges got for the 1998 film was a nomination from the Satellite Awards, whatever those...
Many will still wonder if Dylan is kidding--and that's as engaging and fruitless a question as whether a Coen brothers movie is a parable or a joke. (Those Jewish kids from Minnesota ...) But for an artist whose motives always keep his fans guessing, Dylan seems on the level here. When he warbles, "Have yourself a merry little Christmas now," he pitches it with a sincerity that could warm Scrooge's heart...
...narrower releases, the Coen brothers' A Serious Man earned $860,000 at 82 theaters; Black Dynamite, the blaxploitation tribute that was highly praised at Sundance, could cadge only $141,000 on 70 screens; and the omnibus entry New York, I Love You, with directorial contributions by Mira Nair, Allen Hughes, Brett Ratner and Natalie Portman, took in a small-town $372,000 in 199 venues. Hopes remain high for two British romances. Bright Star, about poet John Keats' doomed love, has received $3.5 million in contributions from moony English majors; and An Education, with star-is-born Carey Mulligan, crossed...
USAGE: "Intermovies have long been a way for filmmakers to offer wry asides on the industry. In Burn After Reading, the Coen brothers featured a rancid-looking cookie-cutter romcom called Pushing Up Daisy...
...Harvard’s a very big, physical football team,” Lehigh coach Andy Coen said. “But I thought, all in all, the defense played well enough that if offensively we were doing what we do, we would have had a chance to win the football game...