Word: crash
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...still beaming over the early-morning revelation. Terrence Howard, 36, woke up last Tuesday to find that he had been nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for Hustle & Flow and that another film in which he co-starred, Crash, was up for Best Picture. He spoke to TIME's Desa Philadelphia about portraying a pimp so convincingly and why his success in Hollywood has been bittersweet...
...CRASH, YOU FACE DISCRIMINATION AS A YUPPIE TV DIRECTOR, WHICH IS WORLDS AWAY FROM THE PIMP YOU PLAYED. DID THAT MAKE YOU THINK ABOUT RACE IN HOLLYWOOD? We're all caught up under this umbrella of political correctness, which I truly believe is a front for bigotry because we don't learn about each other. Until people start being truly honest--that's when we'll be able to bring an end to the problems we see associated with race in Hollywood and the rest of the world...
...Oscar this year, cheap is chic. Four of the five films nominated for Best Picture cost under $15 million to make, less than a fifth of the average Hollywood budget. Of them, the very cheapest was Crash, which cost $6.5 million and earned six Oscar nods, including three for writer-director-producer Paul Haggis. Yet the film's domestic box-office total ($56 million) was higher than that of any of its laureled rivals when the nominations came out last Tuesday...
...about racial tension, they made bold decisions: to open the film in May and play it on 1,900 screens, get the cast on Oprah, then saturate the film community with 130,000 DVDs. "Nothing sells itself," says co-star and co-producer Don Cheadle, who was pleased when Crash became the right kind of controversial film--"the quintessential watercooler movie...
...Irina Slutskaya, seven-time European and twice World champion. The Scandinavians will struggle to protect their longtime hold on Nordic events from the Russian, Ukrainian and Czech skiers hot on their heels. Austrian ski great Hermann Maier will attempt to complete his miraculous comeback from a near fatal motorcycle crash in 2001 by adding to his two Olympic gold medals. German speed skater Anni Friesinger will face a strong field of U.S. and Canadian racers. Japanese ski jumpers, Korean short-track speedsters and even the British curling team are vying for a medal or two. As for that final gold...