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...Film category, almost always a botch, had disqualified The Diving Bell and the Butterfly because its screenwriter is English and its director American. (That's Julian Schnabel, who still copped a Best Director nomination). Ang Lee's Chinese-language erotic thriller Lust, Caution was missing, as was The Romanian drama 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days, the Palme d'Or winner at Cannes and a near-unanimous critics' fave. The snubbing of these well-known films left room for five films (four from Eastern Europe) that even most reviewers haven't heard of. Zut alors...
...Thank god for Corliss and his ideas for saving the Oscars. He is right: they do need a change. Right now the show is like the drama-club awards in high school. And nobody wanted to hang out with those kids, cuz they were, like, so weird. The Oscars should totally be a popularity contest, like electing Homecoming Queen. Then, finally, some good movies could win Best Picture. Like Norbit. Or Wild Hogs. Or 300. While you're at it, Mr. Corliss, could you jazz up the presidential race? Who cares about all these debates on stuff nobody understands...
...kids. Although the world is changing--more than 3,700 schools now have student clubs that welcome gays--many gay kids still grow up believing that what they want is disgusting. They repress for years, and when they finally do have relationships, they need them to carry sufficient drama into those emotional spaces that were empty for so long. Gays need their relationships to scorch...
...drinking bourbon on the rocks. It was great. This huge cheer went up.' GLENN CLOSE, after learning that she'd won a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a TV Drama, at a bar in New York City. The traditional ceremony was replaced with a speedy news conference because of the ongoing writers' strike...
...Diana and Dodi Al Fayed, former butler Paul Burrell was forced to defend his credibility against an army of lawyers intent on, if not destroying it, then at least giving it a good beating. But early on it became clear that this was not going to be the courtroom drama everyone had hoped for. Instead, there was back-pedaling, name-calling and quibbling over semantics - in other words, a whole lot of nothing...