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...Christmas, he has another one-man dystopia drama. It's I Am Legend, directed by Francis Lawrence, the Viennese director of music videos who made his feature debut with a good science-fiction film, Constantine, and written by Akiva Goldsman, based on Mark Protosevich's script for a 1999 I Am Legend project that was to be directed by Ridley Scott and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. As in I, Robot, Smith has seen the future - and it sucks...
...daughter recently turned 10, and it occurred to me that she shares the big-hearted pluck of another 10-year-old girl who made a lasting impression on my 1972 Christmas, when I myself was 10. Her name was Addie Mills, the heroine of a spare but moving TV drama called The House Without a Christmas Tree - which by happy coincidence was just released on DVD. Yule-o-philes will want to add it to the red-and-green boxes they pull out of their attics each holiday season...
...films released in November or December, including three that haven't opened yet. But the Globers did acknowledge that the people who watch awards shows also go to movies. Two slots were filled by popular films that have grossed about $120 million domestic: American Gangster, nominated in the Best Drama category, and Hairspray, one of the five finalists for Best Comedy or Musical. Atonement, Juno and the all-star Charlie Wilson's War could becomes hits as they open wide this month and next...
...consists of part-time journalists, full-time cater-waiters and valet parkers. But don't laugh at these representatives of overseas newspapers and magazines. They know how to throw a party. Double the number of nomination slots for movies, from the Motion Picture Academy's quintet to 10 - five dramas and five comedies or musicals. (Indeed, so rich was this year's bounty of films that the voters couldn't even contain their finalists to a list of five; they made room for seven nominees on the drama list.) More important, increase the number of nominated movie stars - sorry, actors...
...Best Actor awards could go to actual movie stars: Clooney, with his glistening likability and hunkitude, in the Drama category, and Depp, who's even dreamier (and murders and sings), in Comedy-Musical. But we never ignore Daniel Day-Lewis, making only his third film in a decade and, as the oil magnate in There Will Be Blood, giving another of his super-intense, bite-the-head-off-live-rats, I'm-mad-inside-too performances...