Word: golden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...killing four fellow pupils and a teacher and wounding 10 others Tuesday await a judge's ruling on whether they are competent to stand trial in juvenile court. If they are eventually found guilty, the boys -- identified by the local newspaper as Mitchell Johnson, 13, and his cousin Andrew Golden, 11 -- will have to be released by the age of 18 under Arkansas law. The judge in the case has ordered the boys held without bail. The U.S. Attorney General's office is considering filing federal charges against the them...
Could those little golden men be contemplating hara-kiri with those swords? Perhaps, if they had any idea of the farce they seem poised to act out Monday night...
...honestly, griping about the Oscars is not only a futile occupation, it's banal and overpracticed. Why waste the time or the print? Instead, accepting the nominees as given, here's my breakdown on who will, could and should walk off with the little Golden...
WILL WIN Count out Christie, whose film was barely seen (and not that great), and Winslet, who delivered lines like "I'd rather be Jack's whore than your wife!" In the Dueling British Ladies contest, Judi Dench in Mrs. Brown, who won the Golden Globe, has more momentum than The Wings of the Dove's Helena Bonham Carter. So the race is between Dench and Helen Hunt, also a Globe winner. Give Hunt the edge, since she won the Screen Actors Guild and is the only American nominee--that's how Tomei beat four Limeys...
...actor awards, it's generally agreed, are where new talent has the best chance of getting recognized, in which case Greg Kinnear (As Good As It Gets) has the advantage. However, the Academy also likes old stars who make noteworthy comebacks, and Burt Reynolds (Boogie Nights) did win the Golden Globe...