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...many of the 6,000 members, we wonder, voted for Marcia Gay Harden as Best Supporting Actress? In "Pollock," a film that has earned all of $3 million at the box office, she played Jackson Pollock's nattering, long-suffering wife Lee Krasner. In retrospect, and by the curious logic pertaining to Oscar, the award made sense. The Academy loves actresses whose roles demand they abase themselves in obscure accents. An underdog role can guarantee a victory in an election when most of the voters are actors, and in a time when serious acting is considered a mix of attitude...
...little guy - sometimes a victory for the little little guy over the big little guy. Sony Pictures Classics has long toiled in the shadow of savvy Miramax Films, the ingenuity of whose Oscar campaigns is notorious. But last night SPC copped five awards (four for "Crouching Tiger" and Harden's statuette), while Miramax went Oscarless for the first time in 13 years. So no big Miramax party on Oscar night. No Harvey Weinstein gags. Miramax had to be content with laughing all the way to the bank: its giddily sleazy low-budget horror farce "Scary Movie" earned nearly $160 million...
...nominations announced on live local news station at 5:30 a.m. Hear Best Supporting Actress nominees announced. Julie Walters, Kate Hudson, Judi Dench (wouldn't be the Oscars if she wasn't nominated for something), Frances McDormand (wouldn't be the Oscars if...well, same as Judi), Marcia Gay Harden. Wonder why Catherine Zeta-Jones was ignored; she was terrific in "Traffic," showed lack of vanity appearing pregnant and heavy. Decide that Hollywood secretly hates movie stars and Catherine behaves like a movie star, what with marrying Michael Douglas in a big splashy wedding...
...rage, grievance, and bitterness will harden, with what ugly result down the road? America will become a vast superpower Northern Ireland of the mouth, and the election of 2000 will seem like the Battle of the Boyne, and the Troubles will just go on and on. Within limits, of course, that is just political normality, only nastier...
...ferocity of Harden's performance derives from this mixture of motives. You never quite know where Harden, 41, is coming from, but you do get the sense that the first person she's surprising is herself. Maybe the last to be surprised are her fellow performers, who have been appreciating her onscreen ("Miller's Crossing") and onstage ("Angels in America") for a decade. Now, following her humorous turn in Clint Eastwood's "Space Cowboys" with this display of devastated loyalty, we can all join in celebrating a wonderful actress...