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...Eight of the ten nominees for Best Actor and Best Actress are first-timers, and some of those cited in the leading and supporting categories have names almost no one knew how to pronounce before they were suddenly mentioned every night on Access Hollywood. For the record, say Rachel Vice (for Weisz); a soft G for Jake Gyllenhaal (think Jake and Jill); and, well, something like David StraTHARRRRN...
...five major finalists are part of an off-Hollywood, almost an anti-Hollywood, light years removed from the pictures the moguls really wants to make: the moneymakers. Are the box office winners and the Oscar nominees even members of the same family? Yes, both are children of the movie industry; but they?re siblings without much in common. The Narnias and Wedding Crasherses are the son who got rich as a corporate lawyer, and the Capotes and Good Nights are the daughter who quit graduate school to become an inner-city social worker...
...other theories, unique to this year, and all favor Crash. One is that Brokeback, the front-runner after its critics? nods in December and its Golden Globe award in January, made the fatal faux pas of peaked too soon. Whereas Crash, which has lately been getting the majority of Hollywood?s favorite four-letter word, buzz, peaked at just the right time...
...episodes reprise the show's minor weaknesses as well as its major strengths. There's another inside-Hollywood detour about the movie ambitions of Christopher (Michael Imperioli). (Though it does deliver funny lines: Chris describes his screenplay idea as "Saw meets Godfather II.") And subplots involving fundamentalist Christians and a superstar rapper are tendentious and cardboard. (The latter recalls a season-one story about how hip-hop culture fetishes mafiosi...
...says Assistant Professor of Visual and Environment Studies and of English J. D. Connor ’92. “These things reward the kind of attention that cultural studies scholars can bring to bear on them.”Connor, whose VES 195: “Hollywood Film” requires that students watch movies like “The Exorcist” and “Jaws,” bemoans the lack of attention given to television at Harvard. “It’s silly, I think. There should be at least one person...