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...Nearly everyone at the event knew that the real reason for the fete was not to honor Stone's award from his hometown film festival, but to help launch Paramount's bid to snag Oscar nominations for his recent 9/11 movie World Trade Center. And to launch Hollywood's annual effort to get around Academy rules that try to limit the increasingly aggressive studio campaigns for Oscars...
...promote a film or achievement for Academy Awards consideration are expressly forbidden." To get around that rule, studios sponsor parties disguised as events; academic-like "symposiums" with the cast and crew and "lectures" from stars and directors. Thus, Tuesday night's event was intended to honor Stone for the Hollywood Film Festival. Wink, wink...
...Jeez, doesn't this have 'Oscar, please, Oscar' written all over it?" snickered one partygoer at the Stone event. All the elements were there: an armada of Paramount publicists, reporters from the Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Hollywood Reporter and Variety, as well as members of other award-giving groups such as the Hollywood Foreign Press (who give out the Golden Globes) and the British Academy of Film & Television Arts (the BAFTAs...
...traveling nurse Kyle M. Griffith to consider yellow pipe cleaners and foil. Griffith’s wanna-be costume? “Partly Cloudy with a Chance of Showers.” Surprisingly, such creativity is the exception rather than the rule among Oona’s shoppers. Hollywood-themed costumes abound: “Everybody’s pirate wants to be Johnny Depp,” says store owner Kathleen M. White. Sunday morning alone she sold two Marie Antoinette costumes, inspired by Sofia Coppola’s recent ouevre. According to White, even the tubes of fake...
Streisand, in fact, suffers from a common malady among Hollywood elites: an inability to recognize that actors and singers are meant to act and sing, not to pontificate on the political matters of the day. Most who try to cross over into politics end up looking foolish and out of touch with the nation...