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...make it through 12 security checkpoints to the press room at the Hollywood Renaissance Hotel. Esteemed members of the Fourth Estate are fighting over dial-up lines and a starch-laden buffet and debating in which Star Trek series Best Supporting Actress nominee Jennifer Hudson's dress belongs...
That's not to say a gay man couldn't host the Oscars (an out gay man--Rock Hudson co-hosted in 1973), but it's hard to think offhand of one who could. Lesbians simply don't inspire the kind of social-sexual unease that gay men do. Two chicks kissing is a male fantasy, a sweeps stunt. Two dudes kissing is gross-out humor. It's Sacha Baron Cohen open-mouthing Will Ferrell in Talladega Nights. It's a million Brokeback Mountain jokes. It's the Snickers Super Bowl ad, in which two mechanics locked lips while sharing...
...Hungarian animator with a 5-min. movie about a cuckoo clock ascends to the stage on Oscar night, you may be tempted to take that post--Jennifer Hudson, pre--Helen Mirren bathroom break. But if you do, you will miss something besides an ecstatic shout-out to Budapest--you'll miss seeing a real Hollywood comeback story, the return of the short film. Thanks to downloadable video and an embrace of the form by some Hollywood heavyweights, something very old-fashioned is happening: people are watching short movies. On cell phones, computers, TVs and--this is really retro--in theaters...
...incited controversy. Despite having the most nominations—a grand total of eight, due largely to three for Best Original Song—the film failed to make the cut, a first in Oscar history. However, the Academy has acknowledged the brilliant star-making turn of Jennifer Hudson and veteran comedian Eddie Murphy. What replaced “Dreamgirls” is surprise nominee “Little Miss Sunshine,” which nabbed the Producers Guild Award for Best Picture in January, a strong indicator of the Oscar winner.Best Director: Clint Eastwood, “Letters from...
...concentrate. These disturbing recollections haunted me as I sat in several fashion shows, wondering why we were bringing this particular trend back. The large sleeves of 2007 are not necessarily Victorian in nature. Sometimes they reflect late sixties movies where Doris Day tries to pretend Rock Hudson is not gay. This year’s big sleeves also reflect the butterfly kaftans that dominated parties in the early seventies where everyone had sex with everyone else’s husband and listened to Donna Summer while they did it. Pair this trend with something narrow in the bottom...