Word: hype
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...only one breathing more than a little hype into the trial. In anticipation of the French and international news coverage of the case, France's media establishment has taken on a crusading tone in covering its opening - or, as in Lib?ration's case, appointed itself the role of rear-guard in defending this attack on free speech. And this being campaign season, it's hardly surprising leading French politicians have not only spoken out on the case, but even arranged themselves invitations to testify...
...Obama-Osama” hype is depressing for more than its disregard of religious tolerance and blatantly ignorant parallels. Enormous media attention is being wasted on this gossip at the expense of useful political debates that should take place now that political campaigns begin a year and a half before election...
...Unless, of course, you're content to have your convictionless genre picture dumped into January release. Meantime, the viewer's eye wanders toward the calendar - only five more days till February, only another month until the Oscar hype disappears overnight. Only a couple of months until we begin faintly to hear the first drumbeats for the big spring and summer releases. They'll mostly be pretty awful, too. But at least someone will believe in them. Or pretend...
...morning's announcement of the nominations - which ignored Brad Pitt's work in Babel and Jack Nicholson's in The Departed, and gave Dreamgirls a leading eight nominations (three for original song!) but stiffed it in the writing, directing and picture categories - a six-week flood of hope and hype begins, culminating in Oscar Night on Feb. 25. Las Vegas has already established its betting line for major categories. Everyone else, thinking ahead about Oscar office pools, will start scanning websites for tips on films most people haven't seen and many never heard about. Hmmm, Best Live Action Short...
Everybody, I mean everybody who's anybody in movies, or hopes to be, is in Park City, Utah, this week for the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. In this Lourdes of independent movies, hermitty young auteurs will schmooze with Hollywood's BlackBerry set. From the ferment of high art and hype art will emerge new faces, new voices and, I can almost guarantee, at least one film that will figure in next year's Oscar race--just as Little Miss Sunshine, from Sundance '06, is being touted for a Best Picture Academy Award nomination...