Word: laurene
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...still a guy making two-shots of people talking about their troubles, working them through on the basis of faulty information and silly suppositions. Case in point: Holden McNeil (Ben Affleck). He draws underground comic books with his boyhood pal Banky (Jason Lee). Then he meets Alyssa (Joey Lauren Adams), also a comix artist, and falls into obsession. The problem is, she?s a lesbian. Well, nobody?s perfect. And, indeed, she?s not perfectly gay, for eventually she succumbs to Holden?s passion. This makes him feel terrific?the superstud who has conquered the unconquerable. Except that Banky...
...still a guy making two-shots of people talking about their troubles, working them through on the basis of faulty information and silly suppositions. Case in point: Holden McNeil (Ben Affleck). He draws underground comic books with his boyhood pal Banky (Jason Lee). Then he meets Alyssa (Joey Lauren Adams), also a comix artist, and falls into obsession. The problem is, she?s a lesbian. Well, nobody?s perfect. And, indeed, she?s not perfectly gay, for eventually she succumbs to Holden?s passion. This makes him feel terrific?the superstud who has conquered the unconquerable. Except that Banky...
Placing the merchandise was only one of Nordstrom's problems. The company was agonizingly slow to bring in national superbrands such as Tommy Hilfiger for Women and Lauren by Ralph Lauren, allowing rivals like Macy's and Bloomingdale's to take the lead in rolling out the hugely popular items. "We were late in the game in getting in on it," Nordstrom admits. "We just can't allow these things to happen...
...Will Win: Ignore everything I just said. This is still Hollywood. No one would dare vote against Lauren Bacall, whose smart, glorious career has yielded no prior nominations, and whose dragon-mom character in Mirror would not take kindly to rejection. Bacall has won the Screen Actors Guild and Golden Globe Awards, and she's sure to give a helluva speech...
...Ralph Fiennes are probably reward enough. Keaton has the advantage of exposure in the hit First Wives Club, but Marvin's Room has been seen by so few people that her chances are slim. Watson was the critics' darling of the year, but it's hard to imagine, say, Lauren Bacall voting for a character who gives hand jobs to strangers on a bus. That leaves Cannes and Golden Globe winner Blethyn, and Screen Actors Guild champ McDormand, both in Best Picture nominees, both highly deserving...