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...Perhaps best was the gut-busting Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson taped intro to the Costume Design award, with Stiller, dressed as a dwarf from The Lord of the Rings, radiating his patented passive-aggressive anger ("I look like a freakin' ZZ Top troll boy"). It was such a good piece, in fact, that it could have come from the MTV Movie Awards, which the Academy could still learn a thing or a hundred from...
...church tribunal demanded that Joan of Arc submit to the authority of the church. She shrewdly answered that she submitted to the authority of God, since "our Lord and the church are the same." The church ought to have learned, after all these years, not to push Catholics toward the place where, in their disillusioned hearts, they will, like Joan, listen for the unmediated voice of God and decide that the church, with too many squalors and secrets, is untrustworthy and perhaps an irrelevance...
...interested in catching up on the Wetlaufer canon. In 1992 she wrote a novel titled Judgment Call, based on her experiences as a reporter at the Miami Herald. In the book, a young reporter has an affair with a teenage hit man at the behest of a drug lord. Of even more interest may be a 1999 article Wetlaufer wrote for HBR containing a hypothetical case study in which a married CEO's louche ways with female employees end up in the gossip columns and cause trouble for his board of directors. In the article, Wetlaufer expressed little tolerance...
...Mind games should have given a boost to The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. It won the most nominations, and in 16 of the past 17 years, the film with the most nominations took the grand prize. But others think New Line hasn't taken advantage. "I don't feel their heat," a rival strategist observes. New Line exec Russell Schwartz has his own take, with a hint of 9/11: "Even though the movie takes place in a 'created' world, its themes of good vs. evil are more relevant than any movie out there right...
...them. Make one about schizophrenic mathematician John Nash. Give another one of them a midlife crisis. Make one of them a smitten William Shakespeare. Then, put them on the Titanic. Or, borrow something else that is already favorably positioned in the American consciousness. Who doesn’t love Lord of the Rings...