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...Crowe will probably win again as another apology for not grabbing a statue for The Insider (his only really great performance to date) and most surprisingly Baz Luhrmann was ignored for Moulin Rouge, despite the fact that it contained the most rigorous, interesting direction of the year, not to mention being nominated for everything else...
...sublime resolution. His A.I., which was co-developed by Stanley Kubrick, is a tightly-driven, beautiful examination of man’s responsibility toward their machines, and subsequently said more about human nature than any film since Spielberg’s own Schindler’s List. Not to mention the total ignoring of Donnie Darko, which deserved a screenplay nomination more than anything else this year...
Critics of Pickering’s record on race also pointed to a 1994 cross burning case in which he encouraged prosecutors to seek a lighter sentence for one of the defendants. The critics, of course, told only half the story. What they failed to mention is that the individual in question had played a much smaller role in the crime than one of his co-defendants, who copped a plea and was charged with a misdemeanor. Pickering’s aim was not to defend cross burning, but to express concern for the apparent injustice of sending a lesser...
Sidney Falco (Tony Curtis): "A press agent eats a columnist's dirt and is expected to call it manna.... A columnist can't do without us - except our good and great friend J.J. forgets to mention that. You see, we furnish him with items." J.J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster): "Yes, with your clients' names attached. That's the only reason the poor slobs pay you: to see their names in my column all over the world.... [Press agents also] dig up scandal about prominent people and shovel it thin among columnists who give them space." - dialogue from the film "Sweet Smell...
...copy of J.J.'s column, sees that he has praised Herbie Temple, an old vaudeville comic, and learns that J.J. ran the bit without a press agent's urging - simply because he thought the fella was funny. Sidney rushes over to tell the comic he can get him a mention in J.J.'s column, then makes a phony phone call, pretending to dictate to J.J. the exact item that will appear later in the day. The novelette has a twist not in the film: the comic's manager drops by J.J.'s table to speak warmly to an embarrassed Sidney...