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...Iraq war in the White House. In 2007, Hare directed Vanessa Redgrave on Broadway in a well-received adaptation of Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking. And his screenplays are like catnip to the Hollywood A-list: the one he wrote for The Hours, starring Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore and Nicole Kidman, earned him a 2002 Oscar nomination...
...fools: they front-loaded the program with brand names. J. Lo, Bruce Springsteen and Winslet, the female lead of Titanic, all appeared before the first commercial. After that, it was pretty much the Independent Spirit Awards. Clint Eastwood, Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Cruise, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Meryl Streep and other famous nominees were essentially table ornaments - party favors for the home viewer. The kings and queens sat there, camera-ready, for a call that never came. Instead of closeups on stage, thanking the little people, they got reaction shots when the awards went to the likes of Hawkins...
...What They're Watching in the U.K.: Perhaps it was inevitable. Mamma Mia!, the Golden Globe--nominated Abba songfest starring Meryl Streep, has become the all-time highest-grossing movie in the U.K., bumping 1997's Titanic from the top spot. The movie, while still in theatrical release after 23 weeks, also bested Titanic in DVD sales, with 1.7 million copies sold on its first day. The musical has been playing on London stages since...
...best actor, New York and L.A. named Sean Penn for Milk; the NBR cited Clint Eastwood for Gran Torino, and D.C. pinned Mickey Rourke for The Wrestler. Best actress: Sally Hawkins in Happy-Go-Lucky (New York and L.A.), Meryl Streep in Doubt and Anne Hathaway in Rachel. Supporting actor: Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight (L.A. and D.C.) and Josh Brolin, Milk (New York and NBR). Supporting actress: Penelope Cruz as the passionate painter in Vicky Cristina Barcelona (NBR, New York, L.A.) and Rosemarie DeWitt as Rachel in Rachel...
...favorite targets, however, were celebrities like Zsa Zsa Gabor and Britney Spears, who he felt lacked any innate sense of style or glamour. He said his criticism had nothing to do with talent and once remarked that Meryl Streep looked like a "gypsy abandoned by a caravan...