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...Anglo-Indian Slumdog Millionaire took four awards: film drama, director (Danny Boyle), screenwriter (Simon Beaufoy) and composer (A.R. Rahman). Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona was named best comedy, ahead of Happy-Go-Lucky and Mamma Mia! WALL-E won for animated feature, while the animated feature Waltz With Bashir was the best foreign language film. (Can't explain; too complicated.) The award for best actor in a drama went to Mickey Rourke for The Wrestler. Kate Winslet snagged both the dramatic actress prize for Revolutionary Road and the supporting actress trophy for The Reader. Ireland's Colin Farrell...
...Sheldon Keller, 85, was one of the crazy-gifted kids who wrote for Sid Caesar and Your Show of Shows; later he won a Writers Guild Award for the Hollywood parody Movie Movie and co-authored the movie Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell, remade with ABBA songs as Mamma Mia! Many a memorable MGM musical - Meet Me in St. Louis, Yolanda and the Thief, Ziegfeld Follies and (uncredited) The Wizard of Oz - sprang from the typewriter of Irving Brecher, 94. After writing the Bye Bye Birdie screenplay, Brecher began a retirement that lasted 45 years. I wish the same...
...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...
...Robert Rodriguez-Frank Miller Sin City. On his few forays into late-night talk (one visit with David Letterman sticks in my mind), the host would breathe a sigh of relief to find Rourke roguishly charming; the bull hadn't demolished the china. But mostly his rep kept him MIA. When he came up for the role of Randy, he recalled in Venice, Aronofsky told him: "You're a really great actor, and you've just f______ up your career for 15 years and nobody wants to hire...
...money off a series with 13 books and two movies, the cover reminds you that Meg Cabot is a “#1 New York Times Best-selling Author.” It also features a sparkly tiara stem that blooms into a pink flower. Maybe, in this installment, Mia Thermopolis (OMG!) matures from her experiences and blooms into a beautiful, intelligent, stately young woman (again). “Peterson’s Holiday Helper: Festive Pick-Me-Ups, Calm-Me-Downs, and Handy Hints to Keep You in Good Spirits,” by Valerie Peterson This...