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...Oscars, that annual self-display of bad plastic surgery and the art of assembly-line cinema, have come to a close for the time being. At least I can breathe a sigh of relief that Finding Neverland went home with nothing. I wouldn’t say particularly great films ran off with the famed statuettes (though Million Dollar Baby has its moments of melancholic beauty), but nonetheless the Academy smartly denied its honors to “that movie with the kids flying out the window.” Besides, no more children need to discover the wonder...
Michael Jackson's trial began last week with testimony from the accuser's sister and others, who launched the prosecution's case that Jackson molested a 13-year-old boy at his Neverland Ranch. And courtroom watchers got their first good look at the legal teams that are set to clash...
Polls have shown that blacks are more sympathetic to Jackson. But jury consultants scouring the panel say there are members who could be sympathetic to the pop star. A 21-year-old man in a wheel-chair who said he had visited Jackson's Neverland Ranch as a child expressed disgust at discrimination lawsuits brought against local restaurants by a disabled man. Jury consultant Sarah Murray thought that could presage a lack of sympathy for Jackson's accuser. That juror is "somebody who doesn't like it when people play the victim," says Murray. Another potential obstacle for the prosecution...
Additionally, most of the movies in competition this year are yawningly average narrative star vehicles—things can’t be looking up when Martin Scorsese’s slumming project is the frontrunner. Not to mention that I would rather watch Surviving Christmas than see Finding Neverland again...
...make a film, as I will be winning for Best Picture, Director, Editor, Cinematographer, Art Director, Costume Designer, and Live-Action Short Film (for my on-set video diary.) The film will of course be a biopic, considering that three of the five Best Picture nominees this year (Finding Neverland, Ray, and The Aviator) are based-on-a-true-story, nostalgia-drenched, indulgent soap operas. My biopic, however, will break new ground in special effects and narrative form. Titled The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of Women in Science, it will chronicle the life of Lawrence H. Summers during...