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...most of the night, Oscar went with the favorites. George Clooney (Syriana) and Rachel Weisz (The Constant Gardener) won in the supporting actor categories; Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote) and Reese Witherspoon (Walk the Line) took Best Actor and Actress; Brokeback Mountain was cited for adapted screenplay, Crash for original screenplay; and Brokeback?s Ang Lee for Best Director. The smart money even had the right over-under number on how many Jewish references host Jon Stewart would make in the award show?s first 30 minutes...
...sexuality as a continuum including bisexuality and the homosexual behavior of married men," opened the closet door for all subsequent literary references. The biographer admires Proust's courage, particularly since the pale, sad-eyed Frenchman was almost constantly concerned that he would be publicly humiliated for his preference, as Oscar Wilde had been not long before. While accepting his subject's neediness, drug abuse and manipulation, Davenport-Hines recognizes Proust's "mastery of human characterization." And the biographer understands his subject's obsession not just to present the personalities and quirks of France's Third Republic...
...DIED. JACK WILD, 53, former child actor who starred as the Artful Dodger in the 1968 film Oliver!; of mouth cancer; in London. Wild's impish charms won him an Oscar nomination for his part in the Dickens adaptation and earned him a starring role in the surreal U.S. kids' TV show H.R. Pufnstuf in 1969. But adult acting roles dried up as he struggled with alcoholism in later years. After giving up drinking in the 1980s, Wild appeared in a series of bit parts, including a supporting role in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves...
...That?s what Oscar is looking for: not acting but Acting! The Master Thespian strutting his bombastic stuff. By this standard, Heath Ledger, whose boldly subtle turn in Brokeback is so internalized you might need a surgeon to find it, is a less likely winner than Philip Seymour Hoffman, who?s much showier (and pretty swell too) as Truman Capote. Similarly, Reese Witherspoon, the world?s darling, may be seen as simply radiating star quality in her turn as June Carter Cash in Walk the Line. (We love her, but, honestly, the movie is Joaquin Phoenix?s show...
...though Witherspoon won most of the critics? prizes, and a Golden Globe (for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical), the Oscar could go to Transamerica?s transsexual, Felicity Huffman (who took the Globe for Best Actress in an Endlessly Grating and Self-Congratulatory Drama - anyway, that?s a fair description of her movie). A woman playing a man who wants to become a woman: it may not be acting, but it sure is Acting...