Word: oscars
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...movies about whites being nurtured and schooled by the example of the black underling. (You've heard of Huckleberry Finn? Gone With the Wind?) The novel is set in rural South Carolina in 1964, which is just about the time it would have automatically been turned into an Oscar-nominated movie. The obvious reference point is To Kill a Mockingbird, whose girl narrator, Scout Finch, is 6 to Lily's 14, and whose fictional setting is Maycomb, Ala., instead of Bees' Tiburon, S.C. But that was back when most big films tended to serious sentiment. Today, the dominant tone...
...There are times, and this is one of them, when I think Queen Latifah has the most beautiful face in movies. I'm not sure what's in that smile, but it rarely seems less than radiant, and never more so than here. Hudson, who won an Oscar for Dreamgirls, is stalwart, defiant and winning as Lily's nanny and de facto stepmom. Okonedo, an Oscar nominee for Hotel Rwanda, has a poignant smile that breaks through May's tears like the sun during a storm; of all the strong performances in Bees, hers is the one most likely...
...want to be like every other fighter and do it one more time. That's obviously when it gets dangerous.' OSCAR DE LA HOYA, world-champion boxer, on plans to retire before he is permanently injured. His upcoming match against Filipino Manny Pacquiao is expected to be the most profitable fight in boxing history...
...your Oscar nomination for Chicago change your career path? Charmaine Robinson OKLAHOMA CITY...
...like to choose roles that are different from one to the next. I did Scary Movie after I got nominated. Some people might not have done that, but the kids gotta get their Oscar-nominated actresses...