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CATE BLANCHETT: The 37-year-old Oscar winner is in negotiations--does that mean she'll be Indy's girl? Or, dare we think it, Indy Jr.'s mom? Or maybe ... she's involved with Jones père (Sean Connery). Now that's archaeology...
...also an attorney and former Fulbright Scholar, founded New Line in 1967 with a plan to distribute art films. But over the ensuing 40 years, the studio has amassed a library of commercial hits including the Nightmare on Elm Street series, Rush Hour, Wedding Crashers and the Oscar-winning Lord of the Rings trilogy to emerge as Hollywood's leading mini-major studio. (New Line is owned by Time Warner, which is also the parent of Time Magazine and Time.com). In that time, Shaye directed just one film, Book of Love, a bawdy 1990 coming-of-age romantic comedy...
...We’re surely never the biggest, so we’ve got to make up for it in some fashion. And as Ludacris, in his Oscar-worthy portrayal of Skinny Black in Hustle & Flow, put it so perfectly, “it ain’t the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight...
...Hollywood the liberal weepie hibernates for most of the year, only to emerge in time for Academy Award consideration. Frequently, the top Oscar has gone to films of social or political sentiment, from The Life of Emile Zola and Mrs. Miniver to Dances with Wolves and Braveheart. In 2005 the Christian right's attacks on the mercy-killing plot of Million Dollar Baby may have been the spur for the Oscars that went to the film and its star, Hilary Swank...
...recent Oscar-winning weepies are descendants of the domestic melodramas of the '30s and '40s, with Barbara Stanwyck or Greta Garbo cast as a strong-willed woman censured by a straitlaced society. In the past 20 years, when women have achieved a measure of equality (except at the box office), the hero-victim has tended to be male, and the affliction has been mental, as in Rain Man, Forrest Gump and A Beautiful Mind. They're the movie equivalent of the orphan puppy that no one will adopt--except you, dear sensitive viewer...