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...Oscar voters don't have time to catch up with the hundreds of films eligible for nomination. After all, we see movies for a living; they just make them. They need an early line, a cheat sheet, voices of presumed expertise steering them toward certain films and, just as important, away from lots of others. Critics, at award time, are the wheat-chaff separators...
...They all should have congratulated one another on their good taste and the fact that they could afford the dress." LETITIA BALDRIGE, etiquette expert and Kennedy-era White House social secretary, after Laura Bush and three other women wore identical $8,500 red Oscar de la Renta gowns to a White House reception...
...LESSON FROM THE CINEMA: DON'T TRUST MATT Two recent movies, The Departed and The Good Shepherd, share more than Oscar ambitions and a wardrobe department full of suits. Consider the similarities...
...minute film that has been downloaded more than 50,000 times on YouTube since it was posted Nov. 9. The director of Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks didn't direct this one; a couple of guys named Nate and Matt recorded Lynch's street-corner Oscar campaign for Dern's performance in his new film, Inland Empire. But Empire is only marginally less homespun, and although it's not on YouTube, the director is distributing it himself...
Lynch is embarking on an eight-city promotional road tour of the U.S. later this month. When he first started thinking about the costs of self-distribution, he was told of a $2.8 million Oscar publicity campaign for an actress in another current movie, recalls Dern. "He went insane," she says, beginning to imitate Lynch's clipped Midwestern accent. "'People are starving! That's disgusting. I could go stand on a street corner and talk about my actors!' As soon as I heard 'I could stand on a street corner,' I thought, Oh, no." Perhaps because there aren't actually...