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...This year, the crystal ball is at its murkiest. With no sentimental favorite and no runaway hit (it's the first time in ages that none of the five nominees for Best Picture has grossed anywhere near $100 million), forecasters are asking themselves: Do Oscar voters want the gay movie or the race movie? For if there are two front runners, they are Brokeback Mountain, the sad love story of two cowpokes (and the women they ignore), and Crash, a drama about racial, social and sexual tensions that is as sprawling and congested as a big-city freeway system...
...more fanciful Oscar theories addresses this question: Which film represents the home team? The majority of Academy members live in or near Los Angeles, and actors make up the largest voting contingent. A long-standing grievance of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) is "runaway productions": movies shot abroad, especially in Canada, that ship jobs out of the U.S. Thus there may be some protectionist resentment against Brokeback, which is set in Wyoming and Texas but was shot mostly in Alberta. This would tilt the Best Picture vote to Crash, a low-budget, L.A.-made movie that...
...Primal Fear” and “Chicago,” to defend the fact that he “made the same movie twice” by starring opposite Julia Roberts in both “Pretty Woman” and “Runaway Bride...
...Primal Fear” and “Chicago,” to defend the fact that he “made the same movie twice” by starring opposite Julia Roberts in both “Pretty Woman” and “Runaway Bride...
...that Richard “Sexiest Man Alive” Gere is an iconic figure of American cinema? Perhaps you forgot that this “American Gigolo” found a “Pretty Woman,” only to discover she was a “Runaway Bride,” and ultimately, “Unfaithful.” Yep, this tap-dancing, piano-playing, Tibet-loving actor is the 2006 Hasty Pudding Man of the Year. But before we toast his achievements, we should take a look at some flops that weren?...