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...more general terms, however, many of the patterns deviate little from previous years. Ridley Scott received his apologetic Black Hawk Down director nom for not winning for Gladiator last year, the brilliant Mulholland Drive was saluted for David Lynch’s sake despite being shafted in other major categories, Russell Crowe will probably win again as another apology for not grabbing a statue for The Insider (his only really great performance to date) and most surprisingly Baz Luhrmann was ignored for Moulin Rouge, despite the fact that it contained the most rigorous, interesting direction of the year...
...budget (or the director’s ego) isn’t the only determining factor. From the Academy President’s introductory speech to the montage of recently deceased actors to the lifetime achievement honorees, there’s some sense of celebrating art for the sake of art—or at least of celebrating film as something more than disposable entertainment. Why else include an award for Best Documentary Feature and Best Documentary Short Subject, when the four-hour plus ceremony is already acknowledged as taking too long...
...Still, the restoration of calm for its own sake may not be sufficient incentive for Arafat - or the tens of thousands of Palestinian militants on the ground who have waged the intifada - to enforce a cease-fire. Such incentive would only come, say Palestinian officials (and European mediators and Israeli peacemakers such as foreign minister Shimon Peres) with the restoration of negotiations over Palestinian statehood. While Sharon and his supporters balk at resuming such talks, arguing that this would simply reward violence, Peres and others say that it would create a necessary incentive for Arafat to keep the peace...
...Richard Skinner thinks the recent scrawling is a hoax, the work of a copycat. Skinner believes the real killer is not a publicity seeker, but someone wreaking methodical revenge on specific targets. "I don't think it's a lunatic just walking around wanting to kill dogs for the sake of it," Skinner says. "The person doing it believes it is for a purpose...
...nice to find a message about human nature, our times, or the power of art. There was none. But walking out of the theater after the show, it really doesn’t matter. Arsenic creates a fantastic world not necessarily to comment on this one, but for the sake of sheer enjoyment. And that’s exactly what this production provides...