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...mere professional movie-watcher. Pinnacle Sports.com, the largest sports betting site on the Internet, has already posted its Oscar odds. Brokeback is favored for Best Picture at a prohibitive 1 to 13, and director Lee at 1 to 19! In other categories, the Vegas sharpies like Philip Seymour Hoffman for best actor, Reese Witherspoon for best actress, and Paul Giaamatti and Rachel Weisz in the supporting actor slots...
...night. From cowboy drama Brokeback Mountain?s four awards to Philip Seymour Hoffman?s win for biopic Capote to Felicity Huffman?s trophy for Transamerica, films with gay and transgender characters swept the show. The King Kong/Naomi Watts inter-species love affair, however, still proved too edgy, even for those live-and-let-live Hollywood Foreign Press voters...
Characteristically, Keener makes little of it. "I didn't have a plan," she says. "I just knew Phil [Philip Seymour Hoffman, playing Capote] was going to carry me through it. All I knew was that I had to clear his face so that the camera could get both...
...disciple who betrayed Christ goes on trial, and his character witnesses range from Sigmund Freud to Satan himself. Guirgis's Shavian fantasy is not a jokey stunt, but a bold, blasphemous examination of the notion of forgiveness. Philip Seymour Hoffman directed a riveting -- and unjustly ignored -- production for off-Broadway's Labyrinth theater, sparked by Eric Bogosian's slick turn as the Devil...
Last month, the New York Times’ Caryn James heralded a new trend for the winter movie season, an “explosion of Oscar-baiting performances in which straight actors play gay, transvestite or transgender characters.” Think about it—Philip Seymour Hoffman is the mincing Truman in “Capote,” Cillian Murphy is a pretty cross-dresser in “Breakfast on Pluto,” and Felicity Huffman is a midlife-crisis pre-op in “Transamerica.” And all that?...