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This year the nominations were posted two weeks earlier, and Oscar season is squeeze-boxed into 33 days. With the clock ticking at warp speed, there's a siege of migraines at swank industry boites like Morton's and The Ivy, among studio bosses and stars alike. It's a bit like the presidential primaries, which used be a contest through June. Now the race could be over by March, especially if you stumble or scream in Iowa...
Last fall the big studios and their "independent" affiliates, such as Sony Pictures Classics and Fox Searchlight, lost an additional month when the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) barred the sending out of screeners, the videos and DVDs that Oscar voters use to catch up on unseen films. Outrage ensued. One studio had some publicity material returned to it with notes reading "No screener, no vote" and "I'm only voting for independent movies...
...tour was their performance on the Ed Sullivan TV show on Sunday night, Feb. 9. Some 73 million Americans tuned in that night, the largest viewership in the history of television to that point. More than 50,000 fans and curiosity-seekers had applied for seats in the studio audience, of whom only 728 could be accommodated. I was one of the reporters watching from the back of the theater. (Maybe this actually was a dream assignment.) What struck us journalists that night was the noise that engulfed the Beatles as they trotted out onstage - intense, high-pitched, piercing...
...clown faces, vividly colored--has been filled out by director Timothy Bjorklund with such loving congestion that you'll need to see the film twice to get all the fun. (Look for the Mickeys!) As CGI cartooning takes over the world--Disney just closed down its traditional-animation studio in Florida--Teacher's Pet finds a fresh and frisky approach to doing things the old, Walt way. --By Richard Corliss
...deep. There may be a pretty jazzy 400-page book lurking somewhere inside Hollywood Animal, but Eszterhas vastly overestimates the reader's interest in the breakup of his first marriage, and in his various health problems, and in the superfine details of his wheelings and dealings and squealings with studio executives. Even worse, there's a fundamental lack of self-insight here. Eszterhas wants to spin himself as a Hollywood outsider, a self-righteous desperado who took the town for all it was worth and then rode off into the sunset (he moved back to Ohio...