Word: transamerica
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...jeans and cowboy books. The Wallace & Gromit directors Nick Park and Steve Box accepted for best animated feature in cartoonish Paul Smith bow-ties. Presenter King Kong?s Naomi Watts wore a distressed Givenchy gown that looked straight from Skull Island. Fortunately, Best Actress nominee Felicity Huffman left her Transamerica look at home, choosing a low-cut gown that proves she?s all woman...
...Dolly Parton was the night?s minimalist. The kitschy country legend belted out her best song bid, Transamerica?s Travelin? Thru, without the aid of the slow-motion dancers, smoke machines and elaborate sets that turned listenable tunes from Crash and Hustle & Flow into cringe-worthy performance...
...though Witherspoon won most of the critics? prizes, and a Golden Globe (for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical), the Oscar could go to Transamerica?s transsexual, Felicity Huffman (who took the Globe for Best Actress in an Endlessly Grating and Self-Congratulatory Drama - anyway, that?s a fair description of her movie). A woman playing a man who wants to become a woman: it may not be acting, but it sure is Acting...
...pipe organ. Their savvy and big shoulders won their films dozens of Oscars in the 90s, and they haven?t lost their touch now that they?ve left Miramax and started the Weinstein Company. Of the first four films released under their new banner, two cadged Best Actress nominations: Transamerica and, for Judi Dench, Mrs. Henderson Presents. Ferocity over likability could also lift Weisz, in The Constant Gardener, over adorable Amy Adams, in Junebug. The same logic applies to both Actress categories: do you want the driven idealist or the down-home cutie? As for Supporting Actor, Hollywood may want...
BEST ACTRESS: THE HAG THEORY The past six Oscars went to babe types who made themselves look like sluts, frumps, ogres or guys. So Felicity Huffman, as a man turned mom in Transamerica, may eat Reese's pieces...