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...winner of the Directors Guild award wins (29 times in the last 35 years). So Brokeback...
...That?s what Oscar is looking for: not acting but Acting! The Master Thespian strutting his bombastic stuff. By this standard, Heath Ledger, whose boldly subtle turn in Brokeback is so internalized you might need a surgeon to find it, is a less likely winner than Philip Seymour Hoffman, who?s much showier (and pretty swell too) as Truman Capote. Similarly, Reese Witherspoon, the world?s darling, may be seen as simply radiating star quality in her turn as June Carter Cash in Walk the Line. (We love her, but, honestly, the movie is Joaquin Phoenix?s show...
...time Harvard fell to Minnesota in the NCAA Tournament, Raimondi was fifth on the team in scoring with 27 points, and she began cracking the national lists as well. Her biggest goal of the season came when the Crimson needed it most—as the pressure-packed game-winner against St. Lawrence in the NCAA semifinals. And in these last few weeks of her career, the expectations will be the highest they have been in Raimondi’s career to date. With her dramatic two goals this past weekend, Raimondi has proven again that Harvard can not only...
...Paul Haggis, who conceived, co-wrote and directed Crash--and who wrote the script for last year's Oscar winner, Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby--dismisses the anti-Canada theory. "This time of year," he says, "everyone tries hard to come up with angles, to make life interesting for us. The truth is that I am thrilled to be nominated in such terrific company. All five films are passion pieces. The filmmakers took big risks, and they all deserve to be rewarded...
...Riain showed why they have been ranked No. 4 by taking their game to new heights. On break point during that pivotal seventh game, O’Riain stabbed at a ball with a lunging volley that landed just over the net, leading to a put-away winner from partner Anderson. From that point on, the duo went on a tear to even the score at 6-6. After splitting the next four games, the team dominated in the tiebreak, pulling away from the Gamecocks tandem to win 9-8 (8-5) “The doubles was a trigger...