Oscars: How a big win for "The Hurt Locker" could change the Academy Awards
With The Hurt Locker now having all but vacuumed up the year’s critical acclaim, and with Avatar having just this week become the top-grossing domestic movie of all time, Avatar vs. The Hurt Locker is an awesomely symbolic race (and not just because James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow were once married). It’s a clash of size, values, popularity — of essential notions of What Movie Art Is in the 21st century. A Hurt Locker victory would open the door to a new definition of Oscar glory, a defiant celebration of artistry over commerce. A win for Avatar would be, in its way, a definitive assertion of the same old same old.
I thought it was a pretty interesting read.
I’ve seen all ten Best Picture nominees and The Hurt Locker is by far my favorite. Owen Gleiberman points out that it only grossed $12.6 million which effectively eliminates it from contention for Best Picture unless there’s a major change in the perception of the award.
Preview of Naveen and Chrissy’s birthday photobooth. It was FUN. more to come once I drink more gatorade, eat, and watch the superbowl.
I’m taller than Naveen but only barely taller than his hair.
The Human Shuffle: Is ChatRoulette the future of the Internet or its distant past?
Tyler Cowen:The first time I entered ChatRoulette—a new website that brings you face-to-face, via webcam, with an endless stream of random strangers all over the world—I was primed for a full-on Walt Whitman experience: an ecstatic surrender to the miraculous variety and abundance of humankind.That’s the premise, the actual story is at this link. Here is one excerpt:
The first eighteen people who saw me disconnected immediately.Recommended.
So good.
Hey, you people. Go see Frozen this weekend. The guys who fund my company produced it. It premiered at Sundance last week and two people in the audience passed out. From FEAR. No, seriously, that happened. Look it up on Google.
The team at Bloody Disgusting love the movie, they gave it 4.5 out of 5 skulls.
I don’t know what to say about this movie besides that I counted five potential opportunities for the weak-stomached to pass out.
‘But by 1992 NBC was the single largest supplier of its own primetime programming,’ Franken continued. ‘Today, if an independent producer wants to get its own show on NBC’s schedule, on any network’s schedule, it is routine practice, and you guys know it, for the network to demand at least part ownership of the show… And that’s just a fact. So while I commend NBCU and Comcast for making voluntary commitments as part of this merger, you’ll have to excuse me if I don’t trust these promises.’ ”
Sen. Franken to Comcast, NBC execs: merger no laughing matter
