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Election + Oscar pundits = absurd
Election + Oscar pundits = absurd
Anyone who doesn't believe that the Oscars haven't been thoroughly hijacked by a gang of daffy, clown-suit-clad Oscar bloggers making endlessly moronic best picture predictions just hasn't been paying attention. But now apparently every world news event qualifies as having...
Oscar Watch: Milk and Proposition 8
Oscar Watch: Milk and Proposition 8
weblogs.variety.com — The odd thing about the unfortunate passing of the gay marriage ban Proposition 8 is that it... could actually boost Milk's Oscar chances. So many people will see Gus Van Sant's biopic about gay activist Harvey Milk , which is ostensibly set in our ... (more) Oscar Watch: Milk and Proposition 8
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How Patrick Goldstein Thinks
The Hot Blog — I found his blog entry this morning illuminating. As usual, the naked emperor-in-his-own-mind is making pronouncements from his broken down soap box, a blog, about the horrors of "bloggers." "Anyone who doesn't believe that the Oscars haven't been thoroughly hijacked by a gang of daffy, clown-suit-clad Oscar bloggers making endlessly moronic best picture predictions just hasn't been paying attention." As this painful issue often inspires in him, Patrick is off on a McCain/Palin style rant of fact-free bitter slamming the details of which he ...

iW ROUND UP | Friday, November 7th
indieWIRE Recent — ... the web. Roadside Goes "Solo" The company has acquired Ramin Bahrani's "Goodbye Solo." [HR] Spielberg and "Old Boy"? Spielberg and Will Smith are talking about taking on the remake of "Old Boy." [VAR] Considering Robert Frank Manohla Dargis reflects on the films of the photographer, ahead of “Mapping a Journey: The Films & Videos of Robert Frank,” opening today at the Anthology Film Archives in NYC. [NYT] Absurdity of Political, Oscar Link Patrick Goldstein discounts talk of a Oscar ...

Latest Goldstein Beef
Hollywood Elsewhere — Latest Goldstein Beef The gist of Patrick Goldstein 's 11.6 Big Picture blog posting is that two journalists on the Hollywood beat -- Entertainment Weekly 's Dave Karger and Variety 's Anne Thompson -- are part of "a gang of daffy, clown-suit-clad Oscar bloggers making endlessly moronic Best Picture predictions." The Envelope 's Tom O'Neil ...

Lot of awards...
Some Came Running — ... On November 6 of  2008, Los Angeles Times columnist Patrick Goldstein, writing on his new blog —which some speculate was created by Goldstein at gunpoint—stated: “Anyone who doesn't believe that the Oscars haven't been thoroughly hijacked by a gang of daffy, clown-suit-clad Oscar bloggers making endlessly moronic best picture predictions just hasn't been paying attention.” Calling out Variety’s Anne Thompson and Entertainment Weekly’s Dave Karger by name, Goldstein went on to lambaste these writers’ ...

Lot Of Awards, or, If It's Really The Silly Season, Why Does It Drive So Many People Seriously Crazy?
Some Came Running — ... On November 6 of  2008, Los Angeles Times columnist Patrick Goldstein, writing on his new blog —which some speculate was created by Goldstein at gunpoint—stated: "Anyone who doesn't believe that the Oscars haven't been thoroughly hijacked by a gang of daffy, clown-suit-clad Oscar bloggers making endlessly moronic best picture predictions just hasn't been ...

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