moviecitynews.com - 1/30/2009
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3 Weeks To Go: D. It Is Written The great irony of this year s Oscars is the constant battle between the devil on one shoulder and the angel on the other. The Devil says, The year is boring we know all the answers already is a classic Hollywood fantasia set in a poverty-stricken country of ...
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20 Weeks To Oscar: 3 Weeks To Go
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... cinema this year, yet emotionally kind and compelling to its core… all of this, made for a studio Dependent that has been put out of business, sold off, in part, by the parent studio to another studio’s Dependent that passed on its first opportunity to make it, sold brilliantly, surrounded by talent that is both charming and unusually generous and kind of spirit, and now in line to win The Oscar and all that comes with that honor.”
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The Case for "Milk," or Is It the Case for "Slumdog?"
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... Bagger is guessing that both scenarios are wrong. “Slumdog” will absorb all kinds of whispers, theories and body blows, but you can’t stop this train. The Bagger has three letters for those think the support of “Slumdog” is soft. S-A-G. The biggest union with the biggest stake in thinking the world resolves around actors and the members of the Screen Actors Guild still picked a no-name, no-star director’s movie. David Poland, a guy who’s been known to latch onto a controversy or two, says it is written, over and over, most of all because “Slumdog” is a movie-movie: Slumdog ...
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