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carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com - 1/27/2009
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"There's no business like Shoah business." -- a wag, quoting a truism of Hollywood which suggests that films about the Holocaust, including "The Reader" this year, will always do well at the Oscars.
nytimes.com - 2/2/2009
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nytimes.com —
Some of Hollywood’s most prominent players are privately
grumbling that the rituals of Oscar night have outlived
any real sense of excitement about the event. >
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Oscars Suspense: Will People Watch?
guardian.co.uk - 2/1/2009
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guardian.co.uk —
Immediately after the nominees for the 81st annual
Academy Awards were announced, the usual guessing games began
- not only the one about who will win, but the even more fruitless enterprise of sifting the list for What It All Means. Trying to ...
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Mark Harris on this year's Oscar nominees
carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com - 1/26/2009
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carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com —
If "Slumdog Millionaire" can win at the SAG
Awards, it is hard to see where the rest
of the guilds that make up the Academy would go another way.
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The Bagger in L.A.: No One Can Stop This Train
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Oscar Predictions: Is Kate Winslet a Lock for Best Actress?
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... Also potentially without merit is the Holocaust factor, which seems to be the most popular argument for why Winslet is now a shoo-in to win the Oscar. This is an old favorite for Oscar oddsmakers, but it may not actually apply here. Still, when The Reader made surprise appearances in the Best Picture and Best Director categories last Thursday, one of the first familiar quotes to show up online was “there’s no business like Shoah business.” Yet the Academy already failed to nominate shortlisted documentary ...
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