carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com - 2/10/2009
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The Bagger was out in Times Square last night, making video and asking people about the Oscars. And you know what, most people acted like he was asking whether they were wearing boxers or briefs.
ew.com - 2/6/2009
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ew.com —
Before this year's Oscar nominations were announced ,
the often-bloody battle for Best Picture looked more like
a gentlemanly game of cricket. Danny Boyle 's Mumbai fairy tale, Slumdog Millionaire , had racked up four Golden Globes and 16 critics' ...
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'The Reader': Oscar spoiler? | Oscars 2009 | 1 | Oscars ...
deadlinehollywooddaily.com - 2/12/2009
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deadlinehollywooddaily.com —
EXCLUSIVE: I'm told that Peter Gabriel just pulled
out of performing at the Academy Awards show. In
a letter to the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences, the co-writer and performer of Wall-E's "Down To Earth" says he doesn't think the ...
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Peter Gabriel Pissed At Oscar Producers And Won't ...
abclocal.go.com - 2/11/2009
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The Washed Out Season
Awards Daily —
... snubbing of the year’s most popular film. Yes, quietly AMPAS is probably snickering about it all, trying hard to remember what the point of the Oscars is in the first place and whether or not the telecast will one day be on cable rather than the networks. It isn’t about the telecast, nor the ratings, nor the box office - I know, I know, it’s about pure cinema! Anyway, the Carpetbagger went down to Times Square to report something, anything in the ghost town and here is what he found: ...
Oscar Ninny Kingdom
Hollywood Elsewhere —
Oscar Ninny Kingdom Because N.Y. Times Oscar blogger David Carr (a.k.a. "the Bagger") managed to get only six people to talk to him about the Oscars during a 90-minute troll around Times Square, he's taken this to mean that the economically besieged Everyman is almost angrily dis-engaged from it all , in part, obviously, because the nominated films haven't connected in a big way (i.e., no Best Picture noms or Dark Knight or WALL*E ), and therefore...no, he;s not saying the Oscar ratings are going to be totally toileted. But indications are, he reports, that "if people ...
Awards Roundup: Jackman Speaks, Adams Squeaks(?) and Looking Ahead To 2010
indieWIRE Recent —
... with ABC News.“I feel like I’m part of something new, part of a new initiative, a new era.” The New York Times’ Dave Carr wondered on his blog whether there’s much interest in that new era either way when he took a trip to Times Square to ask folks about their thoughts. “In years past, two weeks before the Oscars, people of all stripes and incarnations were more than happy to talk about this movie or that role, that favorite actress, and who might win,” he said. “But even though many of the people strolling around the so-called crossroads of America were there at ...
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A Small Oscars
carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com 2/23/2009 — It looks like they might bring this one in at under three hours, so I'll curb my complaining. And I'll close by noting that this seemed not only like a relatively brief Oscar ceremony, but a small one. Maybe this is a harbinger of things to come.
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