Tag Archives: David Letterman

I’m forever grateful to Megan Ellison. She helped finance some of my favorite films this year, including Zero Dark Thirty, The Master and Killing Them Softly. Until this morning I had not heard Ellison’s reaction to the Academy’s failure to nominate Kathryn Bigelow for Best Director — “That’s so fucked up,” she tweeted yesterday....

Jennifer Lawrence, working the circuit seven ways from Sunday. ...

Because he has an Oscar story. And because it’s Ryan Gosling. ...

Who better to consult about navigating the three stages of Oscar Host Grief? (“A modicum of embarrassment, a period of numbness, and finally, righteous defiance.”) Letterman’s sage advice: “What the hell do you care?” Exactly. (via Brad Brevett at Rope of Silicon) ...

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She cast a peculiar spell on my cat last Wednesday too. Taji & I agree, Emma Watson is officially adorable and suddenly altogether rawr. ...

We’ll post part two of this interview first, because part one (after the cut) was a little bit silly. ...