"People will think..." "What I tell them to think." -- Citizen Kane This year has set up a situation where...
Read moreBefore I begin, let me explain. It's true that we've reached the moment in every Oscar year where the pundits...
Read more“Fame you'll be famous, as famous as can be, with everyone watching you win on TV, Except when they...
Read moreIn a year when the Directors Branch did what critics long complain that they don't do -- they thought for...
Read moreWhen Argo beat Silver Linings Playbook for Best Ensemble at the SAG Awards last night, an award that movie should...
Read more"And I'll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it, And reflect it from the mountain...
Read more“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.” ― Mark Twain Once...
Read moreThe Oscar race in 2012 has boiled down to heroic characters leading the charge towards best picture. Heroism takes the...
Read more“We are homesick most for the places we have never known.” ― Carson McCullers We knew it was going to...
Read more“You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn't annihilate human nature.” ― Philip Roth, American Pastoral As we quickly...
Read more“I once received a letter from an old lady in California who informed me that when the tired reader comes...
Read more2012's lineup for Best Picture brings to mind sober reflection. As we redefine who we were in America, on the...
Read moreOscar ballots are going out to 5,856 in the Academy. Those ballots are then due back by January 3rd,...
Read more"This train carries saints and sinners. This train, carries losers and winners." --Springsteen So much of the Oscar race is...
Read moreSo the multitude goes, like the flower and the weed That wither away to let others succeed; So the multitude...
Read more“I call to you, I call to you but I don’t call soft enough. There ain’t no cure for love.”...
Read moreThe Oscars can be a kaleidoscope view of our world -- spectacular and surreal. Or they can be a microscope,...
Read more"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid...
Read moreFor the first time in Oscar/DGA history (as far as I know) I'm not entirely sure beyond a reasonable doubt...
Read moreIt's a good time of the year to remind ourselves of what I consider to be the Ten Commandments of...
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