Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Before Roger Ebert's inevitable pan upsets the apple cart: David Ansen of Newsweek compares the filmmaking to Jean Cocteau One of the Richards at Time magazine calls it "beyond Super. It's superb." Hollywood Reporter raves, and spends ten paragraphs writing spoilers From all the reviews I...

Regardless, it is incredibly foolish to have a timetable for withdrawing troops. People may WANT troops to come home, but that's not the same as a responsible stance. It's an emotional reaction to war, which is understandable but not logical. Iraq Prime Minister Maliki calls for timetable How much ...

Here I go, again reading only the headlines and not the articles, unlike some very well-read people on this board. Secret U.S. Program Tracks Global Bank Transfers The Treasury Dept. program, begun after the Sept. 11 attacks, attempts to monitor terrorist financing but raises privacy concerns. By J...

Kool & the Gang co-founder dead Claydes Charles Smith co-wrote 'Celebration,' 'Jungle Boogie' Friday, June 23, 2006; Posted: 8:38 a.m. EDT (12:38 GMT) LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Claydes Charles Smith, a co-founder and lead guitarist of the group Kool & the Gang, has died. He was 57. Sm...

Getting this back on topic... In the category of more unlikely Best Actor contenders, Variety gave a pretty terrific review to a comedy crime caper called "Lies and Alibis". If the film breaks through, perhaps Steve Coogan has a shot, albeit for the most competitive of categories. http://...

Alright, alright, it was just meant to be a tossed-off, deliberately out-of-context comment. I apologize if anybody took it personally. None of my comments about any film are supposed to be meant as personal attacks, unless I deliberately mock a films fans or the critical community en masse which i...

The Globe is hardly the most respected news source, but I am glad to read that story because it brings some very amusing images to my mind. No it is not, but check out those photographs the next time you're on line at the Safeway! Your mind can't even begin to imagine the lovelorn glances they give...

I take it, Damien, you're not a Sea Hawk or Yankee Doodle Dandy fan. Or does that go without saying? Nor are you a fan of High Sierra, Key Largo, The Maltese Falcon or Treasure of the Sierra Madre? All Through the Night is better than all of these? Bette Davis is WONDERFUL in Mrs. Skeffington, but ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Richard Stahl, an actor whose more than 40-year career stretched from New York theater to film and television comedies such as "Laverne and Shirley," has died. He was 74. Stahl died Sunday at the Motion Picture and Television Fund's health center in Woodland Hills afte...

Another example of the stunning progress we're making in Iraq: This Is Your Street Mid-Bombing A Hollywood-budget public service announcement aims at discouraging suicide attacks in Iraq and elsewhere. WEB EXCLUSIVE By Lorraine Ali Newsweek Updated: 5:09 p.m. ET June 20, 2006 June 20, 2006 - Rememb...

Sonic, you're treating this like a criddic3 debate with scores and scores of quoted documentation to support what, in the end, is a pretty insignificant argument. I think I was the last one to jump in and provide "quoted documentation" after half a dozen other posters did. But thanks.

I'll avoid most of OGs post because it's teetering dangerously into flame-war territory, which I don't want to have happen, other than to say I disagree with the characterization of me. But as to your question: Lawrence Olivier for Othello. Kenneth Branagh for Henry V. Bette Davis in The Letter. Re...