Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Cruise was particularly repulsive on Letterman last night, and Cindy Adams is completely on target: every mild little quip Letterman made, Cruise would laugh hysterically, bend forward and slap his knee, roll his head back, even say "That's funny!" After a commercial break, he was crouche...

Yesterday, someone told me that the story going around in the industry is that Cruise and Homes signed an agreement under which she marries him and lives in the same house with him but is not to have yuckky physical relations with him. In return, she gets $5 million and becomes a client of Cruise's...

From P2P Reactor: London : Tom Cruise's estranged wife Nicole Kidman is of the opinion that Cruise should clear up public's doubts over his romance with Katie Holmes. Kidman, who had separated from Cruise in 2001 after nearly 10 years of marriage, refuses to comment on her ex -husbands relationship...

From the London Independent: TOM CRUISE: MISSION IMPROBABLE Is Hollywood's shortest, hugest leading man really in love with the girl from Dawson's Creek? Or is it all just a publicity stunt? Aw, who cares? What Hollywood really wants to know is: has he totally lost the plot? By Neil Norman 12 June ...

Leo McCarey's greatness as a director is his ability to show human beings as the idiosyncratic beings they are and at the same time convey a great affection for them despite (or perhaps because of) their foibles. This attitude and skill made McCarey – along with Jean Renoir – the screen's foremost ...

May 31, 2005 'Happy' Holmes Says Her Love For Cruise Is Real By REUTERS Filed at 11:50 a.m. ET TOKYO (Reuters) - One of Hollywood's hottest couples may be having difficulty persuading the public their romance is genuine, but actress Katie Holmes says her love for screen star Tom Cruise is real. ``I...

anonymous wrote:Just added Vincente Minelli's The Band Wagon, the two-disc special edition DVD. It's a blind-buy but it was on sale.

Was it worth it?

My all-time favorite musical, and one of the great films of all time-- definitely yes!

From the New York Post: EYES WIDE NUT By KYLE SMITH May 25, 2005 -- HE's leaping on couches! He's smooching for the cameras! He's swearing to Reader's Digest, "I love women"! He's . . . " . . . nutso!" says an A-list celeb publicist who can't believe the embarrassing display Tom...

From the Wall Street Journal: Oh, the Civility! By ROBERT J. HUGHES May 27, 2005 This week on television, Goldie Hawn enacted a zany childhood scene on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" and Tom Cruise was so jumpy and energized on "Oprah" that you wondered about his mental health. Both...

This will make you want to gag (and what amazes me is how EVERYBODY in the media seems only all too happy to shill for him): From PEOPLE: TRULY, MADLY, DEEPLY They've only just begun, but Tom Cruise wants everyone to know: He's in love with Katie Holmes Thursday May 26, 2005 As usual, The Oprah Win...

BEST PICTURE OF 1948 1. Portrait Of Jennie (William Dieterle) 2. Good Sam (Leo McCarey) 3. The Pirate (Vincente Minnelli) 4. Johnny Belinda (Jean Negulesco) 5. A Hen In The Wind (Yasujiro Ozu) 6. Berlin Express (Jacques Tourneur) 7. Three Godfathers (John Ford) 8. They Live By Night (Nicholas Ray) ...

Germany Year Zero, Italian (world) premiere 12/1/48? I saw that IMDb says Germany Year Zero premiered in December of '48, but IMDb depends on the kindness (and accuracy) of its contributors and almost every source I've seen -- including a trio of scholarly works on Rossellini cite the film as a 194...

Tonight I was flipping channels, and ended up watching the last half of Shrek 2. It struck me as an hilarious, extremely clever, very witty and sweet-natured film that doesn't for a moment seem like a Goddamn Cartoon. I was laughing out loud throughout -- anybody who has a cat couldn't help but be ...