Chicago: The Eponymous Thread

I am going to rassle you to the ground when I get out there.

Winning an Oscar may now be even worse than winning a Grammy.

A. MEN. Cf. Sharon Stone talking about taking long baths and sobbing for days after filming Basic Instinct. And it is the self-awed way actors say these things! Like they're talking about having just come out of Auschwitz or something. Have a really strong emotional reaction, transform yourself into a character for months, be traumatized, but be aware that I want to see a moving performance IN the movie, not when you talk ABOUT it, when it is just gross.

*Pretty much the only year-end list/awards/whatever I can stomach, if only for roffles.

Many of the big-studio movies that come out every December are made with that as a major consideration. Why else would The Horse Whisperer have been made? Also the 3 Anthony Minghella films before this last one.

I don't understand why actors do things like pick up a new drug or gain a bunch of weight so that they can seem more realistic playing their part (ie: drug addict or fat person I suppose, ha ha). It's called ACTING. Otherwise, studio execs would just hire actual junkies/ obese people.

"I dunno." -- Armando

I was thinking about this as I went to lunch just now, and actually, I think this is a huge part of what makes the Oscars so interesting to me. In the absence of any objective means by which to compare one work of art with another, Oscar winners are determined by a weird conglomeration of racial/sexual politics, Hollywood liberal guilt, studio campaigning, notions of who "deserves" to win based on past performances, the momentum accrued through the precursor awards (the December critics' awards shape the race in much the same way that the New Hampshire and Iowa primaries prefigure a political party's nominees), and other sundry factors. Watching all this play out I find to be pretty compelling.

Yeah, I guess maybe what I meant to say is that people don't talk INTELLIGENTLY about acting.

HI DERE, Laurence Olivier to Dustin Hoffman on the set of Marathon Man.

When I said you were a snob, that was a descriptive statement, not a pejorative one. Think of a better word ("cinephile"?) and I'll use it.

Hey, do you want Y: The Last Man back? There's no reason for me to have them, except for a hazy memory I have of you telling me to keep them. But they're yours, and I'm not likely to re-read them or anything.

I am thinking of staying near Wrigley Field not Uptown this summer.

http://hamtramckstar.com/media/blogs/hs/Paczki-sm.jpg

I've had TWO today. Good thing I'm going to the gym tonight.

Few people are. But still, you care enough to post about them on the Oscars thread, and you remember awards history beyond a year or two ago, so I think that qualifies you.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=VYMb_LPN1dI

(Jelly Donut Freestyle Battle... I'm crying laughing)

Tell me some trackz that I should purchase with it, chilx. I'm thinking stuff I'd probably never ever get on my own...

you have to have a pre-existing relationship with the song for it to be right.

I wish I had a paczki.

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