celeb news of the week: Tilda Swinton didn’t know about Oscars
Oh, God, she’s too adorable for words. Or too totally full of shit.
Oscars
The Iron Lady (teaser trailer)
Who’s smelling Oscar? Let’s just give it to Meryl Streep now.
memo to Christopher Guest: Please take on Sarah Palin. Please
I’ll help you write it, Mr. Guest. Or I’ll just stand aside in gape in awe as you work. Pretty please?
question of the day: If you were going to invent a new Oscar category à la the MTV Movie Awards, what would it be, and who or what would be the definitive example of a winner?
Perhaps the best thing about the MTV Movie Awards is its cheeky categories: Best Kiss, Best Fight, Best Villain. The Oscars could use a few fun categories to enliven its broadcast each year…
did James Franco’s poor Oscar performance tarnish ‘Your Highness’?
Brent Lang at TheWrap asks this ludicrous question. In a word, No. In another word, Bwahahahahahaha. Your Highness is just plain awful. So why ask the question at all?
question of the day: So who *will* direct the film adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s ‘American Gods’?
On Friday I posted an April Fool’s QOTD in which I suggested that Michael Bay was about to begin production on a ten-part 3D miniseries version of Neil Gaimain’s novel American Gods. As it turns out, I was unwittingly echoing Gaiman, who only a week earlier had announced that, indeed, a movie based on the book is in the works…
trailer break: ‘The Resident’
See what happens to women when they do silly things like live on their own? They get raped and murdered and stuff.
Adult Swim is killing; 80s flicks that shaped our world today; can gays play straight?; and more: leftover links
Plus: too many depressing links about the Charlie Sheen feeding frenzy…
question of the day: How should we punish dirty slut Natalie Portman for glamorizing out-of-wedlock pregnancy?
Have you heard? That dirty dirty slut Natalie Portman has done a bad thing. No, not have sex — though she did do that bad thing, the nasty whore — but parade around at the Oscars looking beautiful and happy even though her belly is swollen with a bastard child. How dare she!
question of the day: Must we stop this obsession with movies based on reality?
William Skidelsky in The Observer recently went off on a rant that has the definite whiff of Emily Litella about it: “It’s time to stop this obsession with works of art based on real events,” insists his headline. For some reason this makes me believe he must be misunderstanding some other problem…
