Wouldn't you know it?
I toss up my list of anticipations for the rest of the film year, including Michael Moore's latest, "Sicko," and it turns out Variety published a cover story two days prior (that I missed...the rigors of launching a site can deter one from "news" a bit too often) that indicates the films is being pushed to 2007. This seems about right, since the film has seemingly been somewhat slow to develop. But I suppose a documentary cannot be made on any terms other than its own. I'll be looking forward to it next year all the same.
As far as what to stick in that vacated slot? Take your pick. "The Black Dahlia" (though I'm somewhat ambivalent as Mr. De Palma hasn't hit even a ground rule double recently); "Dreamgirls" (could be a show-stopping fun time from Bill Condon, and "Chicago" was a personal favorite in 2002), or "The Last King of Scotland" (Kevin Macdonald's first bit of press on this film was for a New York Times piece I put together in the spring, and his work on "Touching the Void" and "One Day in September" shows a filmmaker with an eye toward moving the viewer without fuss).
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