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12/7 Oscarweb Round-up

Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:23 am · December 7th, 2009

(from left) Al Gore and Davis Guggenheim at the 80th annual Academy Awards• Dear cry-baby Hollywood conservatives: Al Gore doesn’t even have that Oscar you want back. Talk to Davis Guggenheim. [Top of the Ticket]

• Editor Sally Menke on how she and Quentin Tarantino “clicked.” [The Guardian]

• Anne Thompson has 20 questions for “District 9″ star Sharlto Copley. [Thompson on Hollywood]

• Jeffrey Wells stumps for Michael Stuhlbarg in “A Serious Man” by trying to figure out why the performance hasn’t gotten any traction. [Hollywood Elsewhere]

• Randomly watching and commenting on the history of Best Foreign Language Film Oscar winners. [Variety]

• Gregory Ellwood on what’s wrong and what’s right with “Nine.” [Awards Campaign]

• Pete Hammond reports from the party circuit and a craven publicist looking for more ink on Abbie Cornish by whatever means necessary. [Notes on a Season]

• Steve Pond, in a new weekly feature, dubs “Up in the Air” the movie of the week, as far as buzz, moving the needle, etc. [The Odds]

• Dave Karger, meanwhile, sits down with film’s director Jason Reitman. [Oscar Watch]

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8 responses so far

  • 1 12-07-2009 at 9:31 am

    Marlowe said...

    That piece on Gore’s Oscar sadly enough reads EXACTLY like a newspaper that would hire Jonah Goldberg.

  • 2 12-07-2009 at 9:33 am

    McGuff said...

    Yeah, Stuhlbarg is getting hosed. Larry Gopnik and Ryan Bingham are both outwardly emotionally detached, even when their lives reach total chaos, and yet Stuhlbarg sold me on his silent pain so much more.

  • 3 12-07-2009 at 11:14 am

    Robert Hamer said...

    The most frustrating thing about this whole “Climategate” scandal is that it’s totally misrepresented:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nnVQ2fROOg&feature=player_embedded

  • 4 12-07-2009 at 11:22 am

    Mark Kratina said...

    Wait, what’s a Hollywood conservative?

  • 5 12-07-2009 at 2:44 pm

    aspect ratio said...

    The Gore piece is a huge embarrassment to the L.A. Times for the sole reason that Al Gore doesn’t fucking have an Oscar. Maybe I ought to be more upset about two Academy members not knowing this, but the L.A Times look like jackasses for publishing it, and doing it with a photo of him holding Davis Guggenheim’s Oscar!

    Dumber than a bag of hammers.

  • 6 12-07-2009 at 8:37 pm

    Maxim said...

    In their defense, I think it’s possible they knew he didn’t win it and meant it in an indirect way. In any case, anything related to “Climategate” is bound to be stupid.

  • 7 12-08-2009 at 3:59 am

    Alex said...

    And if it weren’t for Al Gore they wouldn’t have the internet from which they spew their hate.

    BTW Does Al Gore know that he didn’t win the Oscar?

  • 8 12-08-2009 at 9:10 am

    Maxim said...

    Yes, Alex, he does. He even made jokes about it.