Baffling GARDEN STATE love aside (affable first-two acts, awful third), this is as good a list of year-end nominations as I've seen. A Best Original Screenplay nomination for Edgar and Simon (if SHAUN had been a Focus film, they would've been in serious contention for an Academy Award slot), Best Adapted for Marber and CLOSER, Best Original Score for Jon Brion, and Best Actress for Uma. Good work, gentlemen.
And for your amusement, be sure to read David Poland's "Hot Blog", where he continues to shill for PHANTOM OF THE OPERA by beating up IMDB/WENN for factual innacuracies, which is a bit like... no, exactly like taking a Dwight Evans-autographed Louisville Slugger to the neighborhood retard. As with the NY TIMES parade of lay-ups last Sunday, this is just too fucking easy, and, in this case, betrays a strange loyalty to the fate of PHANTOM since Poland, last I checked, claimed not to really like the film. Is he doing a solid for WB by continuing to insist that there's any awards heat on this piece of shit outside of Emmy Rossum, or merely trying to salvage his rep as an Oscar prognosticator by positioning the film as a woulda-been derailed by unfairly becoming a media punching bag ala THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST? If it's the latter, he'd better find a more persuasive agent of influence than WENN, which probably isn't read by many Academy voters. Also, he should probably restate the case for PHANTOM as an Oscar contender, since he's the only columnist in creation to have so seriously considered it as one. I like David. He's a daily read even when he's off his rocker. But, man, he really biffed this one.
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