The Hot Blog Archive for January, 2007
Images Of Day 1… So Far…
Chicago 10 opens the fest tonight. The Park City hot spot may end up being at the Treasure Mountain Inn headquarters of Slamdance. And right now, it feels like we are all still waiting for the work to begin.
One great irritant to me… Sundance has regressed into a No Overnight Screener policy, which was one of the great things available at this fest. To be able to take a quick look at a few titles that you will NEVER get to during the course of the fest was not only convenient and a great opportunity, but it brought more than a few titles into my consciousness in the last year years that I am thrilled to have seen. The new DVD system, watching the movies in little cubicles, is silly at a festival, when films are playing constantly on the big screen.
Oh well…
A Simple Showbiz Fable
Little Red Writing Hood made a deal with the wolves, then looking like heroic and handsome sheep, to write the script for the staged reading and other parts of the doc structure. The sheep/wolves were getting money from The Mighty Oz, but as always, doc sheep don’t have very much, so Red was willing to work for Lollypop Guild (sometimes known as the Writer’s Guild of America) scale, with the proviso that she become a guild member in the process. And off to work she went….
She worked and she worked and she worked, picking and choosing and shaping and writing her way through thousands of pages of diaries from witnesses. She delivered her first draft. Wolfie contributed about 22 pages and WolfB about 5 (none of which ended up in the film). And Red got her pay. But alas, there was no contract for her. The Wolves told her that they were still working on guild signatory status. And then came Draft Two… written by Red alone… still no contract… still no signatory.
The rest…
Before The Fall, 2007
The magic of The Day Before Sundance is the quiet. You can park on Main Street. You can see what the town, for the most part, is like before the invasion begins.
Of course, being relieved about being away from the insanity of L.A., my
Warming Up For The Dance
Heading in…
Looking back…
You can still walk into Zoom and eat without a reservation… and park your car on the street!!!
The machine roars slowly to life…
Wrapping Globes
As I wrote earlier, I have a plane to catch in the morning. So I
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And so it ends…
Babel & Dreamgirls
3 wins for Dreamgirls
2 wins for The Queen
No one else with more than 1
(8:01p) DRAMA
Babel
(7:53p) Actor (DRAMA)
Forest Whitaker – The Last King of Scotland
(7:45p) Actress (DRAMA)
Helen Mirren – The Queen
(7:37p) MUSICAL OR COMEDY
Dreamgirls
(7:28p) ACTOR (MUS/COM)
Sasha Baron Cohen – Borat
(7:24p) DIRECTOR
Martin Scorcese – The Departed
(30 Minute Break For Beatty)
(6:47p) ORIGINAL SCORE
The Painted Veil
(6:38p) FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM
Letters from Iwo Jima
(6:20p) SCREENPLAY
The Queen – Peter Morgan
(6:01p) SUPPORTING ACTOR
Eddie Murphy – Dreamgirls
(5:46p) ACTRESS (MUS/COM)
Meryl Streep – The Devil Wears Prada
(5:43p) ANIMATED FILM
Cars
(5:06p) ORIGINAL SONG
Song of the Heart- Happy Feet
(5:03p) SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Jennifer Hudson – Dreamgirls
More…
My Life As An Idiot
I have been prepping for my trip to Sundance on Wednesday… until someone on the same flight said, “See you in the morning!”
My flight is tomorrow morning. On with the tuxedo, off with the tuxedo, in the cold less than 12 hours later.
I love my life. I hate my life. I live my life.
Globes Predictions
The media spin to come:
If Dreamgirls wins, it will mean nothing.
If Dreamgirls loses, the film will be “over.”
If Babel wins, The Departed & Little Miss Sunshine will still be “the front runners” for Oscar
If The Departed wins, it will be “THE front runner” for Oscar.
If Babel ends up with less than 3 Globes, it will be “HFPA star fucking.”
If Babel wins more Globes than any other film, it will be “HFPA star fucking.”
If Jack Nicholson wins Best Supporting Actor, it will prove “The Departed is gaining.”
If Brad Pitt wins Best Supporting Actor, it will prove “the HFPA loves stars.”
If Eddie Murphy wins Best Supporting Actor, it will prove that “Dreamgirls isn’t strong in the lead categories.”
If any film other than The Departed wins Best Drama, it will “not mean anything.”
If The Departed doesn’t win and Little Miss Sunshine does, it will be reported as a 2 way race.
If The Departed doesn’t win and Dreamgirls wins Best Musical/Comedy, it wil be a “Three way race between The Departed, Little Miss Sunshine, and longshot, Dreamgirls.”
Book it.
Falling In Love Again
It is easy to get sick of all this awards season stuff. Thank God for Sundance – which can be a little like trading off a kidney stone with an anal fissure
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I assume some of you want to bat it aorund. I will just be happy to see them end so I can get to Sundance in peace.
Here is a link to Gurus, which has all the noms in movie categories…
Klady's Friday Estimates
I need to leave the computer right now, but I wanted to make this comment before leaving
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Mark Harris is a smart and talented man and I am loath to insult him
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The Peter O'Toole Appearances
Peter O’Toole was finally well enough to come across the pond this week and is doing the rounds in New York.
Until this morning, I have kept the issue to myself, since he has looked very frail and very scripted. On Letterman, he did 8 minutes, much of which had him laughing with style and brio in the way people do when they can’t really hear what you are saying and want to appear engaged.
On The Daily Show, he was a little stronger, though when Jon Stewart went off script and noodled, it was mostly clear that O
