Oscar Gold Exportation Up; Pool Choices Down

So now comes the time to review my choices for this year’s Oscars.
I got ten categories right last night - not bad, but not as much as I would have liked. Little less than 50% correct. To make it worse, I knew I would get original screenplay wrong - I need to go with my [...]

Tips for the Next Time you Win an Oscar

From Variety:

Experts on the acceptance speech
Oration: Trustworthy tips for the tongue tied

By MIA MCNIECE

MARK MY WORD: Sally Field feels the love.

An actor’s words can move audiences to laugh or to cry, but give them 45 seconds onstage holding an Oscar and their words often leave auds just plain baffled. To avoid making any acceptance-speech gaffes, [...]

In Case You Missed It….

From the Associated Press:
GOLDEN GLOBES - ALL MOVIE WINNERSBEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Here are the movie winners from last night’s Golden Globes:
–Picture, Drama: “Atonement.”
–Actress, Drama: Julie Christie, “Away From Her.”
–Actor, Drama: Daniel Day-Lewis, “There Will Be Blood.”
–Picture, Musical or Comedy: “Sweeney Todd.”
–Actress, Musical or Comedy: Marion Cotillard, “La Vie En Rose.”
–Actor, Musical or Comedy: [...]

In Memory: Michael Hutchence

 
A decade ago today an energetic and unique voice was silenced. Michael Hutchence died at the young age of 37 in a Sydney hotel room …alone.
A decade later this week his fellow INXS band mates paid tribute to him on its website.
“Michael will always be remembered as a young, vibrant, gifted and passionate [...]

Have Cannon, Will Travel (by escort, thanks)

It was one of the most surreal sites I had ever seen.
No, not the UNLV girls wearing matching fur jackets and boots with mini skirts, not the $7 beers, or the guys snapping whirly towels on other guys asses.’  
No, it was the Fremont Cannot quietly being escorted off the football field flanked by National [...]

Living in the New Bare Market World

I have a confession to make: I love men!
Tall men. Short men. Rich men. Po–ok, employed men. Love ‘em all!
Recently I got out of a long relationship when I realized I still knew nothing about the male species. Except that they cost a lot in therapy bills.
I googled an article that said [...]