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Can the chicks go first, please? For once? Thanks.
Joan Allen in The Contender Joan Allen gives me the creeps. She's way too Calista for me. I don't know. Yuck. She's been nominated like twelve times and has never won. Obviously she gives everyone the creeps. Juliette Binoche in Chocolat Oh, my sweet Juliette! I'm so happy. You were wonderful in this movie as you always are. I love you, I adore you. But you've already won an Oscar, so I'm sorry, but it's someone else's turn. You understand. You are benevolent. Ellen Burstyn in Requiem for a Dream I feel certain that this film never came out here. Annie saw it on a visit to Chicago and returned to her hotel room and stuck her head in the toilet, saying that was more pleasant than her viewing experience. She did say Burstyn was great, though, and I'm all for veteran actors taking home the prize. Laura Linney in You Can Count On Me I have plans to see this one soon. I re-watched The Truman Show the other night, and her performance was one of the best things about it. I think she's good. Julia Roberts in Erin Brockovich I guess this category is probably between her and Ellen Burstyn. I'm ever so very sorry for channeling the mainstream here, but I like Julia Roberts. I'm not ashamed. In fact, I like her rather a lot. Looking back, I think I've liked every movie she's ever done. (Note: I never saw Mary Reilly, although Gena and I used to make each other giggle by whispering that title just like the trailer did. Anyway.) Well, except for Satisfaction, which we saw at the mall on my thirteenth birthday. Oh, and sorry, Toni, but I didn't like Runaway Bride. Or I Love Trouble. Damn IMDB! It's got a better memory than I do. Shit, or Something to Talk About. I have to say, though, that I only didn't like My Best Friend's Wedding because I thought it was ridiculous that any man would choose any woman over Julia Roberts. I can't help it. Bite me. I like her. A lot of people say that she wasn't acting in this movie -- that she was just Julia being Julia. Well, I think that's a giant load of horsecrap. Good acting is making people believe you are the character you are portraying. Good acting is making it look like you're not acting. Come on, people. Supporting Actress Judi Dench in Chocolat Oh, for God's holy sake. She certainly deserves it more here than she did for Shakespeare in Love. I was really mortified that she beat actresses who appeared onscreen for more than eight minutes. I mean, she beat Lynn Redgrave for Gods and Monsters. It's just embarrassing. She was an actual supporting player, here, though, and she made me weep. Sorry, Dame Judi! You've already won. Marcia Gay Harden in Pollock She is a fine, fine actress. I've liked her ever since a little movie called Late for Dinner. Just bite me ten times over this one. It's sweet. Kate Hudson in Almost Famous Oh, Kate. You were beautiful and wonderful here. I am torn. Torn! I like you a lot, but you're young, blonde, and thin, so by your very nature, I should hate you. But I can't. Go ahead, win. Damn it. Frances McDormand in Almost Famous SO good. Better than Kate. Better than anyone. You rocked here as always. But, alas, you won for Fargo. Sorry. Have you ever noticed, Frances, that there is never a false millisecond in any of your performances? I have. I hope you don't have a mullet anymore like you did at the Golden Globes. That scared me a lot. Julie Walters in Billy Elliot Didn't see it. This is getting tiresome, isn't it? Actor Javier Bardem in Before Night Falls This never came out here, but he's sexy. Russell Crowe in Gladiator He repulses me. I'm so very sorry. I do not see what it is about him that attracts so many women. And men, for that matter, gay and straight. He strikes me as a thug. He didn't rouse me or arouse me in this picture, and to get my vote, a dude definitely has to do one or the other. Preferably both. Tom Hanks in Cast Away Oh, Tommy. How I loved you in Big. How very sick of you I am. I'm sorry. I do still love you. Ed Harris in Pollock I'm attracted to Ed Harris. I cannot explain it. He's so beefy and macho, but unlike Mr. Crowe, he always comes across as intelligent and dignified even when he's playing a meathead. Like in The Rock, which, Bruckheimer be damned, I love. This, alas, never came out here. Geoffrey Rush in Quills I'm most assuredly not attracted to Geoffrey Rush. Plus, he won for Shine. I remember I was watching the Oscars that year in a New York City hostel full of Australians who went ballistic. Geoffrey is good, but share the wealth, Geoffrey. Share the wealth. Supporting Actor Jeff Bridges in The Contender I didn't see this movie. I had not even the slightest desire to see this movie. Jeff Bridges is pretty sexy and I do like him despite The Mirror Has Two Faces which is according to moi one of the most preposterously bad movies of all all time. Willem Dafoe in Shadow of the Vampire I haven't seen this, but I plan on seeing it soon. Willem Dafoe, also known to my twisted psyche forevermore as the thumbless Caravaggio, is sexy in a sick dirty way. Benicio Del Toro in Traffic Am I the only one for whom this man appears to be a delicious Latin version of Brad Pitt? I mean, their mannerisms strike me as totally similar. He was great in this. I'll be delighted if he wins. Albert Finney in Erin Brockovich Come on, everybody! "I don't need anything but you!" Oh, wait. Wrong movie. Daddy Warbucks can take home a statue anytime and I will revel in my youthful fantasies of being Grace Farrell. Plus, he was completely swell in this movie. Joaquin Phoenix in Gladiator Leaf. Joaquin. Wah-keen. Whatever. A Phoenix who is nominated in the same category as his brother was more than a decade ago. I am misty-eyed just thinking about it, honestly. I loved his porno-smuggling self in Parenthood and I just think he's a fine person despite his weird-looking mouth. He was positively greasy in this movie. Repulsive. Disgusting. A really good performance. I might cry if he wins. Picture I love this movie. It has no chance. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon I really love this movie. It will win Best Foreign Film, and I can live with that. Erin Brockovich Dug this one immensely. I don't think it has a chance, either, because if they're going to go for Soderbergh, I think they'll go with Traffic. May the Academy be thrown into a den of tigers if this wins. I realize I once said that Crowe won me over, but I've changed my mind. I'm so ill that this is the film that received the most nominations. I'm already having nightmares about Brockovich and Traffic splitting the vote. For the love of all that is good and pure. Please. No. Traffic Excellent. Different, great performances all around, captivating on every level. I could live with this winning, definitely. I'll have to save the other categories for later. Now go and enter Elizabeth's Oscar Pool already. Good night and good riddance.
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The Wood Wife upon recommendation by Toni. Seeing Any Spikecentric Buffy is a good Buffy. Hearing Is there a sadder song than Fare Thee Well by Indigo Girls? If so, I can't think of it right now. Journal Quote du Jour I hope that, wherever she is, there are lots of squirrels and a big window she can look out of to see me. -- February 12, 2001, from Meredith's Humidity & Hebephrenia Based on the vet's best guess, Daisy turns two this month. I hope she lives to be fifteen or sixteen like this beautiful dog. Send good thoughts to Meredith and go check out her lovely pictures and journal. Nostalgia du Jour Five years ago exactly, RENT opened Off-Broadway at the New York Theater Workshop. Last night, Taye Diggs was on Ally McBeal (looking, as ever, like quite possibly the most perfectly beautiful human specimen ever to walk on earth). Tonight, Adam Pascal will appear in Aida. Tomorrow night, Jesse L. Martin will be on Law & Order. A long time ago, I saw them all on a stage. I wonder where the rest of the cast is and what they are doing today. Maryelizabeth and I watched my RENT compilation tape this weekend over a bottle of chardonnay and a bag of popcorn. We laughed, we sang, we cried. I suppose the number of people who have done the same thing because of that musical is immeasurable. |
