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		<title>By: Rich</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2006 03:27:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wall, I&#039;d agree with all your movie assessments minus one: The Deer Hunter was an astounding movie, agree or not with its political assumptions.  Your lumping it with those other stinkers definitely grabbed my eye.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wall, I&#8217;d agree with all your movie assessments minus one: The Deer Hunter was an astounding movie, agree or not with its political assumptions.  Your lumping it with those other stinkers definitely grabbed my eye.</p>
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		<title>By: Wall</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2006 14:23:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The three truely Great films directed by Robert Altman ( &quot;The Long Goodbye&quot; &quot;California Split&quot; and &quot;McCabe and Mrs. Miller&quot;), the lifetime achivement winner, drew one nommination between them (Julie Christie for &quot;McCabe&quot;).  That should tell you something.  Want the short list? It&#039;s best Pictures that AREN&#039;T terrible.  
        In fact, I&#039;m tired of people beating up &quot;The Greatest Show On Earth.&quot; Sure it sucks,  but also dreadful are  &quot;Chariots Of Fire&quot; &quot;Forest Gump&quot; &quot;Dances With Wolves&quot; &quot;The Deer Hunter&quot; &quot;Titanic&quot; and &quot;The Sting.&quot; 
             Is a passible Horror film like &quot;Silence Of the Lambs&quot; really a great movie? Or dull fare like &quot;Gandhi&quot; or &quot;The Last Emperor&quot;?
  A sleeping pill like &quot;The English Patient?&quot;  Overblown and overrated: &quot;Tom Jones&quot; &quot;Shakespeare In Love&quot; &quot;Shindler&#039;s List&quot; and even second rate Lean like &quot;Bridge On The River Kwai.&quot;  Middlebrow good taste fests like &quot;Mrs. Minever&quot;, &quot;The Best Years Of Our Lives&quot; and &quot;How Green Was My Valley&quot; linger in the mind like the box scores of the 69 Padres.  &quot;Hamlet&quot; is the least interesting of Olvier&#039;s Shakespeare movies. 

          The Godfathers, Joe Buck,  Terry Malloy , T. E. Lawrence and Rocky should blow this pop stand and go find a better party.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The three truely Great films directed by Robert Altman ( &#8220;The Long Goodbye&#8221; &#8220;California Split&#8221; and &#8220;McCabe and Mrs. Miller&#8221;), the lifetime achivement winner, drew one nommination between them (Julie Christie for &#8220;McCabe&#8221;).  That should tell you something.  Want the short list? It&#8217;s best Pictures that AREN&#8217;T terrible.<br />
        In fact, I&#8217;m tired of people beating up &#8220;The Greatest Show On Earth.&#8221; Sure it sucks,  but also dreadful are  &#8220;Chariots Of Fire&#8221; &#8220;Forest Gump&#8221; &#8220;Dances With Wolves&#8221; &#8220;The Deer Hunter&#8221; &#8220;Titanic&#8221; and &#8220;The Sting.&#8221;<br />
             Is a passible Horror film like &#8220;Silence Of the Lambs&#8221; really a great movie? Or dull fare like &#8220;Gandhi&#8221; or &#8220;The Last Emperor&#8221;?<br />
  A sleeping pill like &#8220;The English Patient?&#8221;  Overblown and overrated: &#8220;Tom Jones&#8221; &#8220;Shakespeare In Love&#8221; &#8220;Shindler&#8217;s List&#8221; and even second rate Lean like &#8220;Bridge On The River Kwai.&#8221;  Middlebrow good taste fests like &#8220;Mrs. Minever&#8221;, &#8220;The Best Years Of Our Lives&#8221; and &#8220;How Green Was My Valley&#8221; linger in the mind like the box scores of the 69 Padres.  &#8220;Hamlet&#8221; is the least interesting of Olvier&#8217;s Shakespeare movies. </p>
<p>          The Godfathers, Joe Buck,  Terry Malloy , T. E. Lawrence and Rocky should blow this pop stand and go find a better party.</p>
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		<title>By: Mark A. York</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2006 01:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well I would say it means &quot;something&quot; but not the whole ballgame including the sales histories you mention, otherwise the books would still be riding the top tier like scammer James Frey, but I suppose it depends on whose books one is trashing. If they&#039;re mine it&#039;s OK. Members of the club, not. I get it it, but I suppose like reg&#039;s dissing of his films it was meant to be a cheap shot. And I fully admit it was as intended.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well I would say it means &#8220;something&#8221; but not the whole ballgame including the sales histories you mention, otherwise the books would still be riding the top tier like scammer James Frey, but I suppose it depends on whose books one is trashing. If they&#8217;re mine it&#8217;s OK. Members of the club, not. I get it it, but I suppose like reg&#8217;s dissing of his films it was meant to be a cheap shot. And I fully admit it was as intended.</p>
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		<title>By: Marc Cooper</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 12:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You know Mark.. I HAVE to intervene here. The Amazon book rankings mean NOTHING after the first month or two. You can think what you will of Roger but his series of Moses Wine noir novels are considered classics by many a critic and, indeed, make wonderful reading. They have also been translated into several foreign editions and I can guarantee you that they have been sold in quantities that go far beyond your imagination. Cut out the petty stuff. It stinks.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You know Mark.. I HAVE to intervene here. The Amazon book rankings mean NOTHING after the first month or two. You can think what you will of Roger but his series of Moses Wine noir novels are considered classics by many a critic and, indeed, make wonderful reading. They have also been translated into several foreign editions and I can guarantee you that they have been sold in quantities that go far beyond your imagination. Cut out the petty stuff. It stinks.</p>
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		<title>By: Mark A. York</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And books ranking at the depth I live at. That&#039;s a tough spot I&#039;ll  tell ya.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And books ranking at the depth I live at. That&#8217;s a tough spot I&#8217;ll  tell ya.</p>
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		<title>By: reg</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m sure this eminent person &quot;who actually votes in the Academy Awards&quot; is right because he&#039;s had a lot of experience with  pictures that are forgotten by the following Tuesday.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m sure this eminent person &#8220;who actually votes in the Academy Awards&#8221; is right because he&#8217;s had a lot of experience with  pictures that are forgotten by the following Tuesday.</p>
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		<title>By: Mark A. York</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well that may be your opinion Roger, but if it&#039;s all the same to you I&#039;ll take McMurtry. He and Diana wrote a fine film that for once in Hollywood mirrored the literature from whence it came. Routine my ass. Crash will be forgotten. I guess we can take a stab at who in the academy didn&#039;t vote for Brokeback.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well that may be your opinion Roger, but if it&#8217;s all the same to you I&#8217;ll take McMurtry. He and Diana wrote a fine film that for once in Hollywood mirrored the literature from whence it came. Routine my ass. Crash will be forgotten. I guess we can take a stab at who in the academy didn&#8217;t vote for Brokeback.</p>
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		<title>By: Roger L. Simon</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As someone who actually votes in the Academy Awards (for too long), I hate to rain on anybody&#039;s parade here,  but the whole voting process is almost as dull as the awards themselves.  The reason Brokeback probably lost is that the Academy finally woke up to the fact it was a fairly routine film and the only thing interesting about it, besides the score, was the gay theme - and even that is pretty hohum in 2006. This was a pretty dull bunch of best picutre nominees and, with the exception of Hoffman&#039;s performance in Capote, will probably be forgotten by next Tuesday. The only movies of this year anybody will watch in the future will be Narnia and Wallace and Grommet (both for kids) and Walk the Line because Reese Witherspoon is the only real movie star of our time - like they had them in the old days - the kind woman who make you smile like Stanwyck and Claudette Colbert.  And she can sing!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As someone who actually votes in the Academy Awards (for too long), I hate to rain on anybody&#8217;s parade here,  but the whole voting process is almost as dull as the awards themselves.  The reason Brokeback probably lost is that the Academy finally woke up to the fact it was a fairly routine film and the only thing interesting about it, besides the score, was the gay theme &#8211; and even that is pretty hohum in 2006. This was a pretty dull bunch of best picutre nominees and, with the exception of Hoffman&#8217;s performance in Capote, will probably be forgotten by next Tuesday. The only movies of this year anybody will watch in the future will be Narnia and Wallace and Grommet (both for kids) and Walk the Line because Reese Witherspoon is the only real movie star of our time &#8211; like they had them in the old days &#8211; the kind woman who make you smile like Stanwyck and Claudette Colbert.  And she can sing!</p>
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		<title>By: Michael Crosby</title>
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		<dc:creator>Michael Crosby</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Has there ever been an Oscar Best Picture winner that was seen by fewer people in the theatre?  I really have no idea how attendance at movies now compares to earlier in the 20th century.

I was told today that Crash is out on dvd.  If so, is it the first to be out on video before receiving a Best Picture award?  Now that, of course, is a test of more recent nature.

I haven&#039;t seen Crash.  When they were doing the Altman movie clips, I saw some of Nashville, including the wonderful scene of singer/songwriter Keith Carradine singing (Oscar-winning song) &quot;I&#039;m Easy,&quot; to a room full of women who had slept with him and each appeared certain the song was dedicated to her.  Except for Lily Tomlin who looked like she dreaded the idea that it might be.  Anyway, I imagined for a moment that Crash was some sort of more aggressive, less-nuanced 21st century version of Nashville.  Nashville was, among other things, very much about clashes of cultures and generations.

But probably not....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Has there ever been an Oscar Best Picture winner that was seen by fewer people in the theatre?  I really have no idea how attendance at movies now compares to earlier in the 20th century.</p>
<p>I was told today that Crash is out on dvd.  If so, is it the first to be out on video before receiving a Best Picture award?  Now that, of course, is a test of more recent nature.</p>
<p>I haven&#8217;t seen Crash.  When they were doing the Altman movie clips, I saw some of Nashville, including the wonderful scene of singer/songwriter Keith Carradine singing (Oscar-winning song) &#8220;I&#8217;m Easy,&#8221; to a room full of women who had slept with him and each appeared certain the song was dedicated to her.  Except for Lily Tomlin who looked like she dreaded the idea that it might be.  Anyway, I imagined for a moment that Crash was some sort of more aggressive, less-nuanced 21st century version of Nashville.  Nashville was, among other things, very much about clashes of cultures and generations.</p>
<p>But probably not&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>By: rosedog</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Skippy Greyswood</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Academy-members were happy to give the â€œBrokeback Mountainâ€ its due, as long as the message was not legitimized in any way. Thank goodness, we can still offer gratuitous, contrived, button-pushers like â€˜Crashâ€™, otherwise all the closeted actors, producers, directors, managers, agents, and studio execs would have had to vote for Capote (â€™yeeccchâ€™), and then come out. Safe and sound in the closet for one more year, phew.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Academy-members were happy to give the â€œBrokeback Mountainâ€ its due, as long as the message was not legitimized in any way. Thank goodness, we can still offer gratuitous, contrived, button-pushers like â€˜Crashâ€™, otherwise all the closeted actors, producers, directors, managers, agents, and studio execs would have had to vote for Capote (â€™yeeccchâ€™), and then come out. Safe and sound in the closet for one more year, phew.</p>
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		<title>By: Eleanore kjellberg</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I thought Jon Stewart should have come out dressed in a camouflage suit and full hunting gear, carrying a shotgunâ€”he could have aimed his gun in the air shot  and landed an Oscarâ€”and then saidâ€”you guys  thought the Mafia only wore a three piece suit, well this is how the crooks in the Bush administration dress when they shoot their friends.    

Jon Stewart was interviewed by Larry King, and King asked Jon  if he was told to  censor himself a bit, Stewart responded by saying he was NOT allowed to use adverbsâ€”I think he also wasnâ€™t allowed to use nouns, adjectives, verbs and pronouns. 

 Itâ€™s the nature of the beastâ€”be a â€œlittleâ€ political  but not too much.  Thatâ€™s why â€œCrashâ€ wonâ€”it was just enough politics for Hollywoodâ€”red, yellow, black and white weâ€™re just a rainbow of colors tonight, donâ€™t say anything that is too sharp, weâ€™re here to sell movies and not to harp!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I thought Jon Stewart should have come out dressed in a camouflage suit and full hunting gear, carrying a shotgunâ€”he could have aimed his gun in the air shot  and landed an Oscarâ€”and then saidâ€”you guys  thought the Mafia only wore a three piece suit, well this is how the crooks in the Bush administration dress when they shoot their friends.    </p>
<p>Jon Stewart was interviewed by Larry King, and King asked Jon  if he was told to  censor himself a bit, Stewart responded by saying he was NOT allowed to use adverbsâ€”I think he also wasnâ€™t allowed to use nouns, adjectives, verbs and pronouns. </p>
<p> Itâ€™s the nature of the beastâ€”be a â€œlittleâ€ political  but not too much.  Thatâ€™s why â€œCrashâ€ wonâ€”it was just enough politics for Hollywoodâ€”red, yellow, black and white weâ€™re just a rainbow of colors tonight, donâ€™t say anything that is too sharp, weâ€™re here to sell movies and not to harp!</p>
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		<title>By: Mark A. York</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mark A. York</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 04:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Being John Malkovich&quot; As I&#039;ve noted before it was pretty damn strange from the inside.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Being John Malkovich&#8221; As I&#8217;ve noted before it was pretty damn strange from the inside.</p>
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		<description>Wall, I&#039;d agree with all your movie assessments minus one: The Deer Hunter was an astounding movie, agree or not with its political assumptions.  Your lumping it with those other stinkers definitely grabbed my eye.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wall, I&#8217;d agree with all your movie assessments minus one: The Deer Hunter was an astounding movie, agree or not with its political assumptions.  Your lumping it with those other stinkers definitely grabbed my eye.</p>
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		<description>The three truely Great films directed by Robert Altman ( &quot;The Long Goodbye&quot; &quot;California Split&quot; and &quot;McCabe and Mrs. Miller&quot;), the lifetime achivement winner, drew one nommination between them (Julie Christie for &quot;McCabe&quot;).  That should tell you something.  Want the short list? It&#039;s best Pictures that AREN&#039;T terrible.  
        In fact, I&#039;m tired of people beating up &quot;The Greatest Show On Earth.&quot; Sure it sucks,  but also dreadful are  &quot;Chariots Of Fire&quot; &quot;Forest Gump&quot; &quot;Dances With Wolves&quot; &quot;The Deer Hunter&quot; &quot;Titanic&quot; and &quot;The Sting.&quot; 
             Is a passible Horror film like &quot;Silence Of the Lambs&quot; really a great movie? Or dull fare like &quot;Gandhi&quot; or &quot;The Last Emperor&quot;?
  A sleeping pill like &quot;The English Patient?&quot;  Overblown and overrated: &quot;Tom Jones&quot; &quot;Shakespeare In Love&quot; &quot;Shindler&#039;s List&quot; and even second rate Lean like &quot;Bridge On The River Kwai.&quot;  Middlebrow good taste fests like &quot;Mrs. Minever&quot;, &quot;The Best Years Of Our Lives&quot; and &quot;How Green Was My Valley&quot; linger in the mind like the box scores of the 69 Padres.  &quot;Hamlet&quot; is the least interesting of Olvier&#039;s Shakespeare movies. 

          The Godfathers, Joe Buck,  Terry Malloy , T. E. Lawrence and Rocky should blow this pop stand and go find a better party.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The three truely Great films directed by Robert Altman ( &#8220;The Long Goodbye&#8221; &#8220;California Split&#8221; and &#8220;McCabe and Mrs. Miller&#8221;), the lifetime achivement winner, drew one nommination between them (Julie Christie for &#8220;McCabe&#8221;).  That should tell you something.  Want the short list? It&#8217;s best Pictures that AREN&#8217;T terrible.<br />
        In fact, I&#8217;m tired of people beating up &#8220;The Greatest Show On Earth.&#8221; Sure it sucks,  but also dreadful are  &#8220;Chariots Of Fire&#8221; &#8220;Forest Gump&#8221; &#8220;Dances With Wolves&#8221; &#8220;The Deer Hunter&#8221; &#8220;Titanic&#8221; and &#8220;The Sting.&#8221;<br />
             Is a passible Horror film like &#8220;Silence Of the Lambs&#8221; really a great movie? Or dull fare like &#8220;Gandhi&#8221; or &#8220;The Last Emperor&#8221;?<br />
  A sleeping pill like &#8220;The English Patient?&#8221;  Overblown and overrated: &#8220;Tom Jones&#8221; &#8220;Shakespeare In Love&#8221; &#8220;Shindler&#8217;s List&#8221; and even second rate Lean like &#8220;Bridge On The River Kwai.&#8221;  Middlebrow good taste fests like &#8220;Mrs. Minever&#8221;, &#8220;The Best Years Of Our Lives&#8221; and &#8220;How Green Was My Valley&#8221; linger in the mind like the box scores of the 69 Padres.  &#8220;Hamlet&#8221; is the least interesting of Olvier&#8217;s Shakespeare movies. </p>
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		<title>By: Mark A. York</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2006 01:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well I would say it means &quot;something&quot; but not the whole ballgame including the sales histories you mention, otherwise the books would still be riding the top tier like scammer James Frey, but I suppose it depends on whose books one is trashing. If they&#039;re mine it&#039;s OK. Members of the club, not. I get it it, but I suppose like reg&#039;s dissing of his films it was meant to be a cheap shot. And I fully admit it was as intended.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well I would say it means &#8220;something&#8221; but not the whole ballgame including the sales histories you mention, otherwise the books would still be riding the top tier like scammer James Frey, but I suppose it depends on whose books one is trashing. If they&#8217;re mine it&#8217;s OK. Members of the club, not. I get it it, but I suppose like reg&#8217;s dissing of his films it was meant to be a cheap shot. And I fully admit it was as intended.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 12:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You know Mark.. I HAVE to intervene here. The Amazon book rankings mean NOTHING after the first month or two. You can think what you will of Roger but his series of Moses Wine noir novels are considered classics by many a critic and, indeed, make wonderful reading. They have also been translated into several foreign editions and I can guarantee you that they have been sold in quantities that go far beyond your imagination. Cut out the petty stuff. It stinks.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You know Mark.. I HAVE to intervene here. The Amazon book rankings mean NOTHING after the first month or two. You can think what you will of Roger but his series of Moses Wine noir novels are considered classics by many a critic and, indeed, make wonderful reading. They have also been translated into several foreign editions and I can guarantee you that they have been sold in quantities that go far beyond your imagination. Cut out the petty stuff. It stinks.</p>
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		<description>And books ranking at the depth I live at. That&#039;s a tough spot I&#039;ll  tell ya.</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m sure this eminent person &quot;who actually votes in the Academy Awards&quot; is right because he&#039;s had a lot of experience with  pictures that are forgotten by the following Tuesday.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m sure this eminent person &#8220;who actually votes in the Academy Awards&#8221; is right because he&#8217;s had a lot of experience with  pictures that are forgotten by the following Tuesday.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well that may be your opinion Roger, but if it&#039;s all the same to you I&#039;ll take McMurtry. He and Diana wrote a fine film that for once in Hollywood mirrored the literature from whence it came. Routine my ass. Crash will be forgotten. I guess we can take a stab at who in the academy didn&#039;t vote for Brokeback.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well that may be your opinion Roger, but if it&#8217;s all the same to you I&#8217;ll take McMurtry. He and Diana wrote a fine film that for once in Hollywood mirrored the literature from whence it came. Routine my ass. Crash will be forgotten. I guess we can take a stab at who in the academy didn&#8217;t vote for Brokeback.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As someone who actually votes in the Academy Awards (for too long), I hate to rain on anybody&#039;s parade here,  but the whole voting process is almost as dull as the awards themselves.  The reason Brokeback probably lost is that the Academy finally woke up to the fact it was a fairly routine film and the only thing interesting about it, besides the score, was the gay theme - and even that is pretty hohum in 2006. This was a pretty dull bunch of best picutre nominees and, with the exception of Hoffman&#039;s performance in Capote, will probably be forgotten by next Tuesday. The only movies of this year anybody will watch in the future will be Narnia and Wallace and Grommet (both for kids) and Walk the Line because Reese Witherspoon is the only real movie star of our time - like they had them in the old days - the kind woman who make you smile like Stanwyck and Claudette Colbert.  And she can sing!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As someone who actually votes in the Academy Awards (for too long), I hate to rain on anybody&#8217;s parade here,  but the whole voting process is almost as dull as the awards themselves.  The reason Brokeback probably lost is that the Academy finally woke up to the fact it was a fairly routine film and the only thing interesting about it, besides the score, was the gay theme &#8211; and even that is pretty hohum in 2006. This was a pretty dull bunch of best picutre nominees and, with the exception of Hoffman&#8217;s performance in Capote, will probably be forgotten by next Tuesday. The only movies of this year anybody will watch in the future will be Narnia and Wallace and Grommet (both for kids) and Walk the Line because Reese Witherspoon is the only real movie star of our time &#8211; like they had them in the old days &#8211; the kind woman who make you smile like Stanwyck and Claudette Colbert.  And she can sing!</p>
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		<title>By: Michael Crosby</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Has there ever been an Oscar Best Picture winner that was seen by fewer people in the theatre?  I really have no idea how attendance at movies now compares to earlier in the 20th century.

I was told today that Crash is out on dvd.  If so, is it the first to be out on video before receiving a Best Picture award?  Now that, of course, is a test of more recent nature.

I haven&#039;t seen Crash.  When they were doing the Altman movie clips, I saw some of Nashville, including the wonderful scene of singer/songwriter Keith Carradine singing (Oscar-winning song) &quot;I&#039;m Easy,&quot; to a room full of women who had slept with him and each appeared certain the song was dedicated to her.  Except for Lily Tomlin who looked like she dreaded the idea that it might be.  Anyway, I imagined for a moment that Crash was some sort of more aggressive, less-nuanced 21st century version of Nashville.  Nashville was, among other things, very much about clashes of cultures and generations.

But probably not....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Has there ever been an Oscar Best Picture winner that was seen by fewer people in the theatre?  I really have no idea how attendance at movies now compares to earlier in the 20th century.</p>
<p>I was told today that Crash is out on dvd.  If so, is it the first to be out on video before receiving a Best Picture award?  Now that, of course, is a test of more recent nature.</p>
<p>I haven&#8217;t seen Crash.  When they were doing the Altman movie clips, I saw some of Nashville, including the wonderful scene of singer/songwriter Keith Carradine singing (Oscar-winning song) &#8220;I&#8217;m Easy,&#8221; to a room full of women who had slept with him and each appeared certain the song was dedicated to her.  Except for Lily Tomlin who looked like she dreaded the idea that it might be.  Anyway, I imagined for a moment that Crash was some sort of more aggressive, less-nuanced 21st century version of Nashville.  Nashville was, among other things, very much about clashes of cultures and generations.</p>
<p>But probably not&#8230;.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Academy-members were happy to give the â€œBrokeback Mountainâ€ its due, as long as the message was not legitimized in any way. Thank goodness, we can still offer gratuitous, contrived, button-pushers like â€˜Crashâ€™, otherwise all the closeted actors, producers, directors, managers, agents, and studio execs would have had to vote for Capote (â€™yeeccchâ€™), and then come out. Safe and sound in the closet for one more year, phew.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Academy-members were happy to give the â€œBrokeback Mountainâ€ its due, as long as the message was not legitimized in any way. Thank goodness, we can still offer gratuitous, contrived, button-pushers like â€˜Crashâ€™, otherwise all the closeted actors, producers, directors, managers, agents, and studio execs would have had to vote for Capote (â€™yeeccchâ€™), and then come out. Safe and sound in the closet for one more year, phew.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I thought Jon Stewart should have come out dressed in a camouflage suit and full hunting gear, carrying a shotgunâ€”he could have aimed his gun in the air shot  and landed an Oscarâ€”and then saidâ€”you guys  thought the Mafia only wore a three piece suit, well this is how the crooks in the Bush administration dress when they shoot their friends.    

Jon Stewart was interviewed by Larry King, and King asked Jon  if he was told to  censor himself a bit, Stewart responded by saying he was NOT allowed to use adverbsâ€”I think he also wasnâ€™t allowed to use nouns, adjectives, verbs and pronouns. 

 Itâ€™s the nature of the beastâ€”be a â€œlittleâ€ political  but not too much.  Thatâ€™s why â€œCrashâ€ wonâ€”it was just enough politics for Hollywoodâ€”red, yellow, black and white weâ€™re just a rainbow of colors tonight, donâ€™t say anything that is too sharp, weâ€™re here to sell movies and not to harp!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I thought Jon Stewart should have come out dressed in a camouflage suit and full hunting gear, carrying a shotgunâ€”he could have aimed his gun in the air shot  and landed an Oscarâ€”and then saidâ€”you guys  thought the Mafia only wore a three piece suit, well this is how the crooks in the Bush administration dress when they shoot their friends.    </p>
<p>Jon Stewart was interviewed by Larry King, and King asked Jon  if he was told to  censor himself a bit, Stewart responded by saying he was NOT allowed to use adverbsâ€”I think he also wasnâ€™t allowed to use nouns, adjectives, verbs and pronouns. </p>
<p> Itâ€™s the nature of the beastâ€”be a â€œlittleâ€ political  but not too much.  Thatâ€™s why â€œCrashâ€ wonâ€”it was just enough politics for Hollywoodâ€”red, yellow, black and white weâ€™re just a rainbow of colors tonight, donâ€™t say anything that is too sharp, weâ€™re here to sell movies and not to harp!</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 04:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wall, I&#039;d agree with all your movie assessments minus one: The Deer Hunter was an astounding movie, agree or not with its political assumptions.  Your lumping it with those other stinkers definitely grabbed my eye.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wall, I&#8217;d agree with all your movie assessments minus one: The Deer Hunter was an astounding movie, agree or not with its political assumptions.  Your lumping it with those other stinkers definitely grabbed my eye.</p>
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		<description>The three truely Great films directed by Robert Altman ( &quot;The Long Goodbye&quot; &quot;California Split&quot; and &quot;McCabe and Mrs. Miller&quot;), the lifetime achivement winner, drew one nommination between them (Julie Christie for &quot;McCabe&quot;).  That should tell you something.  Want the short list? It&#039;s best Pictures that AREN&#039;T terrible.  
        In fact, I&#039;m tired of people beating up &quot;The Greatest Show On Earth.&quot; Sure it sucks,  but also dreadful are  &quot;Chariots Of Fire&quot; &quot;Forest Gump&quot; &quot;Dances With Wolves&quot; &quot;The Deer Hunter&quot; &quot;Titanic&quot; and &quot;The Sting.&quot; 
             Is a passible Horror film like &quot;Silence Of the Lambs&quot; really a great movie? Or dull fare like &quot;Gandhi&quot; or &quot;The Last Emperor&quot;?
  A sleeping pill like &quot;The English Patient?&quot;  Overblown and overrated: &quot;Tom Jones&quot; &quot;Shakespeare In Love&quot; &quot;Shindler&#039;s List&quot; and even second rate Lean like &quot;Bridge On The River Kwai.&quot;  Middlebrow good taste fests like &quot;Mrs. Minever&quot;, &quot;The Best Years Of Our Lives&quot; and &quot;How Green Was My Valley&quot; linger in the mind like the box scores of the 69 Padres.  &quot;Hamlet&quot; is the least interesting of Olvier&#039;s Shakespeare movies. 

          The Godfathers, Joe Buck,  Terry Malloy , T. E. Lawrence and Rocky should blow this pop stand and go find a better party.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The three truely Great films directed by Robert Altman ( &#8220;The Long Goodbye&#8221; &#8220;California Split&#8221; and &#8220;McCabe and Mrs. Miller&#8221;), the lifetime achivement winner, drew one nommination between them (Julie Christie for &#8220;McCabe&#8221;).  That should tell you something.  Want the short list? It&#8217;s best Pictures that AREN&#8217;T terrible.<br />
        In fact, I&#8217;m tired of people beating up &#8220;The Greatest Show On Earth.&#8221; Sure it sucks,  but also dreadful are  &#8220;Chariots Of Fire&#8221; &#8220;Forest Gump&#8221; &#8220;Dances With Wolves&#8221; &#8220;The Deer Hunter&#8221; &#8220;Titanic&#8221; and &#8220;The Sting.&#8221;<br />
             Is a passible Horror film like &#8220;Silence Of the Lambs&#8221; really a great movie? Or dull fare like &#8220;Gandhi&#8221; or &#8220;The Last Emperor&#8221;?<br />
  A sleeping pill like &#8220;The English Patient?&#8221;  Overblown and overrated: &#8220;Tom Jones&#8221; &#8220;Shakespeare In Love&#8221; &#8220;Shindler&#8217;s List&#8221; and even second rate Lean like &#8220;Bridge On The River Kwai.&#8221;  Middlebrow good taste fests like &#8220;Mrs. Minever&#8221;, &#8220;The Best Years Of Our Lives&#8221; and &#8220;How Green Was My Valley&#8221; linger in the mind like the box scores of the 69 Padres.  &#8220;Hamlet&#8221; is the least interesting of Olvier&#8217;s Shakespeare movies. </p>
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		<title>By: Mark A. York</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2006 01:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well I would say it means &quot;something&quot; but not the whole ballgame including the sales histories you mention, otherwise the books would still be riding the top tier like scammer James Frey, but I suppose it depends on whose books one is trashing. If they&#039;re mine it&#039;s OK. Members of the club, not. I get it it, but I suppose like reg&#039;s dissing of his films it was meant to be a cheap shot. And I fully admit it was as intended.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well I would say it means &#8220;something&#8221; but not the whole ballgame including the sales histories you mention, otherwise the books would still be riding the top tier like scammer James Frey, but I suppose it depends on whose books one is trashing. If they&#8217;re mine it&#8217;s OK. Members of the club, not. I get it it, but I suppose like reg&#8217;s dissing of his films it was meant to be a cheap shot. And I fully admit it was as intended.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 12:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You know Mark.. I HAVE to intervene here. The Amazon book rankings mean NOTHING after the first month or two. You can think what you will of Roger but his series of Moses Wine noir novels are considered classics by many a critic and, indeed, make wonderful reading. They have also been translated into several foreign editions and I can guarantee you that they have been sold in quantities that go far beyond your imagination. Cut out the petty stuff. It stinks.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You know Mark.. I HAVE to intervene here. The Amazon book rankings mean NOTHING after the first month or two. You can think what you will of Roger but his series of Moses Wine noir novels are considered classics by many a critic and, indeed, make wonderful reading. They have also been translated into several foreign editions and I can guarantee you that they have been sold in quantities that go far beyond your imagination. Cut out the petty stuff. It stinks.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And books ranking at the depth I live at. That&#039;s a tough spot I&#039;ll  tell ya.</description>
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		<title>By: reg</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m sure this eminent person &quot;who actually votes in the Academy Awards&quot; is right because he&#039;s had a lot of experience with  pictures that are forgotten by the following Tuesday.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m sure this eminent person &#8220;who actually votes in the Academy Awards&#8221; is right because he&#8217;s had a lot of experience with  pictures that are forgotten by the following Tuesday.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well that may be your opinion Roger, but if it&#039;s all the same to you I&#039;ll take McMurtry. He and Diana wrote a fine film that for once in Hollywood mirrored the literature from whence it came. Routine my ass. Crash will be forgotten. I guess we can take a stab at who in the academy didn&#039;t vote for Brokeback.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well that may be your opinion Roger, but if it&#8217;s all the same to you I&#8217;ll take McMurtry. He and Diana wrote a fine film that for once in Hollywood mirrored the literature from whence it came. Routine my ass. Crash will be forgotten. I guess we can take a stab at who in the academy didn&#8217;t vote for Brokeback.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As someone who actually votes in the Academy Awards (for too long), I hate to rain on anybody&#039;s parade here,  but the whole voting process is almost as dull as the awards themselves.  The reason Brokeback probably lost is that the Academy finally woke up to the fact it was a fairly routine film and the only thing interesting about it, besides the score, was the gay theme - and even that is pretty hohum in 2006. This was a pretty dull bunch of best picutre nominees and, with the exception of Hoffman&#039;s performance in Capote, will probably be forgotten by next Tuesday. The only movies of this year anybody will watch in the future will be Narnia and Wallace and Grommet (both for kids) and Walk the Line because Reese Witherspoon is the only real movie star of our time - like they had them in the old days - the kind woman who make you smile like Stanwyck and Claudette Colbert.  And she can sing!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As someone who actually votes in the Academy Awards (for too long), I hate to rain on anybody&#8217;s parade here,  but the whole voting process is almost as dull as the awards themselves.  The reason Brokeback probably lost is that the Academy finally woke up to the fact it was a fairly routine film and the only thing interesting about it, besides the score, was the gay theme &#8211; and even that is pretty hohum in 2006. This was a pretty dull bunch of best picutre nominees and, with the exception of Hoffman&#8217;s performance in Capote, will probably be forgotten by next Tuesday. The only movies of this year anybody will watch in the future will be Narnia and Wallace and Grommet (both for kids) and Walk the Line because Reese Witherspoon is the only real movie star of our time &#8211; like they had them in the old days &#8211; the kind woman who make you smile like Stanwyck and Claudette Colbert.  And she can sing!</p>
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		<title>By: Michael Crosby</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Has there ever been an Oscar Best Picture winner that was seen by fewer people in the theatre?  I really have no idea how attendance at movies now compares to earlier in the 20th century.

I was told today that Crash is out on dvd.  If so, is it the first to be out on video before receiving a Best Picture award?  Now that, of course, is a test of more recent nature.

I haven&#039;t seen Crash.  When they were doing the Altman movie clips, I saw some of Nashville, including the wonderful scene of singer/songwriter Keith Carradine singing (Oscar-winning song) &quot;I&#039;m Easy,&quot; to a room full of women who had slept with him and each appeared certain the song was dedicated to her.  Except for Lily Tomlin who looked like she dreaded the idea that it might be.  Anyway, I imagined for a moment that Crash was some sort of more aggressive, less-nuanced 21st century version of Nashville.  Nashville was, among other things, very much about clashes of cultures and generations.

But probably not....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Has there ever been an Oscar Best Picture winner that was seen by fewer people in the theatre?  I really have no idea how attendance at movies now compares to earlier in the 20th century.</p>
<p>I was told today that Crash is out on dvd.  If so, is it the first to be out on video before receiving a Best Picture award?  Now that, of course, is a test of more recent nature.</p>
<p>I haven&#8217;t seen Crash.  When they were doing the Altman movie clips, I saw some of Nashville, including the wonderful scene of singer/songwriter Keith Carradine singing (Oscar-winning song) &#8220;I&#8217;m Easy,&#8221; to a room full of women who had slept with him and each appeared certain the song was dedicated to her.  Except for Lily Tomlin who looked like she dreaded the idea that it might be.  Anyway, I imagined for a moment that Crash was some sort of more aggressive, less-nuanced 21st century version of Nashville.  Nashville was, among other things, very much about clashes of cultures and generations.</p>
<p>But probably not&#8230;.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Academy-members were happy to give the â€œBrokeback Mountainâ€ its due, as long as the message was not legitimized in any way. Thank goodness, we can still offer gratuitous, contrived, button-pushers like â€˜Crashâ€™, otherwise all the closeted actors, producers, directors, managers, agents, and studio execs would have had to vote for Capote (â€™yeeccchâ€™), and then come out. Safe and sound in the closet for one more year, phew.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Academy-members were happy to give the â€œBrokeback Mountainâ€ its due, as long as the message was not legitimized in any way. Thank goodness, we can still offer gratuitous, contrived, button-pushers like â€˜Crashâ€™, otherwise all the closeted actors, producers, directors, managers, agents, and studio execs would have had to vote for Capote (â€™yeeccchâ€™), and then come out. Safe and sound in the closet for one more year, phew.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I thought Jon Stewart should have come out dressed in a camouflage suit and full hunting gear, carrying a shotgunâ€”he could have aimed his gun in the air shot  and landed an Oscarâ€”and then saidâ€”you guys  thought the Mafia only wore a three piece suit, well this is how the crooks in the Bush administration dress when they shoot their friends.    

Jon Stewart was interviewed by Larry King, and King asked Jon  if he was told to  censor himself a bit, Stewart responded by saying he was NOT allowed to use adverbsâ€”I think he also wasnâ€™t allowed to use nouns, adjectives, verbs and pronouns. 

 Itâ€™s the nature of the beastâ€”be a â€œlittleâ€ political  but not too much.  Thatâ€™s why â€œCrashâ€ wonâ€”it was just enough politics for Hollywoodâ€”red, yellow, black and white weâ€™re just a rainbow of colors tonight, donâ€™t say anything that is too sharp, weâ€™re here to sell movies and not to harp!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I thought Jon Stewart should have come out dressed in a camouflage suit and full hunting gear, carrying a shotgunâ€”he could have aimed his gun in the air shot  and landed an Oscarâ€”and then saidâ€”you guys  thought the Mafia only wore a three piece suit, well this is how the crooks in the Bush administration dress when they shoot their friends.    </p>
<p>Jon Stewart was interviewed by Larry King, and King asked Jon  if he was told to  censor himself a bit, Stewart responded by saying he was NOT allowed to use adverbsâ€”I think he also wasnâ€™t allowed to use nouns, adjectives, verbs and pronouns. </p>
<p> Itâ€™s the nature of the beastâ€”be a â€œlittleâ€ political  but not too much.  Thatâ€™s why â€œCrashâ€ wonâ€”it was just enough politics for Hollywoodâ€”red, yellow, black and white weâ€™re just a rainbow of colors tonight, donâ€™t say anything that is too sharp, weâ€™re here to sell movies and not to harp!</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 04:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wall, I&#039;d agree with all your movie assessments minus one: The Deer Hunter was an astounding movie, agree or not with its political assumptions.  Your lumping it with those other stinkers definitely grabbed my eye.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wall, I&#8217;d agree with all your movie assessments minus one: The Deer Hunter was an astounding movie, agree or not with its political assumptions.  Your lumping it with those other stinkers definitely grabbed my eye.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2006 14:23:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The three truely Great films directed by Robert Altman ( &quot;The Long Goodbye&quot; &quot;California Split&quot; and &quot;McCabe and Mrs. Miller&quot;), the lifetime achivement winner, drew one nommination between them (Julie Christie for &quot;McCabe&quot;).  That should tell you something.  Want the short list? It&#039;s best Pictures that AREN&#039;T terrible.  
        In fact, I&#039;m tired of people beating up &quot;The Greatest Show On Earth.&quot; Sure it sucks,  but also dreadful are  &quot;Chariots Of Fire&quot; &quot;Forest Gump&quot; &quot;Dances With Wolves&quot; &quot;The Deer Hunter&quot; &quot;Titanic&quot; and &quot;The Sting.&quot; 
             Is a passible Horror film like &quot;Silence Of the Lambs&quot; really a great movie? Or dull fare like &quot;Gandhi&quot; or &quot;The Last Emperor&quot;?
  A sleeping pill like &quot;The English Patient?&quot;  Overblown and overrated: &quot;Tom Jones&quot; &quot;Shakespeare In Love&quot; &quot;Shindler&#039;s List&quot; and even second rate Lean like &quot;Bridge On The River Kwai.&quot;  Middlebrow good taste fests like &quot;Mrs. Minever&quot;, &quot;The Best Years Of Our Lives&quot; and &quot;How Green Was My Valley&quot; linger in the mind like the box scores of the 69 Padres.  &quot;Hamlet&quot; is the least interesting of Olvier&#039;s Shakespeare movies. 

          The Godfathers, Joe Buck,  Terry Malloy , T. E. Lawrence and Rocky should blow this pop stand and go find a better party.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The three truely Great films directed by Robert Altman ( &#8220;The Long Goodbye&#8221; &#8220;California Split&#8221; and &#8220;McCabe and Mrs. Miller&#8221;), the lifetime achivement winner, drew one nommination between them (Julie Christie for &#8220;McCabe&#8221;).  That should tell you something.  Want the short list? It&#8217;s best Pictures that AREN&#8217;T terrible.<br />
        In fact, I&#8217;m tired of people beating up &#8220;The Greatest Show On Earth.&#8221; Sure it sucks,  but also dreadful are  &#8220;Chariots Of Fire&#8221; &#8220;Forest Gump&#8221; &#8220;Dances With Wolves&#8221; &#8220;The Deer Hunter&#8221; &#8220;Titanic&#8221; and &#8220;The Sting.&#8221;<br />
             Is a passible Horror film like &#8220;Silence Of the Lambs&#8221; really a great movie? Or dull fare like &#8220;Gandhi&#8221; or &#8220;The Last Emperor&#8221;?<br />
  A sleeping pill like &#8220;The English Patient?&#8221;  Overblown and overrated: &#8220;Tom Jones&#8221; &#8220;Shakespeare In Love&#8221; &#8220;Shindler&#8217;s List&#8221; and even second rate Lean like &#8220;Bridge On The River Kwai.&#8221;  Middlebrow good taste fests like &#8220;Mrs. Minever&#8221;, &#8220;The Best Years Of Our Lives&#8221; and &#8220;How Green Was My Valley&#8221; linger in the mind like the box scores of the 69 Padres.  &#8220;Hamlet&#8221; is the least interesting of Olvier&#8217;s Shakespeare movies. </p>
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		<title>By: Mark A. York</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2006 01:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well I would say it means &quot;something&quot; but not the whole ballgame including the sales histories you mention, otherwise the books would still be riding the top tier like scammer James Frey, but I suppose it depends on whose books one is trashing. If they&#039;re mine it&#039;s OK. Members of the club, not. I get it it, but I suppose like reg&#039;s dissing of his films it was meant to be a cheap shot. And I fully admit it was as intended.</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 12:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You know Mark.. I HAVE to intervene here. The Amazon book rankings mean NOTHING after the first month or two. You can think what you will of Roger but his series of Moses Wine noir novels are considered classics by many a critic and, indeed, make wonderful reading. They have also been translated into several foreign editions and I can guarantee you that they have been sold in quantities that go far beyond your imagination. Cut out the petty stuff. It stinks.</description>
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		<description>And books ranking at the depth I live at. That&#039;s a tough spot I&#039;ll  tell ya.</description>
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		<title>By: reg</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m sure this eminent person &quot;who actually votes in the Academy Awards&quot; is right because he&#039;s had a lot of experience with  pictures that are forgotten by the following Tuesday.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m sure this eminent person &#8220;who actually votes in the Academy Awards&#8221; is right because he&#8217;s had a lot of experience with  pictures that are forgotten by the following Tuesday.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well that may be your opinion Roger, but if it&#039;s all the same to you I&#039;ll take McMurtry. He and Diana wrote a fine film that for once in Hollywood mirrored the literature from whence it came. Routine my ass. Crash will be forgotten. I guess we can take a stab at who in the academy didn&#039;t vote for Brokeback.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well that may be your opinion Roger, but if it&#8217;s all the same to you I&#8217;ll take McMurtry. He and Diana wrote a fine film that for once in Hollywood mirrored the literature from whence it came. Routine my ass. Crash will be forgotten. I guess we can take a stab at who in the academy didn&#8217;t vote for Brokeback.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As someone who actually votes in the Academy Awards (for too long), I hate to rain on anybody&#039;s parade here,  but the whole voting process is almost as dull as the awards themselves.  The reason Brokeback probably lost is that the Academy finally woke up to the fact it was a fairly routine film and the only thing interesting about it, besides the score, was the gay theme - and even that is pretty hohum in 2006. This was a pretty dull bunch of best picutre nominees and, with the exception of Hoffman&#039;s performance in Capote, will probably be forgotten by next Tuesday. The only movies of this year anybody will watch in the future will be Narnia and Wallace and Grommet (both for kids) and Walk the Line because Reese Witherspoon is the only real movie star of our time - like they had them in the old days - the kind woman who make you smile like Stanwyck and Claudette Colbert.  And she can sing!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As someone who actually votes in the Academy Awards (for too long), I hate to rain on anybody&#8217;s parade here,  but the whole voting process is almost as dull as the awards themselves.  The reason Brokeback probably lost is that the Academy finally woke up to the fact it was a fairly routine film and the only thing interesting about it, besides the score, was the gay theme &#8211; and even that is pretty hohum in 2006. This was a pretty dull bunch of best picutre nominees and, with the exception of Hoffman&#8217;s performance in Capote, will probably be forgotten by next Tuesday. The only movies of this year anybody will watch in the future will be Narnia and Wallace and Grommet (both for kids) and Walk the Line because Reese Witherspoon is the only real movie star of our time &#8211; like they had them in the old days &#8211; the kind woman who make you smile like Stanwyck and Claudette Colbert.  And she can sing!</p>
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		<title>By: Michael Crosby</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Has there ever been an Oscar Best Picture winner that was seen by fewer people in the theatre?  I really have no idea how attendance at movies now compares to earlier in the 20th century.

I was told today that Crash is out on dvd.  If so, is it the first to be out on video before receiving a Best Picture award?  Now that, of course, is a test of more recent nature.

I haven&#039;t seen Crash.  When they were doing the Altman movie clips, I saw some of Nashville, including the wonderful scene of singer/songwriter Keith Carradine singing (Oscar-winning song) &quot;I&#039;m Easy,&quot; to a room full of women who had slept with him and each appeared certain the song was dedicated to her.  Except for Lily Tomlin who looked like she dreaded the idea that it might be.  Anyway, I imagined for a moment that Crash was some sort of more aggressive, less-nuanced 21st century version of Nashville.  Nashville was, among other things, very much about clashes of cultures and generations.

But probably not....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Has there ever been an Oscar Best Picture winner that was seen by fewer people in the theatre?  I really have no idea how attendance at movies now compares to earlier in the 20th century.</p>
<p>I was told today that Crash is out on dvd.  If so, is it the first to be out on video before receiving a Best Picture award?  Now that, of course, is a test of more recent nature.</p>
<p>I haven&#8217;t seen Crash.  When they were doing the Altman movie clips, I saw some of Nashville, including the wonderful scene of singer/songwriter Keith Carradine singing (Oscar-winning song) &#8220;I&#8217;m Easy,&#8221; to a room full of women who had slept with him and each appeared certain the song was dedicated to her.  Except for Lily Tomlin who looked like she dreaded the idea that it might be.  Anyway, I imagined for a moment that Crash was some sort of more aggressive, less-nuanced 21st century version of Nashville.  Nashville was, among other things, very much about clashes of cultures and generations.</p>
<p>But probably not&#8230;.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Academy-members were happy to give the â€œBrokeback Mountainâ€ its due, as long as the message was not legitimized in any way. Thank goodness, we can still offer gratuitous, contrived, button-pushers like â€˜Crashâ€™, otherwise all the closeted actors, producers, directors, managers, agents, and studio execs would have had to vote for Capote (â€™yeeccchâ€™), and then come out. Safe and sound in the closet for one more year, phew.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Academy-members were happy to give the â€œBrokeback Mountainâ€ its due, as long as the message was not legitimized in any way. Thank goodness, we can still offer gratuitous, contrived, button-pushers like â€˜Crashâ€™, otherwise all the closeted actors, producers, directors, managers, agents, and studio execs would have had to vote for Capote (â€™yeeccchâ€™), and then come out. Safe and sound in the closet for one more year, phew.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I thought Jon Stewart should have come out dressed in a camouflage suit and full hunting gear, carrying a shotgunâ€”he could have aimed his gun in the air shot  and landed an Oscarâ€”and then saidâ€”you guys  thought the Mafia only wore a three piece suit, well this is how the crooks in the Bush administration dress when they shoot their friends.    

Jon Stewart was interviewed by Larry King, and King asked Jon  if he was told to  censor himself a bit, Stewart responded by saying he was NOT allowed to use adverbsâ€”I think he also wasnâ€™t allowed to use nouns, adjectives, verbs and pronouns. 

 Itâ€™s the nature of the beastâ€”be a â€œlittleâ€ political  but not too much.  Thatâ€™s why â€œCrashâ€ wonâ€”it was just enough politics for Hollywoodâ€”red, yellow, black and white weâ€™re just a rainbow of colors tonight, donâ€™t say anything that is too sharp, weâ€™re here to sell movies and not to harp!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I thought Jon Stewart should have come out dressed in a camouflage suit and full hunting gear, carrying a shotgunâ€”he could have aimed his gun in the air shot  and landed an Oscarâ€”and then saidâ€”you guys  thought the Mafia only wore a three piece suit, well this is how the crooks in the Bush administration dress when they shoot their friends.    </p>
<p>Jon Stewart was interviewed by Larry King, and King asked Jon  if he was told to  censor himself a bit, Stewart responded by saying he was NOT allowed to use adverbsâ€”I think he also wasnâ€™t allowed to use nouns, adjectives, verbs and pronouns. </p>
<p> Itâ€™s the nature of the beastâ€”be a â€œlittleâ€ political  but not too much.  Thatâ€™s why â€œCrashâ€ wonâ€”it was just enough politics for Hollywoodâ€”red, yellow, black and white weâ€™re just a rainbow of colors tonight, donâ€™t say anything that is too sharp, weâ€™re here to sell movies and not to harp!</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 04:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wall, I&#039;d agree with all your movie assessments minus one: The Deer Hunter was an astounding movie, agree or not with its political assumptions.  Your lumping it with those other stinkers definitely grabbed my eye.</description>
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		<description>The three truely Great films directed by Robert Altman ( &quot;The Long Goodbye&quot; &quot;California Split&quot; and &quot;McCabe and Mrs. Miller&quot;), the lifetime achivement winner, drew one nommination between them (Julie Christie for &quot;McCabe&quot;).  That should tell you something.  Want the short list? It&#039;s best Pictures that AREN&#039;T terrible.  
        In fact, I&#039;m tired of people beating up &quot;The Greatest Show On Earth.&quot; Sure it sucks,  but also dreadful are  &quot;Chariots Of Fire&quot; &quot;Forest Gump&quot; &quot;Dances With Wolves&quot; &quot;The Deer Hunter&quot; &quot;Titanic&quot; and &quot;The Sting.&quot; 
             Is a passible Horror film like &quot;Silence Of the Lambs&quot; really a great movie? Or dull fare like &quot;Gandhi&quot; or &quot;The Last Emperor&quot;?
  A sleeping pill like &quot;The English Patient?&quot;  Overblown and overrated: &quot;Tom Jones&quot; &quot;Shakespeare In Love&quot; &quot;Shindler&#039;s List&quot; and even second rate Lean like &quot;Bridge On The River Kwai.&quot;  Middlebrow good taste fests like &quot;Mrs. Minever&quot;, &quot;The Best Years Of Our Lives&quot; and &quot;How Green Was My Valley&quot; linger in the mind like the box scores of the 69 Padres.  &quot;Hamlet&quot; is the least interesting of Olvier&#039;s Shakespeare movies. 

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The three truely Great films directed by Robert Altman ( &#8220;The Long Goodbye&#8221; &#8220;California Split&#8221; and &#8220;McCabe and Mrs. Miller&#8221;), the lifetime achivement winner, drew one nommination between them (Julie Christie for &#8220;McCabe&#8221;).  That should tell you something.  Want the short list? It&#8217;s best Pictures that AREN&#8217;T terrible.<br />
        In fact, I&#8217;m tired of people beating up &#8220;The Greatest Show On Earth.&#8221; Sure it sucks,  but also dreadful are  &#8220;Chariots Of Fire&#8221; &#8220;Forest Gump&#8221; &#8220;Dances With Wolves&#8221; &#8220;The Deer Hunter&#8221; &#8220;Titanic&#8221; and &#8220;The Sting.&#8221;<br />
             Is a passible Horror film like &#8220;Silence Of the Lambs&#8221; really a great movie? Or dull fare like &#8220;Gandhi&#8221; or &#8220;The Last Emperor&#8221;?<br />
  A sleeping pill like &#8220;The English Patient?&#8221;  Overblown and overrated: &#8220;Tom Jones&#8221; &#8220;Shakespeare In Love&#8221; &#8220;Shindler&#8217;s List&#8221; and even second rate Lean like &#8220;Bridge On The River Kwai.&#8221;  Middlebrow good taste fests like &#8220;Mrs. Minever&#8221;, &#8220;The Best Years Of Our Lives&#8221; and &#8220;How Green Was My Valley&#8221; linger in the mind like the box scores of the 69 Padres.  &#8220;Hamlet&#8221; is the least interesting of Olvier&#8217;s Shakespeare movies. </p>
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		<title>By: Mark A. York</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2006 01:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well I would say it means &quot;something&quot; but not the whole ballgame including the sales histories you mention, otherwise the books would still be riding the top tier like scammer James Frey, but I suppose it depends on whose books one is trashing. If they&#039;re mine it&#039;s OK. Members of the club, not. I get it it, but I suppose like reg&#039;s dissing of his films it was meant to be a cheap shot. And I fully admit it was as intended.</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 12:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You know Mark.. I HAVE to intervene here. The Amazon book rankings mean NOTHING after the first month or two. You can think what you will of Roger but his series of Moses Wine noir novels are considered classics by many a critic and, indeed, make wonderful reading. They have also been translated into several foreign editions and I can guarantee you that they have been sold in quantities that go far beyond your imagination. Cut out the petty stuff. It stinks.</description>
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		<description>And books ranking at the depth I live at. That&#039;s a tough spot I&#039;ll  tell ya.</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m sure this eminent person &quot;who actually votes in the Academy Awards&quot; is right because he&#039;s had a lot of experience with  pictures that are forgotten by the following Tuesday.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m sure this eminent person &#8220;who actually votes in the Academy Awards&#8221; is right because he&#8217;s had a lot of experience with  pictures that are forgotten by the following Tuesday.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well that may be your opinion Roger, but if it&#039;s all the same to you I&#039;ll take McMurtry. He and Diana wrote a fine film that for once in Hollywood mirrored the literature from whence it came. Routine my ass. Crash will be forgotten. I guess we can take a stab at who in the academy didn&#039;t vote for Brokeback.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well that may be your opinion Roger, but if it&#8217;s all the same to you I&#8217;ll take McMurtry. He and Diana wrote a fine film that for once in Hollywood mirrored the literature from whence it came. Routine my ass. Crash will be forgotten. I guess we can take a stab at who in the academy didn&#8217;t vote for Brokeback.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As someone who actually votes in the Academy Awards (for too long), I hate to rain on anybody&#039;s parade here,  but the whole voting process is almost as dull as the awards themselves.  The reason Brokeback probably lost is that the Academy finally woke up to the fact it was a fairly routine film and the only thing interesting about it, besides the score, was the gay theme - and even that is pretty hohum in 2006. This was a pretty dull bunch of best picutre nominees and, with the exception of Hoffman&#039;s performance in Capote, will probably be forgotten by next Tuesday. The only movies of this year anybody will watch in the future will be Narnia and Wallace and Grommet (both for kids) and Walk the Line because Reese Witherspoon is the only real movie star of our time - like they had them in the old days - the kind woman who make you smile like Stanwyck and Claudette Colbert.  And she can sing!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As someone who actually votes in the Academy Awards (for too long), I hate to rain on anybody&#8217;s parade here,  but the whole voting process is almost as dull as the awards themselves.  The reason Brokeback probably lost is that the Academy finally woke up to the fact it was a fairly routine film and the only thing interesting about it, besides the score, was the gay theme &#8211; and even that is pretty hohum in 2006. This was a pretty dull bunch of best picutre nominees and, with the exception of Hoffman&#8217;s performance in Capote, will probably be forgotten by next Tuesday. The only movies of this year anybody will watch in the future will be Narnia and Wallace and Grommet (both for kids) and Walk the Line because Reese Witherspoon is the only real movie star of our time &#8211; like they had them in the old days &#8211; the kind woman who make you smile like Stanwyck and Claudette Colbert.  And she can sing!</p>
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		<title>By: Michael Crosby</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Has there ever been an Oscar Best Picture winner that was seen by fewer people in the theatre?  I really have no idea how attendance at movies now compares to earlier in the 20th century.

I was told today that Crash is out on dvd.  If so, is it the first to be out on video before receiving a Best Picture award?  Now that, of course, is a test of more recent nature.

I haven&#039;t seen Crash.  When they were doing the Altman movie clips, I saw some of Nashville, including the wonderful scene of singer/songwriter Keith Carradine singing (Oscar-winning song) &quot;I&#039;m Easy,&quot; to a room full of women who had slept with him and each appeared certain the song was dedicated to her.  Except for Lily Tomlin who looked like she dreaded the idea that it might be.  Anyway, I imagined for a moment that Crash was some sort of more aggressive, less-nuanced 21st century version of Nashville.  Nashville was, among other things, very much about clashes of cultures and generations.

But probably not....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Has there ever been an Oscar Best Picture winner that was seen by fewer people in the theatre?  I really have no idea how attendance at movies now compares to earlier in the 20th century.</p>
<p>I was told today that Crash is out on dvd.  If so, is it the first to be out on video before receiving a Best Picture award?  Now that, of course, is a test of more recent nature.</p>
<p>I haven&#8217;t seen Crash.  When they were doing the Altman movie clips, I saw some of Nashville, including the wonderful scene of singer/songwriter Keith Carradine singing (Oscar-winning song) &#8220;I&#8217;m Easy,&#8221; to a room full of women who had slept with him and each appeared certain the song was dedicated to her.  Except for Lily Tomlin who looked like she dreaded the idea that it might be.  Anyway, I imagined for a moment that Crash was some sort of more aggressive, less-nuanced 21st century version of Nashville.  Nashville was, among other things, very much about clashes of cultures and generations.</p>
<p>But probably not&#8230;.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Academy-members were happy to give the â€œBrokeback Mountainâ€ its due, as long as the message was not legitimized in any way. Thank goodness, we can still offer gratuitous, contrived, button-pushers like â€˜Crashâ€™, otherwise all the closeted actors, producers, directors, managers, agents, and studio execs would have had to vote for Capote (â€™yeeccchâ€™), and then come out. Safe and sound in the closet for one more year, phew.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Academy-members were happy to give the â€œBrokeback Mountainâ€ its due, as long as the message was not legitimized in any way. Thank goodness, we can still offer gratuitous, contrived, button-pushers like â€˜Crashâ€™, otherwise all the closeted actors, producers, directors, managers, agents, and studio execs would have had to vote for Capote (â€™yeeccchâ€™), and then come out. Safe and sound in the closet for one more year, phew.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I thought Jon Stewart should have come out dressed in a camouflage suit and full hunting gear, carrying a shotgunâ€”he could have aimed his gun in the air shot  and landed an Oscarâ€”and then saidâ€”you guys  thought the Mafia only wore a three piece suit, well this is how the crooks in the Bush administration dress when they shoot their friends.    

Jon Stewart was interviewed by Larry King, and King asked Jon  if he was told to  censor himself a bit, Stewart responded by saying he was NOT allowed to use adverbsâ€”I think he also wasnâ€™t allowed to use nouns, adjectives, verbs and pronouns. 

 Itâ€™s the nature of the beastâ€”be a â€œlittleâ€ political  but not too much.  Thatâ€™s why â€œCrashâ€ wonâ€”it was just enough politics for Hollywoodâ€”red, yellow, black and white weâ€™re just a rainbow of colors tonight, donâ€™t say anything that is too sharp, weâ€™re here to sell movies and not to harp!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I thought Jon Stewart should have come out dressed in a camouflage suit and full hunting gear, carrying a shotgunâ€”he could have aimed his gun in the air shot  and landed an Oscarâ€”and then saidâ€”you guys  thought the Mafia only wore a three piece suit, well this is how the crooks in the Bush administration dress when they shoot their friends.    </p>
<p>Jon Stewart was interviewed by Larry King, and King asked Jon  if he was told to  censor himself a bit, Stewart responded by saying he was NOT allowed to use adverbsâ€”I think he also wasnâ€™t allowed to use nouns, adjectives, verbs and pronouns. </p>
<p> Itâ€™s the nature of the beastâ€”be a â€œlittleâ€ political  but not too much.  Thatâ€™s why â€œCrashâ€ wonâ€”it was just enough politics for Hollywoodâ€”red, yellow, black and white weâ€™re just a rainbow of colors tonight, donâ€™t say anything that is too sharp, weâ€™re here to sell movies and not to harp!</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 04:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Rich</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2006 03:27:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wall, I&#039;d agree with all your movie assessments minus one: The Deer Hunter was an astounding movie, agree or not with its political assumptions.  Your lumping it with those other stinkers definitely grabbed my eye.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wall, I&#8217;d agree with all your movie assessments minus one: The Deer Hunter was an astounding movie, agree or not with its political assumptions.  Your lumping it with those other stinkers definitely grabbed my eye.</p>
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		<title>By: Wall</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2006 14:23:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The three truely Great films directed by Robert Altman ( &quot;The Long Goodbye&quot; &quot;California Split&quot; and &quot;McCabe and Mrs. Miller&quot;), the lifetime achivement winner, drew one nommination between them (Julie Christie for &quot;McCabe&quot;).  That should tell you something.  Want the short list? It&#039;s best Pictures that AREN&#039;T terrible.  
        In fact, I&#039;m tired of people beating up &quot;The Greatest Show On Earth.&quot; Sure it sucks,  but also dreadful are  &quot;Chariots Of Fire&quot; &quot;Forest Gump&quot; &quot;Dances With Wolves&quot; &quot;The Deer Hunter&quot; &quot;Titanic&quot; and &quot;The Sting.&quot; 
             Is a passible Horror film like &quot;Silence Of the Lambs&quot; really a great movie? Or dull fare like &quot;Gandhi&quot; or &quot;The Last Emperor&quot;?
  A sleeping pill like &quot;The English Patient?&quot;  Overblown and overrated: &quot;Tom Jones&quot; &quot;Shakespeare In Love&quot; &quot;Shindler&#039;s List&quot; and even second rate Lean like &quot;Bridge On The River Kwai.&quot;  Middlebrow good taste fests like &quot;Mrs. Minever&quot;, &quot;The Best Years Of Our Lives&quot; and &quot;How Green Was My Valley&quot; linger in the mind like the box scores of the 69 Padres.  &quot;Hamlet&quot; is the least interesting of Olvier&#039;s Shakespeare movies. 

          The Godfathers, Joe Buck,  Terry Malloy , T. E. Lawrence and Rocky should blow this pop stand and go find a better party.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The three truely Great films directed by Robert Altman ( &#8220;The Long Goodbye&#8221; &#8220;California Split&#8221; and &#8220;McCabe and Mrs. Miller&#8221;), the lifetime achivement winner, drew one nommination between them (Julie Christie for &#8220;McCabe&#8221;).  That should tell you something.  Want the short list? It&#8217;s best Pictures that AREN&#8217;T terrible.<br />
        In fact, I&#8217;m tired of people beating up &#8220;The Greatest Show On Earth.&#8221; Sure it sucks,  but also dreadful are  &#8220;Chariots Of Fire&#8221; &#8220;Forest Gump&#8221; &#8220;Dances With Wolves&#8221; &#8220;The Deer Hunter&#8221; &#8220;Titanic&#8221; and &#8220;The Sting.&#8221;<br />
             Is a passible Horror film like &#8220;Silence Of the Lambs&#8221; really a great movie? Or dull fare like &#8220;Gandhi&#8221; or &#8220;The Last Emperor&#8221;?<br />
  A sleeping pill like &#8220;The English Patient?&#8221;  Overblown and overrated: &#8220;Tom Jones&#8221; &#8220;Shakespeare In Love&#8221; &#8220;Shindler&#8217;s List&#8221; and even second rate Lean like &#8220;Bridge On The River Kwai.&#8221;  Middlebrow good taste fests like &#8220;Mrs. Minever&#8221;, &#8220;The Best Years Of Our Lives&#8221; and &#8220;How Green Was My Valley&#8221; linger in the mind like the box scores of the 69 Padres.  &#8220;Hamlet&#8221; is the least interesting of Olvier&#8217;s Shakespeare movies. </p>
<p>          The Godfathers, Joe Buck,  Terry Malloy , T. E. Lawrence and Rocky should blow this pop stand and go find a better party.</p>
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		<title>By: Mark A. York</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2006 01:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well I would say it means &quot;something&quot; but not the whole ballgame including the sales histories you mention, otherwise the books would still be riding the top tier like scammer James Frey, but I suppose it depends on whose books one is trashing. If they&#039;re mine it&#039;s OK. Members of the club, not. I get it it, but I suppose like reg&#039;s dissing of his films it was meant to be a cheap shot. And I fully admit it was as intended.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well I would say it means &#8220;something&#8221; but not the whole ballgame including the sales histories you mention, otherwise the books would still be riding the top tier like scammer James Frey, but I suppose it depends on whose books one is trashing. If they&#8217;re mine it&#8217;s OK. Members of the club, not. I get it it, but I suppose like reg&#8217;s dissing of his films it was meant to be a cheap shot. And I fully admit it was as intended.</p>
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		<title>By: Marc Cooper</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 12:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You know Mark.. I HAVE to intervene here. The Amazon book rankings mean NOTHING after the first month or two. You can think what you will of Roger but his series of Moses Wine noir novels are considered classics by many a critic and, indeed, make wonderful reading. They have also been translated into several foreign editions and I can guarantee you that they have been sold in quantities that go far beyond your imagination. Cut out the petty stuff. It stinks.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You know Mark.. I HAVE to intervene here. The Amazon book rankings mean NOTHING after the first month or two. You can think what you will of Roger but his series of Moses Wine noir novels are considered classics by many a critic and, indeed, make wonderful reading. They have also been translated into several foreign editions and I can guarantee you that they have been sold in quantities that go far beyond your imagination. Cut out the petty stuff. It stinks.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And books ranking at the depth I live at. That&#039;s a tough spot I&#039;ll  tell ya.</description>
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		<title>By: reg</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m sure this eminent person &quot;who actually votes in the Academy Awards&quot; is right because he&#039;s had a lot of experience with  pictures that are forgotten by the following Tuesday.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m sure this eminent person &#8220;who actually votes in the Academy Awards&#8221; is right because he&#8217;s had a lot of experience with  pictures that are forgotten by the following Tuesday.</p>
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		<title>By: Mark A. York</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well that may be your opinion Roger, but if it&#039;s all the same to you I&#039;ll take McMurtry. He and Diana wrote a fine film that for once in Hollywood mirrored the literature from whence it came. Routine my ass. Crash will be forgotten. I guess we can take a stab at who in the academy didn&#039;t vote for Brokeback.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well that may be your opinion Roger, but if it&#8217;s all the same to you I&#8217;ll take McMurtry. He and Diana wrote a fine film that for once in Hollywood mirrored the literature from whence it came. Routine my ass. Crash will be forgotten. I guess we can take a stab at who in the academy didn&#8217;t vote for Brokeback.</p>
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		<title>By: Roger L. Simon</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As someone who actually votes in the Academy Awards (for too long), I hate to rain on anybody&#039;s parade here,  but the whole voting process is almost as dull as the awards themselves.  The reason Brokeback probably lost is that the Academy finally woke up to the fact it was a fairly routine film and the only thing interesting about it, besides the score, was the gay theme - and even that is pretty hohum in 2006. This was a pretty dull bunch of best picutre nominees and, with the exception of Hoffman&#039;s performance in Capote, will probably be forgotten by next Tuesday. The only movies of this year anybody will watch in the future will be Narnia and Wallace and Grommet (both for kids) and Walk the Line because Reese Witherspoon is the only real movie star of our time - like they had them in the old days - the kind woman who make you smile like Stanwyck and Claudette Colbert.  And she can sing!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As someone who actually votes in the Academy Awards (for too long), I hate to rain on anybody&#8217;s parade here,  but the whole voting process is almost as dull as the awards themselves.  The reason Brokeback probably lost is that the Academy finally woke up to the fact it was a fairly routine film and the only thing interesting about it, besides the score, was the gay theme &#8211; and even that is pretty hohum in 2006. This was a pretty dull bunch of best picutre nominees and, with the exception of Hoffman&#8217;s performance in Capote, will probably be forgotten by next Tuesday. The only movies of this year anybody will watch in the future will be Narnia and Wallace and Grommet (both for kids) and Walk the Line because Reese Witherspoon is the only real movie star of our time &#8211; like they had them in the old days &#8211; the kind woman who make you smile like Stanwyck and Claudette Colbert.  And she can sing!</p>
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		<title>By: Michael Crosby</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Has there ever been an Oscar Best Picture winner that was seen by fewer people in the theatre?  I really have no idea how attendance at movies now compares to earlier in the 20th century.

I was told today that Crash is out on dvd.  If so, is it the first to be out on video before receiving a Best Picture award?  Now that, of course, is a test of more recent nature.

I haven&#039;t seen Crash.  When they were doing the Altman movie clips, I saw some of Nashville, including the wonderful scene of singer/songwriter Keith Carradine singing (Oscar-winning song) &quot;I&#039;m Easy,&quot; to a room full of women who had slept with him and each appeared certain the song was dedicated to her.  Except for Lily Tomlin who looked like she dreaded the idea that it might be.  Anyway, I imagined for a moment that Crash was some sort of more aggressive, less-nuanced 21st century version of Nashville.  Nashville was, among other things, very much about clashes of cultures and generations.

But probably not....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Has there ever been an Oscar Best Picture winner that was seen by fewer people in the theatre?  I really have no idea how attendance at movies now compares to earlier in the 20th century.</p>
<p>I was told today that Crash is out on dvd.  If so, is it the first to be out on video before receiving a Best Picture award?  Now that, of course, is a test of more recent nature.</p>
<p>I haven&#8217;t seen Crash.  When they were doing the Altman movie clips, I saw some of Nashville, including the wonderful scene of singer/songwriter Keith Carradine singing (Oscar-winning song) &#8220;I&#8217;m Easy,&#8221; to a room full of women who had slept with him and each appeared certain the song was dedicated to her.  Except for Lily Tomlin who looked like she dreaded the idea that it might be.  Anyway, I imagined for a moment that Crash was some sort of more aggressive, less-nuanced 21st century version of Nashville.  Nashville was, among other things, very much about clashes of cultures and generations.</p>
<p>But probably not&#8230;.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Academy-members were happy to give the â€œBrokeback Mountainâ€ its due, as long as the message was not legitimized in any way. Thank goodness, we can still offer gratuitous, contrived, button-pushers like â€˜Crashâ€™, otherwise all the closeted actors, producers, directors, managers, agents, and studio execs would have had to vote for Capote (â€™yeeccchâ€™), and then come out. Safe and sound in the closet for one more year, phew.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Academy-members were happy to give the â€œBrokeback Mountainâ€ its due, as long as the message was not legitimized in any way. Thank goodness, we can still offer gratuitous, contrived, button-pushers like â€˜Crashâ€™, otherwise all the closeted actors, producers, directors, managers, agents, and studio execs would have had to vote for Capote (â€™yeeccchâ€™), and then come out. Safe and sound in the closet for one more year, phew.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I thought Jon Stewart should have come out dressed in a camouflage suit and full hunting gear, carrying a shotgunâ€”he could have aimed his gun in the air shot  and landed an Oscarâ€”and then saidâ€”you guys  thought the Mafia only wore a three piece suit, well this is how the crooks in the Bush administration dress when they shoot their friends.    

Jon Stewart was interviewed by Larry King, and King asked Jon  if he was told to  censor himself a bit, Stewart responded by saying he was NOT allowed to use adverbsâ€”I think he also wasnâ€™t allowed to use nouns, adjectives, verbs and pronouns. 

 Itâ€™s the nature of the beastâ€”be a â€œlittleâ€ political  but not too much.  Thatâ€™s why â€œCrashâ€ wonâ€”it was just enough politics for Hollywoodâ€”red, yellow, black and white weâ€™re just a rainbow of colors tonight, donâ€™t say anything that is too sharp, weâ€™re here to sell movies and not to harp!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I thought Jon Stewart should have come out dressed in a camouflage suit and full hunting gear, carrying a shotgunâ€”he could have aimed his gun in the air shot  and landed an Oscarâ€”and then saidâ€”you guys  thought the Mafia only wore a three piece suit, well this is how the crooks in the Bush administration dress when they shoot their friends.    </p>
<p>Jon Stewart was interviewed by Larry King, and King asked Jon  if he was told to  censor himself a bit, Stewart responded by saying he was NOT allowed to use adverbsâ€”I think he also wasnâ€™t allowed to use nouns, adjectives, verbs and pronouns. </p>
<p> Itâ€™s the nature of the beastâ€”be a â€œlittleâ€ political  but not too much.  Thatâ€™s why â€œCrashâ€ wonâ€”it was just enough politics for Hollywoodâ€”red, yellow, black and white weâ€™re just a rainbow of colors tonight, donâ€™t say anything that is too sharp, weâ€™re here to sell movies and not to harp!</p>
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		<link>http://marccooper.com/shorter-oscars-review/comment-page-1/#comment-30262</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 04:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Rich</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2006 03:27:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wall, I&#039;d agree with all your movie assessments minus one: The Deer Hunter was an astounding movie, agree or not with its political assumptions.  Your lumping it with those other stinkers definitely grabbed my eye.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wall, I&#8217;d agree with all your movie assessments minus one: The Deer Hunter was an astounding movie, agree or not with its political assumptions.  Your lumping it with those other stinkers definitely grabbed my eye.</p>
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		<title>By: Wall</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2006 14:23:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The three truely Great films directed by Robert Altman ( &quot;The Long Goodbye&quot; &quot;California Split&quot; and &quot;McCabe and Mrs. Miller&quot;), the lifetime achivement winner, drew one nommination between them (Julie Christie for &quot;McCabe&quot;).  That should tell you something.  Want the short list? It&#039;s best Pictures that AREN&#039;T terrible.  
        In fact, I&#039;m tired of people beating up &quot;The Greatest Show On Earth.&quot; Sure it sucks,  but also dreadful are  &quot;Chariots Of Fire&quot; &quot;Forest Gump&quot; &quot;Dances With Wolves&quot; &quot;The Deer Hunter&quot; &quot;Titanic&quot; and &quot;The Sting.&quot; 
             Is a passible Horror film like &quot;Silence Of the Lambs&quot; really a great movie? Or dull fare like &quot;Gandhi&quot; or &quot;The Last Emperor&quot;?
  A sleeping pill like &quot;The English Patient?&quot;  Overblown and overrated: &quot;Tom Jones&quot; &quot;Shakespeare In Love&quot; &quot;Shindler&#039;s List&quot; and even second rate Lean like &quot;Bridge On The River Kwai.&quot;  Middlebrow good taste fests like &quot;Mrs. Minever&quot;, &quot;The Best Years Of Our Lives&quot; and &quot;How Green Was My Valley&quot; linger in the mind like the box scores of the 69 Padres.  &quot;Hamlet&quot; is the least interesting of Olvier&#039;s Shakespeare movies. 

          The Godfathers, Joe Buck,  Terry Malloy , T. E. Lawrence and Rocky should blow this pop stand and go find a better party.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The three truely Great films directed by Robert Altman ( &#8220;The Long Goodbye&#8221; &#8220;California Split&#8221; and &#8220;McCabe and Mrs. Miller&#8221;), the lifetime achivement winner, drew one nommination between them (Julie Christie for &#8220;McCabe&#8221;).  That should tell you something.  Want the short list? It&#8217;s best Pictures that AREN&#8217;T terrible.<br />
        In fact, I&#8217;m tired of people beating up &#8220;The Greatest Show On Earth.&#8221; Sure it sucks,  but also dreadful are  &#8220;Chariots Of Fire&#8221; &#8220;Forest Gump&#8221; &#8220;Dances With Wolves&#8221; &#8220;The Deer Hunter&#8221; &#8220;Titanic&#8221; and &#8220;The Sting.&#8221;<br />
             Is a passible Horror film like &#8220;Silence Of the Lambs&#8221; really a great movie? Or dull fare like &#8220;Gandhi&#8221; or &#8220;The Last Emperor&#8221;?<br />
  A sleeping pill like &#8220;The English Patient?&#8221;  Overblown and overrated: &#8220;Tom Jones&#8221; &#8220;Shakespeare In Love&#8221; &#8220;Shindler&#8217;s List&#8221; and even second rate Lean like &#8220;Bridge On The River Kwai.&#8221;  Middlebrow good taste fests like &#8220;Mrs. Minever&#8221;, &#8220;The Best Years Of Our Lives&#8221; and &#8220;How Green Was My Valley&#8221; linger in the mind like the box scores of the 69 Padres.  &#8220;Hamlet&#8221; is the least interesting of Olvier&#8217;s Shakespeare movies. </p>
<p>          The Godfathers, Joe Buck,  Terry Malloy , T. E. Lawrence and Rocky should blow this pop stand and go find a better party.</p>
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		<title>By: Mark A. York</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2006 01:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well I would say it means &quot;something&quot; but not the whole ballgame including the sales histories you mention, otherwise the books would still be riding the top tier like scammer James Frey, but I suppose it depends on whose books one is trashing. If they&#039;re mine it&#039;s OK. Members of the club, not. I get it it, but I suppose like reg&#039;s dissing of his films it was meant to be a cheap shot. And I fully admit it was as intended.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well I would say it means &#8220;something&#8221; but not the whole ballgame including the sales histories you mention, otherwise the books would still be riding the top tier like scammer James Frey, but I suppose it depends on whose books one is trashing. If they&#8217;re mine it&#8217;s OK. Members of the club, not. I get it it, but I suppose like reg&#8217;s dissing of his films it was meant to be a cheap shot. And I fully admit it was as intended.</p>
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		<title>By: Marc Cooper</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 12:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You know Mark.. I HAVE to intervene here. The Amazon book rankings mean NOTHING after the first month or two. You can think what you will of Roger but his series of Moses Wine noir novels are considered classics by many a critic and, indeed, make wonderful reading. They have also been translated into several foreign editions and I can guarantee you that they have been sold in quantities that go far beyond your imagination. Cut out the petty stuff. It stinks.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You know Mark.. I HAVE to intervene here. The Amazon book rankings mean NOTHING after the first month or two. You can think what you will of Roger but his series of Moses Wine noir novels are considered classics by many a critic and, indeed, make wonderful reading. They have also been translated into several foreign editions and I can guarantee you that they have been sold in quantities that go far beyond your imagination. Cut out the petty stuff. It stinks.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And books ranking at the depth I live at. That&#039;s a tough spot I&#039;ll  tell ya.</description>
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		<title>By: reg</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m sure this eminent person &quot;who actually votes in the Academy Awards&quot; is right because he&#039;s had a lot of experience with  pictures that are forgotten by the following Tuesday.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m sure this eminent person &#8220;who actually votes in the Academy Awards&#8221; is right because he&#8217;s had a lot of experience with  pictures that are forgotten by the following Tuesday.</p>
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		<title>By: Mark A. York</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well that may be your opinion Roger, but if it&#039;s all the same to you I&#039;ll take McMurtry. He and Diana wrote a fine film that for once in Hollywood mirrored the literature from whence it came. Routine my ass. Crash will be forgotten. I guess we can take a stab at who in the academy didn&#039;t vote for Brokeback.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well that may be your opinion Roger, but if it&#8217;s all the same to you I&#8217;ll take McMurtry. He and Diana wrote a fine film that for once in Hollywood mirrored the literature from whence it came. Routine my ass. Crash will be forgotten. I guess we can take a stab at who in the academy didn&#8217;t vote for Brokeback.</p>
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		<title>By: Roger L. Simon</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As someone who actually votes in the Academy Awards (for too long), I hate to rain on anybody&#039;s parade here,  but the whole voting process is almost as dull as the awards themselves.  The reason Brokeback probably lost is that the Academy finally woke up to the fact it was a fairly routine film and the only thing interesting about it, besides the score, was the gay theme - and even that is pretty hohum in 2006. This was a pretty dull bunch of best picutre nominees and, with the exception of Hoffman&#039;s performance in Capote, will probably be forgotten by next Tuesday. The only movies of this year anybody will watch in the future will be Narnia and Wallace and Grommet (both for kids) and Walk the Line because Reese Witherspoon is the only real movie star of our time - like they had them in the old days - the kind woman who make you smile like Stanwyck and Claudette Colbert.  And she can sing!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As someone who actually votes in the Academy Awards (for too long), I hate to rain on anybody&#8217;s parade here,  but the whole voting process is almost as dull as the awards themselves.  The reason Brokeback probably lost is that the Academy finally woke up to the fact it was a fairly routine film and the only thing interesting about it, besides the score, was the gay theme &#8211; and even that is pretty hohum in 2006. This was a pretty dull bunch of best picutre nominees and, with the exception of Hoffman&#8217;s performance in Capote, will probably be forgotten by next Tuesday. The only movies of this year anybody will watch in the future will be Narnia and Wallace and Grommet (both for kids) and Walk the Line because Reese Witherspoon is the only real movie star of our time &#8211; like they had them in the old days &#8211; the kind woman who make you smile like Stanwyck and Claudette Colbert.  And she can sing!</p>
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		<title>By: Michael Crosby</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Has there ever been an Oscar Best Picture winner that was seen by fewer people in the theatre?  I really have no idea how attendance at movies now compares to earlier in the 20th century.

I was told today that Crash is out on dvd.  If so, is it the first to be out on video before receiving a Best Picture award?  Now that, of course, is a test of more recent nature.

I haven&#039;t seen Crash.  When they were doing the Altman movie clips, I saw some of Nashville, including the wonderful scene of singer/songwriter Keith Carradine singing (Oscar-winning song) &quot;I&#039;m Easy,&quot; to a room full of women who had slept with him and each appeared certain the song was dedicated to her.  Except for Lily Tomlin who looked like she dreaded the idea that it might be.  Anyway, I imagined for a moment that Crash was some sort of more aggressive, less-nuanced 21st century version of Nashville.  Nashville was, among other things, very much about clashes of cultures and generations.

But probably not....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Has there ever been an Oscar Best Picture winner that was seen by fewer people in the theatre?  I really have no idea how attendance at movies now compares to earlier in the 20th century.</p>
<p>I was told today that Crash is out on dvd.  If so, is it the first to be out on video before receiving a Best Picture award?  Now that, of course, is a test of more recent nature.</p>
<p>I haven&#8217;t seen Crash.  When they were doing the Altman movie clips, I saw some of Nashville, including the wonderful scene of singer/songwriter Keith Carradine singing (Oscar-winning song) &#8220;I&#8217;m Easy,&#8221; to a room full of women who had slept with him and each appeared certain the song was dedicated to her.  Except for Lily Tomlin who looked like she dreaded the idea that it might be.  Anyway, I imagined for a moment that Crash was some sort of more aggressive, less-nuanced 21st century version of Nashville.  Nashville was, among other things, very much about clashes of cultures and generations.</p>
<p>But probably not&#8230;.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Academy-members were happy to give the â€œBrokeback Mountainâ€ its due, as long as the message was not legitimized in any way. Thank goodness, we can still offer gratuitous, contrived, button-pushers like â€˜Crashâ€™, otherwise all the closeted actors, producers, directors, managers, agents, and studio execs would have had to vote for Capote (â€™yeeccchâ€™), and then come out. Safe and sound in the closet for one more year, phew.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Academy-members were happy to give the â€œBrokeback Mountainâ€ its due, as long as the message was not legitimized in any way. Thank goodness, we can still offer gratuitous, contrived, button-pushers like â€˜Crashâ€™, otherwise all the closeted actors, producers, directors, managers, agents, and studio execs would have had to vote for Capote (â€™yeeccchâ€™), and then come out. Safe and sound in the closet for one more year, phew.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I thought Jon Stewart should have come out dressed in a camouflage suit and full hunting gear, carrying a shotgunâ€”he could have aimed his gun in the air shot  and landed an Oscarâ€”and then saidâ€”you guys  thought the Mafia only wore a three piece suit, well this is how the crooks in the Bush administration dress when they shoot their friends.    

Jon Stewart was interviewed by Larry King, and King asked Jon  if he was told to  censor himself a bit, Stewart responded by saying he was NOT allowed to use adverbsâ€”I think he also wasnâ€™t allowed to use nouns, adjectives, verbs and pronouns. 

 Itâ€™s the nature of the beastâ€”be a â€œlittleâ€ political  but not too much.  Thatâ€™s why â€œCrashâ€ wonâ€”it was just enough politics for Hollywoodâ€”red, yellow, black and white weâ€™re just a rainbow of colors tonight, donâ€™t say anything that is too sharp, weâ€™re here to sell movies and not to harp!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I thought Jon Stewart should have come out dressed in a camouflage suit and full hunting gear, carrying a shotgunâ€”he could have aimed his gun in the air shot  and landed an Oscarâ€”and then saidâ€”you guys  thought the Mafia only wore a three piece suit, well this is how the crooks in the Bush administration dress when they shoot their friends.    </p>
<p>Jon Stewart was interviewed by Larry King, and King asked Jon  if he was told to  censor himself a bit, Stewart responded by saying he was NOT allowed to use adverbsâ€”I think he also wasnâ€™t allowed to use nouns, adjectives, verbs and pronouns. </p>
<p> Itâ€™s the nature of the beastâ€”be a â€œlittleâ€ political  but not too much.  Thatâ€™s why â€œCrashâ€ wonâ€”it was just enough politics for Hollywoodâ€”red, yellow, black and white weâ€™re just a rainbow of colors tonight, donâ€™t say anything that is too sharp, weâ€™re here to sell movies and not to harp!</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 04:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Rich</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2006 03:27:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wall, I&#039;d agree with all your movie assessments minus one: The Deer Hunter was an astounding movie, agree or not with its political assumptions.  Your lumping it with those other stinkers definitely grabbed my eye.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wall, I&#8217;d agree with all your movie assessments minus one: The Deer Hunter was an astounding movie, agree or not with its political assumptions.  Your lumping it with those other stinkers definitely grabbed my eye.</p>
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		<title>By: Wall</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2006 14:23:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The three truely Great films directed by Robert Altman ( &quot;The Long Goodbye&quot; &quot;California Split&quot; and &quot;McCabe and Mrs. Miller&quot;), the lifetime achivement winner, drew one nommination between them (Julie Christie for &quot;McCabe&quot;).  That should tell you something.  Want the short list? It&#039;s best Pictures that AREN&#039;T terrible.  
        In fact, I&#039;m tired of people beating up &quot;The Greatest Show On Earth.&quot; Sure it sucks,  but also dreadful are  &quot;Chariots Of Fire&quot; &quot;Forest Gump&quot; &quot;Dances With Wolves&quot; &quot;The Deer Hunter&quot; &quot;Titanic&quot; and &quot;The Sting.&quot; 
             Is a passible Horror film like &quot;Silence Of the Lambs&quot; really a great movie? Or dull fare like &quot;Gandhi&quot; or &quot;The Last Emperor&quot;?
  A sleeping pill like &quot;The English Patient?&quot;  Overblown and overrated: &quot;Tom Jones&quot; &quot;Shakespeare In Love&quot; &quot;Shindler&#039;s List&quot; and even second rate Lean like &quot;Bridge On The River Kwai.&quot;  Middlebrow good taste fests like &quot;Mrs. Minever&quot;, &quot;The Best Years Of Our Lives&quot; and &quot;How Green Was My Valley&quot; linger in the mind like the box scores of the 69 Padres.  &quot;Hamlet&quot; is the least interesting of Olvier&#039;s Shakespeare movies. 

          The Godfathers, Joe Buck,  Terry Malloy , T. E. Lawrence and Rocky should blow this pop stand and go find a better party.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The three truely Great films directed by Robert Altman ( &#8220;The Long Goodbye&#8221; &#8220;California Split&#8221; and &#8220;McCabe and Mrs. Miller&#8221;), the lifetime achivement winner, drew one nommination between them (Julie Christie for &#8220;McCabe&#8221;).  That should tell you something.  Want the short list? It&#8217;s best Pictures that AREN&#8217;T terrible.<br />
        In fact, I&#8217;m tired of people beating up &#8220;The Greatest Show On Earth.&#8221; Sure it sucks,  but also dreadful are  &#8220;Chariots Of Fire&#8221; &#8220;Forest Gump&#8221; &#8220;Dances With Wolves&#8221; &#8220;The Deer Hunter&#8221; &#8220;Titanic&#8221; and &#8220;The Sting.&#8221;<br />
             Is a passible Horror film like &#8220;Silence Of the Lambs&#8221; really a great movie? Or dull fare like &#8220;Gandhi&#8221; or &#8220;The Last Emperor&#8221;?<br />
  A sleeping pill like &#8220;The English Patient?&#8221;  Overblown and overrated: &#8220;Tom Jones&#8221; &#8220;Shakespeare In Love&#8221; &#8220;Shindler&#8217;s List&#8221; and even second rate Lean like &#8220;Bridge On The River Kwai.&#8221;  Middlebrow good taste fests like &#8220;Mrs. Minever&#8221;, &#8220;The Best Years Of Our Lives&#8221; and &#8220;How Green Was My Valley&#8221; linger in the mind like the box scores of the 69 Padres.  &#8220;Hamlet&#8221; is the least interesting of Olvier&#8217;s Shakespeare movies. </p>
<p>          The Godfathers, Joe Buck,  Terry Malloy , T. E. Lawrence and Rocky should blow this pop stand and go find a better party.</p>
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		<title>By: Mark A. York</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2006 01:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well I would say it means &quot;something&quot; but not the whole ballgame including the sales histories you mention, otherwise the books would still be riding the top tier like scammer James Frey, but I suppose it depends on whose books one is trashing. If they&#039;re mine it&#039;s OK. Members of the club, not. I get it it, but I suppose like reg&#039;s dissing of his films it was meant to be a cheap shot. And I fully admit it was as intended.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well I would say it means &#8220;something&#8221; but not the whole ballgame including the sales histories you mention, otherwise the books would still be riding the top tier like scammer James Frey, but I suppose it depends on whose books one is trashing. If they&#8217;re mine it&#8217;s OK. Members of the club, not. I get it it, but I suppose like reg&#8217;s dissing of his films it was meant to be a cheap shot. And I fully admit it was as intended.</p>
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		<title>By: Marc Cooper</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 12:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You know Mark.. I HAVE to intervene here. The Amazon book rankings mean NOTHING after the first month or two. You can think what you will of Roger but his series of Moses Wine noir novels are considered classics by many a critic and, indeed, make wonderful reading. They have also been translated into several foreign editions and I can guarantee you that they have been sold in quantities that go far beyond your imagination. Cut out the petty stuff. It stinks.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You know Mark.. I HAVE to intervene here. The Amazon book rankings mean NOTHING after the first month or two. You can think what you will of Roger but his series of Moses Wine noir novels are considered classics by many a critic and, indeed, make wonderful reading. They have also been translated into several foreign editions and I can guarantee you that they have been sold in quantities that go far beyond your imagination. Cut out the petty stuff. It stinks.</p>
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		<title>By: Mark A. York</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And books ranking at the depth I live at. That&#039;s a tough spot I&#039;ll  tell ya.</description>
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		<title>By: reg</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m sure this eminent person &quot;who actually votes in the Academy Awards&quot; is right because he&#039;s had a lot of experience with  pictures that are forgotten by the following Tuesday.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m sure this eminent person &#8220;who actually votes in the Academy Awards&#8221; is right because he&#8217;s had a lot of experience with  pictures that are forgotten by the following Tuesday.</p>
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		<title>By: Mark A. York</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/shorter-oscars-review/comment-page-1/#comment-30297</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well that may be your opinion Roger, but if it&#039;s all the same to you I&#039;ll take McMurtry. He and Diana wrote a fine film that for once in Hollywood mirrored the literature from whence it came. Routine my ass. Crash will be forgotten. I guess we can take a stab at who in the academy didn&#039;t vote for Brokeback.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well that may be your opinion Roger, but if it&#8217;s all the same to you I&#8217;ll take McMurtry. He and Diana wrote a fine film that for once in Hollywood mirrored the literature from whence it came. Routine my ass. Crash will be forgotten. I guess we can take a stab at who in the academy didn&#8217;t vote for Brokeback.</p>
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		<title>By: Roger L. Simon</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As someone who actually votes in the Academy Awards (for too long), I hate to rain on anybody&#039;s parade here,  but the whole voting process is almost as dull as the awards themselves.  The reason Brokeback probably lost is that the Academy finally woke up to the fact it was a fairly routine film and the only thing interesting about it, besides the score, was the gay theme - and even that is pretty hohum in 2006. This was a pretty dull bunch of best picutre nominees and, with the exception of Hoffman&#039;s performance in Capote, will probably be forgotten by next Tuesday. The only movies of this year anybody will watch in the future will be Narnia and Wallace and Grommet (both for kids) and Walk the Line because Reese Witherspoon is the only real movie star of our time - like they had them in the old days - the kind woman who make you smile like Stanwyck and Claudette Colbert.  And she can sing!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As someone who actually votes in the Academy Awards (for too long), I hate to rain on anybody&#8217;s parade here,  but the whole voting process is almost as dull as the awards themselves.  The reason Brokeback probably lost is that the Academy finally woke up to the fact it was a fairly routine film and the only thing interesting about it, besides the score, was the gay theme &#8211; and even that is pretty hohum in 2006. This was a pretty dull bunch of best picutre nominees and, with the exception of Hoffman&#8217;s performance in Capote, will probably be forgotten by next Tuesday. The only movies of this year anybody will watch in the future will be Narnia and Wallace and Grommet (both for kids) and Walk the Line because Reese Witherspoon is the only real movie star of our time &#8211; like they had them in the old days &#8211; the kind woman who make you smile like Stanwyck and Claudette Colbert.  And she can sing!</p>
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		<title>By: Michael Crosby</title>
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		<dc:creator>Michael Crosby</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Has there ever been an Oscar Best Picture winner that was seen by fewer people in the theatre?  I really have no idea how attendance at movies now compares to earlier in the 20th century.

I was told today that Crash is out on dvd.  If so, is it the first to be out on video before receiving a Best Picture award?  Now that, of course, is a test of more recent nature.

I haven&#039;t seen Crash.  When they were doing the Altman movie clips, I saw some of Nashville, including the wonderful scene of singer/songwriter Keith Carradine singing (Oscar-winning song) &quot;I&#039;m Easy,&quot; to a room full of women who had slept with him and each appeared certain the song was dedicated to her.  Except for Lily Tomlin who looked like she dreaded the idea that it might be.  Anyway, I imagined for a moment that Crash was some sort of more aggressive, less-nuanced 21st century version of Nashville.  Nashville was, among other things, very much about clashes of cultures and generations.

But probably not....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Has there ever been an Oscar Best Picture winner that was seen by fewer people in the theatre?  I really have no idea how attendance at movies now compares to earlier in the 20th century.</p>
<p>I was told today that Crash is out on dvd.  If so, is it the first to be out on video before receiving a Best Picture award?  Now that, of course, is a test of more recent nature.</p>
<p>I haven&#8217;t seen Crash.  When they were doing the Altman movie clips, I saw some of Nashville, including the wonderful scene of singer/songwriter Keith Carradine singing (Oscar-winning song) &#8220;I&#8217;m Easy,&#8221; to a room full of women who had slept with him and each appeared certain the song was dedicated to her.  Except for Lily Tomlin who looked like she dreaded the idea that it might be.  Anyway, I imagined for a moment that Crash was some sort of more aggressive, less-nuanced 21st century version of Nashville.  Nashville was, among other things, very much about clashes of cultures and generations.</p>
<p>But probably not&#8230;.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Academy-members were happy to give the â€œBrokeback Mountainâ€ its due, as long as the message was not legitimized in any way. Thank goodness, we can still offer gratuitous, contrived, button-pushers like â€˜Crashâ€™, otherwise all the closeted actors, producers, directors, managers, agents, and studio execs would have had to vote for Capote (â€™yeeccchâ€™), and then come out. Safe and sound in the closet for one more year, phew.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Academy-members were happy to give the â€œBrokeback Mountainâ€ its due, as long as the message was not legitimized in any way. Thank goodness, we can still offer gratuitous, contrived, button-pushers like â€˜Crashâ€™, otherwise all the closeted actors, producers, directors, managers, agents, and studio execs would have had to vote for Capote (â€™yeeccchâ€™), and then come out. Safe and sound in the closet for one more year, phew.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I thought Jon Stewart should have come out dressed in a camouflage suit and full hunting gear, carrying a shotgunâ€”he could have aimed his gun in the air shot  and landed an Oscarâ€”and then saidâ€”you guys  thought the Mafia only wore a three piece suit, well this is how the crooks in the Bush administration dress when they shoot their friends.    

Jon Stewart was interviewed by Larry King, and King asked Jon  if he was told to  censor himself a bit, Stewart responded by saying he was NOT allowed to use adverbsâ€”I think he also wasnâ€™t allowed to use nouns, adjectives, verbs and pronouns. 

 Itâ€™s the nature of the beastâ€”be a â€œlittleâ€ political  but not too much.  Thatâ€™s why â€œCrashâ€ wonâ€”it was just enough politics for Hollywoodâ€”red, yellow, black and white weâ€™re just a rainbow of colors tonight, donâ€™t say anything that is too sharp, weâ€™re here to sell movies and not to harp!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I thought Jon Stewart should have come out dressed in a camouflage suit and full hunting gear, carrying a shotgunâ€”he could have aimed his gun in the air shot  and landed an Oscarâ€”and then saidâ€”you guys  thought the Mafia only wore a three piece suit, well this is how the crooks in the Bush administration dress when they shoot their friends.    </p>
<p>Jon Stewart was interviewed by Larry King, and King asked Jon  if he was told to  censor himself a bit, Stewart responded by saying he was NOT allowed to use adverbsâ€”I think he also wasnâ€™t allowed to use nouns, adjectives, verbs and pronouns. </p>
<p> Itâ€™s the nature of the beastâ€”be a â€œlittleâ€ political  but not too much.  Thatâ€™s why â€œCrashâ€ wonâ€”it was just enough politics for Hollywoodâ€”red, yellow, black and white weâ€™re just a rainbow of colors tonight, donâ€™t say anything that is too sharp, weâ€™re here to sell movies and not to harp!</p>
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		<title>By: Mark A. York</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/shorter-oscars-review/comment-page-1/#comment-30262</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 04:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Michael Crosby</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2006 03:27:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wall, I&#039;d agree with all your movie assessments minus one: The Deer Hunter was an astounding movie, agree or not with its political assumptions.  Your lumping it with those other stinkers definitely grabbed my eye.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wall, I&#8217;d agree with all your movie assessments minus one: The Deer Hunter was an astounding movie, agree or not with its political assumptions.  Your lumping it with those other stinkers definitely grabbed my eye.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Aug 2006 14:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Porucznik Borewiczvsn</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jul 2006 23:44:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2006 22:31:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Apr 2006 02:52:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>intercontinental:consenting appeasing,homeomorphic ensnaring Latinizing Bairdi?Walls</description>
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		<title>By: Rich</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2006 03:27:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wall, I&#039;d agree with all your movie assessments minus one: The Deer Hunter was an astounding movie, agree or not with its political assumptions.  Your lumping it with those other stinkers definitely grabbed my eye.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wall, I&#8217;d agree with all your movie assessments minus one: The Deer Hunter was an astounding movie, agree or not with its political assumptions.  Your lumping it with those other stinkers definitely grabbed my eye.</p>
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		<title>By: Wall</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2006 14:23:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The three truely Great films directed by Robert Altman ( &quot;The Long Goodbye&quot; &quot;California Split&quot; and &quot;McCabe and Mrs. Miller&quot;), the lifetime achivement winner, drew one nommination between them (Julie Christie for &quot;McCabe&quot;).  That should tell you something.  Want the short list? It&#039;s best Pictures that AREN&#039;T terrible.  
        In fact, I&#039;m tired of people beating up &quot;The Greatest Show On Earth.&quot; Sure it sucks,  but also dreadful are  &quot;Chariots Of Fire&quot; &quot;Forest Gump&quot; &quot;Dances With Wolves&quot; &quot;The Deer Hunter&quot; &quot;Titanic&quot; and &quot;The Sting.&quot; 
             Is a passible Horror film like &quot;Silence Of the Lambs&quot; really a great movie? Or dull fare like &quot;Gandhi&quot; or &quot;The Last Emperor&quot;?
  A sleeping pill like &quot;The English Patient?&quot;  Overblown and overrated: &quot;Tom Jones&quot; &quot;Shakespeare In Love&quot; &quot;Shindler&#039;s List&quot; and even second rate Lean like &quot;Bridge On The River Kwai.&quot;  Middlebrow good taste fests like &quot;Mrs. Minever&quot;, &quot;The Best Years Of Our Lives&quot; and &quot;How Green Was My Valley&quot; linger in the mind like the box scores of the 69 Padres.  &quot;Hamlet&quot; is the least interesting of Olvier&#039;s Shakespeare movies. 

          The Godfathers, Joe Buck,  Terry Malloy , T. E. Lawrence and Rocky should blow this pop stand and go find a better party.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The three truely Great films directed by Robert Altman ( &#8220;The Long Goodbye&#8221; &#8220;California Split&#8221; and &#8220;McCabe and Mrs. Miller&#8221;), the lifetime achivement winner, drew one nommination between them (Julie Christie for &#8220;McCabe&#8221;).  That should tell you something.  Want the short list? It&#8217;s best Pictures that AREN&#8217;T terrible.<br />
        In fact, I&#8217;m tired of people beating up &#8220;The Greatest Show On Earth.&#8221; Sure it sucks,  but also dreadful are  &#8220;Chariots Of Fire&#8221; &#8220;Forest Gump&#8221; &#8220;Dances With Wolves&#8221; &#8220;The Deer Hunter&#8221; &#8220;Titanic&#8221; and &#8220;The Sting.&#8221;<br />
             Is a passible Horror film like &#8220;Silence Of the Lambs&#8221; really a great movie? Or dull fare like &#8220;Gandhi&#8221; or &#8220;The Last Emperor&#8221;?<br />
  A sleeping pill like &#8220;The English Patient?&#8221;  Overblown and overrated: &#8220;Tom Jones&#8221; &#8220;Shakespeare In Love&#8221; &#8220;Shindler&#8217;s List&#8221; and even second rate Lean like &#8220;Bridge On The River Kwai.&#8221;  Middlebrow good taste fests like &#8220;Mrs. Minever&#8221;, &#8220;The Best Years Of Our Lives&#8221; and &#8220;How Green Was My Valley&#8221; linger in the mind like the box scores of the 69 Padres.  &#8220;Hamlet&#8221; is the least interesting of Olvier&#8217;s Shakespeare movies. </p>
<p>          The Godfathers, Joe Buck,  Terry Malloy , T. E. Lawrence and Rocky should blow this pop stand and go find a better party.</p>
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		<title>By: Mark A. York</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2006 01:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well I would say it means &quot;something&quot; but not the whole ballgame including the sales histories you mention, otherwise the books would still be riding the top tier like scammer James Frey, but I suppose it depends on whose books one is trashing. If they&#039;re mine it&#039;s OK. Members of the club, not. I get it it, but I suppose like reg&#039;s dissing of his films it was meant to be a cheap shot. And I fully admit it was as intended.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well I would say it means &#8220;something&#8221; but not the whole ballgame including the sales histories you mention, otherwise the books would still be riding the top tier like scammer James Frey, but I suppose it depends on whose books one is trashing. If they&#8217;re mine it&#8217;s OK. Members of the club, not. I get it it, but I suppose like reg&#8217;s dissing of his films it was meant to be a cheap shot. And I fully admit it was as intended.</p>
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		<title>By: Marc Cooper</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 12:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You know Mark.. I HAVE to intervene here. The Amazon book rankings mean NOTHING after the first month or two. You can think what you will of Roger but his series of Moses Wine noir novels are considered classics by many a critic and, indeed, make wonderful reading. They have also been translated into several foreign editions and I can guarantee you that they have been sold in quantities that go far beyond your imagination. Cut out the petty stuff. It stinks.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You know Mark.. I HAVE to intervene here. The Amazon book rankings mean NOTHING after the first month or two. You can think what you will of Roger but his series of Moses Wine noir novels are considered classics by many a critic and, indeed, make wonderful reading. They have also been translated into several foreign editions and I can guarantee you that they have been sold in quantities that go far beyond your imagination. Cut out the petty stuff. It stinks.</p>
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		<title>By: Mark A. York</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And books ranking at the depth I live at. That&#039;s a tough spot I&#039;ll  tell ya.</description>
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		<title>By: reg</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m sure this eminent person &quot;who actually votes in the Academy Awards&quot; is right because he&#039;s had a lot of experience with  pictures that are forgotten by the following Tuesday.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m sure this eminent person &#8220;who actually votes in the Academy Awards&#8221; is right because he&#8217;s had a lot of experience with  pictures that are forgotten by the following Tuesday.</p>
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		<title>By: Mark A. York</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well that may be your opinion Roger, but if it&#039;s all the same to you I&#039;ll take McMurtry. He and Diana wrote a fine film that for once in Hollywood mirrored the literature from whence it came. Routine my ass. Crash will be forgotten. I guess we can take a stab at who in the academy didn&#039;t vote for Brokeback.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well that may be your opinion Roger, but if it&#8217;s all the same to you I&#8217;ll take McMurtry. He and Diana wrote a fine film that for once in Hollywood mirrored the literature from whence it came. Routine my ass. Crash will be forgotten. I guess we can take a stab at who in the academy didn&#8217;t vote for Brokeback.</p>
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		<title>By: Roger L. Simon</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As someone who actually votes in the Academy Awards (for too long), I hate to rain on anybody&#039;s parade here,  but the whole voting process is almost as dull as the awards themselves.  The reason Brokeback probably lost is that the Academy finally woke up to the fact it was a fairly routine film and the only thing interesting about it, besides the score, was the gay theme - and even that is pretty hohum in 2006. This was a pretty dull bunch of best picutre nominees and, with the exception of Hoffman&#039;s performance in Capote, will probably be forgotten by next Tuesday. The only movies of this year anybody will watch in the future will be Narnia and Wallace and Grommet (both for kids) and Walk the Line because Reese Witherspoon is the only real movie star of our time - like they had them in the old days - the kind woman who make you smile like Stanwyck and Claudette Colbert.  And she can sing!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As someone who actually votes in the Academy Awards (for too long), I hate to rain on anybody&#8217;s parade here,  but the whole voting process is almost as dull as the awards themselves.  The reason Brokeback probably lost is that the Academy finally woke up to the fact it was a fairly routine film and the only thing interesting about it, besides the score, was the gay theme &#8211; and even that is pretty hohum in 2006. This was a pretty dull bunch of best picutre nominees and, with the exception of Hoffman&#8217;s performance in Capote, will probably be forgotten by next Tuesday. The only movies of this year anybody will watch in the future will be Narnia and Wallace and Grommet (both for kids) and Walk the Line because Reese Witherspoon is the only real movie star of our time &#8211; like they had them in the old days &#8211; the kind woman who make you smile like Stanwyck and Claudette Colbert.  And she can sing!</p>
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		<title>By: Michael Crosby</title>
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		<dc:creator>Michael Crosby</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Has there ever been an Oscar Best Picture winner that was seen by fewer people in the theatre?  I really have no idea how attendance at movies now compares to earlier in the 20th century.

I was told today that Crash is out on dvd.  If so, is it the first to be out on video before receiving a Best Picture award?  Now that, of course, is a test of more recent nature.

I haven&#039;t seen Crash.  When they were doing the Altman movie clips, I saw some of Nashville, including the wonderful scene of singer/songwriter Keith Carradine singing (Oscar-winning song) &quot;I&#039;m Easy,&quot; to a room full of women who had slept with him and each appeared certain the song was dedicated to her.  Except for Lily Tomlin who looked like she dreaded the idea that it might be.  Anyway, I imagined for a moment that Crash was some sort of more aggressive, less-nuanced 21st century version of Nashville.  Nashville was, among other things, very much about clashes of cultures and generations.

But probably not....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Has there ever been an Oscar Best Picture winner that was seen by fewer people in the theatre?  I really have no idea how attendance at movies now compares to earlier in the 20th century.</p>
<p>I was told today that Crash is out on dvd.  If so, is it the first to be out on video before receiving a Best Picture award?  Now that, of course, is a test of more recent nature.</p>
<p>I haven&#8217;t seen Crash.  When they were doing the Altman movie clips, I saw some of Nashville, including the wonderful scene of singer/songwriter Keith Carradine singing (Oscar-winning song) &#8220;I&#8217;m Easy,&#8221; to a room full of women who had slept with him and each appeared certain the song was dedicated to her.  Except for Lily Tomlin who looked like she dreaded the idea that it might be.  Anyway, I imagined for a moment that Crash was some sort of more aggressive, less-nuanced 21st century version of Nashville.  Nashville was, among other things, very much about clashes of cultures and generations.</p>
<p>But probably not&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>By: rosedog</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Skippy.</description>
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		<title>By: Skippy Greyswood</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Academy-members were happy to give the â€œBrokeback Mountainâ€ its due, as long as the message was not legitimized in any way. Thank goodness, we can still offer gratuitous, contrived, button-pushers like â€˜Crashâ€™, otherwise all the closeted actors, producers, directors, managers, agents, and studio execs would have had to vote for Capote (â€™yeeccchâ€™), and then come out. Safe and sound in the closet for one more year, phew.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Academy-members were happy to give the â€œBrokeback Mountainâ€ its due, as long as the message was not legitimized in any way. Thank goodness, we can still offer gratuitous, contrived, button-pushers like â€˜Crashâ€™, otherwise all the closeted actors, producers, directors, managers, agents, and studio execs would have had to vote for Capote (â€™yeeccchâ€™), and then come out. Safe and sound in the closet for one more year, phew.</p>
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		<title>By: Eleanore kjellberg</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I thought Jon Stewart should have come out dressed in a camouflage suit and full hunting gear, carrying a shotgunâ€”he could have aimed his gun in the air shot  and landed an Oscarâ€”and then saidâ€”you guys  thought the Mafia only wore a three piece suit, well this is how the crooks in the Bush administration dress when they shoot their friends.    

Jon Stewart was interviewed by Larry King, and King asked Jon  if he was told to  censor himself a bit, Stewart responded by saying he was NOT allowed to use adverbsâ€”I think he also wasnâ€™t allowed to use nouns, adjectives, verbs and pronouns. 

 Itâ€™s the nature of the beastâ€”be a â€œlittleâ€ political  but not too much.  Thatâ€™s why â€œCrashâ€ wonâ€”it was just enough politics for Hollywoodâ€”red, yellow, black and white weâ€™re just a rainbow of colors tonight, donâ€™t say anything that is too sharp, weâ€™re here to sell movies and not to harp!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I thought Jon Stewart should have come out dressed in a camouflage suit and full hunting gear, carrying a shotgunâ€”he could have aimed his gun in the air shot  and landed an Oscarâ€”and then saidâ€”you guys  thought the Mafia only wore a three piece suit, well this is how the crooks in the Bush administration dress when they shoot their friends.    </p>
<p>Jon Stewart was interviewed by Larry King, and King asked Jon  if he was told to  censor himself a bit, Stewart responded by saying he was NOT allowed to use adverbsâ€”I think he also wasnâ€™t allowed to use nouns, adjectives, verbs and pronouns. </p>
<p> Itâ€™s the nature of the beastâ€”be a â€œlittleâ€ political  but not too much.  Thatâ€™s why â€œCrashâ€ wonâ€”it was just enough politics for Hollywoodâ€”red, yellow, black and white weâ€™re just a rainbow of colors tonight, donâ€™t say anything that is too sharp, weâ€™re here to sell movies and not to harp!</p>
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		<title>By: Mark A. York</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/shorter-oscars-review/comment-page-1/#comment-30262</link>
		<dc:creator>Mark A. York</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 04:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Being John Malkovich&quot; As I&#039;ve noted before it was pretty damn strange from the inside.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Being John Malkovich&#8221; As I&#8217;ve noted before it was pretty damn strange from the inside.</p>
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		<title>By: Michael Crosby</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/shorter-oscars-review/comment-page-1/#comment-30418</link>
		<dc:creator>Wall</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2006 14:23:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The three truely Great films directed by Robert Altman ( &quot;The Long Goodbye&quot; &quot;California Split&quot; and &quot;McCabe and Mrs. Miller&quot;), the lifetime achivement winner, drew one nommination between them (Julie Christie for &quot;McCabe&quot;).  That should tell you something.  Want the short list? It&#039;s best Pictures that AREN&#039;T terrible.  
        In fact, I&#039;m tired of people beating up &quot;The Greatest Show On Earth.&quot; Sure it sucks,  but also dreadful are  &quot;Chariots Of Fire&quot; &quot;Forest Gump&quot; &quot;Dances With Wolves&quot; &quot;The Deer Hunter&quot; &quot;Titanic&quot; and &quot;The Sting.&quot; 
             Is a passible Horror film like &quot;Silence Of the Lambs&quot; really a great movie? Or dull fare like &quot;Gandhi&quot; or &quot;The Last Emperor&quot;?
  A sleeping pill like &quot;The English Patient?&quot;  Overblown and overrated: &quot;Tom Jones&quot; &quot;Shakespeare In Love&quot; &quot;Shindler&#039;s List&quot; and even second rate Lean like &quot;Bridge On The River Kwai.&quot;  Middlebrow good taste fests like &quot;Mrs. Minever&quot;, &quot;The Best Years Of Our Lives&quot; and &quot;How Green Was My Valley&quot; linger in the mind like the box scores of the 69 Padres.  &quot;Hamlet&quot; is the least interesting of Olvier&#039;s Shakespeare movies. 

          The Godfathers, Joe Buck,  Terry Malloy , T. E. Lawrence and Rocky should blow this pop stand and go find a better party.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The three truely Great films directed by Robert Altman ( &#8220;The Long Goodbye&#8221; &#8220;California Split&#8221; and &#8220;McCabe and Mrs. Miller&#8221;), the lifetime achivement winner, drew one nommination between them (Julie Christie for &#8220;McCabe&#8221;).  That should tell you something.  Want the short list? It&#8217;s best Pictures that AREN&#8217;T terrible.<br />
        In fact, I&#8217;m tired of people beating up &#8220;The Greatest Show On Earth.&#8221; Sure it sucks,  but also dreadful are  &#8220;Chariots Of Fire&#8221; &#8220;Forest Gump&#8221; &#8220;Dances With Wolves&#8221; &#8220;The Deer Hunter&#8221; &#8220;Titanic&#8221; and &#8220;The Sting.&#8221;<br />
             Is a passible Horror film like &#8220;Silence Of the Lambs&#8221; really a great movie? Or dull fare like &#8220;Gandhi&#8221; or &#8220;The Last Emperor&#8221;?<br />
  A sleeping pill like &#8220;The English Patient?&#8221;  Overblown and overrated: &#8220;Tom Jones&#8221; &#8220;Shakespeare In Love&#8221; &#8220;Shindler&#8217;s List&#8221; and even second rate Lean like &#8220;Bridge On The River Kwai.&#8221;  Middlebrow good taste fests like &#8220;Mrs. Minever&#8221;, &#8220;The Best Years Of Our Lives&#8221; and &#8220;How Green Was My Valley&#8221; linger in the mind like the box scores of the 69 Padres.  &#8220;Hamlet&#8221; is the least interesting of Olvier&#8217;s Shakespeare movies. </p>
<p>          The Godfathers, Joe Buck,  Terry Malloy , T. E. Lawrence and Rocky should blow this pop stand and go find a better party.</p>
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		<title>By: Rich</title>
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		<description>Wall, I&#039;d agree with all your movie assessments minus one: The Deer Hunter was an astounding movie, agree or not with its political assumptions.  Your lumping it with those other stinkers definitely grabbed my eye.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wall, I&#8217;d agree with all your movie assessments minus one: The Deer Hunter was an astounding movie, agree or not with its political assumptions.  Your lumping it with those other stinkers definitely grabbed my eye.</p>
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		<title>By: Wall</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2006 14:23:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The three truely Great films directed by Robert Altman ( &quot;The Long Goodbye&quot; &quot;California Split&quot; and &quot;McCabe and Mrs. Miller&quot;), the lifetime achivement winner, drew one nommination between them (Julie Christie for &quot;McCabe&quot;).  That should tell you something.  Want the short list? It&#039;s best Pictures that AREN&#039;T terrible.  
        In fact, I&#039;m tired of people beating up &quot;The Greatest Show On Earth.&quot; Sure it sucks,  but also dreadful are  &quot;Chariots Of Fire&quot; &quot;Forest Gump&quot; &quot;Dances With Wolves&quot; &quot;The Deer Hunter&quot; &quot;Titanic&quot; and &quot;The Sting.&quot; 
             Is a passible Horror film like &quot;Silence Of the Lambs&quot; really a great movie? Or dull fare like &quot;Gandhi&quot; or &quot;The Last Emperor&quot;?
  A sleeping pill like &quot;The English Patient?&quot;  Overblown and overrated: &quot;Tom Jones&quot; &quot;Shakespeare In Love&quot; &quot;Shindler&#039;s List&quot; and even second rate Lean like &quot;Bridge On The River Kwai.&quot;  Middlebrow good taste fests like &quot;Mrs. Minever&quot;, &quot;The Best Years Of Our Lives&quot; and &quot;How Green Was My Valley&quot; linger in the mind like the box scores of the 69 Padres.  &quot;Hamlet&quot; is the least interesting of Olvier&#039;s Shakespeare movies. 

          The Godfathers, Joe Buck,  Terry Malloy , T. E. Lawrence and Rocky should blow this pop stand and go find a better party.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The three truely Great films directed by Robert Altman ( &#8220;The Long Goodbye&#8221; &#8220;California Split&#8221; and &#8220;McCabe and Mrs. Miller&#8221;), the lifetime achivement winner, drew one nommination between them (Julie Christie for &#8220;McCabe&#8221;).  That should tell you something.  Want the short list? It&#8217;s best Pictures that AREN&#8217;T terrible.<br />
        In fact, I&#8217;m tired of people beating up &#8220;The Greatest Show On Earth.&#8221; Sure it sucks,  but also dreadful are  &#8220;Chariots Of Fire&#8221; &#8220;Forest Gump&#8221; &#8220;Dances With Wolves&#8221; &#8220;The Deer Hunter&#8221; &#8220;Titanic&#8221; and &#8220;The Sting.&#8221;<br />
             Is a passible Horror film like &#8220;Silence Of the Lambs&#8221; really a great movie? Or dull fare like &#8220;Gandhi&#8221; or &#8220;The Last Emperor&#8221;?<br />
  A sleeping pill like &#8220;The English Patient?&#8221;  Overblown and overrated: &#8220;Tom Jones&#8221; &#8220;Shakespeare In Love&#8221; &#8220;Shindler&#8217;s List&#8221; and even second rate Lean like &#8220;Bridge On The River Kwai.&#8221;  Middlebrow good taste fests like &#8220;Mrs. Minever&#8221;, &#8220;The Best Years Of Our Lives&#8221; and &#8220;How Green Was My Valley&#8221; linger in the mind like the box scores of the 69 Padres.  &#8220;Hamlet&#8221; is the least interesting of Olvier&#8217;s Shakespeare movies. </p>
<p>          The Godfathers, Joe Buck,  Terry Malloy , T. E. Lawrence and Rocky should blow this pop stand and go find a better party.</p>
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		<title>By: Mark A. York</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2006 01:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well I would say it means &quot;something&quot; but not the whole ballgame including the sales histories you mention, otherwise the books would still be riding the top tier like scammer James Frey, but I suppose it depends on whose books one is trashing. If they&#039;re mine it&#039;s OK. Members of the club, not. I get it it, but I suppose like reg&#039;s dissing of his films it was meant to be a cheap shot. And I fully admit it was as intended.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well I would say it means &#8220;something&#8221; but not the whole ballgame including the sales histories you mention, otherwise the books would still be riding the top tier like scammer James Frey, but I suppose it depends on whose books one is trashing. If they&#8217;re mine it&#8217;s OK. Members of the club, not. I get it it, but I suppose like reg&#8217;s dissing of his films it was meant to be a cheap shot. And I fully admit it was as intended.</p>
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		<title>By: Marc Cooper</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 12:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You know Mark.. I HAVE to intervene here. The Amazon book rankings mean NOTHING after the first month or two. You can think what you will of Roger but his series of Moses Wine noir novels are considered classics by many a critic and, indeed, make wonderful reading. They have also been translated into several foreign editions and I can guarantee you that they have been sold in quantities that go far beyond your imagination. Cut out the petty stuff. It stinks.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You know Mark.. I HAVE to intervene here. The Amazon book rankings mean NOTHING after the first month or two. You can think what you will of Roger but his series of Moses Wine noir novels are considered classics by many a critic and, indeed, make wonderful reading. They have also been translated into several foreign editions and I can guarantee you that they have been sold in quantities that go far beyond your imagination. Cut out the petty stuff. It stinks.</p>
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		<title>By: Mark A. York</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And books ranking at the depth I live at. That&#039;s a tough spot I&#039;ll  tell ya.</description>
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		<title>By: reg</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m sure this eminent person &quot;who actually votes in the Academy Awards&quot; is right because he&#039;s had a lot of experience with  pictures that are forgotten by the following Tuesday.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m sure this eminent person &#8220;who actually votes in the Academy Awards&#8221; is right because he&#8217;s had a lot of experience with  pictures that are forgotten by the following Tuesday.</p>
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		<title>By: Mark A. York</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well that may be your opinion Roger, but if it&#039;s all the same to you I&#039;ll take McMurtry. He and Diana wrote a fine film that for once in Hollywood mirrored the literature from whence it came. Routine my ass. Crash will be forgotten. I guess we can take a stab at who in the academy didn&#039;t vote for Brokeback.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well that may be your opinion Roger, but if it&#8217;s all the same to you I&#8217;ll take McMurtry. He and Diana wrote a fine film that for once in Hollywood mirrored the literature from whence it came. Routine my ass. Crash will be forgotten. I guess we can take a stab at who in the academy didn&#8217;t vote for Brokeback.</p>
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		<title>By: Roger L. Simon</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As someone who actually votes in the Academy Awards (for too long), I hate to rain on anybody&#039;s parade here,  but the whole voting process is almost as dull as the awards themselves.  The reason Brokeback probably lost is that the Academy finally woke up to the fact it was a fairly routine film and the only thing interesting about it, besides the score, was the gay theme - and even that is pretty hohum in 2006. This was a pretty dull bunch of best picutre nominees and, with the exception of Hoffman&#039;s performance in Capote, will probably be forgotten by next Tuesday. The only movies of this year anybody will watch in the future will be Narnia and Wallace and Grommet (both for kids) and Walk the Line because Reese Witherspoon is the only real movie star of our time - like they had them in the old days - the kind woman who make you smile like Stanwyck and Claudette Colbert.  And she can sing!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As someone who actually votes in the Academy Awards (for too long), I hate to rain on anybody&#8217;s parade here,  but the whole voting process is almost as dull as the awards themselves.  The reason Brokeback probably lost is that the Academy finally woke up to the fact it was a fairly routine film and the only thing interesting about it, besides the score, was the gay theme &#8211; and even that is pretty hohum in 2006. This was a pretty dull bunch of best picutre nominees and, with the exception of Hoffman&#8217;s performance in Capote, will probably be forgotten by next Tuesday. The only movies of this year anybody will watch in the future will be Narnia and Wallace and Grommet (both for kids) and Walk the Line because Reese Witherspoon is the only real movie star of our time &#8211; like they had them in the old days &#8211; the kind woman who make you smile like Stanwyck and Claudette Colbert.  And she can sing!</p>
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		<title>By: Michael Crosby</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Has there ever been an Oscar Best Picture winner that was seen by fewer people in the theatre?  I really have no idea how attendance at movies now compares to earlier in the 20th century.

I was told today that Crash is out on dvd.  If so, is it the first to be out on video before receiving a Best Picture award?  Now that, of course, is a test of more recent nature.

I haven&#039;t seen Crash.  When they were doing the Altman movie clips, I saw some of Nashville, including the wonderful scene of singer/songwriter Keith Carradine singing (Oscar-winning song) &quot;I&#039;m Easy,&quot; to a room full of women who had slept with him and each appeared certain the song was dedicated to her.  Except for Lily Tomlin who looked like she dreaded the idea that it might be.  Anyway, I imagined for a moment that Crash was some sort of more aggressive, less-nuanced 21st century version of Nashville.  Nashville was, among other things, very much about clashes of cultures and generations.

But probably not....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Has there ever been an Oscar Best Picture winner that was seen by fewer people in the theatre?  I really have no idea how attendance at movies now compares to earlier in the 20th century.</p>
<p>I was told today that Crash is out on dvd.  If so, is it the first to be out on video before receiving a Best Picture award?  Now that, of course, is a test of more recent nature.</p>
<p>I haven&#8217;t seen Crash.  When they were doing the Altman movie clips, I saw some of Nashville, including the wonderful scene of singer/songwriter Keith Carradine singing (Oscar-winning song) &#8220;I&#8217;m Easy,&#8221; to a room full of women who had slept with him and each appeared certain the song was dedicated to her.  Except for Lily Tomlin who looked like she dreaded the idea that it might be.  Anyway, I imagined for a moment that Crash was some sort of more aggressive, less-nuanced 21st century version of Nashville.  Nashville was, among other things, very much about clashes of cultures and generations.</p>
<p>But probably not&#8230;.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Skippy Greyswood</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Academy-members were happy to give the â€œBrokeback Mountainâ€ its due, as long as the message was not legitimized in any way. Thank goodness, we can still offer gratuitous, contrived, button-pushers like â€˜Crashâ€™, otherwise all the closeted actors, producers, directors, managers, agents, and studio execs would have had to vote for Capote (â€™yeeccchâ€™), and then come out. Safe and sound in the closet for one more year, phew.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Academy-members were happy to give the â€œBrokeback Mountainâ€ its due, as long as the message was not legitimized in any way. Thank goodness, we can still offer gratuitous, contrived, button-pushers like â€˜Crashâ€™, otherwise all the closeted actors, producers, directors, managers, agents, and studio execs would have had to vote for Capote (â€™yeeccchâ€™), and then come out. Safe and sound in the closet for one more year, phew.</p>
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		<title>By: Eleanore kjellberg</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I thought Jon Stewart should have come out dressed in a camouflage suit and full hunting gear, carrying a shotgunâ€”he could have aimed his gun in the air shot  and landed an Oscarâ€”and then saidâ€”you guys  thought the Mafia only wore a three piece suit, well this is how the crooks in the Bush administration dress when they shoot their friends.    

Jon Stewart was interviewed by Larry King, and King asked Jon  if he was told to  censor himself a bit, Stewart responded by saying he was NOT allowed to use adverbsâ€”I think he also wasnâ€™t allowed to use nouns, adjectives, verbs and pronouns. 

 Itâ€™s the nature of the beastâ€”be a â€œlittleâ€ political  but not too much.  Thatâ€™s why â€œCrashâ€ wonâ€”it was just enough politics for Hollywoodâ€”red, yellow, black and white weâ€™re just a rainbow of colors tonight, donâ€™t say anything that is too sharp, weâ€™re here to sell movies and not to harp!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I thought Jon Stewart should have come out dressed in a camouflage suit and full hunting gear, carrying a shotgunâ€”he could have aimed his gun in the air shot  and landed an Oscarâ€”and then saidâ€”you guys  thought the Mafia only wore a three piece suit, well this is how the crooks in the Bush administration dress when they shoot their friends.    </p>
<p>Jon Stewart was interviewed by Larry King, and King asked Jon  if he was told to  censor himself a bit, Stewart responded by saying he was NOT allowed to use adverbsâ€”I think he also wasnâ€™t allowed to use nouns, adjectives, verbs and pronouns. </p>
<p> Itâ€™s the nature of the beastâ€”be a â€œlittleâ€ political  but not too much.  Thatâ€™s why â€œCrashâ€ wonâ€”it was just enough politics for Hollywoodâ€”red, yellow, black and white weâ€™re just a rainbow of colors tonight, donâ€™t say anything that is too sharp, weâ€™re here to sell movies and not to harp!</p>
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		<title>By: Mark A. York</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mark A. York</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 04:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Being John Malkovich&quot; As I&#039;ve noted before it was pretty damn strange from the inside.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Being John Malkovich&#8221; As I&#8217;ve noted before it was pretty damn strange from the inside.</p>
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		<title>By: Michael Crosby</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2006 01:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well I would say it means &quot;something&quot; but not the whole ballgame including the sales histories you mention, otherwise the books would still be riding the top tier like scammer James Frey, but I suppose it depends on whose books one is trashing. If they&#039;re mine it&#039;s OK. Members of the club, not. I get it it, but I suppose like reg&#039;s dissing of his films it was meant to be a cheap shot. And I fully admit it was as intended.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well I would say it means &#8220;something&#8221; but not the whole ballgame including the sales histories you mention, otherwise the books would still be riding the top tier like scammer James Frey, but I suppose it depends on whose books one is trashing. If they&#8217;re mine it&#8217;s OK. Members of the club, not. I get it it, but I suppose like reg&#8217;s dissing of his films it was meant to be a cheap shot. And I fully admit it was as intended.</p>
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		<title>By: Rich</title>
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		<description>Wall, I&#039;d agree with all your movie assessments minus one: The Deer Hunter was an astounding movie, agree or not with its political assumptions.  Your lumping it with those other stinkers definitely grabbed my eye.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wall, I&#8217;d agree with all your movie assessments minus one: The Deer Hunter was an astounding movie, agree or not with its political assumptions.  Your lumping it with those other stinkers definitely grabbed my eye.</p>
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		<title>By: Wall</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2006 14:23:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The three truely Great films directed by Robert Altman ( &quot;The Long Goodbye&quot; &quot;California Split&quot; and &quot;McCabe and Mrs. Miller&quot;), the lifetime achivement winner, drew one nommination between them (Julie Christie for &quot;McCabe&quot;).  That should tell you something.  Want the short list? It&#039;s best Pictures that AREN&#039;T terrible.  
        In fact, I&#039;m tired of people beating up &quot;The Greatest Show On Earth.&quot; Sure it sucks,  but also dreadful are  &quot;Chariots Of Fire&quot; &quot;Forest Gump&quot; &quot;Dances With Wolves&quot; &quot;The Deer Hunter&quot; &quot;Titanic&quot; and &quot;The Sting.&quot; 
             Is a passible Horror film like &quot;Silence Of the Lambs&quot; really a great movie? Or dull fare like &quot;Gandhi&quot; or &quot;The Last Emperor&quot;?
  A sleeping pill like &quot;The English Patient?&quot;  Overblown and overrated: &quot;Tom Jones&quot; &quot;Shakespeare In Love&quot; &quot;Shindler&#039;s List&quot; and even second rate Lean like &quot;Bridge On The River Kwai.&quot;  Middlebrow good taste fests like &quot;Mrs. Minever&quot;, &quot;The Best Years Of Our Lives&quot; and &quot;How Green Was My Valley&quot; linger in the mind like the box scores of the 69 Padres.  &quot;Hamlet&quot; is the least interesting of Olvier&#039;s Shakespeare movies. 

          The Godfathers, Joe Buck,  Terry Malloy , T. E. Lawrence and Rocky should blow this pop stand and go find a better party.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The three truely Great films directed by Robert Altman ( &#8220;The Long Goodbye&#8221; &#8220;California Split&#8221; and &#8220;McCabe and Mrs. Miller&#8221;), the lifetime achivement winner, drew one nommination between them (Julie Christie for &#8220;McCabe&#8221;).  That should tell you something.  Want the short list? It&#8217;s best Pictures that AREN&#8217;T terrible.<br />
        In fact, I&#8217;m tired of people beating up &#8220;The Greatest Show On Earth.&#8221; Sure it sucks,  but also dreadful are  &#8220;Chariots Of Fire&#8221; &#8220;Forest Gump&#8221; &#8220;Dances With Wolves&#8221; &#8220;The Deer Hunter&#8221; &#8220;Titanic&#8221; and &#8220;The Sting.&#8221;<br />
             Is a passible Horror film like &#8220;Silence Of the Lambs&#8221; really a great movie? Or dull fare like &#8220;Gandhi&#8221; or &#8220;The Last Emperor&#8221;?<br />
  A sleeping pill like &#8220;The English Patient?&#8221;  Overblown and overrated: &#8220;Tom Jones&#8221; &#8220;Shakespeare In Love&#8221; &#8220;Shindler&#8217;s List&#8221; and even second rate Lean like &#8220;Bridge On The River Kwai.&#8221;  Middlebrow good taste fests like &#8220;Mrs. Minever&#8221;, &#8220;The Best Years Of Our Lives&#8221; and &#8220;How Green Was My Valley&#8221; linger in the mind like the box scores of the 69 Padres.  &#8220;Hamlet&#8221; is the least interesting of Olvier&#8217;s Shakespeare movies. </p>
<p>          The Godfathers, Joe Buck,  Terry Malloy , T. E. Lawrence and Rocky should blow this pop stand and go find a better party.</p>
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		<title>By: Mark A. York</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2006 01:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well I would say it means &quot;something&quot; but not the whole ballgame including the sales histories you mention, otherwise the books would still be riding the top tier like scammer James Frey, but I suppose it depends on whose books one is trashing. If they&#039;re mine it&#039;s OK. Members of the club, not. I get it it, but I suppose like reg&#039;s dissing of his films it was meant to be a cheap shot. And I fully admit it was as intended.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well I would say it means &#8220;something&#8221; but not the whole ballgame including the sales histories you mention, otherwise the books would still be riding the top tier like scammer James Frey, but I suppose it depends on whose books one is trashing. If they&#8217;re mine it&#8217;s OK. Members of the club, not. I get it it, but I suppose like reg&#8217;s dissing of his films it was meant to be a cheap shot. And I fully admit it was as intended.</p>
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		<title>By: Marc Cooper</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 12:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You know Mark.. I HAVE to intervene here. The Amazon book rankings mean NOTHING after the first month or two. You can think what you will of Roger but his series of Moses Wine noir novels are considered classics by many a critic and, indeed, make wonderful reading. They have also been translated into several foreign editions and I can guarantee you that they have been sold in quantities that go far beyond your imagination. Cut out the petty stuff. It stinks.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You know Mark.. I HAVE to intervene here. The Amazon book rankings mean NOTHING after the first month or two. You can think what you will of Roger but his series of Moses Wine noir novels are considered classics by many a critic and, indeed, make wonderful reading. They have also been translated into several foreign editions and I can guarantee you that they have been sold in quantities that go far beyond your imagination. Cut out the petty stuff. It stinks.</p>
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		<title>By: Mark A. York</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And books ranking at the depth I live at. That&#039;s a tough spot I&#039;ll  tell ya.</description>
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		<title>By: reg</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m sure this eminent person &quot;who actually votes in the Academy Awards&quot; is right because he&#039;s had a lot of experience with  pictures that are forgotten by the following Tuesday.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m sure this eminent person &#8220;who actually votes in the Academy Awards&#8221; is right because he&#8217;s had a lot of experience with  pictures that are forgotten by the following Tuesday.</p>
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		<title>By: Mark A. York</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well that may be your opinion Roger, but if it&#039;s all the same to you I&#039;ll take McMurtry. He and Diana wrote a fine film that for once in Hollywood mirrored the literature from whence it came. Routine my ass. Crash will be forgotten. I guess we can take a stab at who in the academy didn&#039;t vote for Brokeback.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well that may be your opinion Roger, but if it&#8217;s all the same to you I&#8217;ll take McMurtry. He and Diana wrote a fine film that for once in Hollywood mirrored the literature from whence it came. Routine my ass. Crash will be forgotten. I guess we can take a stab at who in the academy didn&#8217;t vote for Brokeback.</p>
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		<title>By: Roger L. Simon</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As someone who actually votes in the Academy Awards (for too long), I hate to rain on anybody&#039;s parade here,  but the whole voting process is almost as dull as the awards themselves.  The reason Brokeback probably lost is that the Academy finally woke up to the fact it was a fairly routine film and the only thing interesting about it, besides the score, was the gay theme - and even that is pretty hohum in 2006. This was a pretty dull bunch of best picutre nominees and, with the exception of Hoffman&#039;s performance in Capote, will probably be forgotten by next Tuesday. The only movies of this year anybody will watch in the future will be Narnia and Wallace and Grommet (both for kids) and Walk the Line because Reese Witherspoon is the only real movie star of our time - like they had them in the old days - the kind woman who make you smile like Stanwyck and Claudette Colbert.  And she can sing!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As someone who actually votes in the Academy Awards (for too long), I hate to rain on anybody&#8217;s parade here,  but the whole voting process is almost as dull as the awards themselves.  The reason Brokeback probably lost is that the Academy finally woke up to the fact it was a fairly routine film and the only thing interesting about it, besides the score, was the gay theme &#8211; and even that is pretty hohum in 2006. This was a pretty dull bunch of best picutre nominees and, with the exception of Hoffman&#8217;s performance in Capote, will probably be forgotten by next Tuesday. The only movies of this year anybody will watch in the future will be Narnia and Wallace and Grommet (both for kids) and Walk the Line because Reese Witherspoon is the only real movie star of our time &#8211; like they had them in the old days &#8211; the kind woman who make you smile like Stanwyck and Claudette Colbert.  And she can sing!</p>
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		<title>By: Michael Crosby</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Has there ever been an Oscar Best Picture winner that was seen by fewer people in the theatre?  I really have no idea how attendance at movies now compares to earlier in the 20th century.

I was told today that Crash is out on dvd.  If so, is it the first to be out on video before receiving a Best Picture award?  Now that, of course, is a test of more recent nature.

I haven&#039;t seen Crash.  When they were doing the Altman movie clips, I saw some of Nashville, including the wonderful scene of singer/songwriter Keith Carradine singing (Oscar-winning song) &quot;I&#039;m Easy,&quot; to a room full of women who had slept with him and each appeared certain the song was dedicated to her.  Except for Lily Tomlin who looked like she dreaded the idea that it might be.  Anyway, I imagined for a moment that Crash was some sort of more aggressive, less-nuanced 21st century version of Nashville.  Nashville was, among other things, very much about clashes of cultures and generations.

But probably not....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Has there ever been an Oscar Best Picture winner that was seen by fewer people in the theatre?  I really have no idea how attendance at movies now compares to earlier in the 20th century.</p>
<p>I was told today that Crash is out on dvd.  If so, is it the first to be out on video before receiving a Best Picture award?  Now that, of course, is a test of more recent nature.</p>
<p>I haven&#8217;t seen Crash.  When they were doing the Altman movie clips, I saw some of Nashville, including the wonderful scene of singer/songwriter Keith Carradine singing (Oscar-winning song) &#8220;I&#8217;m Easy,&#8221; to a room full of women who had slept with him and each appeared certain the song was dedicated to her.  Except for Lily Tomlin who looked like she dreaded the idea that it might be.  Anyway, I imagined for a moment that Crash was some sort of more aggressive, less-nuanced 21st century version of Nashville.  Nashville was, among other things, very much about clashes of cultures and generations.</p>
<p>But probably not&#8230;.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Skippy Greyswood</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Academy-members were happy to give the â€œBrokeback Mountainâ€ its due, as long as the message was not legitimized in any way. Thank goodness, we can still offer gratuitous, contrived, button-pushers like â€˜Crashâ€™, otherwise all the closeted actors, producers, directors, managers, agents, and studio execs would have had to vote for Capote (â€™yeeccchâ€™), and then come out. Safe and sound in the closet for one more year, phew.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Academy-members were happy to give the â€œBrokeback Mountainâ€ its due, as long as the message was not legitimized in any way. Thank goodness, we can still offer gratuitous, contrived, button-pushers like â€˜Crashâ€™, otherwise all the closeted actors, producers, directors, managers, agents, and studio execs would have had to vote for Capote (â€™yeeccchâ€™), and then come out. Safe and sound in the closet for one more year, phew.</p>
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		<title>By: Eleanore kjellberg</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I thought Jon Stewart should have come out dressed in a camouflage suit and full hunting gear, carrying a shotgunâ€”he could have aimed his gun in the air shot  and landed an Oscarâ€”and then saidâ€”you guys  thought the Mafia only wore a three piece suit, well this is how the crooks in the Bush administration dress when they shoot their friends.    

Jon Stewart was interviewed by Larry King, and King asked Jon  if he was told to  censor himself a bit, Stewart responded by saying he was NOT allowed to use adverbsâ€”I think he also wasnâ€™t allowed to use nouns, adjectives, verbs and pronouns. 

 Itâ€™s the nature of the beastâ€”be a â€œlittleâ€ political  but not too much.  Thatâ€™s why â€œCrashâ€ wonâ€”it was just enough politics for Hollywoodâ€”red, yellow, black and white weâ€™re just a rainbow of colors tonight, donâ€™t say anything that is too sharp, weâ€™re here to sell movies and not to harp!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I thought Jon Stewart should have come out dressed in a camouflage suit and full hunting gear, carrying a shotgunâ€”he could have aimed his gun in the air shot  and landed an Oscarâ€”and then saidâ€”you guys  thought the Mafia only wore a three piece suit, well this is how the crooks in the Bush administration dress when they shoot their friends.    </p>
<p>Jon Stewart was interviewed by Larry King, and King asked Jon  if he was told to  censor himself a bit, Stewart responded by saying he was NOT allowed to use adverbsâ€”I think he also wasnâ€™t allowed to use nouns, adjectives, verbs and pronouns. </p>
<p> Itâ€™s the nature of the beastâ€”be a â€œlittleâ€ political  but not too much.  Thatâ€™s why â€œCrashâ€ wonâ€”it was just enough politics for Hollywoodâ€”red, yellow, black and white weâ€™re just a rainbow of colors tonight, donâ€™t say anything that is too sharp, weâ€™re here to sell movies and not to harp!</p>
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		<title>By: Mark A. York</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 04:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Being John Malkovich&quot; As I&#039;ve noted before it was pretty damn strange from the inside.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Being John Malkovich&#8221; As I&#8217;ve noted before it was pretty damn strange from the inside.</p>
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		<title>By: Michael Crosby</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 12:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You know Mark.. I HAVE to intervene here. The Amazon book rankings mean NOTHING after the first month or two. You can think what you will of Roger but his series of Moses Wine noir novels are considered classics by many a critic and, indeed, make wonderful reading. They have also been translated into several foreign editions and I can guarantee you that they have been sold in quantities that go far beyond your imagination. Cut out the petty stuff. It stinks.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You know Mark.. I HAVE to intervene here. The Amazon book rankings mean NOTHING after the first month or two. You can think what you will of Roger but his series of Moses Wine noir novels are considered classics by many a critic and, indeed, make wonderful reading. They have also been translated into several foreign editions and I can guarantee you that they have been sold in quantities that go far beyond your imagination. Cut out the petty stuff. It stinks.</p>
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		<title>By: Rich</title>
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		<description>Wall, I&#039;d agree with all your movie assessments minus one: The Deer Hunter was an astounding movie, agree or not with its political assumptions.  Your lumping it with those other stinkers definitely grabbed my eye.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wall, I&#8217;d agree with all your movie assessments minus one: The Deer Hunter was an astounding movie, agree or not with its political assumptions.  Your lumping it with those other stinkers definitely grabbed my eye.</p>
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		<title>By: Wall</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2006 14:23:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The three truely Great films directed by Robert Altman ( &quot;The Long Goodbye&quot; &quot;California Split&quot; and &quot;McCabe and Mrs. Miller&quot;), the lifetime achivement winner, drew one nommination between them (Julie Christie for &quot;McCabe&quot;).  That should tell you something.  Want the short list? It&#039;s best Pictures that AREN&#039;T terrible.  
        In fact, I&#039;m tired of people beating up &quot;The Greatest Show On Earth.&quot; Sure it sucks,  but also dreadful are  &quot;Chariots Of Fire&quot; &quot;Forest Gump&quot; &quot;Dances With Wolves&quot; &quot;The Deer Hunter&quot; &quot;Titanic&quot; and &quot;The Sting.&quot; 
             Is a passible Horror film like &quot;Silence Of the Lambs&quot; really a great movie? Or dull fare like &quot;Gandhi&quot; or &quot;The Last Emperor&quot;?
  A sleeping pill like &quot;The English Patient?&quot;  Overblown and overrated: &quot;Tom Jones&quot; &quot;Shakespeare In Love&quot; &quot;Shindler&#039;s List&quot; and even second rate Lean like &quot;Bridge On The River Kwai.&quot;  Middlebrow good taste fests like &quot;Mrs. Minever&quot;, &quot;The Best Years Of Our Lives&quot; and &quot;How Green Was My Valley&quot; linger in the mind like the box scores of the 69 Padres.  &quot;Hamlet&quot; is the least interesting of Olvier&#039;s Shakespeare movies. 

          The Godfathers, Joe Buck,  Terry Malloy , T. E. Lawrence and Rocky should blow this pop stand and go find a better party.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The three truely Great films directed by Robert Altman ( &#8220;The Long Goodbye&#8221; &#8220;California Split&#8221; and &#8220;McCabe and Mrs. Miller&#8221;), the lifetime achivement winner, drew one nommination between them (Julie Christie for &#8220;McCabe&#8221;).  That should tell you something.  Want the short list? It&#8217;s best Pictures that AREN&#8217;T terrible.<br />
        In fact, I&#8217;m tired of people beating up &#8220;The Greatest Show On Earth.&#8221; Sure it sucks,  but also dreadful are  &#8220;Chariots Of Fire&#8221; &#8220;Forest Gump&#8221; &#8220;Dances With Wolves&#8221; &#8220;The Deer Hunter&#8221; &#8220;Titanic&#8221; and &#8220;The Sting.&#8221;<br />
             Is a passible Horror film like &#8220;Silence Of the Lambs&#8221; really a great movie? Or dull fare like &#8220;Gandhi&#8221; or &#8220;The Last Emperor&#8221;?<br />
  A sleeping pill like &#8220;The English Patient?&#8221;  Overblown and overrated: &#8220;Tom Jones&#8221; &#8220;Shakespeare In Love&#8221; &#8220;Shindler&#8217;s List&#8221; and even second rate Lean like &#8220;Bridge On The River Kwai.&#8221;  Middlebrow good taste fests like &#8220;Mrs. Minever&#8221;, &#8220;The Best Years Of Our Lives&#8221; and &#8220;How Green Was My Valley&#8221; linger in the mind like the box scores of the 69 Padres.  &#8220;Hamlet&#8221; is the least interesting of Olvier&#8217;s Shakespeare movies. </p>
<p>          The Godfathers, Joe Buck,  Terry Malloy , T. E. Lawrence and Rocky should blow this pop stand and go find a better party.</p>
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		<title>By: Mark A. York</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2006 01:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well I would say it means &quot;something&quot; but not the whole ballgame including the sales histories you mention, otherwise the books would still be riding the top tier like scammer James Frey, but I suppose it depends on whose books one is trashing. If they&#039;re mine it&#039;s OK. Members of the club, not. I get it it, but I suppose like reg&#039;s dissing of his films it was meant to be a cheap shot. And I fully admit it was as intended.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well I would say it means &#8220;something&#8221; but not the whole ballgame including the sales histories you mention, otherwise the books would still be riding the top tier like scammer James Frey, but I suppose it depends on whose books one is trashing. If they&#8217;re mine it&#8217;s OK. Members of the club, not. I get it it, but I suppose like reg&#8217;s dissing of his films it was meant to be a cheap shot. And I fully admit it was as intended.</p>
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		<title>By: Marc Cooper</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 12:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You know Mark.. I HAVE to intervene here. The Amazon book rankings mean NOTHING after the first month or two. You can think what you will of Roger but his series of Moses Wine noir novels are considered classics by many a critic and, indeed, make wonderful reading. They have also been translated into several foreign editions and I can guarantee you that they have been sold in quantities that go far beyond your imagination. Cut out the petty stuff. It stinks.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You know Mark.. I HAVE to intervene here. The Amazon book rankings mean NOTHING after the first month or two. You can think what you will of Roger but his series of Moses Wine noir novels are considered classics by many a critic and, indeed, make wonderful reading. They have also been translated into several foreign editions and I can guarantee you that they have been sold in quantities that go far beyond your imagination. Cut out the petty stuff. It stinks.</p>
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		<title>By: Mark A. York</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And books ranking at the depth I live at. That&#039;s a tough spot I&#039;ll  tell ya.</description>
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		<title>By: reg</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m sure this eminent person &quot;who actually votes in the Academy Awards&quot; is right because he&#039;s had a lot of experience with  pictures that are forgotten by the following Tuesday.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m sure this eminent person &#8220;who actually votes in the Academy Awards&#8221; is right because he&#8217;s had a lot of experience with  pictures that are forgotten by the following Tuesday.</p>
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		<title>By: Mark A. York</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well that may be your opinion Roger, but if it&#039;s all the same to you I&#039;ll take McMurtry. He and Diana wrote a fine film that for once in Hollywood mirrored the literature from whence it came. Routine my ass. Crash will be forgotten. I guess we can take a stab at who in the academy didn&#039;t vote for Brokeback.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well that may be your opinion Roger, but if it&#8217;s all the same to you I&#8217;ll take McMurtry. He and Diana wrote a fine film that for once in Hollywood mirrored the literature from whence it came. Routine my ass. Crash will be forgotten. I guess we can take a stab at who in the academy didn&#8217;t vote for Brokeback.</p>
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		<title>By: Roger L. Simon</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As someone who actually votes in the Academy Awards (for too long), I hate to rain on anybody&#039;s parade here,  but the whole voting process is almost as dull as the awards themselves.  The reason Brokeback probably lost is that the Academy finally woke up to the fact it was a fairly routine film and the only thing interesting about it, besides the score, was the gay theme - and even that is pretty hohum in 2006. This was a pretty dull bunch of best picutre nominees and, with the exception of Hoffman&#039;s performance in Capote, will probably be forgotten by next Tuesday. The only movies of this year anybody will watch in the future will be Narnia and Wallace and Grommet (both for kids) and Walk the Line because Reese Witherspoon is the only real movie star of our time - like they had them in the old days - the kind woman who make you smile like Stanwyck and Claudette Colbert.  And she can sing!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As someone who actually votes in the Academy Awards (for too long), I hate to rain on anybody&#8217;s parade here,  but the whole voting process is almost as dull as the awards themselves.  The reason Brokeback probably lost is that the Academy finally woke up to the fact it was a fairly routine film and the only thing interesting about it, besides the score, was the gay theme &#8211; and even that is pretty hohum in 2006. This was a pretty dull bunch of best picutre nominees and, with the exception of Hoffman&#8217;s performance in Capote, will probably be forgotten by next Tuesday. The only movies of this year anybody will watch in the future will be Narnia and Wallace and Grommet (both for kids) and Walk the Line because Reese Witherspoon is the only real movie star of our time &#8211; like they had them in the old days &#8211; the kind woman who make you smile like Stanwyck and Claudette Colbert.  And she can sing!</p>
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		<title>By: Michael Crosby</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Has there ever been an Oscar Best Picture winner that was seen by fewer people in the theatre?  I really have no idea how attendance at movies now compares to earlier in the 20th century.

I was told today that Crash is out on dvd.  If so, is it the first to be out on video before receiving a Best Picture award?  Now that, of course, is a test of more recent nature.

I haven&#039;t seen Crash.  When they were doing the Altman movie clips, I saw some of Nashville, including the wonderful scene of singer/songwriter Keith Carradine singing (Oscar-winning song) &quot;I&#039;m Easy,&quot; to a room full of women who had slept with him and each appeared certain the song was dedicated to her.  Except for Lily Tomlin who looked like she dreaded the idea that it might be.  Anyway, I imagined for a moment that Crash was some sort of more aggressive, less-nuanced 21st century version of Nashville.  Nashville was, among other things, very much about clashes of cultures and generations.

But probably not....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Has there ever been an Oscar Best Picture winner that was seen by fewer people in the theatre?  I really have no idea how attendance at movies now compares to earlier in the 20th century.</p>
<p>I was told today that Crash is out on dvd.  If so, is it the first to be out on video before receiving a Best Picture award?  Now that, of course, is a test of more recent nature.</p>
<p>I haven&#8217;t seen Crash.  When they were doing the Altman movie clips, I saw some of Nashville, including the wonderful scene of singer/songwriter Keith Carradine singing (Oscar-winning song) &#8220;I&#8217;m Easy,&#8221; to a room full of women who had slept with him and each appeared certain the song was dedicated to her.  Except for Lily Tomlin who looked like she dreaded the idea that it might be.  Anyway, I imagined for a moment that Crash was some sort of more aggressive, less-nuanced 21st century version of Nashville.  Nashville was, among other things, very much about clashes of cultures and generations.</p>
<p>But probably not&#8230;.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Academy-members were happy to give the â€œBrokeback Mountainâ€ its due, as long as the message was not legitimized in any way. Thank goodness, we can still offer gratuitous, contrived, button-pushers like â€˜Crashâ€™, otherwise all the closeted actors, producers, directors, managers, agents, and studio execs would have had to vote for Capote (â€™yeeccchâ€™), and then come out. Safe and sound in the closet for one more year, phew.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Academy-members were happy to give the â€œBrokeback Mountainâ€ its due, as long as the message was not legitimized in any way. Thank goodness, we can still offer gratuitous, contrived, button-pushers like â€˜Crashâ€™, otherwise all the closeted actors, producers, directors, managers, agents, and studio execs would have had to vote for Capote (â€™yeeccchâ€™), and then come out. Safe and sound in the closet for one more year, phew.</p>
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		<title>By: Eleanore kjellberg</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I thought Jon Stewart should have come out dressed in a camouflage suit and full hunting gear, carrying a shotgunâ€”he could have aimed his gun in the air shot  and landed an Oscarâ€”and then saidâ€”you guys  thought the Mafia only wore a three piece suit, well this is how the crooks in the Bush administration dress when they shoot their friends.    

Jon Stewart was interviewed by Larry King, and King asked Jon  if he was told to  censor himself a bit, Stewart responded by saying he was NOT allowed to use adverbsâ€”I think he also wasnâ€™t allowed to use nouns, adjectives, verbs and pronouns. 

 Itâ€™s the nature of the beastâ€”be a â€œlittleâ€ political  but not too much.  Thatâ€™s why â€œCrashâ€ wonâ€”it was just enough politics for Hollywoodâ€”red, yellow, black and white weâ€™re just a rainbow of colors tonight, donâ€™t say anything that is too sharp, weâ€™re here to sell movies and not to harp!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I thought Jon Stewart should have come out dressed in a camouflage suit and full hunting gear, carrying a shotgunâ€”he could have aimed his gun in the air shot  and landed an Oscarâ€”and then saidâ€”you guys  thought the Mafia only wore a three piece suit, well this is how the crooks in the Bush administration dress when they shoot their friends.    </p>
<p>Jon Stewart was interviewed by Larry King, and King asked Jon  if he was told to  censor himself a bit, Stewart responded by saying he was NOT allowed to use adverbsâ€”I think he also wasnâ€™t allowed to use nouns, adjectives, verbs and pronouns. </p>
<p> Itâ€™s the nature of the beastâ€”be a â€œlittleâ€ political  but not too much.  Thatâ€™s why â€œCrashâ€ wonâ€”it was just enough politics for Hollywoodâ€”red, yellow, black and white weâ€™re just a rainbow of colors tonight, donâ€™t say anything that is too sharp, weâ€™re here to sell movies and not to harp!</p>
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		<title>By: Mark A. York</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 04:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Being John Malkovich&quot; As I&#039;ve noted before it was pretty damn strange from the inside.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Being John Malkovich&#8221; As I&#8217;ve noted before it was pretty damn strange from the inside.</p>
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		<title>By: Michael Crosby</title>
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		<description>Wall, I&#039;d agree with all your movie assessments minus one: The Deer Hunter was an astounding movie, agree or not with its political assumptions.  Your lumping it with those other stinkers definitely grabbed my eye.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wall, I&#8217;d agree with all your movie assessments minus one: The Deer Hunter was an astounding movie, agree or not with its political assumptions.  Your lumping it with those other stinkers definitely grabbed my eye.</p>
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		<title>By: Wall</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2006 14:23:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The three truely Great films directed by Robert Altman ( &quot;The Long Goodbye&quot; &quot;California Split&quot; and &quot;McCabe and Mrs. Miller&quot;), the lifetime achivement winner, drew one nommination between them (Julie Christie for &quot;McCabe&quot;).  That should tell you something.  Want the short list? It&#039;s best Pictures that AREN&#039;T terrible.  
        In fact, I&#039;m tired of people beating up &quot;The Greatest Show On Earth.&quot; Sure it sucks,  but also dreadful are  &quot;Chariots Of Fire&quot; &quot;Forest Gump&quot; &quot;Dances With Wolves&quot; &quot;The Deer Hunter&quot; &quot;Titanic&quot; and &quot;The Sting.&quot; 
             Is a passible Horror film like &quot;Silence Of the Lambs&quot; really a great movie? Or dull fare like &quot;Gandhi&quot; or &quot;The Last Emperor&quot;?
  A sleeping pill like &quot;The English Patient?&quot;  Overblown and overrated: &quot;Tom Jones&quot; &quot;Shakespeare In Love&quot; &quot;Shindler&#039;s List&quot; and even second rate Lean like &quot;Bridge On The River Kwai.&quot;  Middlebrow good taste fests like &quot;Mrs. Minever&quot;, &quot;The Best Years Of Our Lives&quot; and &quot;How Green Was My Valley&quot; linger in the mind like the box scores of the 69 Padres.  &quot;Hamlet&quot; is the least interesting of Olvier&#039;s Shakespeare movies. 

          The Godfathers, Joe Buck,  Terry Malloy , T. E. Lawrence and Rocky should blow this pop stand and go find a better party.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The three truely Great films directed by Robert Altman ( &#8220;The Long Goodbye&#8221; &#8220;California Split&#8221; and &#8220;McCabe and Mrs. Miller&#8221;), the lifetime achivement winner, drew one nommination between them (Julie Christie for &#8220;McCabe&#8221;).  That should tell you something.  Want the short list? It&#8217;s best Pictures that AREN&#8217;T terrible.<br />
        In fact, I&#8217;m tired of people beating up &#8220;The Greatest Show On Earth.&#8221; Sure it sucks,  but also dreadful are  &#8220;Chariots Of Fire&#8221; &#8220;Forest Gump&#8221; &#8220;Dances With Wolves&#8221; &#8220;The Deer Hunter&#8221; &#8220;Titanic&#8221; and &#8220;The Sting.&#8221;<br />
             Is a passible Horror film like &#8220;Silence Of the Lambs&#8221; really a great movie? Or dull fare like &#8220;Gandhi&#8221; or &#8220;The Last Emperor&#8221;?<br />
  A sleeping pill like &#8220;The English Patient?&#8221;  Overblown and overrated: &#8220;Tom Jones&#8221; &#8220;Shakespeare In Love&#8221; &#8220;Shindler&#8217;s List&#8221; and even second rate Lean like &#8220;Bridge On The River Kwai.&#8221;  Middlebrow good taste fests like &#8220;Mrs. Minever&#8221;, &#8220;The Best Years Of Our Lives&#8221; and &#8220;How Green Was My Valley&#8221; linger in the mind like the box scores of the 69 Padres.  &#8220;Hamlet&#8221; is the least interesting of Olvier&#8217;s Shakespeare movies. </p>
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		<title>By: Mark A. York</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2006 01:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well I would say it means &quot;something&quot; but not the whole ballgame including the sales histories you mention, otherwise the books would still be riding the top tier like scammer James Frey, but I suppose it depends on whose books one is trashing. If they&#039;re mine it&#039;s OK. Members of the club, not. I get it it, but I suppose like reg&#039;s dissing of his films it was meant to be a cheap shot. And I fully admit it was as intended.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well I would say it means &#8220;something&#8221; but not the whole ballgame including the sales histories you mention, otherwise the books would still be riding the top tier like scammer James Frey, but I suppose it depends on whose books one is trashing. If they&#8217;re mine it&#8217;s OK. Members of the club, not. I get it it, but I suppose like reg&#8217;s dissing of his films it was meant to be a cheap shot. And I fully admit it was as intended.</p>
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		<title>By: Marc Cooper</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 12:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You know Mark.. I HAVE to intervene here. The Amazon book rankings mean NOTHING after the first month or two. You can think what you will of Roger but his series of Moses Wine noir novels are considered classics by many a critic and, indeed, make wonderful reading. They have also been translated into several foreign editions and I can guarantee you that they have been sold in quantities that go far beyond your imagination. Cut out the petty stuff. It stinks.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You know Mark.. I HAVE to intervene here. The Amazon book rankings mean NOTHING after the first month or two. You can think what you will of Roger but his series of Moses Wine noir novels are considered classics by many a critic and, indeed, make wonderful reading. They have also been translated into several foreign editions and I can guarantee you that they have been sold in quantities that go far beyond your imagination. Cut out the petty stuff. It stinks.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And books ranking at the depth I live at. That&#039;s a tough spot I&#039;ll  tell ya.</description>
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		<title>By: reg</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m sure this eminent person &quot;who actually votes in the Academy Awards&quot; is right because he&#039;s had a lot of experience with  pictures that are forgotten by the following Tuesday.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m sure this eminent person &#8220;who actually votes in the Academy Awards&#8221; is right because he&#8217;s had a lot of experience with  pictures that are forgotten by the following Tuesday.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well that may be your opinion Roger, but if it&#039;s all the same to you I&#039;ll take McMurtry. He and Diana wrote a fine film that for once in Hollywood mirrored the literature from whence it came. Routine my ass. Crash will be forgotten. I guess we can take a stab at who in the academy didn&#039;t vote for Brokeback.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well that may be your opinion Roger, but if it&#8217;s all the same to you I&#8217;ll take McMurtry. He and Diana wrote a fine film that for once in Hollywood mirrored the literature from whence it came. Routine my ass. Crash will be forgotten. I guess we can take a stab at who in the academy didn&#8217;t vote for Brokeback.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As someone who actually votes in the Academy Awards (for too long), I hate to rain on anybody&#039;s parade here,  but the whole voting process is almost as dull as the awards themselves.  The reason Brokeback probably lost is that the Academy finally woke up to the fact it was a fairly routine film and the only thing interesting about it, besides the score, was the gay theme - and even that is pretty hohum in 2006. This was a pretty dull bunch of best picutre nominees and, with the exception of Hoffman&#039;s performance in Capote, will probably be forgotten by next Tuesday. The only movies of this year anybody will watch in the future will be Narnia and Wallace and Grommet (both for kids) and Walk the Line because Reese Witherspoon is the only real movie star of our time - like they had them in the old days - the kind woman who make you smile like Stanwyck and Claudette Colbert.  And she can sing!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As someone who actually votes in the Academy Awards (for too long), I hate to rain on anybody&#8217;s parade here,  but the whole voting process is almost as dull as the awards themselves.  The reason Brokeback probably lost is that the Academy finally woke up to the fact it was a fairly routine film and the only thing interesting about it, besides the score, was the gay theme &#8211; and even that is pretty hohum in 2006. This was a pretty dull bunch of best picutre nominees and, with the exception of Hoffman&#8217;s performance in Capote, will probably be forgotten by next Tuesday. The only movies of this year anybody will watch in the future will be Narnia and Wallace and Grommet (both for kids) and Walk the Line because Reese Witherspoon is the only real movie star of our time &#8211; like they had them in the old days &#8211; the kind woman who make you smile like Stanwyck and Claudette Colbert.  And she can sing!</p>
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		<title>By: Michael Crosby</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Has there ever been an Oscar Best Picture winner that was seen by fewer people in the theatre?  I really have no idea how attendance at movies now compares to earlier in the 20th century.

I was told today that Crash is out on dvd.  If so, is it the first to be out on video before receiving a Best Picture award?  Now that, of course, is a test of more recent nature.

I haven&#039;t seen Crash.  When they were doing the Altman movie clips, I saw some of Nashville, including the wonderful scene of singer/songwriter Keith Carradine singing (Oscar-winning song) &quot;I&#039;m Easy,&quot; to a room full of women who had slept with him and each appeared certain the song was dedicated to her.  Except for Lily Tomlin who looked like she dreaded the idea that it might be.  Anyway, I imagined for a moment that Crash was some sort of more aggressive, less-nuanced 21st century version of Nashville.  Nashville was, among other things, very much about clashes of cultures and generations.

But probably not....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Has there ever been an Oscar Best Picture winner that was seen by fewer people in the theatre?  I really have no idea how attendance at movies now compares to earlier in the 20th century.</p>
<p>I was told today that Crash is out on dvd.  If so, is it the first to be out on video before receiving a Best Picture award?  Now that, of course, is a test of more recent nature.</p>
<p>I haven&#8217;t seen Crash.  When they were doing the Altman movie clips, I saw some of Nashville, including the wonderful scene of singer/songwriter Keith Carradine singing (Oscar-winning song) &#8220;I&#8217;m Easy,&#8221; to a room full of women who had slept with him and each appeared certain the song was dedicated to her.  Except for Lily Tomlin who looked like she dreaded the idea that it might be.  Anyway, I imagined for a moment that Crash was some sort of more aggressive, less-nuanced 21st century version of Nashville.  Nashville was, among other things, very much about clashes of cultures and generations.</p>
<p>But probably not&#8230;.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Academy-members were happy to give the â€œBrokeback Mountainâ€ its due, as long as the message was not legitimized in any way. Thank goodness, we can still offer gratuitous, contrived, button-pushers like â€˜Crashâ€™, otherwise all the closeted actors, producers, directors, managers, agents, and studio execs would have had to vote for Capote (â€™yeeccchâ€™), and then come out. Safe and sound in the closet for one more year, phew.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Academy-members were happy to give the â€œBrokeback Mountainâ€ its due, as long as the message was not legitimized in any way. Thank goodness, we can still offer gratuitous, contrived, button-pushers like â€˜Crashâ€™, otherwise all the closeted actors, producers, directors, managers, agents, and studio execs would have had to vote for Capote (â€™yeeccchâ€™), and then come out. Safe and sound in the closet for one more year, phew.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I thought Jon Stewart should have come out dressed in a camouflage suit and full hunting gear, carrying a shotgunâ€”he could have aimed his gun in the air shot  and landed an Oscarâ€”and then saidâ€”you guys  thought the Mafia only wore a three piece suit, well this is how the crooks in the Bush administration dress when they shoot their friends.    

Jon Stewart was interviewed by Larry King, and King asked Jon  if he was told to  censor himself a bit, Stewart responded by saying he was NOT allowed to use adverbsâ€”I think he also wasnâ€™t allowed to use nouns, adjectives, verbs and pronouns. 

 Itâ€™s the nature of the beastâ€”be a â€œlittleâ€ political  but not too much.  Thatâ€™s why â€œCrashâ€ wonâ€”it was just enough politics for Hollywoodâ€”red, yellow, black and white weâ€™re just a rainbow of colors tonight, donâ€™t say anything that is too sharp, weâ€™re here to sell movies and not to harp!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I thought Jon Stewart should have come out dressed in a camouflage suit and full hunting gear, carrying a shotgunâ€”he could have aimed his gun in the air shot  and landed an Oscarâ€”and then saidâ€”you guys  thought the Mafia only wore a three piece suit, well this is how the crooks in the Bush administration dress when they shoot their friends.    </p>
<p>Jon Stewart was interviewed by Larry King, and King asked Jon  if he was told to  censor himself a bit, Stewart responded by saying he was NOT allowed to use adverbsâ€”I think he also wasnâ€™t allowed to use nouns, adjectives, verbs and pronouns. </p>
<p> Itâ€™s the nature of the beastâ€”be a â€œlittleâ€ political  but not too much.  Thatâ€™s why â€œCrashâ€ wonâ€”it was just enough politics for Hollywoodâ€”red, yellow, black and white weâ€™re just a rainbow of colors tonight, donâ€™t say anything that is too sharp, weâ€™re here to sell movies and not to harp!</p>
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		<title>By: Mark A. York</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/shorter-oscars-review/comment-page-1/#comment-30262</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 04:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Being John Malkovich&quot; As I&#039;ve noted before it was pretty damn strange from the inside.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Being John Malkovich&#8221; As I&#8217;ve noted before it was pretty damn strange from the inside.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m sure this eminent person &quot;who actually votes in the Academy Awards&quot; is right because he&#039;s had a lot of experience with  pictures that are forgotten by the following Tuesday.</description>
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		<description>Wall, I&#039;d agree with all your movie assessments minus one: The Deer Hunter was an astounding movie, agree or not with its political assumptions.  Your lumping it with those other stinkers definitely grabbed my eye.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wall, I&#8217;d agree with all your movie assessments minus one: The Deer Hunter was an astounding movie, agree or not with its political assumptions.  Your lumping it with those other stinkers definitely grabbed my eye.</p>
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		<title>By: Wall</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2006 14:23:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The three truely Great films directed by Robert Altman ( &quot;The Long Goodbye&quot; &quot;California Split&quot; and &quot;McCabe and Mrs. Miller&quot;), the lifetime achivement winner, drew one nommination between them (Julie Christie for &quot;McCabe&quot;).  That should tell you something.  Want the short list? It&#039;s best Pictures that AREN&#039;T terrible.  
        In fact, I&#039;m tired of people beating up &quot;The Greatest Show On Earth.&quot; Sure it sucks,  but also dreadful are  &quot;Chariots Of Fire&quot; &quot;Forest Gump&quot; &quot;Dances With Wolves&quot; &quot;The Deer Hunter&quot; &quot;Titanic&quot; and &quot;The Sting.&quot; 
             Is a passible Horror film like &quot;Silence Of the Lambs&quot; really a great movie? Or dull fare like &quot;Gandhi&quot; or &quot;The Last Emperor&quot;?
  A sleeping pill like &quot;The English Patient?&quot;  Overblown and overrated: &quot;Tom Jones&quot; &quot;Shakespeare In Love&quot; &quot;Shindler&#039;s List&quot; and even second rate Lean like &quot;Bridge On The River Kwai.&quot;  Middlebrow good taste fests like &quot;Mrs. Minever&quot;, &quot;The Best Years Of Our Lives&quot; and &quot;How Green Was My Valley&quot; linger in the mind like the box scores of the 69 Padres.  &quot;Hamlet&quot; is the least interesting of Olvier&#039;s Shakespeare movies. 

          The Godfathers, Joe Buck,  Terry Malloy , T. E. Lawrence and Rocky should blow this pop stand and go find a better party.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The three truely Great films directed by Robert Altman ( &#8220;The Long Goodbye&#8221; &#8220;California Split&#8221; and &#8220;McCabe and Mrs. Miller&#8221;), the lifetime achivement winner, drew one nommination between them (Julie Christie for &#8220;McCabe&#8221;).  That should tell you something.  Want the short list? It&#8217;s best Pictures that AREN&#8217;T terrible.<br />
        In fact, I&#8217;m tired of people beating up &#8220;The Greatest Show On Earth.&#8221; Sure it sucks,  but also dreadful are  &#8220;Chariots Of Fire&#8221; &#8220;Forest Gump&#8221; &#8220;Dances With Wolves&#8221; &#8220;The Deer Hunter&#8221; &#8220;Titanic&#8221; and &#8220;The Sting.&#8221;<br />
             Is a passible Horror film like &#8220;Silence Of the Lambs&#8221; really a great movie? Or dull fare like &#8220;Gandhi&#8221; or &#8220;The Last Emperor&#8221;?<br />
  A sleeping pill like &#8220;The English Patient?&#8221;  Overblown and overrated: &#8220;Tom Jones&#8221; &#8220;Shakespeare In Love&#8221; &#8220;Shindler&#8217;s List&#8221; and even second rate Lean like &#8220;Bridge On The River Kwai.&#8221;  Middlebrow good taste fests like &#8220;Mrs. Minever&#8221;, &#8220;The Best Years Of Our Lives&#8221; and &#8220;How Green Was My Valley&#8221; linger in the mind like the box scores of the 69 Padres.  &#8220;Hamlet&#8221; is the least interesting of Olvier&#8217;s Shakespeare movies. </p>
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		<title>By: Mark A. York</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2006 01:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well I would say it means &quot;something&quot; but not the whole ballgame including the sales histories you mention, otherwise the books would still be riding the top tier like scammer James Frey, but I suppose it depends on whose books one is trashing. If they&#039;re mine it&#039;s OK. Members of the club, not. I get it it, but I suppose like reg&#039;s dissing of his films it was meant to be a cheap shot. And I fully admit it was as intended.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well I would say it means &#8220;something&#8221; but not the whole ballgame including the sales histories you mention, otherwise the books would still be riding the top tier like scammer James Frey, but I suppose it depends on whose books one is trashing. If they&#8217;re mine it&#8217;s OK. Members of the club, not. I get it it, but I suppose like reg&#8217;s dissing of his films it was meant to be a cheap shot. And I fully admit it was as intended.</p>
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		<title>By: Marc Cooper</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 12:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You know Mark.. I HAVE to intervene here. The Amazon book rankings mean NOTHING after the first month or two. You can think what you will of Roger but his series of Moses Wine noir novels are considered classics by many a critic and, indeed, make wonderful reading. They have also been translated into several foreign editions and I can guarantee you that they have been sold in quantities that go far beyond your imagination. Cut out the petty stuff. It stinks.</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And books ranking at the depth I live at. That&#039;s a tough spot I&#039;ll  tell ya.</description>
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		<title>By: reg</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m sure this eminent person &quot;who actually votes in the Academy Awards&quot; is right because he&#039;s had a lot of experience with  pictures that are forgotten by the following Tuesday.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m sure this eminent person &#8220;who actually votes in the Academy Awards&#8221; is right because he&#8217;s had a lot of experience with  pictures that are forgotten by the following Tuesday.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well that may be your opinion Roger, but if it&#039;s all the same to you I&#039;ll take McMurtry. He and Diana wrote a fine film that for once in Hollywood mirrored the literature from whence it came. Routine my ass. Crash will be forgotten. I guess we can take a stab at who in the academy didn&#039;t vote for Brokeback.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well that may be your opinion Roger, but if it&#8217;s all the same to you I&#8217;ll take McMurtry. He and Diana wrote a fine film that for once in Hollywood mirrored the literature from whence it came. Routine my ass. Crash will be forgotten. I guess we can take a stab at who in the academy didn&#8217;t vote for Brokeback.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As someone who actually votes in the Academy Awards (for too long), I hate to rain on anybody&#039;s parade here,  but the whole voting process is almost as dull as the awards themselves.  The reason Brokeback probably lost is that the Academy finally woke up to the fact it was a fairly routine film and the only thing interesting about it, besides the score, was the gay theme - and even that is pretty hohum in 2006. This was a pretty dull bunch of best picutre nominees and, with the exception of Hoffman&#039;s performance in Capote, will probably be forgotten by next Tuesday. The only movies of this year anybody will watch in the future will be Narnia and Wallace and Grommet (both for kids) and Walk the Line because Reese Witherspoon is the only real movie star of our time - like they had them in the old days - the kind woman who make you smile like Stanwyck and Claudette Colbert.  And she can sing!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As someone who actually votes in the Academy Awards (for too long), I hate to rain on anybody&#8217;s parade here,  but the whole voting process is almost as dull as the awards themselves.  The reason Brokeback probably lost is that the Academy finally woke up to the fact it was a fairly routine film and the only thing interesting about it, besides the score, was the gay theme &#8211; and even that is pretty hohum in 2006. This was a pretty dull bunch of best picutre nominees and, with the exception of Hoffman&#8217;s performance in Capote, will probably be forgotten by next Tuesday. The only movies of this year anybody will watch in the future will be Narnia and Wallace and Grommet (both for kids) and Walk the Line because Reese Witherspoon is the only real movie star of our time &#8211; like they had them in the old days &#8211; the kind woman who make you smile like Stanwyck and Claudette Colbert.  And she can sing!</p>
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		<title>By: Michael Crosby</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Has there ever been an Oscar Best Picture winner that was seen by fewer people in the theatre?  I really have no idea how attendance at movies now compares to earlier in the 20th century.

I was told today that Crash is out on dvd.  If so, is it the first to be out on video before receiving a Best Picture award?  Now that, of course, is a test of more recent nature.

I haven&#039;t seen Crash.  When they were doing the Altman movie clips, I saw some of Nashville, including the wonderful scene of singer/songwriter Keith Carradine singing (Oscar-winning song) &quot;I&#039;m Easy,&quot; to a room full of women who had slept with him and each appeared certain the song was dedicated to her.  Except for Lily Tomlin who looked like she dreaded the idea that it might be.  Anyway, I imagined for a moment that Crash was some sort of more aggressive, less-nuanced 21st century version of Nashville.  Nashville was, among other things, very much about clashes of cultures and generations.

But probably not....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Has there ever been an Oscar Best Picture winner that was seen by fewer people in the theatre?  I really have no idea how attendance at movies now compares to earlier in the 20th century.</p>
<p>I was told today that Crash is out on dvd.  If so, is it the first to be out on video before receiving a Best Picture award?  Now that, of course, is a test of more recent nature.</p>
<p>I haven&#8217;t seen Crash.  When they were doing the Altman movie clips, I saw some of Nashville, including the wonderful scene of singer/songwriter Keith Carradine singing (Oscar-winning song) &#8220;I&#8217;m Easy,&#8221; to a room full of women who had slept with him and each appeared certain the song was dedicated to her.  Except for Lily Tomlin who looked like she dreaded the idea that it might be.  Anyway, I imagined for a moment that Crash was some sort of more aggressive, less-nuanced 21st century version of Nashville.  Nashville was, among other things, very much about clashes of cultures and generations.</p>
<p>But probably not&#8230;.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Academy-members were happy to give the â€œBrokeback Mountainâ€ its due, as long as the message was not legitimized in any way. Thank goodness, we can still offer gratuitous, contrived, button-pushers like â€˜Crashâ€™, otherwise all the closeted actors, producers, directors, managers, agents, and studio execs would have had to vote for Capote (â€™yeeccchâ€™), and then come out. Safe and sound in the closet for one more year, phew.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Academy-members were happy to give the â€œBrokeback Mountainâ€ its due, as long as the message was not legitimized in any way. Thank goodness, we can still offer gratuitous, contrived, button-pushers like â€˜Crashâ€™, otherwise all the closeted actors, producers, directors, managers, agents, and studio execs would have had to vote for Capote (â€™yeeccchâ€™), and then come out. Safe and sound in the closet for one more year, phew.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I thought Jon Stewart should have come out dressed in a camouflage suit and full hunting gear, carrying a shotgunâ€”he could have aimed his gun in the air shot  and landed an Oscarâ€”and then saidâ€”you guys  thought the Mafia only wore a three piece suit, well this is how the crooks in the Bush administration dress when they shoot their friends.    

Jon Stewart was interviewed by Larry King, and King asked Jon  if he was told to  censor himself a bit, Stewart responded by saying he was NOT allowed to use adverbsâ€”I think he also wasnâ€™t allowed to use nouns, adjectives, verbs and pronouns. 

 Itâ€™s the nature of the beastâ€”be a â€œlittleâ€ political  but not too much.  Thatâ€™s why â€œCrashâ€ wonâ€”it was just enough politics for Hollywoodâ€”red, yellow, black and white weâ€™re just a rainbow of colors tonight, donâ€™t say anything that is too sharp, weâ€™re here to sell movies and not to harp!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I thought Jon Stewart should have come out dressed in a camouflage suit and full hunting gear, carrying a shotgunâ€”he could have aimed his gun in the air shot  and landed an Oscarâ€”and then saidâ€”you guys  thought the Mafia only wore a three piece suit, well this is how the crooks in the Bush administration dress when they shoot their friends.    </p>
<p>Jon Stewart was interviewed by Larry King, and King asked Jon  if he was told to  censor himself a bit, Stewart responded by saying he was NOT allowed to use adverbsâ€”I think he also wasnâ€™t allowed to use nouns, adjectives, verbs and pronouns. </p>
<p> Itâ€™s the nature of the beastâ€”be a â€œlittleâ€ political  but not too much.  Thatâ€™s why â€œCrashâ€ wonâ€”it was just enough politics for Hollywoodâ€”red, yellow, black and white weâ€™re just a rainbow of colors tonight, donâ€™t say anything that is too sharp, weâ€™re here to sell movies and not to harp!</p>
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		<title>By: Mark A. York</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/shorter-oscars-review/comment-page-1/#comment-30262</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 04:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Being John Malkovich&quot; As I&#039;ve noted before it was pretty damn strange from the inside.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Being John Malkovich&#8221; As I&#8217;ve noted before it was pretty damn strange from the inside.</p>
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		<title>By: Michael Crosby</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well that may be your opinion Roger, but if it&#039;s all the same to you I&#039;ll take McMurtry. He and Diana wrote a fine film that for once in Hollywood mirrored the literature from whence it came. Routine my ass. Crash will be forgotten. I guess we can take a stab at who in the academy didn&#039;t vote for Brokeback.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well that may be your opinion Roger, but if it&#8217;s all the same to you I&#8217;ll take McMurtry. He and Diana wrote a fine film that for once in Hollywood mirrored the literature from whence it came. Routine my ass. Crash will be forgotten. I guess we can take a stab at who in the academy didn&#8217;t vote for Brokeback.</p>
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		<title>By: Rich</title>
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		<description>Wall, I&#039;d agree with all your movie assessments minus one: The Deer Hunter was an astounding movie, agree or not with its political assumptions.  Your lumping it with those other stinkers definitely grabbed my eye.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wall, I&#8217;d agree with all your movie assessments minus one: The Deer Hunter was an astounding movie, agree or not with its political assumptions.  Your lumping it with those other stinkers definitely grabbed my eye.</p>
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		<title>By: Wall</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2006 14:23:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The three truely Great films directed by Robert Altman ( &quot;The Long Goodbye&quot; &quot;California Split&quot; and &quot;McCabe and Mrs. Miller&quot;), the lifetime achivement winner, drew one nommination between them (Julie Christie for &quot;McCabe&quot;).  That should tell you something.  Want the short list? It&#039;s best Pictures that AREN&#039;T terrible.  
        In fact, I&#039;m tired of people beating up &quot;The Greatest Show On Earth.&quot; Sure it sucks,  but also dreadful are  &quot;Chariots Of Fire&quot; &quot;Forest Gump&quot; &quot;Dances With Wolves&quot; &quot;The Deer Hunter&quot; &quot;Titanic&quot; and &quot;The Sting.&quot; 
             Is a passible Horror film like &quot;Silence Of the Lambs&quot; really a great movie? Or dull fare like &quot;Gandhi&quot; or &quot;The Last Emperor&quot;?
  A sleeping pill like &quot;The English Patient?&quot;  Overblown and overrated: &quot;Tom Jones&quot; &quot;Shakespeare In Love&quot; &quot;Shindler&#039;s List&quot; and even second rate Lean like &quot;Bridge On The River Kwai.&quot;  Middlebrow good taste fests like &quot;Mrs. Minever&quot;, &quot;The Best Years Of Our Lives&quot; and &quot;How Green Was My Valley&quot; linger in the mind like the box scores of the 69 Padres.  &quot;Hamlet&quot; is the least interesting of Olvier&#039;s Shakespeare movies. 

          The Godfathers, Joe Buck,  Terry Malloy , T. E. Lawrence and Rocky should blow this pop stand and go find a better party.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The three truely Great films directed by Robert Altman ( &#8220;The Long Goodbye&#8221; &#8220;California Split&#8221; and &#8220;McCabe and Mrs. Miller&#8221;), the lifetime achivement winner, drew one nommination between them (Julie Christie for &#8220;McCabe&#8221;).  That should tell you something.  Want the short list? It&#8217;s best Pictures that AREN&#8217;T terrible.<br />
        In fact, I&#8217;m tired of people beating up &#8220;The Greatest Show On Earth.&#8221; Sure it sucks,  but also dreadful are  &#8220;Chariots Of Fire&#8221; &#8220;Forest Gump&#8221; &#8220;Dances With Wolves&#8221; &#8220;The Deer Hunter&#8221; &#8220;Titanic&#8221; and &#8220;The Sting.&#8221;<br />
             Is a passible Horror film like &#8220;Silence Of the Lambs&#8221; really a great movie? Or dull fare like &#8220;Gandhi&#8221; or &#8220;The Last Emperor&#8221;?<br />
  A sleeping pill like &#8220;The English Patient?&#8221;  Overblown and overrated: &#8220;Tom Jones&#8221; &#8220;Shakespeare In Love&#8221; &#8220;Shindler&#8217;s List&#8221; and even second rate Lean like &#8220;Bridge On The River Kwai.&#8221;  Middlebrow good taste fests like &#8220;Mrs. Minever&#8221;, &#8220;The Best Years Of Our Lives&#8221; and &#8220;How Green Was My Valley&#8221; linger in the mind like the box scores of the 69 Padres.  &#8220;Hamlet&#8221; is the least interesting of Olvier&#8217;s Shakespeare movies. </p>
<p>          The Godfathers, Joe Buck,  Terry Malloy , T. E. Lawrence and Rocky should blow this pop stand and go find a better party.</p>
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		<title>By: Mark A. York</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2006 01:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well I would say it means &quot;something&quot; but not the whole ballgame including the sales histories you mention, otherwise the books would still be riding the top tier like scammer James Frey, but I suppose it depends on whose books one is trashing. If they&#039;re mine it&#039;s OK. Members of the club, not. I get it it, but I suppose like reg&#039;s dissing of his films it was meant to be a cheap shot. And I fully admit it was as intended.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well I would say it means &#8220;something&#8221; but not the whole ballgame including the sales histories you mention, otherwise the books would still be riding the top tier like scammer James Frey, but I suppose it depends on whose books one is trashing. If they&#8217;re mine it&#8217;s OK. Members of the club, not. I get it it, but I suppose like reg&#8217;s dissing of his films it was meant to be a cheap shot. And I fully admit it was as intended.</p>
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		<title>By: Marc Cooper</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 12:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You know Mark.. I HAVE to intervene here. The Amazon book rankings mean NOTHING after the first month or two. You can think what you will of Roger but his series of Moses Wine noir novels are considered classics by many a critic and, indeed, make wonderful reading. They have also been translated into several foreign editions and I can guarantee you that they have been sold in quantities that go far beyond your imagination. Cut out the petty stuff. It stinks.</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And books ranking at the depth I live at. That&#039;s a tough spot I&#039;ll  tell ya.</description>
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		<title>By: reg</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m sure this eminent person &quot;who actually votes in the Academy Awards&quot; is right because he&#039;s had a lot of experience with  pictures that are forgotten by the following Tuesday.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m sure this eminent person &#8220;who actually votes in the Academy Awards&#8221; is right because he&#8217;s had a lot of experience with  pictures that are forgotten by the following Tuesday.</p>
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		<title>By: Mark A. York</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well that may be your opinion Roger, but if it&#039;s all the same to you I&#039;ll take McMurtry. He and Diana wrote a fine film that for once in Hollywood mirrored the literature from whence it came. Routine my ass. Crash will be forgotten. I guess we can take a stab at who in the academy didn&#039;t vote for Brokeback.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well that may be your opinion Roger, but if it&#8217;s all the same to you I&#8217;ll take McMurtry. He and Diana wrote a fine film that for once in Hollywood mirrored the literature from whence it came. Routine my ass. Crash will be forgotten. I guess we can take a stab at who in the academy didn&#8217;t vote for Brokeback.</p>
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		<title>By: Roger L. Simon</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As someone who actually votes in the Academy Awards (for too long), I hate to rain on anybody&#039;s parade here,  but the whole voting process is almost as dull as the awards themselves.  The reason Brokeback probably lost is that the Academy finally woke up to the fact it was a fairly routine film and the only thing interesting about it, besides the score, was the gay theme - and even that is pretty hohum in 2006. This was a pretty dull bunch of best picutre nominees and, with the exception of Hoffman&#039;s performance in Capote, will probably be forgotten by next Tuesday. The only movies of this year anybody will watch in the future will be Narnia and Wallace and Grommet (both for kids) and Walk the Line because Reese Witherspoon is the only real movie star of our time - like they had them in the old days - the kind woman who make you smile like Stanwyck and Claudette Colbert.  And she can sing!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As someone who actually votes in the Academy Awards (for too long), I hate to rain on anybody&#8217;s parade here,  but the whole voting process is almost as dull as the awards themselves.  The reason Brokeback probably lost is that the Academy finally woke up to the fact it was a fairly routine film and the only thing interesting about it, besides the score, was the gay theme &#8211; and even that is pretty hohum in 2006. This was a pretty dull bunch of best picutre nominees and, with the exception of Hoffman&#8217;s performance in Capote, will probably be forgotten by next Tuesday. The only movies of this year anybody will watch in the future will be Narnia and Wallace and Grommet (both for kids) and Walk the Line because Reese Witherspoon is the only real movie star of our time &#8211; like they had them in the old days &#8211; the kind woman who make you smile like Stanwyck and Claudette Colbert.  And she can sing!</p>
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		<title>By: Michael Crosby</title>
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		<dc:creator>Michael Crosby</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Has there ever been an Oscar Best Picture winner that was seen by fewer people in the theatre?  I really have no idea how attendance at movies now compares to earlier in the 20th century.

I was told today that Crash is out on dvd.  If so, is it the first to be out on video before receiving a Best Picture award?  Now that, of course, is a test of more recent nature.

I haven&#039;t seen Crash.  When they were doing the Altman movie clips, I saw some of Nashville, including the wonderful scene of singer/songwriter Keith Carradine singing (Oscar-winning song) &quot;I&#039;m Easy,&quot; to a room full of women who had slept with him and each appeared certain the song was dedicated to her.  Except for Lily Tomlin who looked like she dreaded the idea that it might be.  Anyway, I imagined for a moment that Crash was some sort of more aggressive, less-nuanced 21st century version of Nashville.  Nashville was, among other things, very much about clashes of cultures and generations.

But probably not....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Has there ever been an Oscar Best Picture winner that was seen by fewer people in the theatre?  I really have no idea how attendance at movies now compares to earlier in the 20th century.</p>
<p>I was told today that Crash is out on dvd.  If so, is it the first to be out on video before receiving a Best Picture award?  Now that, of course, is a test of more recent nature.</p>
<p>I haven&#8217;t seen Crash.  When they were doing the Altman movie clips, I saw some of Nashville, including the wonderful scene of singer/songwriter Keith Carradine singing (Oscar-winning song) &#8220;I&#8217;m Easy,&#8221; to a room full of women who had slept with him and each appeared certain the song was dedicated to her.  Except for Lily Tomlin who looked like she dreaded the idea that it might be.  Anyway, I imagined for a moment that Crash was some sort of more aggressive, less-nuanced 21st century version of Nashville.  Nashville was, among other things, very much about clashes of cultures and generations.</p>
<p>But probably not&#8230;.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Academy-members were happy to give the â€œBrokeback Mountainâ€ its due, as long as the message was not legitimized in any way. Thank goodness, we can still offer gratuitous, contrived, button-pushers like â€˜Crashâ€™, otherwise all the closeted actors, producers, directors, managers, agents, and studio execs would have had to vote for Capote (â€™yeeccchâ€™), and then come out. Safe and sound in the closet for one more year, phew.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Academy-members were happy to give the â€œBrokeback Mountainâ€ its due, as long as the message was not legitimized in any way. Thank goodness, we can still offer gratuitous, contrived, button-pushers like â€˜Crashâ€™, otherwise all the closeted actors, producers, directors, managers, agents, and studio execs would have had to vote for Capote (â€™yeeccchâ€™), and then come out. Safe and sound in the closet for one more year, phew.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I thought Jon Stewart should have come out dressed in a camouflage suit and full hunting gear, carrying a shotgunâ€”he could have aimed his gun in the air shot  and landed an Oscarâ€”and then saidâ€”you guys  thought the Mafia only wore a three piece suit, well this is how the crooks in the Bush administration dress when they shoot their friends.    

Jon Stewart was interviewed by Larry King, and King asked Jon  if he was told to  censor himself a bit, Stewart responded by saying he was NOT allowed to use adverbsâ€”I think he also wasnâ€™t allowed to use nouns, adjectives, verbs and pronouns. 

 Itâ€™s the nature of the beastâ€”be a â€œlittleâ€ political  but not too much.  Thatâ€™s why â€œCrashâ€ wonâ€”it was just enough politics for Hollywoodâ€”red, yellow, black and white weâ€™re just a rainbow of colors tonight, donâ€™t say anything that is too sharp, weâ€™re here to sell movies and not to harp!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I thought Jon Stewart should have come out dressed in a camouflage suit and full hunting gear, carrying a shotgunâ€”he could have aimed his gun in the air shot  and landed an Oscarâ€”and then saidâ€”you guys  thought the Mafia only wore a three piece suit, well this is how the crooks in the Bush administration dress when they shoot their friends.    </p>
<p>Jon Stewart was interviewed by Larry King, and King asked Jon  if he was told to  censor himself a bit, Stewart responded by saying he was NOT allowed to use adverbsâ€”I think he also wasnâ€™t allowed to use nouns, adjectives, verbs and pronouns. </p>
<p> Itâ€™s the nature of the beastâ€”be a â€œlittleâ€ political  but not too much.  Thatâ€™s why â€œCrashâ€ wonâ€”it was just enough politics for Hollywoodâ€”red, yellow, black and white weâ€™re just a rainbow of colors tonight, donâ€™t say anything that is too sharp, weâ€™re here to sell movies and not to harp!</p>
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		<title>By: Mark A. York</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/shorter-oscars-review/comment-page-1/#comment-30262</link>
		<dc:creator>Mark A. York</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 04:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Being John Malkovich&quot; As I&#039;ve noted before it was pretty damn strange from the inside.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Being John Malkovich&#8221; As I&#8217;ve noted before it was pretty damn strange from the inside.</p>
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		<title>By: Michael Crosby</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As someone who actually votes in the Academy Awards (for too long), I hate to rain on anybody&#039;s parade here,  but the whole voting process is almost as dull as the awards themselves.  The reason Brokeback probably lost is that the Academy finally woke up to the fact it was a fairly routine film and the only thing interesting about it, besides the score, was the gay theme - and even that is pretty hohum in 2006. This was a pretty dull bunch of best picutre nominees and, with the exception of Hoffman&#039;s performance in Capote, will probably be forgotten by next Tuesday. The only movies of this year anybody will watch in the future will be Narnia and Wallace and Grommet (both for kids) and Walk the Line because Reese Witherspoon is the only real movie star of our time - like they had them in the old days - the kind woman who make you smile like Stanwyck and Claudette Colbert.  And she can sing!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As someone who actually votes in the Academy Awards (for too long), I hate to rain on anybody&#8217;s parade here,  but the whole voting process is almost as dull as the awards themselves.  The reason Brokeback probably lost is that the Academy finally woke up to the fact it was a fairly routine film and the only thing interesting about it, besides the score, was the gay theme &#8211; and even that is pretty hohum in 2006. This was a pretty dull bunch of best picutre nominees and, with the exception of Hoffman&#8217;s performance in Capote, will probably be forgotten by next Tuesday. The only movies of this year anybody will watch in the future will be Narnia and Wallace and Grommet (both for kids) and Walk the Line because Reese Witherspoon is the only real movie star of our time &#8211; like they had them in the old days &#8211; the kind woman who make you smile like Stanwyck and Claudette Colbert.  And she can sing!</p>
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		<title>By: Rich</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2006 03:27:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wall, I&#039;d agree with all your movie assessments minus one: The Deer Hunter was an astounding movie, agree or not with its political assumptions.  Your lumping it with those other stinkers definitely grabbed my eye.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wall, I&#8217;d agree with all your movie assessments minus one: The Deer Hunter was an astounding movie, agree or not with its political assumptions.  Your lumping it with those other stinkers definitely grabbed my eye.</p>
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		<title>By: Wall</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2006 14:23:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The three truely Great films directed by Robert Altman ( &quot;The Long Goodbye&quot; &quot;California Split&quot; and &quot;McCabe and Mrs. Miller&quot;), the lifetime achivement winner, drew one nommination between them (Julie Christie for &quot;McCabe&quot;).  That should tell you something.  Want the short list? It&#039;s best Pictures that AREN&#039;T terrible.  
        In fact, I&#039;m tired of people beating up &quot;The Greatest Show On Earth.&quot; Sure it sucks,  but also dreadful are  &quot;Chariots Of Fire&quot; &quot;Forest Gump&quot; &quot;Dances With Wolves&quot; &quot;The Deer Hunter&quot; &quot;Titanic&quot; and &quot;The Sting.&quot; 
             Is a passible Horror film like &quot;Silence Of the Lambs&quot; really a great movie? Or dull fare like &quot;Gandhi&quot; or &quot;The Last Emperor&quot;?
  A sleeping pill like &quot;The English Patient?&quot;  Overblown and overrated: &quot;Tom Jones&quot; &quot;Shakespeare In Love&quot; &quot;Shindler&#039;s List&quot; and even second rate Lean like &quot;Bridge On The River Kwai.&quot;  Middlebrow good taste fests like &quot;Mrs. Minever&quot;, &quot;The Best Years Of Our Lives&quot; and &quot;How Green Was My Valley&quot; linger in the mind like the box scores of the 69 Padres.  &quot;Hamlet&quot; is the least interesting of Olvier&#039;s Shakespeare movies. 

          The Godfathers, Joe Buck,  Terry Malloy , T. E. Lawrence and Rocky should blow this pop stand and go find a better party.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The three truely Great films directed by Robert Altman ( &#8220;The Long Goodbye&#8221; &#8220;California Split&#8221; and &#8220;McCabe and Mrs. Miller&#8221;), the lifetime achivement winner, drew one nommination between them (Julie Christie for &#8220;McCabe&#8221;).  That should tell you something.  Want the short list? It&#8217;s best Pictures that AREN&#8217;T terrible.<br />
        In fact, I&#8217;m tired of people beating up &#8220;The Greatest Show On Earth.&#8221; Sure it sucks,  but also dreadful are  &#8220;Chariots Of Fire&#8221; &#8220;Forest Gump&#8221; &#8220;Dances With Wolves&#8221; &#8220;The Deer Hunter&#8221; &#8220;Titanic&#8221; and &#8220;The Sting.&#8221;<br />
             Is a passible Horror film like &#8220;Silence Of the Lambs&#8221; really a great movie? Or dull fare like &#8220;Gandhi&#8221; or &#8220;The Last Emperor&#8221;?<br />
  A sleeping pill like &#8220;The English Patient?&#8221;  Overblown and overrated: &#8220;Tom Jones&#8221; &#8220;Shakespeare In Love&#8221; &#8220;Shindler&#8217;s List&#8221; and even second rate Lean like &#8220;Bridge On The River Kwai.&#8221;  Middlebrow good taste fests like &#8220;Mrs. Minever&#8221;, &#8220;The Best Years Of Our Lives&#8221; and &#8220;How Green Was My Valley&#8221; linger in the mind like the box scores of the 69 Padres.  &#8220;Hamlet&#8221; is the least interesting of Olvier&#8217;s Shakespeare movies. </p>
<p>          The Godfathers, Joe Buck,  Terry Malloy , T. E. Lawrence and Rocky should blow this pop stand and go find a better party.</p>
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		<title>By: Mark A. York</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2006 01:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well I would say it means &quot;something&quot; but not the whole ballgame including the sales histories you mention, otherwise the books would still be riding the top tier like scammer James Frey, but I suppose it depends on whose books one is trashing. If they&#039;re mine it&#039;s OK. Members of the club, not. I get it it, but I suppose like reg&#039;s dissing of his films it was meant to be a cheap shot. And I fully admit it was as intended.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well I would say it means &#8220;something&#8221; but not the whole ballgame including the sales histories you mention, otherwise the books would still be riding the top tier like scammer James Frey, but I suppose it depends on whose books one is trashing. If they&#8217;re mine it&#8217;s OK. Members of the club, not. I get it it, but I suppose like reg&#8217;s dissing of his films it was meant to be a cheap shot. And I fully admit it was as intended.</p>
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		<title>By: Marc Cooper</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 12:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You know Mark.. I HAVE to intervene here. The Amazon book rankings mean NOTHING after the first month or two. You can think what you will of Roger but his series of Moses Wine noir novels are considered classics by many a critic and, indeed, make wonderful reading. They have also been translated into several foreign editions and I can guarantee you that they have been sold in quantities that go far beyond your imagination. Cut out the petty stuff. It stinks.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You know Mark.. I HAVE to intervene here. The Amazon book rankings mean NOTHING after the first month or two. You can think what you will of Roger but his series of Moses Wine noir novels are considered classics by many a critic and, indeed, make wonderful reading. They have also been translated into several foreign editions and I can guarantee you that they have been sold in quantities that go far beyond your imagination. Cut out the petty stuff. It stinks.</p>
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		<title>By: Mark A. York</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And books ranking at the depth I live at. That&#039;s a tough spot I&#039;ll  tell ya.</description>
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		<title>By: reg</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m sure this eminent person &quot;who actually votes in the Academy Awards&quot; is right because he&#039;s had a lot of experience with  pictures that are forgotten by the following Tuesday.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m sure this eminent person &#8220;who actually votes in the Academy Awards&#8221; is right because he&#8217;s had a lot of experience with  pictures that are forgotten by the following Tuesday.</p>
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		<title>By: Mark A. York</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well that may be your opinion Roger, but if it&#039;s all the same to you I&#039;ll take McMurtry. He and Diana wrote a fine film that for once in Hollywood mirrored the literature from whence it came. Routine my ass. Crash will be forgotten. I guess we can take a stab at who in the academy didn&#039;t vote for Brokeback.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well that may be your opinion Roger, but if it&#8217;s all the same to you I&#8217;ll take McMurtry. He and Diana wrote a fine film that for once in Hollywood mirrored the literature from whence it came. Routine my ass. Crash will be forgotten. I guess we can take a stab at who in the academy didn&#8217;t vote for Brokeback.</p>
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		<title>By: Roger L. Simon</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As someone who actually votes in the Academy Awards (for too long), I hate to rain on anybody&#039;s parade here,  but the whole voting process is almost as dull as the awards themselves.  The reason Brokeback probably lost is that the Academy finally woke up to the fact it was a fairly routine film and the only thing interesting about it, besides the score, was the gay theme - and even that is pretty hohum in 2006. This was a pretty dull bunch of best picutre nominees and, with the exception of Hoffman&#039;s performance in Capote, will probably be forgotten by next Tuesday. The only movies of this year anybody will watch in the future will be Narnia and Wallace and Grommet (both for kids) and Walk the Line because Reese Witherspoon is the only real movie star of our time - like they had them in the old days - the kind woman who make you smile like Stanwyck and Claudette Colbert.  And she can sing!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As someone who actually votes in the Academy Awards (for too long), I hate to rain on anybody&#8217;s parade here,  but the whole voting process is almost as dull as the awards themselves.  The reason Brokeback probably lost is that the Academy finally woke up to the fact it was a fairly routine film and the only thing interesting about it, besides the score, was the gay theme &#8211; and even that is pretty hohum in 2006. This was a pretty dull bunch of best picutre nominees and, with the exception of Hoffman&#8217;s performance in Capote, will probably be forgotten by next Tuesday. The only movies of this year anybody will watch in the future will be Narnia and Wallace and Grommet (both for kids) and Walk the Line because Reese Witherspoon is the only real movie star of our time &#8211; like they had them in the old days &#8211; the kind woman who make you smile like Stanwyck and Claudette Colbert.  And she can sing!</p>
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		<title>By: Michael Crosby</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Has there ever been an Oscar Best Picture winner that was seen by fewer people in the theatre?  I really have no idea how attendance at movies now compares to earlier in the 20th century.

I was told today that Crash is out on dvd.  If so, is it the first to be out on video before receiving a Best Picture award?  Now that, of course, is a test of more recent nature.

I haven&#039;t seen Crash.  When they were doing the Altman movie clips, I saw some of Nashville, including the wonderful scene of singer/songwriter Keith Carradine singing (Oscar-winning song) &quot;I&#039;m Easy,&quot; to a room full of women who had slept with him and each appeared certain the song was dedicated to her.  Except for Lily Tomlin who looked like she dreaded the idea that it might be.  Anyway, I imagined for a moment that Crash was some sort of more aggressive, less-nuanced 21st century version of Nashville.  Nashville was, among other things, very much about clashes of cultures and generations.

But probably not....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Has there ever been an Oscar Best Picture winner that was seen by fewer people in the theatre?  I really have no idea how attendance at movies now compares to earlier in the 20th century.</p>
<p>I was told today that Crash is out on dvd.  If so, is it the first to be out on video before receiving a Best Picture award?  Now that, of course, is a test of more recent nature.</p>
<p>I haven&#8217;t seen Crash.  When they were doing the Altman movie clips, I saw some of Nashville, including the wonderful scene of singer/songwriter Keith Carradine singing (Oscar-winning song) &#8220;I&#8217;m Easy,&#8221; to a room full of women who had slept with him and each appeared certain the song was dedicated to her.  Except for Lily Tomlin who looked like she dreaded the idea that it might be.  Anyway, I imagined for a moment that Crash was some sort of more aggressive, less-nuanced 21st century version of Nashville.  Nashville was, among other things, very much about clashes of cultures and generations.</p>
<p>But probably not&#8230;.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Skippy Greyswood</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Academy-members were happy to give the â€œBrokeback Mountainâ€ its due, as long as the message was not legitimized in any way. Thank goodness, we can still offer gratuitous, contrived, button-pushers like â€˜Crashâ€™, otherwise all the closeted actors, producers, directors, managers, agents, and studio execs would have had to vote for Capote (â€™yeeccchâ€™), and then come out. Safe and sound in the closet for one more year, phew.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Academy-members were happy to give the â€œBrokeback Mountainâ€ its due, as long as the message was not legitimized in any way. Thank goodness, we can still offer gratuitous, contrived, button-pushers like â€˜Crashâ€™, otherwise all the closeted actors, producers, directors, managers, agents, and studio execs would have had to vote for Capote (â€™yeeccchâ€™), and then come out. Safe and sound in the closet for one more year, phew.</p>
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		<title>By: Eleanore kjellberg</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I thought Jon Stewart should have come out dressed in a camouflage suit and full hunting gear, carrying a shotgunâ€”he could have aimed his gun in the air shot  and landed an Oscarâ€”and then saidâ€”you guys  thought the Mafia only wore a three piece suit, well this is how the crooks in the Bush administration dress when they shoot their friends.    

Jon Stewart was interviewed by Larry King, and King asked Jon  if he was told to  censor himself a bit, Stewart responded by saying he was NOT allowed to use adverbsâ€”I think he also wasnâ€™t allowed to use nouns, adjectives, verbs and pronouns. 

 Itâ€™s the nature of the beastâ€”be a â€œlittleâ€ political  but not too much.  Thatâ€™s why â€œCrashâ€ wonâ€”it was just enough politics for Hollywoodâ€”red, yellow, black and white weâ€™re just a rainbow of colors tonight, donâ€™t say anything that is too sharp, weâ€™re here to sell movies and not to harp!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I thought Jon Stewart should have come out dressed in a camouflage suit and full hunting gear, carrying a shotgunâ€”he could have aimed his gun in the air shot  and landed an Oscarâ€”and then saidâ€”you guys  thought the Mafia only wore a three piece suit, well this is how the crooks in the Bush administration dress when they shoot their friends.    </p>
<p>Jon Stewart was interviewed by Larry King, and King asked Jon  if he was told to  censor himself a bit, Stewart responded by saying he was NOT allowed to use adverbsâ€”I think he also wasnâ€™t allowed to use nouns, adjectives, verbs and pronouns. </p>
<p> Itâ€™s the nature of the beastâ€”be a â€œlittleâ€ political  but not too much.  Thatâ€™s why â€œCrashâ€ wonâ€”it was just enough politics for Hollywoodâ€”red, yellow, black and white weâ€™re just a rainbow of colors tonight, donâ€™t say anything that is too sharp, weâ€™re here to sell movies and not to harp!</p>
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		<title>By: Mark A. York</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/shorter-oscars-review/comment-page-1/#comment-30262</link>
		<dc:creator>Mark A. York</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 04:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Being John Malkovich&quot; As I&#039;ve noted before it was pretty damn strange from the inside.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Being John Malkovich&#8221; As I&#8217;ve noted before it was pretty damn strange from the inside.</p>
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		<title>By: Michael Crosby</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/shorter-oscars-review/comment-page-1/#comment-30288</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Has there ever been an Oscar Best Picture winner that was seen by fewer people in the theatre?  I really have no idea how attendance at movies now compares to earlier in the 20th century.

I was told today that Crash is out on dvd.  If so, is it the first to be out on video before receiving a Best Picture award?  Now that, of course, is a test of more recent nature.

I haven&#039;t seen Crash.  When they were doing the Altman movie clips, I saw some of Nashville, including the wonderful scene of singer/songwriter Keith Carradine singing (Oscar-winning song) &quot;I&#039;m Easy,&quot; to a room full of women who had slept with him and each appeared certain the song was dedicated to her.  Except for Lily Tomlin who looked like she dreaded the idea that it might be.  Anyway, I imagined for a moment that Crash was some sort of more aggressive, less-nuanced 21st century version of Nashville.  Nashville was, among other things, very much about clashes of cultures and generations.

But probably not....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Has there ever been an Oscar Best Picture winner that was seen by fewer people in the theatre?  I really have no idea how attendance at movies now compares to earlier in the 20th century.</p>
<p>I was told today that Crash is out on dvd.  If so, is it the first to be out on video before receiving a Best Picture award?  Now that, of course, is a test of more recent nature.</p>
<p>I haven&#8217;t seen Crash.  When they were doing the Altman movie clips, I saw some of Nashville, including the wonderful scene of singer/songwriter Keith Carradine singing (Oscar-winning song) &#8220;I&#8217;m Easy,&#8221; to a room full of women who had slept with him and each appeared certain the song was dedicated to her.  Except for Lily Tomlin who looked like she dreaded the idea that it might be.  Anyway, I imagined for a moment that Crash was some sort of more aggressive, less-nuanced 21st century version of Nashville.  Nashville was, among other things, very much about clashes of cultures and generations.</p>
<p>But probably not&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>By: Rich</title>
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		<description>Wall, I&#039;d agree with all your movie assessments minus one: The Deer Hunter was an astounding movie, agree or not with its political assumptions.  Your lumping it with those other stinkers definitely grabbed my eye.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wall, I&#8217;d agree with all your movie assessments minus one: The Deer Hunter was an astounding movie, agree or not with its political assumptions.  Your lumping it with those other stinkers definitely grabbed my eye.</p>
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		<title>By: Wall</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2006 14:23:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The three truely Great films directed by Robert Altman ( &quot;The Long Goodbye&quot; &quot;California Split&quot; and &quot;McCabe and Mrs. Miller&quot;), the lifetime achivement winner, drew one nommination between them (Julie Christie for &quot;McCabe&quot;).  That should tell you something.  Want the short list? It&#039;s best Pictures that AREN&#039;T terrible.  
        In fact, I&#039;m tired of people beating up &quot;The Greatest Show On Earth.&quot; Sure it sucks,  but also dreadful are  &quot;Chariots Of Fire&quot; &quot;Forest Gump&quot; &quot;Dances With Wolves&quot; &quot;The Deer Hunter&quot; &quot;Titanic&quot; and &quot;The Sting.&quot; 
             Is a passible Horror film like &quot;Silence Of the Lambs&quot; really a great movie? Or dull fare like &quot;Gandhi&quot; or &quot;The Last Emperor&quot;?
  A sleeping pill like &quot;The English Patient?&quot;  Overblown and overrated: &quot;Tom Jones&quot; &quot;Shakespeare In Love&quot; &quot;Shindler&#039;s List&quot; and even second rate Lean like &quot;Bridge On The River Kwai.&quot;  Middlebrow good taste fests like &quot;Mrs. Minever&quot;, &quot;The Best Years Of Our Lives&quot; and &quot;How Green Was My Valley&quot; linger in the mind like the box scores of the 69 Padres.  &quot;Hamlet&quot; is the least interesting of Olvier&#039;s Shakespeare movies. 

          The Godfathers, Joe Buck,  Terry Malloy , T. E. Lawrence and Rocky should blow this pop stand and go find a better party.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The three truely Great films directed by Robert Altman ( &#8220;The Long Goodbye&#8221; &#8220;California Split&#8221; and &#8220;McCabe and Mrs. Miller&#8221;), the lifetime achivement winner, drew one nommination between them (Julie Christie for &#8220;McCabe&#8221;).  That should tell you something.  Want the short list? It&#8217;s best Pictures that AREN&#8217;T terrible.<br />
        In fact, I&#8217;m tired of people beating up &#8220;The Greatest Show On Earth.&#8221; Sure it sucks,  but also dreadful are  &#8220;Chariots Of Fire&#8221; &#8220;Forest Gump&#8221; &#8220;Dances With Wolves&#8221; &#8220;The Deer Hunter&#8221; &#8220;Titanic&#8221; and &#8220;The Sting.&#8221;<br />
             Is a passible Horror film like &#8220;Silence Of the Lambs&#8221; really a great movie? Or dull fare like &#8220;Gandhi&#8221; or &#8220;The Last Emperor&#8221;?<br />
  A sleeping pill like &#8220;The English Patient?&#8221;  Overblown and overrated: &#8220;Tom Jones&#8221; &#8220;Shakespeare In Love&#8221; &#8220;Shindler&#8217;s List&#8221; and even second rate Lean like &#8220;Bridge On The River Kwai.&#8221;  Middlebrow good taste fests like &#8220;Mrs. Minever&#8221;, &#8220;The Best Years Of Our Lives&#8221; and &#8220;How Green Was My Valley&#8221; linger in the mind like the box scores of the 69 Padres.  &#8220;Hamlet&#8221; is the least interesting of Olvier&#8217;s Shakespeare movies. </p>
<p>          The Godfathers, Joe Buck,  Terry Malloy , T. E. Lawrence and Rocky should blow this pop stand and go find a better party.</p>
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		<title>By: Mark A. York</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2006 01:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well I would say it means &quot;something&quot; but not the whole ballgame including the sales histories you mention, otherwise the books would still be riding the top tier like scammer James Frey, but I suppose it depends on whose books one is trashing. If they&#039;re mine it&#039;s OK. Members of the club, not. I get it it, but I suppose like reg&#039;s dissing of his films it was meant to be a cheap shot. And I fully admit it was as intended.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well I would say it means &#8220;something&#8221; but not the whole ballgame including the sales histories you mention, otherwise the books would still be riding the top tier like scammer James Frey, but I suppose it depends on whose books one is trashing. If they&#8217;re mine it&#8217;s OK. Members of the club, not. I get it it, but I suppose like reg&#8217;s dissing of his films it was meant to be a cheap shot. And I fully admit it was as intended.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 12:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You know Mark.. I HAVE to intervene here. The Amazon book rankings mean NOTHING after the first month or two. You can think what you will of Roger but his series of Moses Wine noir novels are considered classics by many a critic and, indeed, make wonderful reading. They have also been translated into several foreign editions and I can guarantee you that they have been sold in quantities that go far beyond your imagination. Cut out the petty stuff. It stinks.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You know Mark.. I HAVE to intervene here. The Amazon book rankings mean NOTHING after the first month or two. You can think what you will of Roger but his series of Moses Wine noir novels are considered classics by many a critic and, indeed, make wonderful reading. They have also been translated into several foreign editions and I can guarantee you that they have been sold in quantities that go far beyond your imagination. Cut out the petty stuff. It stinks.</p>
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		<description>And books ranking at the depth I live at. That&#039;s a tough spot I&#039;ll  tell ya.</description>
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		<description>I&#039;m sure this eminent person &quot;who actually votes in the Academy Awards&quot; is right because he&#039;s had a lot of experience with  pictures that are forgotten by the following Tuesday.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m sure this eminent person &#8220;who actually votes in the Academy Awards&#8221; is right because he&#8217;s had a lot of experience with  pictures that are forgotten by the following Tuesday.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well that may be your opinion Roger, but if it&#039;s all the same to you I&#039;ll take McMurtry. He and Diana wrote a fine film that for once in Hollywood mirrored the literature from whence it came. Routine my ass. Crash will be forgotten. I guess we can take a stab at who in the academy didn&#039;t vote for Brokeback.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well that may be your opinion Roger, but if it&#8217;s all the same to you I&#8217;ll take McMurtry. He and Diana wrote a fine film that for once in Hollywood mirrored the literature from whence it came. Routine my ass. Crash will be forgotten. I guess we can take a stab at who in the academy didn&#8217;t vote for Brokeback.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As someone who actually votes in the Academy Awards (for too long), I hate to rain on anybody&#039;s parade here,  but the whole voting process is almost as dull as the awards themselves.  The reason Brokeback probably lost is that the Academy finally woke up to the fact it was a fairly routine film and the only thing interesting about it, besides the score, was the gay theme - and even that is pretty hohum in 2006. This was a pretty dull bunch of best picutre nominees and, with the exception of Hoffman&#039;s performance in Capote, will probably be forgotten by next Tuesday. The only movies of this year anybody will watch in the future will be Narnia and Wallace and Grommet (both for kids) and Walk the Line because Reese Witherspoon is the only real movie star of our time - like they had them in the old days - the kind woman who make you smile like Stanwyck and Claudette Colbert.  And she can sing!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As someone who actually votes in the Academy Awards (for too long), I hate to rain on anybody&#8217;s parade here,  but the whole voting process is almost as dull as the awards themselves.  The reason Brokeback probably lost is that the Academy finally woke up to the fact it was a fairly routine film and the only thing interesting about it, besides the score, was the gay theme &#8211; and even that is pretty hohum in 2006. This was a pretty dull bunch of best picutre nominees and, with the exception of Hoffman&#8217;s performance in Capote, will probably be forgotten by next Tuesday. The only movies of this year anybody will watch in the future will be Narnia and Wallace and Grommet (both for kids) and Walk the Line because Reese Witherspoon is the only real movie star of our time &#8211; like they had them in the old days &#8211; the kind woman who make you smile like Stanwyck and Claudette Colbert.  And she can sing!</p>
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		<title>By: Michael Crosby</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Has there ever been an Oscar Best Picture winner that was seen by fewer people in the theatre?  I really have no idea how attendance at movies now compares to earlier in the 20th century.

I was told today that Crash is out on dvd.  If so, is it the first to be out on video before receiving a Best Picture award?  Now that, of course, is a test of more recent nature.

I haven&#039;t seen Crash.  When they were doing the Altman movie clips, I saw some of Nashville, including the wonderful scene of singer/songwriter Keith Carradine singing (Oscar-winning song) &quot;I&#039;m Easy,&quot; to a room full of women who had slept with him and each appeared certain the song was dedicated to her.  Except for Lily Tomlin who looked like she dreaded the idea that it might be.  Anyway, I imagined for a moment that Crash was some sort of more aggressive, less-nuanced 21st century version of Nashville.  Nashville was, among other things, very much about clashes of cultures and generations.

But probably not....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Has there ever been an Oscar Best Picture winner that was seen by fewer people in the theatre?  I really have no idea how attendance at movies now compares to earlier in the 20th century.</p>
<p>I was told today that Crash is out on dvd.  If so, is it the first to be out on video before receiving a Best Picture award?  Now that, of course, is a test of more recent nature.</p>
<p>I haven&#8217;t seen Crash.  When they were doing the Altman movie clips, I saw some of Nashville, including the wonderful scene of singer/songwriter Keith Carradine singing (Oscar-winning song) &#8220;I&#8217;m Easy,&#8221; to a room full of women who had slept with him and each appeared certain the song was dedicated to her.  Except for Lily Tomlin who looked like she dreaded the idea that it might be.  Anyway, I imagined for a moment that Crash was some sort of more aggressive, less-nuanced 21st century version of Nashville.  Nashville was, among other things, very much about clashes of cultures and generations.</p>
<p>But probably not&#8230;.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Academy-members were happy to give the â€œBrokeback Mountainâ€ its due, as long as the message was not legitimized in any way. Thank goodness, we can still offer gratuitous, contrived, button-pushers like â€˜Crashâ€™, otherwise all the closeted actors, producers, directors, managers, agents, and studio execs would have had to vote for Capote (â€™yeeccchâ€™), and then come out. Safe and sound in the closet for one more year, phew.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Academy-members were happy to give the â€œBrokeback Mountainâ€ its due, as long as the message was not legitimized in any way. Thank goodness, we can still offer gratuitous, contrived, button-pushers like â€˜Crashâ€™, otherwise all the closeted actors, producers, directors, managers, agents, and studio execs would have had to vote for Capote (â€™yeeccchâ€™), and then come out. Safe and sound in the closet for one more year, phew.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I thought Jon Stewart should have come out dressed in a camouflage suit and full hunting gear, carrying a shotgunâ€”he could have aimed his gun in the air shot  and landed an Oscarâ€”and then saidâ€”you guys  thought the Mafia only wore a three piece suit, well this is how the crooks in the Bush administration dress when they shoot their friends.    

Jon Stewart was interviewed by Larry King, and King asked Jon  if he was told to  censor himself a bit, Stewart responded by saying he was NOT allowed to use adverbsâ€”I think he also wasnâ€™t allowed to use nouns, adjectives, verbs and pronouns. 

 Itâ€™s the nature of the beastâ€”be a â€œlittleâ€ political  but not too much.  Thatâ€™s why â€œCrashâ€ wonâ€”it was just enough politics for Hollywoodâ€”red, yellow, black and white weâ€™re just a rainbow of colors tonight, donâ€™t say anything that is too sharp, weâ€™re here to sell movies and not to harp!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I thought Jon Stewart should have come out dressed in a camouflage suit and full hunting gear, carrying a shotgunâ€”he could have aimed his gun in the air shot  and landed an Oscarâ€”and then saidâ€”you guys  thought the Mafia only wore a three piece suit, well this is how the crooks in the Bush administration dress when they shoot their friends.    </p>
<p>Jon Stewart was interviewed by Larry King, and King asked Jon  if he was told to  censor himself a bit, Stewart responded by saying he was NOT allowed to use adverbsâ€”I think he also wasnâ€™t allowed to use nouns, adjectives, verbs and pronouns. </p>
<p> Itâ€™s the nature of the beastâ€”be a â€œlittleâ€ political  but not too much.  Thatâ€™s why â€œCrashâ€ wonâ€”it was just enough politics for Hollywoodâ€”red, yellow, black and white weâ€™re just a rainbow of colors tonight, donâ€™t say anything that is too sharp, weâ€™re here to sell movies and not to harp!</p>
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		<title>By: Mark A. York</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 04:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Being John Malkovich&quot; As I&#039;ve noted before it was pretty damn strange from the inside.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Being John Malkovich&#8221; As I&#8217;ve noted before it was pretty damn strange from the inside.</p>
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		<title>By: Michael Crosby</title>
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		<title>By: Rich</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2006 03:27:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wall, I&#039;d agree with all your movie assessments minus one: The Deer Hunter was an astounding movie, agree or not with its political assumptions.  Your lumping it with those other stinkers definitely grabbed my eye.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wall, I&#8217;d agree with all your movie assessments minus one: The Deer Hunter was an astounding movie, agree or not with its political assumptions.  Your lumping it with those other stinkers definitely grabbed my eye.</p>
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		<title>By: Wall</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2006 14:23:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The three truely Great films directed by Robert Altman ( &quot;The Long Goodbye&quot; &quot;California Split&quot; and &quot;McCabe and Mrs. Miller&quot;), the lifetime achivement winner, drew one nommination between them (Julie Christie for &quot;McCabe&quot;).  That should tell you something.  Want the short list? It&#039;s best Pictures that AREN&#039;T terrible.  
        In fact, I&#039;m tired of people beating up &quot;The Greatest Show On Earth.&quot; Sure it sucks,  but also dreadful are  &quot;Chariots Of Fire&quot; &quot;Forest Gump&quot; &quot;Dances With Wolves&quot; &quot;The Deer Hunter&quot; &quot;Titanic&quot; and &quot;The Sting.&quot; 
             Is a passible Horror film like &quot;Silence Of the Lambs&quot; really a great movie? Or dull fare like &quot;Gandhi&quot; or &quot;The Last Emperor&quot;?
  A sleeping pill like &quot;The English Patient?&quot;  Overblown and overrated: &quot;Tom Jones&quot; &quot;Shakespeare In Love&quot; &quot;Shindler&#039;s List&quot; and even second rate Lean like &quot;Bridge On The River Kwai.&quot;  Middlebrow good taste fests like &quot;Mrs. Minever&quot;, &quot;The Best Years Of Our Lives&quot; and &quot;How Green Was My Valley&quot; linger in the mind like the box scores of the 69 Padres.  &quot;Hamlet&quot; is the least interesting of Olvier&#039;s Shakespeare movies. 

          The Godfathers, Joe Buck,  Terry Malloy , T. E. Lawrence and Rocky should blow this pop stand and go find a better party.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The three truely Great films directed by Robert Altman ( &#8220;The Long Goodbye&#8221; &#8220;California Split&#8221; and &#8220;McCabe and Mrs. Miller&#8221;), the lifetime achivement winner, drew one nommination between them (Julie Christie for &#8220;McCabe&#8221;).  That should tell you something.  Want the short list? It&#8217;s best Pictures that AREN&#8217;T terrible.<br />
        In fact, I&#8217;m tired of people beating up &#8220;The Greatest Show On Earth.&#8221; Sure it sucks,  but also dreadful are  &#8220;Chariots Of Fire&#8221; &#8220;Forest Gump&#8221; &#8220;Dances With Wolves&#8221; &#8220;The Deer Hunter&#8221; &#8220;Titanic&#8221; and &#8220;The Sting.&#8221;<br />
             Is a passible Horror film like &#8220;Silence Of the Lambs&#8221; really a great movie? Or dull fare like &#8220;Gandhi&#8221; or &#8220;The Last Emperor&#8221;?<br />
  A sleeping pill like &#8220;The English Patient?&#8221;  Overblown and overrated: &#8220;Tom Jones&#8221; &#8220;Shakespeare In Love&#8221; &#8220;Shindler&#8217;s List&#8221; and even second rate Lean like &#8220;Bridge On The River Kwai.&#8221;  Middlebrow good taste fests like &#8220;Mrs. Minever&#8221;, &#8220;The Best Years Of Our Lives&#8221; and &#8220;How Green Was My Valley&#8221; linger in the mind like the box scores of the 69 Padres.  &#8220;Hamlet&#8221; is the least interesting of Olvier&#8217;s Shakespeare movies. </p>
<p>          The Godfathers, Joe Buck,  Terry Malloy , T. E. Lawrence and Rocky should blow this pop stand and go find a better party.</p>
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		<title>By: Mark A. York</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2006 01:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well I would say it means &quot;something&quot; but not the whole ballgame including the sales histories you mention, otherwise the books would still be riding the top tier like scammer James Frey, but I suppose it depends on whose books one is trashing. If they&#039;re mine it&#039;s OK. Members of the club, not. I get it it, but I suppose like reg&#039;s dissing of his films it was meant to be a cheap shot. And I fully admit it was as intended.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well I would say it means &#8220;something&#8221; but not the whole ballgame including the sales histories you mention, otherwise the books would still be riding the top tier like scammer James Frey, but I suppose it depends on whose books one is trashing. If they&#8217;re mine it&#8217;s OK. Members of the club, not. I get it it, but I suppose like reg&#8217;s dissing of his films it was meant to be a cheap shot. And I fully admit it was as intended.</p>
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		<title>By: Marc Cooper</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 12:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You know Mark.. I HAVE to intervene here. The Amazon book rankings mean NOTHING after the first month or two. You can think what you will of Roger but his series of Moses Wine noir novels are considered classics by many a critic and, indeed, make wonderful reading. They have also been translated into several foreign editions and I can guarantee you that they have been sold in quantities that go far beyond your imagination. Cut out the petty stuff. It stinks.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You know Mark.. I HAVE to intervene here. The Amazon book rankings mean NOTHING after the first month or two. You can think what you will of Roger but his series of Moses Wine noir novels are considered classics by many a critic and, indeed, make wonderful reading. They have also been translated into several foreign editions and I can guarantee you that they have been sold in quantities that go far beyond your imagination. Cut out the petty stuff. It stinks.</p>
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		<title>By: Mark A. York</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And books ranking at the depth I live at. That&#039;s a tough spot I&#039;ll  tell ya.</description>
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		<title>By: reg</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m sure this eminent person &quot;who actually votes in the Academy Awards&quot; is right because he&#039;s had a lot of experience with  pictures that are forgotten by the following Tuesday.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m sure this eminent person &#8220;who actually votes in the Academy Awards&#8221; is right because he&#8217;s had a lot of experience with  pictures that are forgotten by the following Tuesday.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well that may be your opinion Roger, but if it&#039;s all the same to you I&#039;ll take McMurtry. He and Diana wrote a fine film that for once in Hollywood mirrored the literature from whence it came. Routine my ass. Crash will be forgotten. I guess we can take a stab at who in the academy didn&#039;t vote for Brokeback.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well that may be your opinion Roger, but if it&#8217;s all the same to you I&#8217;ll take McMurtry. He and Diana wrote a fine film that for once in Hollywood mirrored the literature from whence it came. Routine my ass. Crash will be forgotten. I guess we can take a stab at who in the academy didn&#8217;t vote for Brokeback.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As someone who actually votes in the Academy Awards (for too long), I hate to rain on anybody&#039;s parade here,  but the whole voting process is almost as dull as the awards themselves.  The reason Brokeback probably lost is that the Academy finally woke up to the fact it was a fairly routine film and the only thing interesting about it, besides the score, was the gay theme - and even that is pretty hohum in 2006. This was a pretty dull bunch of best picutre nominees and, with the exception of Hoffman&#039;s performance in Capote, will probably be forgotten by next Tuesday. The only movies of this year anybody will watch in the future will be Narnia and Wallace and Grommet (both for kids) and Walk the Line because Reese Witherspoon is the only real movie star of our time - like they had them in the old days - the kind woman who make you smile like Stanwyck and Claudette Colbert.  And she can sing!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As someone who actually votes in the Academy Awards (for too long), I hate to rain on anybody&#8217;s parade here,  but the whole voting process is almost as dull as the awards themselves.  The reason Brokeback probably lost is that the Academy finally woke up to the fact it was a fairly routine film and the only thing interesting about it, besides the score, was the gay theme &#8211; and even that is pretty hohum in 2006. This was a pretty dull bunch of best picutre nominees and, with the exception of Hoffman&#8217;s performance in Capote, will probably be forgotten by next Tuesday. The only movies of this year anybody will watch in the future will be Narnia and Wallace and Grommet (both for kids) and Walk the Line because Reese Witherspoon is the only real movie star of our time &#8211; like they had them in the old days &#8211; the kind woman who make you smile like Stanwyck and Claudette Colbert.  And she can sing!</p>
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		<title>By: Michael Crosby</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Has there ever been an Oscar Best Picture winner that was seen by fewer people in the theatre?  I really have no idea how attendance at movies now compares to earlier in the 20th century.

I was told today that Crash is out on dvd.  If so, is it the first to be out on video before receiving a Best Picture award?  Now that, of course, is a test of more recent nature.

I haven&#039;t seen Crash.  When they were doing the Altman movie clips, I saw some of Nashville, including the wonderful scene of singer/songwriter Keith Carradine singing (Oscar-winning song) &quot;I&#039;m Easy,&quot; to a room full of women who had slept with him and each appeared certain the song was dedicated to her.  Except for Lily Tomlin who looked like she dreaded the idea that it might be.  Anyway, I imagined for a moment that Crash was some sort of more aggressive, less-nuanced 21st century version of Nashville.  Nashville was, among other things, very much about clashes of cultures and generations.

But probably not....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Has there ever been an Oscar Best Picture winner that was seen by fewer people in the theatre?  I really have no idea how attendance at movies now compares to earlier in the 20th century.</p>
<p>I was told today that Crash is out on dvd.  If so, is it the first to be out on video before receiving a Best Picture award?  Now that, of course, is a test of more recent nature.</p>
<p>I haven&#8217;t seen Crash.  When they were doing the Altman movie clips, I saw some of Nashville, including the wonderful scene of singer/songwriter Keith Carradine singing (Oscar-winning song) &#8220;I&#8217;m Easy,&#8221; to a room full of women who had slept with him and each appeared certain the song was dedicated to her.  Except for Lily Tomlin who looked like she dreaded the idea that it might be.  Anyway, I imagined for a moment that Crash was some sort of more aggressive, less-nuanced 21st century version of Nashville.  Nashville was, among other things, very much about clashes of cultures and generations.</p>
<p>But probably not&#8230;.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Skippy Greyswood</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Academy-members were happy to give the â€œBrokeback Mountainâ€ its due, as long as the message was not legitimized in any way. Thank goodness, we can still offer gratuitous, contrived, button-pushers like â€˜Crashâ€™, otherwise all the closeted actors, producers, directors, managers, agents, and studio execs would have had to vote for Capote (â€™yeeccchâ€™), and then come out. Safe and sound in the closet for one more year, phew.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Academy-members were happy to give the â€œBrokeback Mountainâ€ its due, as long as the message was not legitimized in any way. Thank goodness, we can still offer gratuitous, contrived, button-pushers like â€˜Crashâ€™, otherwise all the closeted actors, producers, directors, managers, agents, and studio execs would have had to vote for Capote (â€™yeeccchâ€™), and then come out. Safe and sound in the closet for one more year, phew.</p>
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		<title>By: Eleanore kjellberg</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I thought Jon Stewart should have come out dressed in a camouflage suit and full hunting gear, carrying a shotgunâ€”he could have aimed his gun in the air shot  and landed an Oscarâ€”and then saidâ€”you guys  thought the Mafia only wore a three piece suit, well this is how the crooks in the Bush administration dress when they shoot their friends.    

Jon Stewart was interviewed by Larry King, and King asked Jon  if he was told to  censor himself a bit, Stewart responded by saying he was NOT allowed to use adverbsâ€”I think he also wasnâ€™t allowed to use nouns, adjectives, verbs and pronouns. 

 Itâ€™s the nature of the beastâ€”be a â€œlittleâ€ political  but not too much.  Thatâ€™s why â€œCrashâ€ wonâ€”it was just enough politics for Hollywoodâ€”red, yellow, black and white weâ€™re just a rainbow of colors tonight, donâ€™t say anything that is too sharp, weâ€™re here to sell movies and not to harp!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I thought Jon Stewart should have come out dressed in a camouflage suit and full hunting gear, carrying a shotgunâ€”he could have aimed his gun in the air shot  and landed an Oscarâ€”and then saidâ€”you guys  thought the Mafia only wore a three piece suit, well this is how the crooks in the Bush administration dress when they shoot their friends.    </p>
<p>Jon Stewart was interviewed by Larry King, and King asked Jon  if he was told to  censor himself a bit, Stewart responded by saying he was NOT allowed to use adverbsâ€”I think he also wasnâ€™t allowed to use nouns, adjectives, verbs and pronouns. </p>
<p> Itâ€™s the nature of the beastâ€”be a â€œlittleâ€ political  but not too much.  Thatâ€™s why â€œCrashâ€ wonâ€”it was just enough politics for Hollywoodâ€”red, yellow, black and white weâ€™re just a rainbow of colors tonight, donâ€™t say anything that is too sharp, weâ€™re here to sell movies and not to harp!</p>
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		<title>By: Mark A. York</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 04:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Being John Malkovich&quot; As I&#039;ve noted before it was pretty damn strange from the inside.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Being John Malkovich&#8221; As I&#8217;ve noted before it was pretty damn strange from the inside.</p>
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		<title>By: Michael Crosby</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Academy-members were happy to give the â€œBrokeback Mountainâ€ its due, as long as the message was not legitimized in any way. Thank goodness, we can still offer gratuitous, contrived, button-pushers like â€˜Crashâ€™, otherwise all the closeted actors, producers, directors, managers, agents, and studio execs would have had to vote for Capote (â€™yeeccchâ€™), and then come out. Safe and sound in the closet for one more year, phew.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Academy-members were happy to give the â€œBrokeback Mountainâ€ its due, as long as the message was not legitimized in any way. Thank goodness, we can still offer gratuitous, contrived, button-pushers like â€˜Crashâ€™, otherwise all the closeted actors, producers, directors, managers, agents, and studio execs would have had to vote for Capote (â€™yeeccchâ€™), and then come out. Safe and sound in the closet for one more year, phew.</p>
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		<title>By: Rich</title>
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		<description>Wall, I&#039;d agree with all your movie assessments minus one: The Deer Hunter was an astounding movie, agree or not with its political assumptions.  Your lumping it with those other stinkers definitely grabbed my eye.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wall, I&#8217;d agree with all your movie assessments minus one: The Deer Hunter was an astounding movie, agree or not with its political assumptions.  Your lumping it with those other stinkers definitely grabbed my eye.</p>
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		<title>By: Wall</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2006 14:23:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The three truely Great films directed by Robert Altman ( &quot;The Long Goodbye&quot; &quot;California Split&quot; and &quot;McCabe and Mrs. Miller&quot;), the lifetime achivement winner, drew one nommination between them (Julie Christie for &quot;McCabe&quot;).  That should tell you something.  Want the short list? It&#039;s best Pictures that AREN&#039;T terrible.  
        In fact, I&#039;m tired of people beating up &quot;The Greatest Show On Earth.&quot; Sure it sucks,  but also dreadful are  &quot;Chariots Of Fire&quot; &quot;Forest Gump&quot; &quot;Dances With Wolves&quot; &quot;The Deer Hunter&quot; &quot;Titanic&quot; and &quot;The Sting.&quot; 
             Is a passible Horror film like &quot;Silence Of the Lambs&quot; really a great movie? Or dull fare like &quot;Gandhi&quot; or &quot;The Last Emperor&quot;?
  A sleeping pill like &quot;The English Patient?&quot;  Overblown and overrated: &quot;Tom Jones&quot; &quot;Shakespeare In Love&quot; &quot;Shindler&#039;s List&quot; and even second rate Lean like &quot;Bridge On The River Kwai.&quot;  Middlebrow good taste fests like &quot;Mrs. Minever&quot;, &quot;The Best Years Of Our Lives&quot; and &quot;How Green Was My Valley&quot; linger in the mind like the box scores of the 69 Padres.  &quot;Hamlet&quot; is the least interesting of Olvier&#039;s Shakespeare movies. 

          The Godfathers, Joe Buck,  Terry Malloy , T. E. Lawrence and Rocky should blow this pop stand and go find a better party.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The three truely Great films directed by Robert Altman ( &#8220;The Long Goodbye&#8221; &#8220;California Split&#8221; and &#8220;McCabe and Mrs. Miller&#8221;), the lifetime achivement winner, drew one nommination between them (Julie Christie for &#8220;McCabe&#8221;).  That should tell you something.  Want the short list? It&#8217;s best Pictures that AREN&#8217;T terrible.<br />
        In fact, I&#8217;m tired of people beating up &#8220;The Greatest Show On Earth.&#8221; Sure it sucks,  but also dreadful are  &#8220;Chariots Of Fire&#8221; &#8220;Forest Gump&#8221; &#8220;Dances With Wolves&#8221; &#8220;The Deer Hunter&#8221; &#8220;Titanic&#8221; and &#8220;The Sting.&#8221;<br />
             Is a passible Horror film like &#8220;Silence Of the Lambs&#8221; really a great movie? Or dull fare like &#8220;Gandhi&#8221; or &#8220;The Last Emperor&#8221;?<br />
  A sleeping pill like &#8220;The English Patient?&#8221;  Overblown and overrated: &#8220;Tom Jones&#8221; &#8220;Shakespeare In Love&#8221; &#8220;Shindler&#8217;s List&#8221; and even second rate Lean like &#8220;Bridge On The River Kwai.&#8221;  Middlebrow good taste fests like &#8220;Mrs. Minever&#8221;, &#8220;The Best Years Of Our Lives&#8221; and &#8220;How Green Was My Valley&#8221; linger in the mind like the box scores of the 69 Padres.  &#8220;Hamlet&#8221; is the least interesting of Olvier&#8217;s Shakespeare movies. </p>
<p>          The Godfathers, Joe Buck,  Terry Malloy , T. E. Lawrence and Rocky should blow this pop stand and go find a better party.</p>
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		<title>By: Mark A. York</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2006 01:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well I would say it means &quot;something&quot; but not the whole ballgame including the sales histories you mention, otherwise the books would still be riding the top tier like scammer James Frey, but I suppose it depends on whose books one is trashing. If they&#039;re mine it&#039;s OK. Members of the club, not. I get it it, but I suppose like reg&#039;s dissing of his films it was meant to be a cheap shot. And I fully admit it was as intended.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well I would say it means &#8220;something&#8221; but not the whole ballgame including the sales histories you mention, otherwise the books would still be riding the top tier like scammer James Frey, but I suppose it depends on whose books one is trashing. If they&#8217;re mine it&#8217;s OK. Members of the club, not. I get it it, but I suppose like reg&#8217;s dissing of his films it was meant to be a cheap shot. And I fully admit it was as intended.</p>
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		<title>By: Marc Cooper</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 12:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You know Mark.. I HAVE to intervene here. The Amazon book rankings mean NOTHING after the first month or two. You can think what you will of Roger but his series of Moses Wine noir novels are considered classics by many a critic and, indeed, make wonderful reading. They have also been translated into several foreign editions and I can guarantee you that they have been sold in quantities that go far beyond your imagination. Cut out the petty stuff. It stinks.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You know Mark.. I HAVE to intervene here. The Amazon book rankings mean NOTHING after the first month or two. You can think what you will of Roger but his series of Moses Wine noir novels are considered classics by many a critic and, indeed, make wonderful reading. They have also been translated into several foreign editions and I can guarantee you that they have been sold in quantities that go far beyond your imagination. Cut out the petty stuff. It stinks.</p>
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		<description>And books ranking at the depth I live at. That&#039;s a tough spot I&#039;ll  tell ya.</description>
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		<title>By: reg</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m sure this eminent person &quot;who actually votes in the Academy Awards&quot; is right because he&#039;s had a lot of experience with  pictures that are forgotten by the following Tuesday.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m sure this eminent person &#8220;who actually votes in the Academy Awards&#8221; is right because he&#8217;s had a lot of experience with  pictures that are forgotten by the following Tuesday.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well that may be your opinion Roger, but if it&#039;s all the same to you I&#039;ll take McMurtry. He and Diana wrote a fine film that for once in Hollywood mirrored the literature from whence it came. Routine my ass. Crash will be forgotten. I guess we can take a stab at who in the academy didn&#039;t vote for Brokeback.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well that may be your opinion Roger, but if it&#8217;s all the same to you I&#8217;ll take McMurtry. He and Diana wrote a fine film that for once in Hollywood mirrored the literature from whence it came. Routine my ass. Crash will be forgotten. I guess we can take a stab at who in the academy didn&#8217;t vote for Brokeback.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As someone who actually votes in the Academy Awards (for too long), I hate to rain on anybody&#039;s parade here,  but the whole voting process is almost as dull as the awards themselves.  The reason Brokeback probably lost is that the Academy finally woke up to the fact it was a fairly routine film and the only thing interesting about it, besides the score, was the gay theme - and even that is pretty hohum in 2006. This was a pretty dull bunch of best picutre nominees and, with the exception of Hoffman&#039;s performance in Capote, will probably be forgotten by next Tuesday. The only movies of this year anybody will watch in the future will be Narnia and Wallace and Grommet (both for kids) and Walk the Line because Reese Witherspoon is the only real movie star of our time - like they had them in the old days - the kind woman who make you smile like Stanwyck and Claudette Colbert.  And she can sing!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As someone who actually votes in the Academy Awards (for too long), I hate to rain on anybody&#8217;s parade here,  but the whole voting process is almost as dull as the awards themselves.  The reason Brokeback probably lost is that the Academy finally woke up to the fact it was a fairly routine film and the only thing interesting about it, besides the score, was the gay theme &#8211; and even that is pretty hohum in 2006. This was a pretty dull bunch of best picutre nominees and, with the exception of Hoffman&#8217;s performance in Capote, will probably be forgotten by next Tuesday. The only movies of this year anybody will watch in the future will be Narnia and Wallace and Grommet (both for kids) and Walk the Line because Reese Witherspoon is the only real movie star of our time &#8211; like they had them in the old days &#8211; the kind woman who make you smile like Stanwyck and Claudette Colbert.  And she can sing!</p>
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		<title>By: Michael Crosby</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Has there ever been an Oscar Best Picture winner that was seen by fewer people in the theatre?  I really have no idea how attendance at movies now compares to earlier in the 20th century.

I was told today that Crash is out on dvd.  If so, is it the first to be out on video before receiving a Best Picture award?  Now that, of course, is a test of more recent nature.

I haven&#039;t seen Crash.  When they were doing the Altman movie clips, I saw some of Nashville, including the wonderful scene of singer/songwriter Keith Carradine singing (Oscar-winning song) &quot;I&#039;m Easy,&quot; to a room full of women who had slept with him and each appeared certain the song was dedicated to her.  Except for Lily Tomlin who looked like she dreaded the idea that it might be.  Anyway, I imagined for a moment that Crash was some sort of more aggressive, less-nuanced 21st century version of Nashville.  Nashville was, among other things, very much about clashes of cultures and generations.

But probably not....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Has there ever been an Oscar Best Picture winner that was seen by fewer people in the theatre?  I really have no idea how attendance at movies now compares to earlier in the 20th century.</p>
<p>I was told today that Crash is out on dvd.  If so, is it the first to be out on video before receiving a Best Picture award?  Now that, of course, is a test of more recent nature.</p>
<p>I haven&#8217;t seen Crash.  When they were doing the Altman movie clips, I saw some of Nashville, including the wonderful scene of singer/songwriter Keith Carradine singing (Oscar-winning song) &#8220;I&#8217;m Easy,&#8221; to a room full of women who had slept with him and each appeared certain the song was dedicated to her.  Except for Lily Tomlin who looked like she dreaded the idea that it might be.  Anyway, I imagined for a moment that Crash was some sort of more aggressive, less-nuanced 21st century version of Nashville.  Nashville was, among other things, very much about clashes of cultures and generations.</p>
<p>But probably not&#8230;.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Skippy Greyswood</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Academy-members were happy to give the â€œBrokeback Mountainâ€ its due, as long as the message was not legitimized in any way. Thank goodness, we can still offer gratuitous, contrived, button-pushers like â€˜Crashâ€™, otherwise all the closeted actors, producers, directors, managers, agents, and studio execs would have had to vote for Capote (â€™yeeccchâ€™), and then come out. Safe and sound in the closet for one more year, phew.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Academy-members were happy to give the â€œBrokeback Mountainâ€ its due, as long as the message was not legitimized in any way. Thank goodness, we can still offer gratuitous, contrived, button-pushers like â€˜Crashâ€™, otherwise all the closeted actors, producers, directors, managers, agents, and studio execs would have had to vote for Capote (â€™yeeccchâ€™), and then come out. Safe and sound in the closet for one more year, phew.</p>
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		<title>By: Eleanore kjellberg</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I thought Jon Stewart should have come out dressed in a camouflage suit and full hunting gear, carrying a shotgunâ€”he could have aimed his gun in the air shot  and landed an Oscarâ€”and then saidâ€”you guys  thought the Mafia only wore a three piece suit, well this is how the crooks in the Bush administration dress when they shoot their friends.    

Jon Stewart was interviewed by Larry King, and King asked Jon  if he was told to  censor himself a bit, Stewart responded by saying he was NOT allowed to use adverbsâ€”I think he also wasnâ€™t allowed to use nouns, adjectives, verbs and pronouns. 

 Itâ€™s the nature of the beastâ€”be a â€œlittleâ€ political  but not too much.  Thatâ€™s why â€œCrashâ€ wonâ€”it was just enough politics for Hollywoodâ€”red, yellow, black and white weâ€™re just a rainbow of colors tonight, donâ€™t say anything that is too sharp, weâ€™re here to sell movies and not to harp!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I thought Jon Stewart should have come out dressed in a camouflage suit and full hunting gear, carrying a shotgunâ€”he could have aimed his gun in the air shot  and landed an Oscarâ€”and then saidâ€”you guys  thought the Mafia only wore a three piece suit, well this is how the crooks in the Bush administration dress when they shoot their friends.    </p>
<p>Jon Stewart was interviewed by Larry King, and King asked Jon  if he was told to  censor himself a bit, Stewart responded by saying he was NOT allowed to use adverbsâ€”I think he also wasnâ€™t allowed to use nouns, adjectives, verbs and pronouns. </p>
<p> Itâ€™s the nature of the beastâ€”be a â€œlittleâ€ political  but not too much.  Thatâ€™s why â€œCrashâ€ wonâ€”it was just enough politics for Hollywoodâ€”red, yellow, black and white weâ€™re just a rainbow of colors tonight, donâ€™t say anything that is too sharp, weâ€™re here to sell movies and not to harp!</p>
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		<title>By: Mark A. York</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mark A. York</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 04:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Being John Malkovich&quot; As I&#039;ve noted before it was pretty damn strange from the inside.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Being John Malkovich&#8221; As I&#8217;ve noted before it was pretty damn strange from the inside.</p>
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		<title>By: Michael Crosby</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I thought Jon Stewart should have come out dressed in a camouflage suit and full hunting gear, carrying a shotgunâ€”he could have aimed his gun in the air shot  and landed an Oscarâ€”and then saidâ€”you guys  thought the Mafia only wore a three piece suit, well this is how the crooks in the Bush administration dress when they shoot their friends.    

Jon Stewart was interviewed by Larry King, and King asked Jon  if he was told to  censor himself a bit, Stewart responded by saying he was NOT allowed to use adverbsâ€”I think he also wasnâ€™t allowed to use nouns, adjectives, verbs and pronouns. 

 Itâ€™s the nature of the beastâ€”be a â€œlittleâ€ political  but not too much.  Thatâ€™s why â€œCrashâ€ wonâ€”it was just enough politics for Hollywoodâ€”red, yellow, black and white weâ€™re just a rainbow of colors tonight, donâ€™t say anything that is too sharp, weâ€™re here to sell movies and not to harp!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I thought Jon Stewart should have come out dressed in a camouflage suit and full hunting gear, carrying a shotgunâ€”he could have aimed his gun in the air shot  and landed an Oscarâ€”and then saidâ€”you guys  thought the Mafia only wore a three piece suit, well this is how the crooks in the Bush administration dress when they shoot their friends.    </p>
<p>Jon Stewart was interviewed by Larry King, and King asked Jon  if he was told to  censor himself a bit, Stewart responded by saying he was NOT allowed to use adverbsâ€”I think he also wasnâ€™t allowed to use nouns, adjectives, verbs and pronouns. </p>
<p> Itâ€™s the nature of the beastâ€”be a â€œlittleâ€ political  but not too much.  Thatâ€™s why â€œCrashâ€ wonâ€”it was just enough politics for Hollywoodâ€”red, yellow, black and white weâ€™re just a rainbow of colors tonight, donâ€™t say anything that is too sharp, weâ€™re here to sell movies and not to harp!</p>
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		<title>By: Rich</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2006 03:27:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wall, I&#039;d agree with all your movie assessments minus one: The Deer Hunter was an astounding movie, agree or not with its political assumptions.  Your lumping it with those other stinkers definitely grabbed my eye.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wall, I&#8217;d agree with all your movie assessments minus one: The Deer Hunter was an astounding movie, agree or not with its political assumptions.  Your lumping it with those other stinkers definitely grabbed my eye.</p>
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		<title>By: Wall</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2006 14:23:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The three truely Great films directed by Robert Altman ( &quot;The Long Goodbye&quot; &quot;California Split&quot; and &quot;McCabe and Mrs. Miller&quot;), the lifetime achivement winner, drew one nommination between them (Julie Christie for &quot;McCabe&quot;).  That should tell you something.  Want the short list? It&#039;s best Pictures that AREN&#039;T terrible.  
        In fact, I&#039;m tired of people beating up &quot;The Greatest Show On Earth.&quot; Sure it sucks,  but also dreadful are  &quot;Chariots Of Fire&quot; &quot;Forest Gump&quot; &quot;Dances With Wolves&quot; &quot;The Deer Hunter&quot; &quot;Titanic&quot; and &quot;The Sting.&quot; 
             Is a passible Horror film like &quot;Silence Of the Lambs&quot; really a great movie? Or dull fare like &quot;Gandhi&quot; or &quot;The Last Emperor&quot;?
  A sleeping pill like &quot;The English Patient?&quot;  Overblown and overrated: &quot;Tom Jones&quot; &quot;Shakespeare In Love&quot; &quot;Shindler&#039;s List&quot; and even second rate Lean like &quot;Bridge On The River Kwai.&quot;  Middlebrow good taste fests like &quot;Mrs. Minever&quot;, &quot;The Best Years Of Our Lives&quot; and &quot;How Green Was My Valley&quot; linger in the mind like the box scores of the 69 Padres.  &quot;Hamlet&quot; is the least interesting of Olvier&#039;s Shakespeare movies. 

          The Godfathers, Joe Buck,  Terry Malloy , T. E. Lawrence and Rocky should blow this pop stand and go find a better party.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The three truely Great films directed by Robert Altman ( &#8220;The Long Goodbye&#8221; &#8220;California Split&#8221; and &#8220;McCabe and Mrs. Miller&#8221;), the lifetime achivement winner, drew one nommination between them (Julie Christie for &#8220;McCabe&#8221;).  That should tell you something.  Want the short list? It&#8217;s best Pictures that AREN&#8217;T terrible.<br />
        In fact, I&#8217;m tired of people beating up &#8220;The Greatest Show On Earth.&#8221; Sure it sucks,  but also dreadful are  &#8220;Chariots Of Fire&#8221; &#8220;Forest Gump&#8221; &#8220;Dances With Wolves&#8221; &#8220;The Deer Hunter&#8221; &#8220;Titanic&#8221; and &#8220;The Sting.&#8221;<br />
             Is a passible Horror film like &#8220;Silence Of the Lambs&#8221; really a great movie? Or dull fare like &#8220;Gandhi&#8221; or &#8220;The Last Emperor&#8221;?<br />
  A sleeping pill like &#8220;The English Patient?&#8221;  Overblown and overrated: &#8220;Tom Jones&#8221; &#8220;Shakespeare In Love&#8221; &#8220;Shindler&#8217;s List&#8221; and even second rate Lean like &#8220;Bridge On The River Kwai.&#8221;  Middlebrow good taste fests like &#8220;Mrs. Minever&#8221;, &#8220;The Best Years Of Our Lives&#8221; and &#8220;How Green Was My Valley&#8221; linger in the mind like the box scores of the 69 Padres.  &#8220;Hamlet&#8221; is the least interesting of Olvier&#8217;s Shakespeare movies. </p>
<p>          The Godfathers, Joe Buck,  Terry Malloy , T. E. Lawrence and Rocky should blow this pop stand and go find a better party.</p>
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		<title>By: Mark A. York</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2006 01:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well I would say it means &quot;something&quot; but not the whole ballgame including the sales histories you mention, otherwise the books would still be riding the top tier like scammer James Frey, but I suppose it depends on whose books one is trashing. If they&#039;re mine it&#039;s OK. Members of the club, not. I get it it, but I suppose like reg&#039;s dissing of his films it was meant to be a cheap shot. And I fully admit it was as intended.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well I would say it means &#8220;something&#8221; but not the whole ballgame including the sales histories you mention, otherwise the books would still be riding the top tier like scammer James Frey, but I suppose it depends on whose books one is trashing. If they&#8217;re mine it&#8217;s OK. Members of the club, not. I get it it, but I suppose like reg&#8217;s dissing of his films it was meant to be a cheap shot. And I fully admit it was as intended.</p>
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		<title>By: Marc Cooper</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 12:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You know Mark.. I HAVE to intervene here. The Amazon book rankings mean NOTHING after the first month or two. You can think what you will of Roger but his series of Moses Wine noir novels are considered classics by many a critic and, indeed, make wonderful reading. They have also been translated into several foreign editions and I can guarantee you that they have been sold in quantities that go far beyond your imagination. Cut out the petty stuff. It stinks.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You know Mark.. I HAVE to intervene here. The Amazon book rankings mean NOTHING after the first month or two. You can think what you will of Roger but his series of Moses Wine noir novels are considered classics by many a critic and, indeed, make wonderful reading. They have also been translated into several foreign editions and I can guarantee you that they have been sold in quantities that go far beyond your imagination. Cut out the petty stuff. It stinks.</p>
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		<title>By: Mark A. York</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And books ranking at the depth I live at. That&#039;s a tough spot I&#039;ll  tell ya.</description>
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		<title>By: reg</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m sure this eminent person &quot;who actually votes in the Academy Awards&quot; is right because he&#039;s had a lot of experience with  pictures that are forgotten by the following Tuesday.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m sure this eminent person &#8220;who actually votes in the Academy Awards&#8221; is right because he&#8217;s had a lot of experience with  pictures that are forgotten by the following Tuesday.</p>
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		<title>By: Mark A. York</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well that may be your opinion Roger, but if it&#039;s all the same to you I&#039;ll take McMurtry. He and Diana wrote a fine film that for once in Hollywood mirrored the literature from whence it came. Routine my ass. Crash will be forgotten. I guess we can take a stab at who in the academy didn&#039;t vote for Brokeback.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well that may be your opinion Roger, but if it&#8217;s all the same to you I&#8217;ll take McMurtry. He and Diana wrote a fine film that for once in Hollywood mirrored the literature from whence it came. Routine my ass. Crash will be forgotten. I guess we can take a stab at who in the academy didn&#8217;t vote for Brokeback.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As someone who actually votes in the Academy Awards (for too long), I hate to rain on anybody&#039;s parade here,  but the whole voting process is almost as dull as the awards themselves.  The reason Brokeback probably lost is that the Academy finally woke up to the fact it was a fairly routine film and the only thing interesting about it, besides the score, was the gay theme - and even that is pretty hohum in 2006. This was a pretty dull bunch of best picutre nominees and, with the exception of Hoffman&#039;s performance in Capote, will probably be forgotten by next Tuesday. The only movies of this year anybody will watch in the future will be Narnia and Wallace and Grommet (both for kids) and Walk the Line because Reese Witherspoon is the only real movie star of our time - like they had them in the old days - the kind woman who make you smile like Stanwyck and Claudette Colbert.  And she can sing!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As someone who actually votes in the Academy Awards (for too long), I hate to rain on anybody&#8217;s parade here,  but the whole voting process is almost as dull as the awards themselves.  The reason Brokeback probably lost is that the Academy finally woke up to the fact it was a fairly routine film and the only thing interesting about it, besides the score, was the gay theme &#8211; and even that is pretty hohum in 2006. This was a pretty dull bunch of best picutre nominees and, with the exception of Hoffman&#8217;s performance in Capote, will probably be forgotten by next Tuesday. The only movies of this year anybody will watch in the future will be Narnia and Wallace and Grommet (both for kids) and Walk the Line because Reese Witherspoon is the only real movie star of our time &#8211; like they had them in the old days &#8211; the kind woman who make you smile like Stanwyck and Claudette Colbert.  And she can sing!</p>
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		<title>By: Michael Crosby</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Has there ever been an Oscar Best Picture winner that was seen by fewer people in the theatre?  I really have no idea how attendance at movies now compares to earlier in the 20th century.

I was told today that Crash is out on dvd.  If so, is it the first to be out on video before receiving a Best Picture award?  Now that, of course, is a test of more recent nature.

I haven&#039;t seen Crash.  When they were doing the Altman movie clips, I saw some of Nashville, including the wonderful scene of singer/songwriter Keith Carradine singing (Oscar-winning song) &quot;I&#039;m Easy,&quot; to a room full of women who had slept with him and each appeared certain the song was dedicated to her.  Except for Lily Tomlin who looked like she dreaded the idea that it might be.  Anyway, I imagined for a moment that Crash was some sort of more aggressive, less-nuanced 21st century version of Nashville.  Nashville was, among other things, very much about clashes of cultures and generations.

But probably not....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Has there ever been an Oscar Best Picture winner that was seen by fewer people in the theatre?  I really have no idea how attendance at movies now compares to earlier in the 20th century.</p>
<p>I was told today that Crash is out on dvd.  If so, is it the first to be out on video before receiving a Best Picture award?  Now that, of course, is a test of more recent nature.</p>
<p>I haven&#8217;t seen Crash.  When they were doing the Altman movie clips, I saw some of Nashville, including the wonderful scene of singer/songwriter Keith Carradine singing (Oscar-winning song) &#8220;I&#8217;m Easy,&#8221; to a room full of women who had slept with him and each appeared certain the song was dedicated to her.  Except for Lily Tomlin who looked like she dreaded the idea that it might be.  Anyway, I imagined for a moment that Crash was some sort of more aggressive, less-nuanced 21st century version of Nashville.  Nashville was, among other things, very much about clashes of cultures and generations.</p>
<p>But probably not&#8230;.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Skippy Greyswood</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Academy-members were happy to give the â€œBrokeback Mountainâ€ its due, as long as the message was not legitimized in any way. Thank goodness, we can still offer gratuitous, contrived, button-pushers like â€˜Crashâ€™, otherwise all the closeted actors, producers, directors, managers, agents, and studio execs would have had to vote for Capote (â€™yeeccchâ€™), and then come out. Safe and sound in the closet for one more year, phew.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Academy-members were happy to give the â€œBrokeback Mountainâ€ its due, as long as the message was not legitimized in any way. Thank goodness, we can still offer gratuitous, contrived, button-pushers like â€˜Crashâ€™, otherwise all the closeted actors, producers, directors, managers, agents, and studio execs would have had to vote for Capote (â€™yeeccchâ€™), and then come out. Safe and sound in the closet for one more year, phew.</p>
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		<title>By: Eleanore kjellberg</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I thought Jon Stewart should have come out dressed in a camouflage suit and full hunting gear, carrying a shotgunâ€”he could have aimed his gun in the air shot  and landed an Oscarâ€”and then saidâ€”you guys  thought the Mafia only wore a three piece suit, well this is how the crooks in the Bush administration dress when they shoot their friends.    

Jon Stewart was interviewed by Larry King, and King asked Jon  if he was told to  censor himself a bit, Stewart responded by saying he was NOT allowed to use adverbsâ€”I think he also wasnâ€™t allowed to use nouns, adjectives, verbs and pronouns. 

 Itâ€™s the nature of the beastâ€”be a â€œlittleâ€ political  but not too much.  Thatâ€™s why â€œCrashâ€ wonâ€”it was just enough politics for Hollywoodâ€”red, yellow, black and white weâ€™re just a rainbow of colors tonight, donâ€™t say anything that is too sharp, weâ€™re here to sell movies and not to harp!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I thought Jon Stewart should have come out dressed in a camouflage suit and full hunting gear, carrying a shotgunâ€”he could have aimed his gun in the air shot  and landed an Oscarâ€”and then saidâ€”you guys  thought the Mafia only wore a three piece suit, well this is how the crooks in the Bush administration dress when they shoot their friends.    </p>
<p>Jon Stewart was interviewed by Larry King, and King asked Jon  if he was told to  censor himself a bit, Stewart responded by saying he was NOT allowed to use adverbsâ€”I think he also wasnâ€™t allowed to use nouns, adjectives, verbs and pronouns. </p>
<p> Itâ€™s the nature of the beastâ€”be a â€œlittleâ€ political  but not too much.  Thatâ€™s why â€œCrashâ€ wonâ€”it was just enough politics for Hollywoodâ€”red, yellow, black and white weâ€™re just a rainbow of colors tonight, donâ€™t say anything that is too sharp, weâ€™re here to sell movies and not to harp!</p>
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		<title>By: Mark A. York</title>
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		<description>&quot;Being John Malkovich&quot; As I&#039;ve noted before it was pretty damn strange from the inside.</description>
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		<title>By: Rich</title>
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		<description>Wall, I&#039;d agree with all your movie assessments minus one: The Deer Hunter was an astounding movie, agree or not with its political assumptions.  Your lumping it with those other stinkers definitely grabbed my eye.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wall, I&#8217;d agree with all your movie assessments minus one: The Deer Hunter was an astounding movie, agree or not with its political assumptions.  Your lumping it with those other stinkers definitely grabbed my eye.</p>
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		<title>By: Wall</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2006 14:23:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The three truely Great films directed by Robert Altman ( &quot;The Long Goodbye&quot; &quot;California Split&quot; and &quot;McCabe and Mrs. Miller&quot;), the lifetime achivement winner, drew one nommination between them (Julie Christie for &quot;McCabe&quot;).  That should tell you something.  Want the short list? It&#039;s best Pictures that AREN&#039;T terrible.  
        In fact, I&#039;m tired of people beating up &quot;The Greatest Show On Earth.&quot; Sure it sucks,  but also dreadful are  &quot;Chariots Of Fire&quot; &quot;Forest Gump&quot; &quot;Dances With Wolves&quot; &quot;The Deer Hunter&quot; &quot;Titanic&quot; and &quot;The Sting.&quot; 
             Is a passible Horror film like &quot;Silence Of the Lambs&quot; really a great movie? Or dull fare like &quot;Gandhi&quot; or &quot;The Last Emperor&quot;?
  A sleeping pill like &quot;The English Patient?&quot;  Overblown and overrated: &quot;Tom Jones&quot; &quot;Shakespeare In Love&quot; &quot;Shindler&#039;s List&quot; and even second rate Lean like &quot;Bridge On The River Kwai.&quot;  Middlebrow good taste fests like &quot;Mrs. Minever&quot;, &quot;The Best Years Of Our Lives&quot; and &quot;How Green Was My Valley&quot; linger in the mind like the box scores of the 69 Padres.  &quot;Hamlet&quot; is the least interesting of Olvier&#039;s Shakespeare movies. 

          The Godfathers, Joe Buck,  Terry Malloy , T. E. Lawrence and Rocky should blow this pop stand and go find a better party.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The three truely Great films directed by Robert Altman ( &#8220;The Long Goodbye&#8221; &#8220;California Split&#8221; and &#8220;McCabe and Mrs. Miller&#8221;), the lifetime achivement winner, drew one nommination between them (Julie Christie for &#8220;McCabe&#8221;).  That should tell you something.  Want the short list? It&#8217;s best Pictures that AREN&#8217;T terrible.<br />
        In fact, I&#8217;m tired of people beating up &#8220;The Greatest Show On Earth.&#8221; Sure it sucks,  but also dreadful are  &#8220;Chariots Of Fire&#8221; &#8220;Forest Gump&#8221; &#8220;Dances With Wolves&#8221; &#8220;The Deer Hunter&#8221; &#8220;Titanic&#8221; and &#8220;The Sting.&#8221;<br />
             Is a passible Horror film like &#8220;Silence Of the Lambs&#8221; really a great movie? Or dull fare like &#8220;Gandhi&#8221; or &#8220;The Last Emperor&#8221;?<br />
  A sleeping pill like &#8220;The English Patient?&#8221;  Overblown and overrated: &#8220;Tom Jones&#8221; &#8220;Shakespeare In Love&#8221; &#8220;Shindler&#8217;s List&#8221; and even second rate Lean like &#8220;Bridge On The River Kwai.&#8221;  Middlebrow good taste fests like &#8220;Mrs. Minever&#8221;, &#8220;The Best Years Of Our Lives&#8221; and &#8220;How Green Was My Valley&#8221; linger in the mind like the box scores of the 69 Padres.  &#8220;Hamlet&#8221; is the least interesting of Olvier&#8217;s Shakespeare movies. </p>
<p>          The Godfathers, Joe Buck,  Terry Malloy , T. E. Lawrence and Rocky should blow this pop stand and go find a better party.</p>
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		<title>By: Mark A. York</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2006 01:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well I would say it means &quot;something&quot; but not the whole ballgame including the sales histories you mention, otherwise the books would still be riding the top tier like scammer James Frey, but I suppose it depends on whose books one is trashing. If they&#039;re mine it&#039;s OK. Members of the club, not. I get it it, but I suppose like reg&#039;s dissing of his films it was meant to be a cheap shot. And I fully admit it was as intended.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well I would say it means &#8220;something&#8221; but not the whole ballgame including the sales histories you mention, otherwise the books would still be riding the top tier like scammer James Frey, but I suppose it depends on whose books one is trashing. If they&#8217;re mine it&#8217;s OK. Members of the club, not. I get it it, but I suppose like reg&#8217;s dissing of his films it was meant to be a cheap shot. And I fully admit it was as intended.</p>
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		<title>By: Marc Cooper</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 12:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You know Mark.. I HAVE to intervene here. The Amazon book rankings mean NOTHING after the first month or two. You can think what you will of Roger but his series of Moses Wine noir novels are considered classics by many a critic and, indeed, make wonderful reading. They have also been translated into several foreign editions and I can guarantee you that they have been sold in quantities that go far beyond your imagination. Cut out the petty stuff. It stinks.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You know Mark.. I HAVE to intervene here. The Amazon book rankings mean NOTHING after the first month or two. You can think what you will of Roger but his series of Moses Wine noir novels are considered classics by many a critic and, indeed, make wonderful reading. They have also been translated into several foreign editions and I can guarantee you that they have been sold in quantities that go far beyond your imagination. Cut out the petty stuff. It stinks.</p>
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		<title>By: Mark A. York</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And books ranking at the depth I live at. That&#039;s a tough spot I&#039;ll  tell ya.</description>
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		<title>By: reg</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m sure this eminent person &quot;who actually votes in the Academy Awards&quot; is right because he&#039;s had a lot of experience with  pictures that are forgotten by the following Tuesday.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m sure this eminent person &#8220;who actually votes in the Academy Awards&#8221; is right because he&#8217;s had a lot of experience with  pictures that are forgotten by the following Tuesday.</p>
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		<title>By: Mark A. York</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well that may be your opinion Roger, but if it&#039;s all the same to you I&#039;ll take McMurtry. He and Diana wrote a fine film that for once in Hollywood mirrored the literature from whence it came. Routine my ass. Crash will be forgotten. I guess we can take a stab at who in the academy didn&#039;t vote for Brokeback.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well that may be your opinion Roger, but if it&#8217;s all the same to you I&#8217;ll take McMurtry. He and Diana wrote a fine film that for once in Hollywood mirrored the literature from whence it came. Routine my ass. Crash will be forgotten. I guess we can take a stab at who in the academy didn&#8217;t vote for Brokeback.</p>
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		<title>By: Roger L. Simon</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As someone who actually votes in the Academy Awards (for too long), I hate to rain on anybody&#039;s parade here,  but the whole voting process is almost as dull as the awards themselves.  The reason Brokeback probably lost is that the Academy finally woke up to the fact it was a fairly routine film and the only thing interesting about it, besides the score, was the gay theme - and even that is pretty hohum in 2006. This was a pretty dull bunch of best picutre nominees and, with the exception of Hoffman&#039;s performance in Capote, will probably be forgotten by next Tuesday. The only movies of this year anybody will watch in the future will be Narnia and Wallace and Grommet (both for kids) and Walk the Line because Reese Witherspoon is the only real movie star of our time - like they had them in the old days - the kind woman who make you smile like Stanwyck and Claudette Colbert.  And she can sing!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As someone who actually votes in the Academy Awards (for too long), I hate to rain on anybody&#8217;s parade here,  but the whole voting process is almost as dull as the awards themselves.  The reason Brokeback probably lost is that the Academy finally woke up to the fact it was a fairly routine film and the only thing interesting about it, besides the score, was the gay theme &#8211; and even that is pretty hohum in 2006. This was a pretty dull bunch of best picutre nominees and, with the exception of Hoffman&#8217;s performance in Capote, will probably be forgotten by next Tuesday. The only movies of this year anybody will watch in the future will be Narnia and Wallace and Grommet (both for kids) and Walk the Line because Reese Witherspoon is the only real movie star of our time &#8211; like they had them in the old days &#8211; the kind woman who make you smile like Stanwyck and Claudette Colbert.  And she can sing!</p>
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		<title>By: Michael Crosby</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Has there ever been an Oscar Best Picture winner that was seen by fewer people in the theatre?  I really have no idea how attendance at movies now compares to earlier in the 20th century.

I was told today that Crash is out on dvd.  If so, is it the first to be out on video before receiving a Best Picture award?  Now that, of course, is a test of more recent nature.

I haven&#039;t seen Crash.  When they were doing the Altman movie clips, I saw some of Nashville, including the wonderful scene of singer/songwriter Keith Carradine singing (Oscar-winning song) &quot;I&#039;m Easy,&quot; to a room full of women who had slept with him and each appeared certain the song was dedicated to her.  Except for Lily Tomlin who looked like she dreaded the idea that it might be.  Anyway, I imagined for a moment that Crash was some sort of more aggressive, less-nuanced 21st century version of Nashville.  Nashville was, among other things, very much about clashes of cultures and generations.

But probably not....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Has there ever been an Oscar Best Picture winner that was seen by fewer people in the theatre?  I really have no idea how attendance at movies now compares to earlier in the 20th century.</p>
<p>I was told today that Crash is out on dvd.  If so, is it the first to be out on video before receiving a Best Picture award?  Now that, of course, is a test of more recent nature.</p>
<p>I haven&#8217;t seen Crash.  When they were doing the Altman movie clips, I saw some of Nashville, including the wonderful scene of singer/songwriter Keith Carradine singing (Oscar-winning song) &#8220;I&#8217;m Easy,&#8221; to a room full of women who had slept with him and each appeared certain the song was dedicated to her.  Except for Lily Tomlin who looked like she dreaded the idea that it might be.  Anyway, I imagined for a moment that Crash was some sort of more aggressive, less-nuanced 21st century version of Nashville.  Nashville was, among other things, very much about clashes of cultures and generations.</p>
<p>But probably not&#8230;.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Skippy Greyswood</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Academy-members were happy to give the â€œBrokeback Mountainâ€ its due, as long as the message was not legitimized in any way. Thank goodness, we can still offer gratuitous, contrived, button-pushers like â€˜Crashâ€™, otherwise all the closeted actors, producers, directors, managers, agents, and studio execs would have had to vote for Capote (â€™yeeccchâ€™), and then come out. Safe and sound in the closet for one more year, phew.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Academy-members were happy to give the â€œBrokeback Mountainâ€ its due, as long as the message was not legitimized in any way. Thank goodness, we can still offer gratuitous, contrived, button-pushers like â€˜Crashâ€™, otherwise all the closeted actors, producers, directors, managers, agents, and studio execs would have had to vote for Capote (â€™yeeccchâ€™), and then come out. Safe and sound in the closet for one more year, phew.</p>
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		<title>By: Eleanore kjellberg</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I thought Jon Stewart should have come out dressed in a camouflage suit and full hunting gear, carrying a shotgunâ€”he could have aimed his gun in the air shot  and landed an Oscarâ€”and then saidâ€”you guys  thought the Mafia only wore a three piece suit, well this is how the crooks in the Bush administration dress when they shoot their friends.    

Jon Stewart was interviewed by Larry King, and King asked Jon  if he was told to  censor himself a bit, Stewart responded by saying he was NOT allowed to use adverbsâ€”I think he also wasnâ€™t allowed to use nouns, adjectives, verbs and pronouns. 

 Itâ€™s the nature of the beastâ€”be a â€œlittleâ€ political  but not too much.  Thatâ€™s why â€œCrashâ€ wonâ€”it was just enough politics for Hollywoodâ€”red, yellow, black and white weâ€™re just a rainbow of colors tonight, donâ€™t say anything that is too sharp, weâ€™re here to sell movies and not to harp!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I thought Jon Stewart should have come out dressed in a camouflage suit and full hunting gear, carrying a shotgunâ€”he could have aimed his gun in the air shot  and landed an Oscarâ€”and then saidâ€”you guys  thought the Mafia only wore a three piece suit, well this is how the crooks in the Bush administration dress when they shoot their friends.    </p>
<p>Jon Stewart was interviewed by Larry King, and King asked Jon  if he was told to  censor himself a bit, Stewart responded by saying he was NOT allowed to use adverbsâ€”I think he also wasnâ€™t allowed to use nouns, adjectives, verbs and pronouns. </p>
<p> Itâ€™s the nature of the beastâ€”be a â€œlittleâ€ political  but not too much.  Thatâ€™s why â€œCrashâ€ wonâ€”it was just enough politics for Hollywoodâ€”red, yellow, black and white weâ€™re just a rainbow of colors tonight, donâ€™t say anything that is too sharp, weâ€™re here to sell movies and not to harp!</p>
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		<title>By: Mark A. York</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mark A. York</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 04:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Being John Malkovich&quot; As I&#039;ve noted before it was pretty damn strange from the inside.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Being John Malkovich&#8221; As I&#8217;ve noted before it was pretty damn strange from the inside.</p>
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		<title>By: Michael Crosby</title>
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		<dc:creator>Michael Crosby</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 04:41:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Philip S. Hoffman&#039;s portrayal was just brilliant...probably one of the greatest character portrayals ever.  It would be a tough sell as Best Picture simply because it wasn&#039;t at all pleasant and left me wondering whether the Character Capote, if not the real Truman Capote, was more or less of a sociopath than Perry Smith, the murderer.  Such is not the stuff of an award that more often goes to Titanics and Lords of the Rings.  But the acting, script and the direction in each scene just provided  a very subtle implication--a tilt of the head, a clearing of the throat--of the essence of the character and his quest to write this story his way.

It will be interesting to see which film is retained in the collective consciousness, and which sort of fades away.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Philip S. Hoffman&#8217;s portrayal was just brilliant&#8230;probably one of the greatest character portrayals ever.  It would be a tough sell as Best Picture simply because it wasn&#8217;t at all pleasant and left me wondering whether the Character Capote, if not the real Truman Capote, was more or less of a sociopath than Perry Smith, the murderer.  Such is not the stuff of an award that more often goes to Titanics and Lords of the Rings.  But the acting, script and the direction in each scene just provided  a very subtle implication&#8211;a tilt of the head, a clearing of the throat&#8211;of the essence of the character and his quest to write this story his way.</p>
<p>It will be interesting to see which film is retained in the collective consciousness, and which sort of fades away.</p>
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