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Some Juicy Nuggets of Forgotten Oscar Lore
Filed under: Oscar Watch »
With all the presenters' banter heavily scripted and a lot of the winners easy to guess beforehand, the only truly unpredictable part of the Academy Awards is the acceptance speeches. Those Hollywood types -- especially actors, who love being the center of attention and looove the sound of their own voices -- might say anything in a rush of excitement and emotion. Over at Esquire, they've compiled an amusing list of the various types of Oscar speeches: the Crusading Blowhard, the Weepy Babbler, the Short-and-Sweet, and so forth. Then, for added fun, they've dug up historical precedents for each of them. For example, Rita Moreno was the "Adorably" Bombastic Foreigner, cha-chaing up to the podium and shrieking into the microphone, long before Roberto Benigni embarrassed everyone with his antics. And while Juila Roberts was definitely a Meddling Presenter when she gave Denzel Washington his trophy, she was nothing compared to the way Frank Sinatra hogged Cary Grant's spotlight when he gave him his lifetime achievement award.
It's a fun list, presented in the ever-popular slide-show-with-occasional-ad-interruptions format. As a bonus, consider that each of the labels they've come up with for the types of speeches could also serve as the name of an obscure sexual maneuver. The Meddling Presenter indeed!
Bullets Fly at Roberto Benigni Recital
Filed under: Celebrities and Controversy », Exhibition », Cinematical Indie »
You know, you go to a spoken word performance and you don't expect gunshots to be a worry unless the guy you're going to see is some big gansta or rabble rouser. I don't think Roberto Benigni, the man behind the Oscar-winning Life is Beautiful, is either of those -- especially when he's touring Italy with Tutto Dante (All Dante). It's a performance where he mixes Dante's writing with political satire. The CBC is reporting that while he was onstage and reciting a passage from The Divine Comedy, a man fired 6 shots at a young, 22-year-old security guard -- hitting him a number of times in the legs. Those classics, they're so incendiary! You have to give Benigni credit -- it seems that after this happened he said: "What, is hell here, too?" Ah, classic! No big details have been released, other than that the suspect, a 45-year-old man, had been trying to get into the performance without a ticket. After the shooting, he was arrested for attempted murder and the show eventually resumed. (How's that for dedication to your craft?!) As for the security guard, police say he will be in the hospital for the next month or so. Lesson be learned -- maniacal gunmen can turn up anywhere, even if Life is Beautiful.
Trailer Park: Happy Father's Day!
Filed under: Trailer Trash »
Every once in a awhile, I like to do something different with the little thing we call Trailer Park. Seeing as today is Father's Day (in the US, anyway), I figured we ought to take a look back at some of the great movie dads over the years -- dig up some old trailers and pay tribute to the man, the myth, the legend -- the Dad.
Like with real fathers, movie fathers come with a whole host of flaws. These aren't the perfect men by any means, but if there's one thing they all have in common, it's that they love their family. Sure, they may not understand why their kids refuse to be around them and constantly argue their decisions but, at the end of the day, everything always seems to work out ... unless your last name is Corleone.
What follows are the trailers for five films in which Dad is the hero ... or villain, depending on how you look at things. Personally, these are some of my favorite movie fathers. While they may not be the greatest of all time, I've found something inside each one of them to connect with on, ya know, one of them higher levels. We're celebrating Father's Day in this week's Trailer Park:
Berlin Film Festival bears "morbid" offerings
Filed under: Berlin »
I loved this article's description of this year's entries at the Berlin Film
Festival as having no consistent theme except "a prevailing mood of harsh reality". Apparently, this year's
lineup at the Fest is marked by " brutal murder, drug addiction, political corruption, exorcism and rape". In
other words, it's a lot like the news - except that it stars Alan Rickman and Heath Ledger. Movies set to screen at
Berlin include Candy, starring Ledger as a heroin addict; Snow Cake, starring Alan "Yes, My Voice is Delicious and No,
I Won't Be Wearing a Freaking Cape in This One" Rickman, alongside co-star Sigourney Weaver; A Prairie Home Companion (which, unless I missed something, sports
neither rape nor exorcism); and new flicks from Terence Malick and Roberto Benigni. But, of course, audiences are flocking to the festival mostly for their dose of brutal murder. Sorry, Roberto. Perhaps if the concentration camp in Life is Beautiful hadn't looked so damn clean, you'd be allowed to hang out with the cool kids.
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