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Japanese fishermen strike back
Just a week after The Cove won the Academy Award for Best Documentary, Japanese fishermen have released a film of their own.
Where The Cove shined a light on the dolphin-hunting village of Taiji, Japan, The Coast aims to expose the atrocities now going on off the coast of Florida.
In The Cove, Japanese fishermen herd dolphins by banging on long metal poles — creating, in essence, a wall of sound. Once the dolphins are driven close to shore, captured and penned, dolphin trainers assemble the animals they want for aquariums. The remaining animals are slaughtered for their meat. While the process sounds gruesome, The Coast’s director Woody Allen says his footage is every bit as alarming.
STEVE STARR’S OSCAR PICKS
At some point today a coworker will inevitably come up to you and ask if you’d like to enter the office Oscar pool. In previous years, you probably either declined or lost badly. This isn’t because you don’t like movies — you love movies! — it’s because you and the Academy are about as compatible as Tyra Banks and her personal assistants.
You like comedies, they like dramas, you like Megan Fox, they like Meryl Streep, you like originality, they like Avatar. The disagreements are endless, but that doesn’t mean you still can’t win this thing. Unlike (real) sports, the Academy Awards are voted on. And unlike (fake) sports, the votes have already been cast.
GIVE GABBY THE OSCAR
Every year the Academy seems to get it wrong, don’t they? Million Dollar Baby, Crash, Denzel Washington, Renee Zelwegger, the list of undeserving winners literally goes on and on. Sadly, this Sunday will be no different according to Oscar forecasters.
Despite a brilliant debut performance, Gabrielle Sidibe is not expected to win in the Best Actress category for her fearless portrayal of young offensive tackle Michael Oher.
In The Blind Side, Sidibe turns what could have been an impossible role into one of depth and passion. Playing Oher, an overweight illiterate teen with an abundance of football talent, Sidibe steals the show from her co-star Sandra Bullock.
Academy makes emergency revision to Oscar nominees list
Only two days after releasing the nominations for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards, the Oscar committee has gone ahead and decided to change them. In a historical move that’s without precedent the Academy has removed Colin Firth (A Single Man) from the Best Actor category and replaced him with John Travolta. Travolta’s film From Paris with Love was also added to the Best Picture category, while the independent British film An Education was bounced from the list of ten films.
“While From Paris with Love hasn’t even been released yet, we at the Academy have decided to forego the typical Dec. 31 submission deadline,” said Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Tom Sherak. After already bastardizing the awards by upping the Best Picture noms to ten, we didn’t see a problem with making an exception for John.”
When asked if he’d even watched the film yet, Sherak replied, “No, but we’ve all seen John’s shaved head in the trailer. It’s clearly one of the year’s best.”
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Porn Fiend
Just like women remember their first kiss, men can recall, in vivid detail, their first brush (or shall I say “rub”) with pornography.
I was 12. I was horny. And I discovered the mother lode in my dad’s closet: magazines, videos, even Beta tapes.
Shortly after that, we got the Internet….
Smart People Like Dumb Things
Up until recently I despised people with poor taste. I’d ask them, “What shows do you like?” then snicker when they replied “Deal or No Deal.” I’d call them morons for watching the latest M. Night Shyamalan flick. And if Jay Leno cracked them up, I’d make a hand-job gesture behind their back. Yes, I judged these people.
That is until one day I noticed they were all much more successful than me.
My cousin, a guy who watches NCIS, became a doctor. The guy who liked Hitch now works for a pro hockey team. And the girl who kisses Law & Order SVU’s Christopher Meloni goodnight before slipping into bed with me is a television producer.
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