Oscar Night predictions 2011
Here are three predictions in advance of tonight's Academy Awards telecast:#1-- "The King's Speech" will win for best picture. As the New York Times' A.O. Scott tells us, "Hitler + handicap + Shakespeare + $100 million = best picture."
#2-- Hosts Anne Hathaway and James Franco, Hollywood's prom king and queen for the year, will annoy the hell out of me. They will not be funny in the slightest-- oh, but aren't they so cute? No, they're not. Bring back Chris Rock, I demand!
Or better yet, Ricky Gervais.
Franco thinks Gervais "bombed" during his infamous second stint as host of the Golden Globes last month, but then Franco prefers his comedy to be unintentional judging by the fact that he teaches a college film course on the subject of his own movies.
#3-- When I finally get around to seeing them, none of the 10 nominees for best picture will be as entertaining as the little comic gem I saw last weekend called "Cedar Rapids." This isn't an Adam Sandler-type Hollywood comedy where the studio's marketing department flushes out the story and Jennifer Aniston is added to the cast so that high school boys can take their girlfriends to the cineplex. "Cedar Rapids" is actually funny-- a Wilder-esque romp also in the American Midwest tradition of Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor, who are not coincidentally executive producers of the new flick. Ed Helms might be our next Jack Lemmon. Run, don't walk, to see "Cedar Rapids."
"Cedar Rapids" Disclaimer #1: I was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1975.
"Cedar Rapids" Disclaimer #2: I was married to Anne Heche for three weeks in 2001.
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How valuable a commodity is Albert Pujols to the St. Louis Cardinals? So valuable that he's become one of the Cubs' most marketable players?
posted by CM @ 9:54 AM
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