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Gurus o’ Gold: 1st Ranking Of Oscar Nominees In All Categories (Pt 2 of 2)

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As they offer 13 more Oscar categories (everything but shorts), The Gurus are predicting that The Artist will win three big prizes on Oscar night… but Hugo will dominate the evening with 5 Oscar wins. Is it likely that Best Picture, Director, and Score will stand alone?

Can The Help score Best Actress and Supporting Actress and nothing else?

These and more questions… as The Gurus turn.

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Gross Behavior: Leonard On Bingham

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Bingham had a number of virtues few of us can claim. He didn’t hold many grudges and wasn’t someone prone to gotcha politics. When we talked it was a true discussion whether it was one-on-one or in a group. He wasn’t diplomatic, not that he was abusive or dogmatic. Bing simply spoke his mind and that was fine, mostly, when he was running October Films with Jeff Lipsky and problematic when he worked for others.

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Wilmington On DVDs

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Identification of a Woman (Also Blu-ray) (Four Stars)
Italy: Michelangelo Antonioni, 1982 (Criterion Collection)

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The DVD Wrapup: Real Steel, Whistleblower, 8 more

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Gurus o’ Gold: 1st Ranking Of Oscar Nominees In All Categories (Pt 1 of 2)

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The Oscar Nominations

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Oscar Nod Morning

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“I sort of want people to send me positive reviews, but then again I feel like that’s lame.”
Sundance Has Its 2012 “It” Girl: One Wonderful Lizzy Caplan

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“Spielberg selects notes like a jazz master soloing. Spielberg’s stripping the movies of Hollywood’s overwrought style and anti-war agitprop—his humanistic judiciousness—has the contrary effect of strengthening the repellent horror and making the story’s points about the many faces of courage. Just as he deployed contrasting iconographic resonance of the tireless American Indiana Jones attacking a Panzer headlong on horseback—the cowboy in the fedora against Nazis in helmets—Spielberg showing a team of horses forced to literally break their hearts to pull gargantuan field artillery up a hill ranks among the most persuasive and tragic images in anti-war movie memory.”
~ Harmin’ Armond Pitches Woo, But Not Toward The Academy

“When they escort you into the theater, you definitely feel like you’re in a very comfy, intimate space. But it doesn’t have cup holders, which made me nervous because I was afraid of spilling my drink. I didn’t see the president take any popcorn, which I jokingly called ‘political popcorn’ because it had just the right amount of salt and butter. It was some of the best popcorn I’ve ever tasted… The theater isn’t set up that well. The sound could be better. The projector needs to be upgraded. I actually ran to the bathroom because I drank too much during the movie, and by the time I got back, the president had left for another engagement.”
~ Anthony Hemingway on his visit to the White House cinema

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