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There are no prizes other than bragging rights.
Please have your picks in the mail by 8pm est | 7pm cst | 6pm mst | 5pm pst Sunday.
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mcdonald's Oscar Pool Entry:
Best Picture - Michael Clayton
Best Director - Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for No Country for Old Men
Best Actor - Johnny Depp in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Best Actress - Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Best Supporting Actor - Philip Seymour Hoffman in Charlie Wilson's War
Best Supporting Actress - Ruby Dee in American Gangster
Best Animated Feature Film - Ratatouille
Best Foreign Language Film - The Counterfeiters -- Austria
Best Documentary Feature - No End in Sight
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ducks's Oscar Pool Entry:
Best Picture - No Country for Old Men
Best Director - Julian Schnabel for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Best Actor - Viggo Mortensen in Eastern Promises
Best Actress - Julie Christie in Away from Her
Best Supporting Actor - Philip Seymour Hoffman in Charlie Wilson's War
Best Supporting Actress - Cate Blanchett in I'm Not There
Best Animated Feature Film - Ratatouille
Best Foreign Language Film - The Counterfeiters -- Austria
Best Documentary Feature - Sicko
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pat's Oscar Pool Entry:
Best Picture - No Country for Old Men
Best Director - Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for No Country for Old Men
Best Actor - Johnny Depp in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Best Actress - Ellen Page in Juno
Best Supporting Actor - Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men
Best Supporting Actress - Saoirse Ronan in Atonement
Best Animated Feature Film - Ratatouille
Best Foreign Language Film - No vote
Best Documentary Feature - Sicko
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Ted's Oscar Pool Entry:
Best Picture - No Country for Old Men
Best Director - Jason Reitman for Juno
Best Actor - George Clooney in Michael Clayton
Best Actress - Ellen Page in Juno
Best Supporting Actor - Philip Seymour Hoffman in Charlie Wilson's War
Best Supporting Actress - Tilda Swinton in Michael Clayton
Best Animated Feature Film - Ratatouille
Best Foreign Language Film - Mongol -- Kazakhstan
Best Documentary Feature - Sicko
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tONY iN pHILLY's Oscar Pool Entry:
Best Picture - No Country for Old Men
Best Director - Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for No Country for Old Men
Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood
Best Actress - Marion Cotillard in La Vie en Rose
Best Supporting Actor - Hal Holbrook in Into the Wild
Best Supporting Actress - Ruby Dee in American Gangster
Best Animated Feature Film - Persepolis
Best Foreign Language Film - The Counterfeiters -- Austria
Best Documentary Feature - Sicko
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melissa bishop's Oscar Pool Entry:
Best Picture - No Country for Old Men
Best Director - Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for No Country for Old Men
Best Actor - Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood
Best Actress - Ellen Page in Juno
Best Supporting Actor - Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men
Best Supporting Actress - Ruby Dee in American Gangster
Best Animated Feature Film - Ratatouille
Best Foreign Language Film - Mongol -- Kazakhstan
Best Documentary Feature - Sicko
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Buzz Cook's Oscar Pool Entry:
Best Picture - No Country for Old Men
Best Director - Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for No Country for Old Men
Best Actor - Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood
Best Actress - Laura Linney in The Savages
Best Supporting Actor - Hal Holbrook in Into the Wild
Best Supporting Actress - Ruby Dee in American Gangster
Best Animated Feature Film - Ratatouille
Best Foreign Language Film - Mongol -- Kazakhstan
Best Documentary Feature - Sicko
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Mykiel Orion's Oscar Pool Entry::
Best Picture - No Country for Old Men
Best Director - Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for No Country for Old Men
Best Actor - Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood
Best Actress - Julie Christie in Away from Her
Best Supporting Actor - Tom Wilkinson in Michael Clayton
Best Supporting Actress - Ruby Dee in American Gangster
Best Animated Feature Film - Persepolis
Best Foreign Language Film - 12 -- Russia
Best Documentary Feature - Taxi to the Dark Side
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Marianne's Oscar Pool Entry:
Best Picture - No Country for Old Men
Best Director - Julian Schnabel for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Best Actor - Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood
Best Actress - Julie Christie in Away from Her
Best Supporting Actor - Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men
Best Supporting Actress - Ruby Dee in American Gangster
Best Animated Feature Film - Ratatouille
Best Foreign Language Film - Mongol -- Kazakhstan
Best Documentary Feature - Sicko
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That MadCat JD's Oscar Pool Entry:
Best Picture - No Country for Old Men
Best Director - Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for No Country for Old Men
Best Actor - Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood
Best Actress - Julie Christie in Away from Her
Best Supporting Actor: -Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men
Best Supporting Actress - Cate Blanchett in I'm Not There
Best Animated Feature Film - Ratatouille
Best Foreign Language Film - Beaufort -- Israel
Best Documentary Feature - No End in Sight
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Jeff Taylor's Oscar Pool Entry:
Best Picture: Michael Clayton
Best Director: Tony Gilroy for Michael Clayton
Best Actor: Tommy Lee Jones in In the Valley of Elah
Best Actress: Julie Christie in Away from Her
Best Supporting Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman in Charlie Wilson's War
Best Supporting Actress: Cate Blanchett in I'm Not There
Best Animated Feature Film: Ratatouille
Best Foreign Language Film: Katyn -- Poland
Best Documentary Feature: Sicko
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Marty's picks:
Best Picture: No Country for Old Men
Best Director: Julian Schnabel - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood
Best Actress: Julie Christie - Away from Her
Best Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem - No Country for Old Men
Best Supporting Actress: Ruby Dee - American Gangster
Best Animated Feature Film: Ratatouille
Best Foreign Language Film: Mongol -- Kazakhstan
Best Documentary Feature: Sicko
Kate O'Hare: 'Mythbusters' takes on 'MacGyver' (Zap2it.com; Posted on popmatters.com)
Back in the late `80s and early `90s, budding science geeks everywhere plopped down in front of "MacGyver" on ABC, to watch resourceful secret agent Angus MacGyver (Richard Dean Anderson) escape from bad guys, foil evil plots and basically save the world with a Swiss Army knife, duct tape and whatever happened to be lying around.
In their latest published poll, Fox News basically asked a Republican
push poll question in asking potential voters who would Osama bin
Laden vote for. And it's no surprise who won (Barack Madrasa Hussein
Obama, of course!):
In the movie "Some Like it Hot" (1959), what was the name of the 'all-girl' band?
A: Sugar Cane and the Honeypots
B: Sheboygan Sue and the Red Hot Mommas
C: Sweet Sweet Sugar and the Canes
D: Styling Sue and Her Moneymakers
E: Sweet Sue and the Society Syncopaters
mj was first, and correct, observing:
4 in a row
Marylin played the uke (D), Tony Curtis played the sax, and Jack Lemon played the bass fiddle
Alan J was second, and right, writing:
Ukulele
DanD responded:
For the most part, I missed the Marilyn M. (Monroe, not Manson ...)
experience. Besides, After having had my milk (no formula back then)
-bottle, vapid, airheaded bleach-blondes just put me to sleep.
Even so, by thinking how I believe a director in the 50s would assess
this, suckin' on a Saxophone would be a bit too suggestive for the
censors, and a Slide TromBONE? Might as well cast a Marilyn Chambers in
the role. I think the Ukulele would be a tad too "Beat," and a Violin?
Swing was (still) in and Mozart's fiddle was entirely too 19th Century.
My best guess would be the (ever-so-Elvis-h) dignity (... yeah, right.
Dignity. Marilyn had scads of dignity ... that's why JFK loved her so
much) of a Guitar.
Tony In Philly answered:
She played the ukulele
Sally said:
Marilyn Monroe (AKA Sugar Kane Kowalczyk) played the Ukulele (D) in the funny, funny movie, "Some Like It Hot."
Joe S ("Dogs never bite me. Just humans."
~Marilyn Monroe) replied:
Marilyn played D: Ukulele
And, bebo replied:
looking at Marilyn Monroe, I don't remember noticing what instrument she was playing but I think it might have been a ukulele.
The Fire Officer's Guide To Disaster Control can apparently be found in firehouses across the United States.
Chapter 13 of the book has an unusual twist. Titled "Enemy Attack And UFO Potential", it outlines what could happen in the event of a UFO crash.
The authors of the book, retired firefighters William M. Kramer and Charles W. Bahme write in part:
It would be remiss to not give some part to the role fire departments might play in the even of the unexpected arrival of UFO's in their communities...In a less optimistic scenario, you may have engine trouble upon approaching the scene, and radio contact could be lost with your dispatcher. If at night, your headlights could go out, the city could be blacked out, and your portable generators may malfunction when you attempt to use them for fans and portable lights.
CBS pukes back a RERUN'Shark', followed by '48 Hours', then another 48 Hours'.
NBC pukes back a RERUN'My Dad Is Better Than Your Dad', followed by the made-for-tv-commercialmovie 'Knight Rider'.
'SNL' is FRESH with Tina Fey hosting, music by Carrie Underwood.
ABC fills the night with the movie 'Forrest Gump'.
The CW here has LIVE'NBA Basketball' with the Lakers "visiting" the Clips.
Faux has the traditional 'Cops', 'Cops', and 'America's Most Wanted'.
MY has 'NFL Total Access', followed by 'Paradise Ho-Tell'.
A&E has the movie 'Erin Brockovich', followed by the movie 'Matchstick Men', and 'Parking Wars'.
AMC offers the movie 'Terminator 2: Judgment Day', followed by the FRESH'Independent Spirit Awards'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 16;
[12:30 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 17;
[1:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 4 Morgan's;
[2:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 1 La Riviera;
[3:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep. 1 Bonapartes;
[4:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 6;
[5:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 5;
[6:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 4 Daleks In Manhattan;
[7:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 5 Evolution Of The Daleks;
[8:00 PM] Torchwood - Ep 4 Meat;
[9:00 PM] Torchwood - Ep 5 Adam;
[10:00 PM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 18 Joss Stone and Dennis Hopper;
[11:00 PM] Torchwood - Ep 4 Meat;
[12:00 AM] Torchwood - Ep 5 Adam;
[1:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 18 Joss Stone and Dennis Hopper;
[2:00 AM] Doctor Who - Ep 5 Evolution Of The Daleks;
[3:00 AM] Torchwood - Ep 5 Adam;
[4:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 18 Joss Stone and Dennis Hopper;
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 7 Banham;
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 8 Tredwen;
[6:00 AM] BBC World News. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Project Runway', another 'Project Runway', and the movie 'Coyote Ugly'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'How High', 'Chris Rock: Bigger & Blacker', and 'Cedric The Entertainer'.
FX has the movie 'Crash', followed by the movie 'The Punisher', and 'Dirt'.
History has 'World's Sharpest', 'Hillbilly: The Real Story', and 'Andrew Jackson'.
IFC -
[06:20 AM] Roadside Prophets;
[08:00 AM] Sword of Doom;
[10:05 AM] The Tao of Steve;
[11:35 AM] Swingers;
[01:15 PM] Roadside Prophets;
[03:00 PM] The Tao of Steve;
[04:30 PM] IFC News Presents: Spirit Awards Nominations Special 2008;
[05:00 PM] 2008 Spirit Awards;
[07:15 PM] IFC News: 2008, Uncut;
[07:30 PM] Hurricane Streets;
[09:00 PM] Monster;
[11:00 PM] Light Sleeper;
[12:50 AM] IFC News Special;
[01:00 AM] Hurricane Streets;
[02:30 AM] IFC News Presents: Spirit Awards Nominations Special 2008;
[03:00 AM] 2008 Spirit Awards;
[05:15 AM] IFC News: 2008, Uncut;
[05:20 AM] Kwaidan. (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie 'Pitch Black', followed by the movie 'Living Hell'.
Sundance -
[05:45 AM] John Henrik Clarke: A Great and Mighty Walk;
[07:30 AM] Assisted Living;
[09:00 AM] Madeleine Albright + Ashley Judd;
[10:00 AM] Charging the Rhino;
[11:00 AM] Imagine...The Beatles in Love;
[12:00 PM] A Good Woman;
[01:40 PM] Eramos Pocos;
[02:00 PM] Madeleine Albright + Ashley Judd;
[03:00 PM] Episode 4: Outrageous Fortune;
[04:00 PM] Open City;
[06:00 PM] Episode 7;
[06:30 PM] Assisted Living;
[08:00 PM] Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels;
[10:00 PM] Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic;
[11:30 PM] Mysterious Skin;
[01:30 AM] A Good Woman;
[03:10 AM] Songbirds;
[04:00 AM] The Feeling, Gnarls Barkley & The Killers;
[05:00 AM] Smiles of a Summer Night. (ALL TIMES EST)
American writer, director and producer James L. Brooks speaks after receiving the Oscar Wilde award at the US-Ireland Alliance's "Oscar Wilde: Honoring the Irish in Film" event in Los Angeles, California, February 21, 2008. At right is the shadow of the emcee, Charlie Koones, publisher and president of the entertainment publication "Variety."
Photo by Fred Prouser
They may be largely missing from this year's roster of best-film Oscar contenders, but a new U.S. survey shows war and sci-fi epics top the list of all-time favorite movies.
Nearly 70 years after it was made, the Civil War classic "Gone with the Wind" ranked No. 1, just ahead of science-fiction space adventure "Star Wars," in the Harris poll of people's favorite films that stand the test of time.
Coming in third was the sweeping Oscar-winning World War II romance "Casablanca," followed by fantasy film "The Lord of the Rings" in the online January poll of 2,279 U.S. adults.
Rounding out the top ten in the survey were musicals "The Sound of Music" and "The Wizard of Oz" at Nos. 5 and 6, respectively, followed by "The Notebook" at No. 7 and "Forrest Gump" in eighth place. Tied for No. 9 was "The Princess Bride" and "The Godfather" starring Al Pacino.
Director Ivan Reitman, his wife Genevieve Robert, daughter-in-law Michele Lee, and son Jason, left to right, pose for photographers at a pre-awards luncheon for Canadian nominees, Friday, Feb. 22, 2008, in Los Angeles. Jason Reitman is a 2007 Academy Awards nominee for Best Director for 'Juno,'
Photo by Rene Macura
A Pennsylvania man says he can now retire because someone has bought his massive collection of vinyl albums, singles and CDs on EBay for the asking price - $3 million.
Paul Mawhinney says a buyer from Ireland agreed to shell out $3,002,150 for his collection of nearly three million vinyl albums, singles and CDs.
The winning bidder has already deposited $300,000, and Mawhinney says a bank has confirmed he has enough money to buy the collection.
The 68-year-old Mawhinney, who is legally blind after having suffered a couple of strokes, closed his Record Rama store near Pittsburgh yesterday after 40 years. He says he wants to spend time with his wife, three children and five grandchildren.
Barbados has named Rihanna as an honorary cultural ambassador for her native Caribbean island.
Prime Minister David Thompson made the announcement at a rally Thursday night in the capital, Bridgetown, to honor the 20-year-old singer, born Robyn Rihanna Fenty.
Thompson said the government also was recognizing Rihanna's contributions by giving her a "piece of the rock" - a plot of real estate in the exclusive Apes Hill area of St. James parish.
Accompanied by R&B singer Chris Brown, she arrived on the island Thursday afternoon from London, where she attended the Brit Awards ceremony.
Rapper Snoop Dogg stands with his wife Shante Broadus after performing onstage during BET's 'Rip The Runway' at Hammerstein Ballroom Thursday, Feb. 21, 2008 in New York.
Photo by Jason DeCrow
As the driving force behind British rock legends the Kinks, Ray Davies is responsible for some of the most enduring songs in pop music.
Now, the singer-songwriter behind such influential masterpieces as "Lola," "You Really Got Me," and "All Day and All of the Night," admits he finds himself both excited and disheartened by the changing face of music.
Davies, 63, sat down recently with The Canadian Press to discuss his new album, surviving a violent mugging and the prospect of a Kinks reunion:
Jennifer Lopez gave birth to twins -- a boy and a girl -- early on Friday in a New York hospital, her manager said.
The 38-year-old, who is married to singer Marc Anthony, delivered her first children just after midnight in a Long Island hospital, manager Simon Fields told Reuters.
The couple's 5.7 pound daughter was born first, followed by a 6.0 pound son. Both have yet to be named.
Will Smith won an apology and undisclosed damages in a London court on Friday over a false claim that he had described World War Two Nazi leader Adolf Hitler as a "good person."
The Oscar-nominated star, one of the world's most popular and highly paid actors, was left deeply distressed and acutely embarrassed over the wrong story published by an entertainment newswire service, the High Court heard.
Smith's comments, originally published in the Scottish Daily Record newspaper, were then "wholly misrepresented" by the London-based World Entertainment News Network (WENN), Judge David Eady was told.
The agency, which says on its website that it provides information to more than 1,000 media outlets in 25 countries, picked up the interview and then wrongly published worldwide a story headlined "Smith: Hitler was a good person."
Loretta Lynn, right, performs with her sister Crystal Gayle during Gayle's induction into the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame in Lexington, Ky., on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2008.
Photo by James Crisp
Sylvester Stallone's Rambo character looks like a fat lunatic in his new movie, a Myanmar magazine said this week, bucking local public opinion that has glorified him for his exploits fighting the ruling junta's unpopular soldiers.
The new "Rambo" film shows the weary hero on a mission to rescue a group of Christian missionaries taken captive by brutal government troops in the jungles of Myanmar.
Stallone's fictional exploits have made him a folk hero among the government's real-life foes here, who circulate bootleg DVDs of the film, even though state censors have ordered video shops not to carry the movie because it denigrates the army's image.
"We need many Rambos in Myanmar," said a 75-year-old retired civil servant after watching it. Like other viewers, he asked not to be named for fear of trouble from authorities.
It takes producing a lot of movies -- and good ones -- to earn one of Oscar's Irving G. Thalberg awards. But if you want to pay up to $200,000 you can buy one.
As the world's top film honors given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences neared their Sunday start, Los Angeles-based Profiles in History announced plans to auction the first ever Thalberg award given to legendary producer Darryl F. Zanuck in 1938.
Joseph Maddalena, chief executive of Profiles in History, said he obtained the trophy from a private collector who had bought it from Zanuck's daughter, Darrilyn Zanuck. The award comes with a handwritten note on her personal stationery to establish its provenance.
The first tome of banned books, from the early 1600s, is on display during the presentation to the press of an exhibition of centuries-old documents from the Vatican's Inquisition office, in Rome, Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2008. There are no heresy trial transcripts or descriptions of torture methods at a show that opened Thursday, Feb 21 and runs through March 16. Still, enough curiosities on display allow fascinating insights into how the Vatican once systematically tried to gain control over many aspects of life that had nothing to do with faith.
Photo by Andrew Medichini
Before Ken Kesey wrote "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," or stocked a psychedelic school bus with LSD and the Merry Pranksters to look for America, he was a wrestler.
He might never have written "Cuckoo's Nest," the 1962 novel that launched him to stardom, if he hadn't dislocated his shoulder wrestling for the University of Oregon.
The injury kept him out of the draft, allowing him to go to Wallace Stegner's writing seminar at Stanford University, where his job at the local veterans hospital gave him the setting for "Cuckoo's Nest" and the prototype for mean Nurse Ratched.
So when his alma mater decided to eliminate wrestling at the end of this season, it went down hard on the Kesey family farm. That's where Kesey is buried alongside his son Jed, the victim of a 1984 van crash during a University of Oregon wrestling team road trip. It's also where Furthur, the bus made famous by Kesey's 1964 odyssey and Tom Wolfe's book "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test," awaits restoration.
"I know what Dad would do," said 46-year-old Zane Kesey, who also wrestled for Oregon. "It's just the kind of thing he would step up and attack when he sees something that's wrong, when it's something he's already shed so much soul for."
George Walker, one of the original Merry Pranksters who joined author Ken Kesey on their celebrated psychedelic bus trip across America in 1964, joins a demonstration Feb. 16, 2008 aboard the latest incarnation of the bus on the campus of the University of Oregon in Eugene, Ore.. The spirit of Kesey has been invoked by a campaign to convince the University of Oregon to reverse its decision to drop wrestling, a sport Kesey loved..
Photo by Jeff Barnard
Regulators on Friday fined 13 Fox TV stations $7,000 each for a 2003 episode of "Married By America" that included graphic scenes from bachelor and bachelorette parties.
The Federal Communications Commission in 2004 proposed a $1.2-million fine against 169 affiliates of Fox Broadcasting Co. that aired the since-cancelled reality show on April 7, 2003.
But the agency, which issued a forfeiture order on Friday, said it would only fine stations in markets from which it received complaints.
TV stations in Las Vegas,Washington, D.C.; Baltimore, Md.; Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.; Tupelo, Miss.; Des Moines, Iowa and Okemos, Mich. face fines totalling $91,000.
In this photo released by the Wildlife Conservation Society, Mao Mi, a red panda that has just arrived at the Prospect Park Zoo in Brooklyn, N.Y., from his former home at the Binder Park Zoo in Michigan, gets familiar with his new environment, Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2008. Red pandas are an endangered species and Mao Mi is a beneficiary of a co-operative breeding program that works to ensure the survival of threatened or endangered species.
Photo by Julie Larsen Maher
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