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*Blush*??????New York Times blogger David Carr has called our Oscar party “the white hot social center” of the Oscar-party landscape. If you’re in New York that night, you simply must stop by. Details here.
“If you???ve seen Daniel Day Lewis??? portrayal of a greedy, sinister oilman in There Will Be Blood, it???s just another example of the Hollywood left???s contempt for capitalism.” That’s Tonight Show producer Dave Berg, speaking at a meeting held to try to rally Hollywood’s Republican troops against Barack Obama. Via Wilshire and Washington.
David Edelstein is worried that Juno will win Oscars in just about every category it’s nominated due to better choices splitting the vote. “As one of the few critics to dislike Juno, I would be devastated,” he writes in the first of what will apparently be a series of bloggy exchanges with Lynda Obst. “But weirder things have happened in these silly awards.”
From The Department Of Questions That Don’t Need To Be Asked: Jeff Wells wonders, “Is there anyone who doesn’t suspect that Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay will somehow play fast and loose, water down or otherwise make light of that deplorable situation?” Commenters to proceed to argue whether or not Gitmo detainees should be transfered to domestic prisons.