Posts Tagged ‘kate winslet’
Oscar Picks (No Surprises Here)
I'm always excited about the Academy Awards -- yeah, there are still a few of us left out there -- but I'm guessing there won't be a whole lot of thrilling and/or shocking moments this year. (Most any upset would go thusly: Oooh, the frontrunner didn't win! Which means...someone or -thing completely undeserving did.)
But for the record, here are my predictions anyway. And tune in at 8:30 when, give or take some DVR-shifting, I'll be live-blogging the entire ceremony. Or at least for as long as my cold medicine holds out.
BEST PICTURE
WALL*E. Not nominated? The Dark Knight. Sigh! How about The Wrestler? OK, I'll stop. It's gonna be Slumdog Millionaire, though between the five that were chosen I loved Milk the most.
The Week’s Lonely Opening: Revolutionary Road
I'm off to see Revolutionary Road in a bit and will be reviewing the cinematic reunion of Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate "Just Give Me a Damn Oscar Already" Winslet for Jan. 9's issue.
I'm looking forward to it, despite reports that the film is little more than the former Titanic swooners verbally abusing each other for two hours. (L.A. Weekly's Scott Foundas called it "a far more unsettling haunted-house story than The Amityville Horror.")
If anything, I suspect I'll have trouble accepting DiCaprio and Winslet as a grown-up, midlife-crisis-skirting couple. I think both are great actors, but Winslet has always appeared so womanly for her age, while DiCaprio may never outgrow his baby face. (When you see that teeny-seeming head on his nearly 6-foot body, it looks like a Photoshop gone wrong.)
Look for my less superficial reaction next week.
The Reader’s Kate Winslet on the Holocaust: “We Get It, It Was Grim. Move On.”
OK, so that quote is actually from Extras' Kate Winslet, when her character is giving a Tropic Thunder-esque speech on a surefire way to win an Academy Award. The full clip of her appearance on Ricky Gervais' show is here, with the Holocaust talk around the three-minute mark:
It was all I could think about while sitting through the first of Winslet's two holidays releases, The Reader. That, and her gigantic nipples. And the groceries I needed to pick up on the way home. It wasn't the most fascinating movie, despite the fact that all she does is bone a 15-year-old during half of it. Oscar!
