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Forget the Screen Actors Guild. What Does AARP Think?
I missed the SAG Awards last night -- allegedly the most appreciated among dog-and-pony shows because the winners are chosen by other actors -- but a quick scan of the recipients reveals no surprises. Slumdog, of course. Meryl Streep, yawn.
This afternoon, though, I received a press release announcing the picks of a group Sean Penn may start caring about in another year: AARP, whose magazine's editorial staff votes on what they somewhat condescendingly call the Movies for Grownups Awards.
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The Razzie Nominations
As if anyone really wants to be reminded of the worst movies of the past year, the annual Razzie noms were announced today, a day before tomorrow's bleating of 2008's Academy Award contenders.
Among the most multifaceted bottom-feeders are Mike Myers' The Love Guru, Paris Hilton's The Hottie and the Nottie, M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening, the aptly named Disaster Movie, Meet the Spartans, and Uwe Boll's In The Name Of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale.
If you just said "huh?" to the last one -- or, more likely, a couple of 'em -- that's part of what usually makes the Razzies such a nonevent. I haven't seen any of the above movies, and though Love Guru and The Happening are at least high-profile, most of the movies dishonored were in and out of theaters before anyone could even hear about them, slow-moving targets in only the bwahahaha-you-sure-do-suck! sense.
The Golden Globes
An odd thing occurred to me as I was watching the 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards last night -- I wasn't all that excited. Maybe it was because I was tired from an evening spent running around. Maybe it was because Thursday's Critics Choice Awards had sapped some of my I LOVE MOVIES! gush.
(Seriously. I expected to FF through it underwhelmed, a la the common man's trophyfest, the People's Choice Awards. But I was enraptured, unable to skip a single "thank you" or moment of the brilliant Mingle Cam.)
But it's probably just because the Hollywood Foreign Press has terrible taste.
