Meryl Streep

Oscar nominations...

Did you watch the announcement live? I did. Poor Salma Hayek was devastated that "Volver" didn't get a Best Foreign Language Film nomination. I was glad Alan Arkin got nominated, even though I didn't think much …

"Effort to 'Humanize' Clinton Is Underway."

That's the hilarious teaser on the home page of the Washington Post, leading to this article . The effort to "humanize" Clinton, as her advisers have put it, was in full swing just two days into her presidential cam…

Simulblogging the Oscars.

7 (Central Time). A slow-moving intro for Jon Stewart, showing Oscar hosts of the past declining to re-host. We see Billy Crystal and Chris Rock shacking up together in a tent, for the first gay joke of the night. The second one …

What's next for Oliver Stone?

Page Six has this : OLIVER Stone plans to explore the possibility of an affair between former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President Ronald Reagan in his next movie. Stone has apparently always been enamored of Ba…

Day three.

My summer Conlaw class, after three days, is actually already one-sixth of the way through (not counting the exam day). It's been interesting to get up early and have so much work done by 10. Actually, it's been pretty fu…

The Manchurian Hillary/Streep.

Fly on the Wall reports: Paramount Pictures is worried that Meryl Streep's edgy, chilling performance as a U.S. Senator in The Manchurian Candidate, which opens at the end of next month, is too close to the real Senator Hill…

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TiVo lifestyle. The TiVo website also provides officially downloadable "lifestyle images," and here's one of them. Possible first reactions to the picture: Let the kid go! ("Son, I'm going to teach you how …

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