Writers Guild of America Awards
The Writers Guild of America announced the winners of the 57th Annual Writers Guild Awards for outstanding achievement in writing for the screen, television, and radio in ceremonies at The Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles and the Pierre Hotel in...
Posted in Blogcritics on February 20, 2005 08:00 PM
First "Man Booker International Prize" Contenders Announced
The Man Booker International Prize will be awarded once every two years for career achievement to a living author who has published fiction either originally in English, or is generally available in translation in the English language. 2005 sees the...
Posted in Blogcritics on February 19, 2005 09:07 PM
Oscars: Actual People Doing Actual Stuff
I've been getting feverish press releases from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences leading up to the Oscars, mostly announcing that this or that celebrity has been added to the burgeoning roster of presenters, or that Chris Rock...
Posted in Blogcritics on February 17, 2005 03:35 PM
Super Size Me Takes First WGA Documentary Award
The Writers Guild of America has named Super Size Me, written by Morgan Spurlock, as the winner of the Guild's first-ever Documentary Screenplay Award for outstanding achievement in documentary writing for the screen during 2004. The newly-created award was presented...
Posted in Blogcritics on February 17, 2005 02:11 PM
Chris Rock and Oscarphobia
So there's this little publicity hoo-haa going on about Chris Rock's humor in some interviews he's given in advance of hosting the Oscar show. Most notably, some have latched onto his comments that straight men don't watch the Oscars, that...
Posted in Blogcritics on February 15, 2005 11:35 PM
Canada's Juno Awards Sellout, and Sellout Bachman
The good news is that the tickets for Juno Awards in Winnipeg sold out in 16 minutes. The bad news is the snub of hometown heros Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings
Posted in Blogcritics on February 15, 2005 08:21 PM
Snubs for Canada's Juno Awards?
Now that the Grammy's are over with, we can now turn our eyes to Canada to find folks in an uproar over the Juno Awards ceremony. In what is being called the "ultimate snub", Canadian music lovers are outraged by the news that Randy Bachman has not been invited to perform at this year's Juno Awards.
Posted in Blogcritics on February 14, 2005 04:59 PM
Michael Jackson and the Grammys; Famous Friends to Testify
Watching the generally quite entertaining and sometimes even moving (Melissa, Kanye, Alicia, Southern rock) Grammy show last night, my wife and I had remarkably similar thoughts when Usher came on and busted out the flowing, acrobatic dance moves that at...
Posted in Blogcritics on February 14, 2005 03:21 PM
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