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Utopian Turtletop. Monsieur Croche's Bête Noire. Contact: turtletop [at] hotmail [dot] com
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Oscar rule of thumb: If someone is nominated for playing a real person, pick them.
Recent winners:
2004: Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles
2005: Philip Seymour Hoffman as Truman Capote; Reese Witherspoon as June Carter
2006: Forest Whitaker as Idi Amin; Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II
2007 (tonight): Marion Cotillard as Édith Piaf
Of course, there is often more than one to choose from:
2004: Don Cheadle as Paul Rusesabagina; Johnny Depp as Sir James Matthew Barrie; Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes
2005: Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash; David Strathairn as Edward R. Murrow
2006: Will Smith as Chris Gardner
2007: Cate Blanchett as Queen Elizabeth I
With the exception of Elizabeth I of England, we at least have photographs and in many cases footage of all of these people.
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Wanted to go to a concert of new compositions at Cornish College for the Arts tonight, but my son had a fever and my beloved spouse had to work, and I wouldn’t get a babysitter for a sick child. Hope the concert went well. I watched the Oscars instead. Not as funny as in some years. Also, the only film I’d seen this year is Ratatouille. Would like to see some others; no rush.
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My son and I sometimes like to play a game where I try to type something and he tries to thwart me by grabbing my arms and hands. We laugh when I read the results out loud. Today I was trying to write something to the effect that “I like poetry, and my son is making me type crazy.” Here are the results.
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