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Serenasailor
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Post Number: 1313
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, February 25, 2007 - 11:02 pm: | 
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LOS ANGELES - Alan Arkin won best supporting actor for his role in "Little Miss Sunshine."
The savage fairy tale "Pan's Labyrinth" took the first two Academy Awards on Sunday, for art direction and makeup, the wins for the Spanish-language film kicking off an Oscar evening stuffed with contenders from around the globe.
"To Guillermo del Toro for guiding us through this labyrinth," said art director Eugenio Caballero, lauding the writer-director of "Pan's Labyrinth," the tale of a girl who concocts an elaborate fantasy world to escape her harsh reality in 1940s Fascist Spain.
Once an evening of backslapping and merrymaking within the narrow confines of Hollywood, the Academy Awards this time looked like a United Nations exercise in diversity.
The 79th annual Oscars feature their most ethnically varied lineup ever, with stars and stories that reflect the growing multiculturalism taking root around the globe.
"What a wonderful night, such diversity in the room," said Ellen DeGeneres, serving as Oscar host for the first time, "in a year when there's been so many negative things said about people's race, religion and sexual orientation.
"And I want to put this out there: If there weren't blacks, Jews and gays, there would be no Oscars," she said, adding" "Or anyone named Oscar, when you think about that."
In a segment produced by Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Errol Morris, the show opened with humorous pre-taped moments with nominees, including Clint Eastwood, whose "Letters From Iwo Jima" had nominations including best picture and director, and Peter O'Toole, nominated as best actor for "Venus."
O'Toole, who lost on all seven of his previous nominations, was asked why he did not win for his first nomination as star of the historical epic "Lawrence of Arabia.
"Somebody else did," O'Toole wisecracked.
Eastwood had trouble remembering in what categories "Letters From Iwo Jima" was nominated.
"Picture, director," Eastwood said, pausing. "Things like that."
Competing for best picture was Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's "Babel," a sweeping ensemble drama. The film's cast ranges from A-listers such as Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett to comparative unknowns Adriana Barraza from Mexico and Rinko Kikuchi from Japan, who both earned supporting-actress nominations for "Babel."
Also in the running were Stephen Frears' classy British saga "The Queen," a portrait of the royal family in crisis, and Eastwood's Japanese-language war tale "Letters From Iwo Jima."
Those films joined two idiosyncratic American stories nominated for best picture, Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris' road comedy "Little Miss Sunshine" and Martin Scorsese's crime epic "The Departed."
Though set among the distinctive cops and mobsters of Boston, "The Departed" had a global connection ? it was based on the Hong Kong crime thriller "Infernal Affairs."
Gray clouds floated over the red carpet as limousines delivered guests to the Kodak Theatre, but the hint of rain didn't diminish the enthusiasm of spectators as the likes of Maggie Gyllenhaal, James McAvoy, Al and Tipper Gore and Melissa Etheridge passed by.
"I don't think there's any pageant in the world that matches the Oscars," said Gore, whose "An Inconvenient Truth" was nominated for best documentary feature and best original song, "I Need to Wake Up," by Etheridge.
"Every star under the sun is here. It don't get no bigger than this," said nominee Jennifer Hudson.
"You can feel the excitement building," said Kyle Wilson, 45, an events planner for a nursing home in San Diego who had been in the bleachers for about eight hours. "This is when the wait is all worthwhile."
Celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck walked the red carpet showing off specialties created for the post-show Governors Ball: Oscar-shaped smoked salmon with caviar, mini-cheeseburgers, and gold-colored dessert chocolates shaped like Oscar statues.
Of the 20 acting nominees, five were black, two were Hispanic and one was Asian, while only two Americans ? Eastwood and Scorsese ? were among the five best-director contenders.
With a Directors Guild of America award and other top film honors behind him, Scorsese was considered a shoo-in to earn the directing Oscar, a prize that has eluded him throughout his illustrious career.
There were clear front-runners in all four acting categories, as well: Forest Whitaker as Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in "The Last King of Scotland" and Helen Mirren as Elizabeth II in "The Queen" for the lead-acting trophies, Eddie Murphy and Hudson as soul singers in "Dreamgirls" for the supporting honors.
The best-picture race was up for grabs, though, with all five films in the running but many Oscar watchers generally figuring it was a three-way race among "Babel," "The Departed" and "Little Miss Sunshine."
Organizers at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hope the suspense of the wide-open best-picture category will help offset moviegoers' relative lack of interest in the competing films.
TV ratings for the Oscars tend to be lower when fewer people have seen the top nominees. Collectively, the five best-picture nominees had drawn a total domestic theatrical audience of about 38.5 million people, about a third the number of fans who have gone to see the contenders in recent peak years when such blockbusters as "Gladiator" or "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" have won.
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Cynique
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Post Number: 7481
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, February 26, 2007 - 11:15 am: |
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I'm convinced Alan Arkin won by default because Eddie Murphey and Donnie Wahlberg crunched the numbers and cancelled each other out. When being interviewed on the red carpet Eddie said that he didn't consider himself a shoo-in for this award and that he wasn't taking a win for granted. So at least he knew that he might not win, which may have helped to assuage his disappointment. |
Chrishayden
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Post Number: 3731
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, February 26, 2007 - 11:48 am: |
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<That stupid movie Murphy did with the fatsuit drag cost him. |
Abm
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Post Number: 8569
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, February 26, 2007 - 11:35 pm: |
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Alan Arkin is old, beloved, veteran actor who's never before won an Oscar.
Oh. Btw, he's also JEWISH.
Dee END. |
Jackie
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Post Number: 461
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, February 26, 2007 - 11:43 pm: |
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ABM:"Alan Arkin is old, beloved, veteran actor who's never before won an Oscar.
Oh. Btw, he's also JEWISH.
Dee END.
Agreed. Alan Arkin's performance in Little Miss Sunshine was by NO MEANS stellar acting. Hell he died of a heroine overdose halfway through the movie! I expected dude from Blood Diamond to get it. Oh well... |
Mzuri
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Post Number: 3631
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, February 26, 2007 - 11:57 pm: |
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Can y'all believe this nothin muffin got up and left after he did not win???
Eddie Storms Out After Loss
Monday February 26, 2007
Is Eddie Murphy a sore loser? After failing to nab the award for Best Supporting Actor to Little Miss Sunshine’s Alan Arkin, Murphy tried to brush off the loss, telling Us, "It's fine. It happens. It's OK."
But clearly it wasn't. Shortly thereafter Murphy, 45, and girlfriend Tracey Edmonds left the show in a huff and didn’t return. Thanks to the early exit, the actor didn’t see any of his Dreamgirls castmates perform and missed out on costar Jennifer Hudson’s win for Best Supporting Actress.
http://www.usmagazine.com/eddie_storms_out_after_loss
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Doberman23
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Post Number: 818
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, February 27, 2007 - 01:42 am: |
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it's to bad, i think this was eddies only chance to win an award, after having such an excellent career. i wish they waited to release norbit, that killed his chance to win it. i loved alot of eddie's earlier work "coming to america" "beverly hills cop" "48 hours" "boomerang" "nutty professor" "trading places" his stand up was great, but unfortunatly i think he may have ran out of original ideas, and now charlie murphy is starting to look like the funny one from out of the murphy clan. i hope he can get back to form, but if not he will still remain one of my all time favorites. |
Renata
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Post Number: 1827
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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, February 27, 2007 - 09:50 am: |
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Eddie Murphy fucking sucks. I can't believe anyone's still interested in anything he does. The last ENJOYABLE movies he made were Coming to America and Harlem Nights. It was all downhill after that. Who keeps bankrolling his CRAP? |
Abm
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Post Number: 8576
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, February 27, 2007 - 10:10 am: |
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Dobes,
The thing that bugs me about Eddie is I suspect he could be wonderful dramatic actor. Most great comedians appear to be able to do that (Perhaps it's that whole smiling on the outside, crying on the inside that great Clowns are alleged to do.). God. He's made so much dough doing that Dr. Doolittle, Norbit crap you'd think he'd be down with attempting to be a GOOD actor for a little while.
Renata,
I imagine the foks who've made a couple of BILLION bucks via "bankrolling his CRAP."
Remember: It is the Movie BUSINESS, babe. |
Renata
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Post Number: 1828
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, February 27, 2007 - 10:47 am: |
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Unfortunately, ABM. I guess I can see the BUSINESSman's interest in it.
Also, unfortunately, most of his shitty movies are being seen by people like my grandparents....who will go to see a shitty movie just because it was made by a black man, even when they know they didn't like any of the last 5 or so movies he made. And that's how we get bullshit movies shoved up our asses. |
Abm
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Post Number: 8579
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, February 27, 2007 - 11:33 am: |
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Renata,
If there is a problem with what Eddie does, your grandparents are NOT the primary source of such. Eddie still gets to do what he does because plenty of WHITE foks enjoy that stuff.
I saw Norbit |
Brownbeauty123
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Post Number: 1822
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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, February 27, 2007 - 12:32 pm: |
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His role in DreamGirls was overrated. All the critics were saying how he made such a huge transformation to play the character and how the character was nothing like him at all...big lie. All I saw was Eddie--and the character wasn't all the funny or entertaining. |
Cynique
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Post Number: 7507
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, February 27, 2007 - 12:50 pm: |
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Eddie Murphy always has to remind clueless people (like Oprah) that doing that singing and dancing bit in Dream Girls was not a stretch for him, that back in the 80s he put out an album and "Party All The Time", the hit single from that album went to the top of the music charts. Being a comedian also made it easy for him to do a "take off" on the James Brown/Jackie Wilson character he played in the movie. BTW, all of the celeb-watchers are talking about how Murphy's early exit, how he got up and left the theater right after he didn't win the Oscar. |
Chrishayden
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Post Number: 3766
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, February 27, 2007 - 01:03 pm: |
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Eddie Murphy always has to remind clueless people (like Oprah) that doing that singing and dancing bit in Dream Girls was not a stretch for him, that back in the 80s he put out an album and "Party All The Time", the hit single from that album went to the top of the music charts
(Somebody tell me she didn't post this. Please. Somebody tell me!
Eddie should have gotten an Oscar for "The Nutty Professor"
He's a very insecure man obviously, even after all his success--which is probably the reason why he went so far--I hate it when he plays himself, but he does characters great-- |
Abm
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, February 27, 2007 - 01:14 pm: |
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Chris: "...he does characters great--"
That's why I figure he'd probably be a fine dramatic actor. Wonder why he won't do some serious acting for a change.
It AIN'T like the nikka will be going broke anytime soon. |
Cynique
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Post Number: 7513
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, February 27, 2007 - 02:01 pm: |
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Yeah, chrishayden, I posted what Eddie Murphy has been telling people like Orprah and red carpet interviewers about his history as a singer. Apparently Oprah and lot of people in their 20's don't know this. If you got a probem with me posting that blurb, then go take a laxative. |
Chrishayden
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Post Number: 3774
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, February 27, 2007 - 05:29 pm: |
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Cynique:
That goddam album sucked and so did that song. Rick James had to labor overtime and cover up his voice to make it sound decent.
Do you remember ever hearing Murphy sing live? I saw him lip sync the song during a program with Tina Turner and she was looking at him like he had a tail.
Eddie Murphy, singer is in the class with
Cynique, Great American Mind
But I digress
That's why I figure he'd probably be a fine dramatic actor. Wonder why he won't do some serious acting for a change.
It AIN'T like the nikka will be going broke anytime soon.
(They won't pay him the big bucks for that. He had to take a big pay cut to play the Dream girls role, which was a supporting role, and then he don't get the Oscar.
How about you? Would you give up top billing and work for a fraction of what you work for? I don't think so!
It is all about the bucks. Not people in the peanut gallery wishing he would do "serious art"
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Chrishayden
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, February 27, 2007 - 05:29 pm: |
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I saw Norbit
(You ARE Norbit!) |
Cynique
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Post Number: 7522
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, February 27, 2007 - 07:33 pm: |
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Oh shut your pie hole, chrishayden. Who said anything about Eddie being a good singer. And, yes, I heard him sing on Saturday Night Live when he was a regular on the show, and he did OK. Do you think Eddie was lip synching in Dream Girls - that he got an Oscar Nomination for not doing is own singing? You're an idiot. |
Renata
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, February 28, 2007 - 03:07 am: |
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I repeat, Eddie Murphy sucks donkey dick. |
Cynique
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Post Number: 7523
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, February 28, 2007 - 12:03 pm: |
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How do you know? Are you a donkey??? |
Mzuri
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