Everybody has been asking, what good is this writer’s strike doing? Unless you’re lucky enough to have David Letterman for a boss, you’ve been out of work for two months, forced instead to picket production companies in the dead of winter. Meanwhile the big media companies are seeing profits roughly equal to what they were [...]

Snarky title? Listen pal, I could have put EACH WORD in quotes.
Still, it’s pretty slim pickins around these parts for non-strike-related stories, so I’m happy to pass along a little press-release goodness to y’all. When the Golden Globes air next January 13, one highlight you can expect is watching Steve Spielberg accept the Cecil B. [...]

You’ll be hearing more Oscar stories as the end of the year approaches, but here’s today’s. Ang Lee’s LUST, CAUTION, previously thought a shoo-in as Taiwan’s nomination for best foreign film, has been disqualified from that catagory because while Lee is Taiwanese, the movie was shot in Shanghai. I guess that makes it international or [...]