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Awards Show Manic Depression

Oscars and Globes make me bipolar Why, you ask?  I’ll tell you.  It’s the hosts.  Back and forth and up and down – I’m happy, I’m sad, I’m…dizzy.  But it looks like the dust has settled for the main shows this year – the Academy Awards and the Golden Globes both have hosts.  But how [...]

And Eddie Murphy is……..OUT!

I can’t keep up with these people. Honestly.  I was just coming around to the idea of Eddie Murphy as Oscar host.  Initially, I was firmly opposed to the choice.  But then I was seeing the previews for Tower Heist, thinking that it looked like the old Eddie might be back on form.  A little [...]

Eddie Murphy, Oscar Host? No.

Yes, I do need to question the Academy’s every decision… So have you heard?  Eddie Murphy is hosting the Oscars this year.  It isn’t as much of a head scratcher as last year’s choices, but I don’t think it’s a good one either. I like Eddie Murphy.  When I was in college, an audio tape [...]

Hunger Games Gets a Cinna

Wait…Who? I love the way Lionsgate has gone about casting The Hunger Games.  An excellent but not widely typecast actress in Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss.   Two fairly well known but not overexposed actors as the male leads Peeta and Gale and a whole host of newcomers as the other tributes. The adult cast is marked [...]

Hunger Games Casts Haymitch!

Actors signing on quickly So many actors in such a short time!  Not long ago Lionsgate and director Gary Ross cast Jennifer Lawrence to play the lead role of Katniss in the movie adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ bestseller The Hunger Games.  I thought at the time – and still do – that she was a [...]