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February 16, 2006
BREAKING: Oscars May Feature Surprises
While you were drinking yourself to sleep Wednesday, the night desk at the New York Daily News was hard at work on the scoop that is sure to supplant vice-sniper Dick Cheney on front pages far and wide:
It is not such a bad story, really, if the clinical analysis of upsets like Hamlet over Johnny Belinda and Chariots of Fire over On Golden Pond is your kind of wonkish wet dream, or if you feel like taking Brokeback Mountain producer James Schamus's droll contradiction of conventional Oscar wisdom at face value:
"(I)f you go back and do a statistical analysis of all that talk about momentum and whatever, then line it up against the outcome of the Oscars themselves, you'll find the relationship of those things is completely and utterly serendipitous. There's no cause and effect. There's no science to it."
Or value, or class, or relevance, etc. But that is between us; God knows I would hate to upset the neighbors over all this.
Posted by stvanairsdale at February 16, 2006 07:34 AM
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If I were a betting man, I'd put good money on "Crash." Even though I think it might be one of the worst films I've seen this year, I think it has the best chance of winning (I made this argument several days ago, but my circulation isn't as wide as the New York Daily News, unfortunately).
Posted by: Chuck at February 17, 2006 12:30 AM