In case you didn’t hear, Atonement won Best Drama at the Globes, with Sweeney Todd taking Best Comedy or Musical. There Will Be Blood’s Daniel Day-Lewis was Best Actor in a Drama and Away From Her’s Julie Christie Best Actress in a Drama, while Todd’s Johnny Depp and La Vie en rose’s Marion Cotillard nabbed honors for a Comedy or Musical. Julian Schnabel upset the Coen brothers as Best Director, while his The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, not eligible for a Foreign Language Oscar, won that category last night. Ethan and Joel earned a Screenplay nod for No Country for Old Men.
Cate Blanchett as Bob Dylan notched Supporting Actress honors for I’m Not There, defeating Gone Baby Gone’s favorite Amy Ryan, while Javier Bardem seemingly sewed up the Supporting Actor category for No Country for Old Men.
Atonement’s Dario Marianelli won for Best Original Score, while Eddie Vedder’s “Guaranteed” was named Best Original Song for Into the Wild.
Now the big question is, Will the striking writers allow the Oscars to take place on Feb. 24? We’ll see.
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At the movie box office, in its fourth week of release, Warner Bros.’ The Bucket List ascended to the top of another list, taking in an estimated $19.5 million, followed by Sony/Screen Gems’ Ice Cube/Tracy Morgan comedy First Sunday ($19 million) and Fox Searchlight’s surging Juno ($14 million for a six-week total of $71.2 million). Last week’s leader, Disney’s National Treasure: Book of Secrets, dropped to fourth, with $11.4 million, pushing its total to $187.2 million after four weeks. Fox’s Alvin and the Chipmunks took in $9.1 million for fifth place and a five-week total of $187.7 million. Paramount Vantage’s There Will be Blood averaged a best $15k per screen on only 129 screens.
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The N.Y. Times’ Edward Wyatt contemplates the seventh season return of the American Idol juggernaut here.
The N.Y. Times’ Jeff Leeds examines the rise of Amazon.com as a competitor to iTunes and its multi-million-dollar Super Bowl promotion here.
The N.Y. Times’ Rob Hoerburger contemplates Shelby Lynne’s latest career move here.
The N.Y. Times’ Anthony Tommasini has high praise for Johnny Depp’s vocal performance as Sweeney Todd here.
The N.Y. Times’ Geoffrey Himes examines the revived career of country story-teller Tom T. Hall here.
The N.Y. Times’ reviewers ponder new releases by Ringo Starr, Billie Holiday and Hans Glawischnig here.
The N.Y. Times’ Michael Cieply checks in on the progress of
The L.A. Times’ Geoff Boucher goes record-shopping at Amoeba with Shelby Lynne here.
A Newsday blogger’s day is turned around with a random hearing of Samantha Fox’s “I Wanna Have Some Fun” here.
The N.Y. Post's Brian Garrity expounds on the emergence of Amazon.com as a serious competitor to iTunes here.
The N.Y. Post's Page Six on the contrast in campaign theme songs between Obama and Hillary here.
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