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Re: Ok, now with 20/20 hindsight... (Reply to this comment)
by macresarf1
Dear vonboob: Actually, I did better this year than I have in the past, at least in the major categories. I didn't think CHICAGO, much as I wanted to cheer it, was anything like Best Picture, but I went along with the smart money on it. Roman Polanski for Best Director, on the other hand, was really going against conventional wisdom. I'll settle for that well-deserved choice by the Academy, and praise them for it.
Glad you enjoyed the presentation.
Thank you for your compliments.
[Macresarf1]
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Mar 28 '03
8:56 am PST
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Ok, now with 20/20 hindsight... (Reply to this comment)
by vonboob
Still very entertaining! Sorry I missed your article. I blame the spammers as my betting might go a bit different... Right or wrong, excellent as usual.
Best regards,
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Mar 27 '03
4:17 pm PST
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Re: Interesting choices (Reply to this comment)
by macresarf1
Dear artbyjude: You must remember that I am psyching the Academy. If you have read my other predictions of the Oscars, you will see I am not very good at it. I'm better at the motives of the Bush Administration.
Until March 23rd...
Rgards.
[Macresarf1]
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Mar 19 '03
5:47 pm PST
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Interesting choices (Reply to this comment)
by artbyjude
And who knows? I haven't seen two of them, but I have to say that Thomas Newman's Score for the Road to Perdition is one of the best I have ever heard. So I hope you are wrong about that. And since I generally don't believe Nicole Kidman is so wonderful an actress, I believe I might be upset about that one as well. But I doubt if either you or the Academy need my opinion. IN FACT I AM SURE OF IT.
Jude
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Mar 19 '03
1:05 am PST
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Re: we've joined the 'ub'? (Reply to this comment)
by macresarf1
Dear Jan: I did have that spelled "Club" when I first tried to post the review. Have to wait for the Bug Patrol.
I just saw THE RUSSIAN ARK. One line resonates in my head: "Everyone can see the Future, but no one can remember the Past."
Hope it isn't true.
Regards.
[Macresarf1]
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Mar 14 '03
8:09 pm PST
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we've joined the 'ub'? (Reply to this comment)
by jankp
Hey, dude, hope you got them all right. You said it was easy, but you've seen them all. Why is it Deepak Chopra says then that we most fear what we know?
Jan
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Mar 14 '03
12:00 pm PST
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Re: Very nicely done (Reply to this comment)
by macresarf1
Thanks, Peter. Just ten days or so to go now.
Regards.
[Macresarf1]
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Mar 12 '03
2:55 pm PST
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Very nicely done (Reply to this comment)
by eplovejoy
If the Oscars are as much fun to watch as your piece is to read, we'll all be winners.
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Mar 12 '03
11:41 am PST
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Re: Diane Ladd up for Best Actress? (Reply to this comment)
by macresarf1
Thank you, cripper. Usually, after continually revising and proofing in draft, I go through an entire review carefully, again after I've posted it. Occasionally, I must do it several to straighten out all my crossed synapses.
On this review, however, there is a bug which prevents me from going beyond the first several paragraphs. When I am able, I shall make that obvious correction regarding my confusion of Miss Ladd for Miss Lane.
Thank you for pointing it out to me, and for the praise.
Regards.
[Macresarf1]
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Mar 12 '03
11:19 am PST
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Diane Ladd up for Best Actress? (Reply to this comment)
by cripper
Diane Ladd has grown up as a beauty and a talent, and she pleases in the vibrations she gives off as the perfect wife and mother overtaken by foolish passion in the Adrian Lyne's soap opera, UNFAITHFUL.
I think you have yourself mixed up with old Diane Ladd and the much younger Diane Lane (I know it was meant to be Diane Lane there).
Despite that, an excellent analysis of the Oscars.
cripper
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Mar 12 '03
12:08 am PST
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Re: awesome review (Reply to this comment)
by macresarf1
More to your comment, dr devience: I see now that when I was trying to wrangle the smear of ideas and URL's after I finally managed to post this review, I must have somehow caused the loss of a digit from the URL of the ENIGMA review.
For you, and anyone else who comes across this reply, here is the copy'n paste version:
http://www.epinions.com/content_64903417476
I really liked ENIGMA, and I think the reasons why show through in this review.
Thank you again.
[Macresarf1]
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Mar 11 '03
6:26 pm PST
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Re: Surprising oversights (Reply to this comment)
by macresarf1
Dear Waynio: As I've written elsewhere, perhaps efforts of millions of people like yourself have slowed down if not given the hook to President Bush's (not-so) Secret Team. After all, if as the President tells us, he celebrates Americans right to vent, but does not all the logic and opinions of fellow citizens to alter his judgments at all, what is the point of Democracy?
I see that several of Prime Minister Blair's undersecretaries are resigning in disgust. More surprising, because not so much an American tradition, John Brown of the U.S. State Department is turning in his resignation, as a protest against White House policy.
Thank you very much for the probably undeserved compliments (but you do know a good deal about real writing, and so I shall doubly thank you and appreciate them).
Thanks, too, for your technical expertise:
Now . . .
[Cue low-angle shot of Macresarf1 riding into the sunset with that can of Guiness in one hand, and the blonde in the other.]
Not wise to be premature, however. The odds at thus point in the present National crisis are even more against tomorrow than they have been recently. Those of us who take a truly conservative attitude toward our America's ethics are down to an End Game. If we don't win it, there will be "end games" as far as the mind can imagine.
I notice that there is another march and rally scheduled for Saturday in San Francisco, this one going from the Civic Center to Jefferson Park. A new batch of politicians and celebrities, but including Martin Sheen, promise to be present.
My plans are to be there.
All the best.
[Macresarf1]
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Mar 11 '03
5:04 pm PST
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Re: Dang macresarf1! (Reply to this comment)
by macresarf1
Dear Kristina: Thank you so very much!
Yes, if all were logic -- Academy logic, that is -- Miss Kidman would win. I do notice, however, that in recent days, a good deal of negativity has been shoveled upon her. Rumors of "home-breaking," etc.
And she has announced, as has Daniel Day Lewis, that if America and Britain have gone to war by March 23rd, she will not attend the Ceremony. I take that as a political statement. If so, it can work against my prophesy. For, having lived through several of these panics, though only World War II was as grave as this one, nothing brings out barroom patriots -- even in the Academy, I reckon -- like a confusion of a the Nation's motives with the safety of her Service men and women, who have sworn to carry out the orders of their Commander-in-Chief!
I do hope Philip Glass wins. No other serious modern American composer writes so distinctively, and his score for THE HOURS does several times bind together the disparate elements of that tripartite story.
Always a pleasure to have a comment from you, Kristina.
[Macresarf1]
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Mar 11 '03
4:18 pm PST
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Re: I missed them........but (Reply to this comment)
by macresarf1
Tsk, tsk, centaur5. There, you see!
And we even had tickets, Champagne, and Miss Taitinger of 1994 waiting for you at Brisbane Airport.
Oh, well . . .
Next time.
[Macresarf1]
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Mar 11 '03
11:23 am PST
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Re: awesome review (Reply to this comment)
by macresarf1
Dear drdevience: Thank you.
I will take a look at the ENIGMA link. The problem may arise, as you can see by the tattered state of the latter part of the review, from trouble I had posting this piece. First, for a couple of days, I couldn't manipulate the Epinions mechanism to put up any of it. (I guess the problem was its length, but I've published a few longer, without any trouble.) Then, I managed to set it in draft, a section at a time.
Unfortunately, the last section was all crammed together. When I tried to straighten that section out and polish the draft a bit, as is my practice, Epinions began to kick the whole text out again.
The present version has parts of some revisions thrown together with parts of others.
When I finally restored it, the review was in its present condition. I've put in a bug notice to the long suffering Baron Jackson, and I'll take another crack at closing up the last section.
Glad you enjoyed it, even in this condition.
[Macresarf1]
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Mar 11 '03
11:18 am PST
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Surprising oversights (Reply to this comment)
by waynio
[Applause, cheers, whistles]
Bravo, Alex!
Your commentary expresses exactly what's on my mind in this week before World War III or Crusades II, depending on who writes the history. Doesn't it make all our mundane pursuits look sooo trivial? (I'm reminded of Meryl Streep's line in "The Hours" referring to Ed Harris' character.)
[In the wings, the stage manager makes a frantic "hurry up!" gesture]
I agree, there were some remarkable omissions from the lineup of nominees. Maybe Academy members were distracted from their movie-watching last year by Harvey Weinstein's incessant campaigning.
I'd love to see Peter O'Toole get the Lifetime Achievement Oscar, if only to have them show us clips from "Lawrence of Arabia," that ever-relevant epic about Britain's original special-ops man.
[Film clip: After the massacre, Lawrence looks at the dagger in his blood-soaked hand and sees his ghastly reflection in the blade.]
Thanks again, Alex. Your columns are better than what passes for news in this country.
[Cut to commercial. A freshly-drawn pint of Draught Guinness settles. The roiling foamy brown currents turn into a "blonde in a black dress".]
Cheers,
Wayne
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Mar 11 '03
9:30 am PST
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Dang macresarf1! (Reply to this comment)
by kristinafh
I'm in awe of your analysis.
Phillip Glass a snob? Say it isn't so!
Nicole wins? From your lips to gawd's ears :).
Kristina :)
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Mar 10 '03
6:36 pm PST
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I missed them........but (Reply to this comment)
by cntaur5,  in Movies
Since I did not watch them on TV, it was nice to read your review.
cntaur5
As always, keep writing well!
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Mar 10 '03
5:17 pm PST
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awesome review (Reply to this comment)
by drdevience
I very much enjoyed this!!
Just os ya know, your link to Enigma doesn't load for some reason.. *whine*
grin
Doc
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Mar 10 '03
1:58 pm PST
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