ALL THE RAGE in and about Cinema
Humor
Having a good laugh at a funny movie could do more than simply lift your spirits. Research has shown it
could help to improve your health as well as reduce stress. During these turbulent economic times, here
Oscar’s all-Time HigHs and lOws:
are three picks Rage thinks will be just what the doctor ordered for your funny bone.
get set for the 81st annual academy awards to air
He’s Just Not That Into You
live from Hollywood on February 22. This year’s host
Perhaps in many instances, truer words have never
is Australia star and People’s Sexiest Man of the Year,
been spoken. Former talk show host Greg Behrendt
Hugh Jackman. The Oscars were first televised in 1953,
wrote a book on the subject of men demonstrating
when it was held at the Pantages Theatre. The cer-
nonchalance. It is said he came up with the idea from
emony has been postponed, but never cancelled, only
watching Sex and the City. This same premise has been
three times since its debut in 1929. First, in 1938 due to
adapted into a feature film by Drew Barrymore’s produc-
floods. Then it was postponed for two days in 1968 due
tion company and features an A-list cast. Barrymore
to the funeral of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. In 1981,
herself, Ben Affleck, Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Connelly,
the ceremony was rescheduled because of the assas-
and Scarlett Johansson all co-star in the production that
sination attempt on President Ronald Reagan. The first
tells the stories of a group of interconnected, Baltimore-
figurines that were handed out were known officially
based 20 and 30-somethings as they navigate their
as the Academy Award of Merit and differed little in
various relationships from the shallow end of the dating
appearance from today’s Oscar. The Academy officially
pool through the deep, murky waters of married life.
recognized the nickname of “Oscar” in 1939.
He’s Just Not That Into You is rated PG-13 and premieres
February 6.
~The award for movies to win all five of the top
awards (Best Picture, Best director, Best actor, Best
Confessions of a Shopaholic
actress, and Best screenplay) goes to… It Happened
Disney is set to premiere Confessions of a Shopaholic
One Night, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and The
starring Isla Fisher, who starred in Definitely, Maybe and
Silence of the Lambs.
Wedding Crashers. The film, based on the best selling
novel series by Sophie Kinsella, centers around Fisher - a
~The award for longest standing ovation goes to…
fun loving shopping-obsessed college graduate who
Charlie Chaplin in 1972. Returning to Hollywood after
dreams of working for her favorite fashion magazine,
a long political exile, a wavering Charlie Chaplin stood
but can’t quite get her foot in the door - until ironically,
alone onstage as the acclaim swept over him. “Words
she snags a job as an advice columnist for a financial
are so futile, so feeble,” he managed to say.
magazine published by the same company. As her
dreams are finally coming true, she goes to ever more
~The award for only X-rated movie to win Best
hilarious and extreme efforts to keep her past from ruin-
Picture goes to… Midnight Cowboy in 1969 for it’s
ing her future. Many are expecting and hoping for this to
so-called graphic display of sex. However, shortly after,
be the “next” Devil Wears Prada.
the film was reduced to just an R rating.
Confessions of a Shopaholic is rated PG and hits the-
atres on February 13.
~The award for biggest upset goes to… Marisa
Tomei’s win for Best Supporting Actress in 1992 for her
role in My Cousin Vinny. Tomei beat out “heavyweights”
The Pink Panther 2
like Vanessa Redgrave, Joan Plowright, Miranda
One of comedy’s best, Steve Martin, will reprise his
Richardson and Judy Davis. Later, it was revealed that
role as the bumbling Inspector Jacques Clouseau,
the votes were so split between the more renowned
whose investigations are notoriously chaotic and foiled
actresses that Tomei was able to sneak through, a
by his own incompetent actions. In this one, the panther
phenomenon the experts now call “the Marisa Tomei
is pegged to join forces with detectives from other Eu-
Factor.”
ropean countries in a quest to hunt down the notorious
cat burglar. The movie features an all-star supporting
~and finally, the award for Oscar’s biggest loser
cast in John Cleese, Andy Garcia, Alfred Molina, Jean
goes to… Peter O’Toole. He is an eight-time loser for
Reno and Emily Mortimer.
a Best Actor award with the latest defeat coming in
The Pink Panther 2 is rated PG and will be released
2006 by Forest Whitaker in The Last King of Scotland. It
February 6.
should be noted, however, that O’ Toole did receive an
“honorary” Oscar in 2003.
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