Friday, November 07, 2008
Friday, August 08, 2008
O'REILLY V. WELLS
Who'd a thunk that our little community of film industry bloggers carried so much weight?! As referenced in the previous post, David "The Carpetbagger" Carr is getting a lot of national media attention lately following the release of his soon-to-be-best-selling memoir The Night of the Gun—he appeared on Comedy Central's The Colbert Report and NPR's Fresh Air on Tuesday, Charlie Rose on Thursday, and will be on NPR's On the Media on Saturday and CNN's Reliable Sources on Sunday. But he is not alone! Jeff Wells of Hollywood-Elsewhere inflamed the conservative community last week with a post that appeared, to some, to suggest that the vocally-conservative actor Jon Voight should be blacklisted, which earned him an invitation to appear before the altar of Bill O'Reilly on Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor...
And The Winner Is... is one of the premier web sites devoted to covering the motion picture awards race year-round. Popular among film buffs and industry insiders, it features commentary on all major releases, festivals, and awards groups; exclusive interviews with key players in the race; and expert predictions and analysis.
Scott Feinberg, the site's editor, is one of the film industry's most trusted awards analysts, and has one of the world's best track records at projecting the Oscars. He also writes The Feinberg Files blog for the Los Angeles Times, serves as an expert panelist on the newspaper's "Buzzmeter," and is in his eighth year as the on-air Academy Awards analyst for the ABC News affiliate in New Haven, Connecticut. Previously, he conducted interviews for the web site OscarWatch and contributed to the online newsletter "Oscar Talk." In 2006, he correctly projected 21 of 24 Oscar winners, placing first internationally among pundits according to OscarCentral and Variety.
Feinberg is currently at work on a book that he hopes will excite young people about Hollywood history. It features an introduction by Oscar winner Margaret O'Brien and exclusive conversations with over 100 key figures from the world of film, from the last living star of the silent era through many of today's biggest stars.
He has interviewed: Oscar winners F. Murray Abraham, Alan Arkin, Javier Bardem, Ernest Borgnine, Danny Boyle, Adrien Brody, Ellen Burstyn, Michael Caine, George Clooney, Diablo Cody, Marion Cotillard (1)/(2)/(3), Penelope Cruz, Louise Fletcher, Louis Gossett Jr., Glen Hansard, Dustin Hoffman, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Celeste Holm, Luc Jacquet, Charlie Kaufman, Ben Kingsley, Walter Mirisch, Errol Morris, Patricia Neal, Margaret O'Brien, Sean Penn, Emmanuel Priou, Cliff Robertson, Eva Marie Saint, Tilda Swinton, Marisa Tomei, Rachel Weisz, and Edward Zwick; Oscar nominees Amy Adams, Alan Alda, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Joan Allen, Betty Comden, James Cromwell, Roger Deakins, Matt Dillon, Heidi Ewing, Nina Foch, Charles Ferguson, Peter Fonda, Tony Gilroy, Rachel Grady, Thomas Haden Church, Anne Hathaway, Hal Holbrook, Richard Jenkins, Tamara Jenkins, Sally Kirkland, Angela Lansbury, Melissa Leo, Baz Luhrmann, Brett Morgen, Viggo Mortensen, Kevin O'Connell, Ellen Page (1)/(2), Jason Reitman (1)/(2), Debbie Reynolds, Amy Ryan (1)/(2), Roy Scheider, Michael Shannon, Talia Shire, Elisabeth Shue, Gloria Stuart, Kristin Scott Thomas, and Max von Sydow; and Corey Allen, Mathieu Amalric, Darren Aronofsky, 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin, Kenny Baker, Elizabeth Banks, Brigitte Bardot, Gene Barry, Kate Beckinsale, Emily Blunt, Philip Bosco, Harry Carey Jr., Kitty Carlisle, Michael Cera, Marge Champion, Cyd Charisse, Norman Corwin, Peggy Cummins, Jeff Daniels, John Bul Dau, Viola Davis, Angie Dickinson, Aaron Eckhart, Rhonda Fleming, Ben Foster, Matthew Fox, Anne Francis, Dolores Fuller, Jennifer Garner, Betty Garrett, Brian Goodman, Sasha Grey, Richard Griffiths, Jack Grinnage, Rebecca Hall, Sally Hawkins, Jonah Hill, Paris Hilton, Hulk Hogan, Marsha Hunt, Cammie King, Mickey Kuhn, Ashton Kutcher, Carla Laemmle, Don LaFontaine, Charles Lane, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Joan Leslie, A.C. Lyles, Anthony Mackie, Peter Mamakos, Jerry Maren, Rose Marie, Benjamin McKenzie, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Leslie Nielsen, Anita Page, Sarah Jessica Parker, Dev Patel, Nehemiah Persoff, Bill Pohlad, Meinhardt Raabe, Ann Robinson, Keri Russell, Mark Ruffalo, Ann Rutherford, Kelley Sane, Ben Stiller, Tabu, Doris Eaton Travis, Gore Vidal, Eli Wallach, Ruth Warrick, Jodie Whittaker, Jane Withers, Lana Wood, and Elsa Zylberstein.
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