Tuesday, February 17, 2009

A Handful of Link

Overthinking It has a fun excel crazy piece about the popularity of Best Picture nominees over the years.
Dear Jesus for Presidents Day "President's pets are more interesting than president movies". Love the pics
Stale Popcorn of all the movies in the world you could want a book about...
In Contention slow news day so Kris attacks his "pet peeves" of this Oscar season. Naturally he attacks my favorite pets (Rachel Getting Married), not a peeve. To each their own. But what are your pet peeves of this particular Oscar season?

And this is interesting...
Not Starring
, always an interesting site (There's no fluff... they just go straight to the heart of their chosen topic) has a rundown of this year's Oscar nominated roles and who turned the roles down or wanted but didn't get them. 'What Might Have Been's can boggle one's mind. Heath Ledger in Australia? Juliette Binoche in The Reader? Natalie Portman as Sister James in Doubt? Could she have loved Frosty the Snowman as much as Amy Adams?
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