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December 15 - 19
- Instructions for Academy Award consideration: Open your
film as close to year-end as possible, but before everyone
hits Aspen or St. Bart's for the holidays. Roll out the red
carpet, invite lots of celebrities to the premiere, and throw
a party at a trendy venue. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Movie studios followed
the Motion Picture Academy's instructions this year, trotting
out a seemingly endless round of holiday movies. This week's
crop included Miramax's The Hours and Confessions
of a Dangerous Mind, and Touchstone Pictures' 25th
Hour.
Viacom CEO Sumner
Redstone (love that name, sounds like a Native American
Irishman) and Paramount Pictures president Sherry Lansing
joined The Hours stars Nicole Kidman, Julianne
Moore, Meryl Streep and Claire Danes. Hours
author Michael Cunningham, writers Frank McCourt
and Salman Rushdie, actors Parker Posey, Marsha
Gay Harden, musical icon Lou Reed, director Jonathan
Demme and Miramax's Harvey Weinstein also watched
The Hours tick.
Spike Lee's
latest is 25th Hour starring Edward Norton,
Rosario Dawson, Barry Pepper, Philip Seymour
Hoffman and Anna Paquin. Norton squeeze Salma
Hayek, John Leguizamo and magician David Blaine
turned out for what seems like the 25th premiere this month.
George Clooney
shouted into the director's megaphone for the first time with
the Chuck Barris biopic Confessions of a Dangerous
Mind. Classy Clooney presented his work to the world at
the elegant Paris Theater, our favorite in New York, with
co-stars Sam Rockwell and Drew Barrymore. Barrymore's
boyfriend Fabrizio Moretti of hotshot rockers The Strokes
brought some bandmates.
Tell your friends
you didn't have time to shop for holiday gifts. You were at
the movies.
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