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Lois Smith and Frances Sternhagen Continue to Live Dazzling Parallel Lives Onstage

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Richard Gere's Oscar Campaign: Here's What It Should Be

Richard Gere has been in a lot of pretty memorable movies, including Days of Heaven, Yanks, American Gigolo, An Officer and Gentleman, Pretty Woman, Unfaithful, and Chicago. But he's never been nominated for an Oscar! And that should be his Oscar campaign!

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Meryl Streep In Into The Woods?

Not long ago, a British newspaper interview with Stephen Sondheim mentioned that Meryl Streep was a rumored possibility to portray the Witch in the revival of Steve's Into The Woods, playing the Delacorte this summer. No, not Miranda Priestly. Another witch. Well, Sondheim didn't confirm or deny t ... More >>

Rank These Three Legendary Screen Actresses

Rank them in order of their talent, their careers, their legend. In other words, who was/is the best? And second best? And third best? (With these three, even "third best" is pretty amazing, so don't be trepidacious about putting someone in that slot.)

How to Succeed in Your Office Oscar Pool Without Really Trying

Glenn Close: New Queen Of The Oscar Losers?

If the experts at GoldDerby.com (including me) are right, Glenn Close will tie Deborah Kerr and Thelma Ritter for the most losses in female-acting categories in Oscar history. They each have six nominations. Deborah was actually a bigger loser than Glenn because all six of her noms were for Best A ... More >>

Live: How Exciting Were The Premieres Of Arvo Pärt And Philip Glass's New Works? Someone Fainted!

American Composers Orchestra Carnegie Hall Tuesday, January 31 Better than: A date with Justin Bieber for a 13-year-old girl. Last night at Carnegie Hall, the American Composers Orchestra ("the only orchestra in the world" dedicated to music by American composers) celebrated Philip Glass's 75th bi ... More >>

Uggie The Dog To Make Glamorous Appearance Today! Is He Gay?

The star of the Oscar-nominated film The Artist is making a press appearance at the Empire State Building today. No, not Jean Du-whatever. I'm talking about Uggie, the nine-year-old Jack Russell terrier who is currently nominated for two Golden Collar Awards (for The Artist and Water for Elephants ... More >>

My Final Oscar Nomination Predictions!

​The nominations will be announced tomorrow morning, but you might as well just go by this list, which has been officially certified by the Dionne Warwick Psychic Hotline. BEST PICTURE (Ranked in descending order of likelihood) 1--The Artist 2--The Descendants 3--The Help 4--Hugo 5--Mo ... More >>

Harvey Weinstein is Back -- NY Film Critics

The big news to emerge from yesterday's New York Film Critics Circle voting--held early this year to scoop the other year end awards--is, of course, the second coming of homeboy Harvey Weinstein. Not only was The Artist voted best picture and its director Michel Hazanavicius anointed Best Director ... More >>

Oscar Predictions: It's Never Too Early

​Just like it's already Christmas in certain department stores, the Oscar predix business happens to be in full swing, with goldderby.com asking us pundits for our premature (I mean extremely mature) guesses as to who will get nominated. Here are mine as of this very moment. Bear in mind tha ... More >>

Summer, We're Over You: 8 Reasons to Look Forward to Winter

viaYeah, you wish. ​Listen, we (that is, Jen) loves summer. But maybe not everyone does. And because it's our dear intern Esther's last day, we're letting her sound off on the subject. Let the summer-hating commence! It's August, and it has been for two weeks now. Summer is almost over. We ma ... More >>

Say Something Banal

​Please!!! Descend to the occasion and say something really cliched and obvious, just so we can get it out of our systems and cleanse our palates for some more stimulating exchanges. Come on, bore yourself to tears with something even a slug would have rolled its eyes at five years ago. I ... More >>

Meryl Streep As Margaret Thatcher: Another Oscar?

​Meryl Streep as former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in a heavily researched, carefully made up film called The Iron Lady? Reeks of Oscar, right? Well, I know the answer.

Charo Disses International Pop Sensation! Ay, Caramba!

charo.com​ Charo is the Spanish singer/guitarist who cuchi-cuchied (and shed) all over The Love Boat and who, after many decades living in this country, still speaks English with an accent thicker than a Meryl Streep character's. It's part of her shtick, and she's muy delightful at it. But ... More >>

Peeping at Susan Sarandon's Peepers at BAM

Joan Crawford Made Her Fans Scrub Her Floors!

​This is from the book Crawford's Men by Jane Ellen Wayne: "She allowed her fans (she called them 'friends') to gather near her Bristol Avenue home. "She put them to work doing odd jobs around the yard and house or helping with the mail. "They scrubbed floors and cleaned out the garage and ... More >>

Oscar Nominees Announced; Extended Best Picture List Includes Up, Inglourious Basterds, A Serious Man

In another February 2 ritual, the 2010 Oscar Nominees were announced this morning. The Best Picture list, expanded to ten nominees this year, are: An Education Avatar The Blind Side District 9 The Hurt Locker Inglourious Basterds Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire A Serious Man Up U ... More >>

Food, Inc. and Julie & Julia Add Edible Component to the Oscars

The Oscars have given Julie & Julia fans something to smile about.​ Here at Fork in the Road, we generally don't concern ourselves with moving pictures unless, of course, they happen to concern themselves with the preparation and/or eating and/or politics of food. Which, it so happens, two of ... More >>

The French Meryl Streep Speaks About Her Craft!

Musical chairs with nuns and a Jew.

Wes Anderson Brings Wes Anderson–ness to Fantastic Mr. Fox

President Rejects Gay Hustler!

Plus Abe Lincoln's logs and more than 15 minutes at Warhol's birthday party.

Michael Pollan on Julia Child and Our Culinary End of Days

The imminent release of Julie & Julia has so far launched about five thousand articles, and this weekend, Michael Pollan will bring us one more. The film has inspired Pollan to pen over 8,000 words in the New York Times Magazine about, among other thing, the rise of cooking as a spectator sport, ... More >>

2008 Film Poll: Coming (at You) Soon

Jeffrey Katzenberg's cure for an ailing movie economy, in all three dimensions.

State Rumors Cause Peggy Noonan's Hillary-Hate to Spike

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Smiley Face the stoner comedy to end all stoner comedies. Plus it's funny!

Perez Hilton: "I Like Food, Not Drugs!"

Yet another Rhode trip. Then it's back to Manhattan for cock tales.

Blah-Blah Sisterhood

Chick-flick genre to Evening: Why you gotta make us look bad?

Laughing and Crying at Keaton's Roast

Commiserating with fellow club columnist Romano. Plus playgoing and going to play.

V For Violence

From Al Basrah to the AMC, 2006 meant war

'Wrestling With Angels'

The Metamorphosis

Boy turns bug in redemptive kiddie-lit adaptation

English as a Second Language

From 'Memoirs of a Geisha' to Gwen Stefani's Harujuku Girls, Asians get lost in translation

The Death of the Dumb Blond

Why peroxide rot is, like, officially over

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Dud Simple

The Coens dispense incidental gospel music and diarrhea jokes in a desperate remake

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The Truths About Charlie

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Archival and Departure

Maybe, in Our Hemmed-In World, One Step Back Could Mean Two Steps Forward

Orchid Fairy Tale

Pulvermacher’s Horticultural Fantasy

Meryl Takes On the System and Wes Takes a Nap

Muse's Moment

Awesome Greek

Five-story 1888 brownstone

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''In the new George Michael video, two very arresting male cops are locked in a passionate kiss, bringing new meaning to the word entrapment.''