Kate Gypped by Academy

In reviewing the nomination lists for both the SAG Awards and the Oscars, one stumbles upon a glaring omission. The Academy has decided to ignore Kate Winslet's work in "Revolutionary Road" and give her one nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role for "The Reader," a role that both the Golden Globes and SAG have recognized as supporting.

This snub is just another selective, political and, dare I say, semitic bias that continues to be exercised by the academy. Further fueling that whispered notion that if you do a film about the holocaust - you win an Oscar, or likewise, write a book about the holocaust and win a Pulitzer. This is getting ridiculously, blatantly obvious and it has to stop.

I don't know if anyone else got the joking aside made by Ricky Gervais to Kate at the Globes? This was a reference to an episode of "Extras" that Kate appeared in, as herself, in 2005. In it the extras worked on a holocaust drama, in which Winslet's character proclaimed (off-camera) that the role was undertaken because she knew it would get her an Oscar.

So now we are embroiled in a Hollywood game of chicken, whereby, if Kate doesn't win, then I'm proven wrong. And if she does win, Ricky's prescient bit of clichéd Hollywood irony is proven true and in the end: art imitates art imitates life.

Golden Globes Update

Me:  Don't know if anyone noticed, but Kate Beckinsale did not seem terribly comfortable to be sharing the mic with Puffy. Probably because the arrogant prick didn't so much share it with her as shoulder her out of the shot and hog prompter.

She:  I did notice that! Her contempt was palpable. But I'm a huge PD fan -- he amuses me.

Me:  Thank you for the validation. Yeah, he can be amusing in a TMZ, train wreck, highway accident, rubbernecking kind of way. And I am all over the current competition between he and Kanye for who is the biggest phallus in hip-hop. These two are both wunderkind, mama's boys in the worst way. I think Kanye leads with all his recent award show antics and the lip-syncing controversy over his last SNL appearance. But P-iddy is coming on strong with his recent Cîroc vodka ads that try to co-opt Sinatra cool, even shooting in B&W and using his track "Come Fly With Me."  

www.youtube.com/watch?v=71vW0NrvYNQ

Instead, he comes off more like the black Donald Trump.

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In a press release today the Hollywood Foreign Press appointed Salma Hayek Ambassador to the Golden Globes.

Later, seemingly in a knee-jerk reaction, the SAG Awards appointed Cloris Leachman.