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Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Noteworthy

The Motion Picture Academy of America has announced the nominees for the upcoming Academy Awards. As usual, most of the nominees for the various major categories are from films nobody saw. Click here for a full list of nominees.

Yes, Avatar is about to become the top-grossing movie of all time, but it's far from being the most-watched. That honor still belongs to Gone with the Wind, USA Today reports here.

Harris Interactive's annual polls of public opinion of entertainers found Clint Eastwood the top movie star and Oprah Winfrey best-liked TV personality. >> More . .  .

Marvel Comics will move away from "darker" story lines and characterizations, and  "heroes will be heroes again" while the stories remain "edgy" and contemporary according to Marvel's editor in chief, USA Today reports.

Fast cars, crazy challenges, and merciless mockery of statism and elitists: the UK series Top Gear airs on BBC America Mondays at 8 EST.  Click here for more info.

 

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Culture 101



McCarey’s ‘My Son John’

McCarey’s ‘My Son John’
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Leo McCarey's My Son John (1952) has been uniformly lambasted by mainstream critics since the day it was released—because the villains are Communists. Yet Martin Scorsese, a smart cineaste and certainly no rabid anticommunist, classed the film among his all-time favorites and wrote very sympathetically and understandingly about it. It's actually a highly interesting film, and well worth watching, very much in the style of McCarey's other non-comedy films of the 1930s and '40s, such as Love Affair and Going My Way. This clip (although of poor [Watch Video]




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