Tag: Mike Tyson
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OSCAR TALK: Ep. 10 — The four to be seen, animated features, supporting categories and Tyson’s LAX punch-out
Welcome to Oscar Talk, your weekly kudocast featuring yours truly and Anne Thompson of indieWIRE’s Thompson on Hollywood.On the docket today:
• Anne and I discuss the four perceived Oscar heavies that have yet to unveil — “Avatar,” “Invictus,” “The Lovely Bones” and “Nine” — and what being last out of the gate means vis a vis echo chamber buzz.
• Spinning off of that, we dig into the “Avatar” budget story of the week.
• With the list of qualifying animated features official, we take a brief survey of the category once more with thoughts on potential nominees.
• With Movie City News’s Gurus o’ Gold chart collecting supporting category predictions, Anne and I take the opportunity to profile those two categories.
• And Anne breaks down the impromptu Mike Tyson bout that went down at LAX Wednesday and whether it could hurt James Toback’s documentary feature on the fighter.
Have a listen to this week’s podcast below. And as always, you can subscribe to Oscar Talk via iTunes here.
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Tyson on Oprah’s couch
I finally got around to James Toback’s documentary “Tyson” last night, which is an extremely thoughtful look at, well, one side of the heavyweight’s story. Tyson makes for a captivating subject but I’m not sure the effort made for a captivating film.
Tyson will be on Oprah this afternoon. Here are a couple of highlights that have popped up up via CNN:
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10/8 Oscarweb Round-up
• Jamie Foxx wants “Ray” director Taylor Hackford to tackle the actor’s planned Mike Tyson biopic. [MTV Movies Blog]• Jeffrey M. Anderson talks to “A Serious Man” star Michael Stuhlbarg. [Green Cine Daily]
• Patrick Goldstein wants to know why Michael Moore got dolled up for Sean Hannity. [The Big Picture]