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Pity the poor filmmaker with an Award season movie to flog. If it's good enough to have a shot at some awards attention then the distrib is going to make you do the rounds: the guild screenings and Q & As the dinners the AFI Fest the Hollywood Fest the Variety screening series my UCLA Sneak Previews class the Behind the Camera Awards--and that's just the beginning. As we go on there's the gauntlet of awards ceremonies the LA and NY critics the Board of Review the Indie Spirits. The Gothams the Golden Globes the SAG Awards. The real horror is keeping the thing going all the way to the Oscars. If I were Julian Schnabel. I'd pack my PJs and head back to NYC right now. On Friday night after a long Miramax dinner he and producers Kathleen Kennedy and Jon Kilik screenwriter Ronald Harwood cinematographer Janusz Kaminski and stars Mathieu Amalric. Max Von Sydow. Marie-Josee Croze and Emmanuelle Seigner all trooped onto the stage at the book Arts Theatre to The Diving Bell and the dart for which Schnabel won the directing consider in Cannes. The hirsute Schnabel ran the show from center stage wearing a avoid and fuming a cigarette. Schnabel promoted the movie's soundtrack and pimped Seigner's new record too. It was important he said to shoot at the real maritime hospital in Berck where Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby had stayed after his stroke to choose up the atmosphere the accidents the inspiration from the place. One day. Schnabel saw the course going out past a big rock and arranged to shoot Amalric on it in his wheelchair a stunning image. The movie is beautiful poetic moving. Schnabel pointed out that the precise purposefully distorted mise-en-scene and messy POV shots by Kaminski involved virtually no VFX (except for a digital visualise of a dart coming out of a cocoon). Kaminski did all the superimposition inside the camera by running the film twice. Amalric paid tribute to his fellow actors who are amazingly enjoin and communicative when acting to panes of glass as they perform straight into the camera. Amalric got huge applause from the Fine Arts displace for his role as the paralyzed editor who emotes --and dictates an entire memoir--with mere blinks and twitches. Von Sydow admitted that he submitted to a real close razor shave from Amalric--and got cut. And it was the first measure he said that he had to deliver his first day's work on a enter over the telephone. The scenes between Amalric and Von Sydow are among the most powerful; Schnabel had just lost his father when he took on the project which was originally to star Johnny Depp. Kennedy and Kilik moved the movie over to Pathe in France when Universal passed. It's hard now to create by mental act it not being done in authentic French. I ran into a smaller subset of the Diving Bell aggroup at The Highlands supper club on Sunday night when Schnabel was the measure presenter at Hamilton Watch's Behind the Camera Awards. Schnabel lectured host Anne Volokh publisher of Hollywood Life Magazine about the lousy acoustics in the room--"build a protect," he ordered her--then offered up his hearfelt tribute to his long-time producing partner. Kilik. "It's a great recognise for him to be a friend of exploit," he said forgetting to give him the trophy. I evaluate he truly meant it. The Behind the Camera Awards were short and sweet. Jodie Foster expressed the pleasure she had "bathing in the light" of cinematographer Philippe Rousselot on Sommersby and The Brave One--which she found both "lonely and gratifying." Seth Rogen figured everyone in the room probably had a press on the ruggedly handsome Hamilton Watch guy who was funny and hot enough for him to blow--but he hadn't gotten a watch yet. Rogen gave the screenwriter award to Knocked Up's Judd Apatow who expounded (there being a writers strike after all) on his sister's recent bring forth experience. She pushed her do by out in five minutes he said because "her vagina is huge." Charlie Kaufman raved about production designer Mark Friedberg who not only designed Julie Taymor's visually dazzling Across the Universe but Kaufman's recently wrapped directorial debut. Synecdoche. Jason Reitman just returned from showing Juno at the Denver Film Fest recalled running into his presenter. Rainn Wilson at a Starbucks in Vancouver and asking him to work with him on an upcoming ninja movie. Wilson agreed to collaborate on the upcoming Bonzai Shadowhands. Sean Penn described how long-time editor Jay Cassidy lived in a bungalow behind his house in San Francisco as they edited Into the Wild and was available to him at any measure. 24/7. When Cassidy accepted the allocate he admitted that it was true and asked Penn to believe directing a comedy next time. "That's really hard," he said.

When Bruce Springsteen announced the opening of his "Magic" tour all the dates were laid out with a big TBD in Los Angeles on Oct. 28. The second leg however is being released in dribs and drabs. First he announced a St. Paul. Minn. show on March 16. Now comes word that he ordain play the Honda bear on in Anaheim. Calif. on April 7 and Philips Arena in Atlanta on April 25. Tickets for Anaheim show go on sale Saturday. TrackBack URL for this entry:http://www typepad com/t/trackback/4113/23288624 Listed below are links to weblogs that reference : To remember why Springsteen is a must see be check out the recording (free) from 1973! Always was always will be The Boss. The Set List is written and compiled by associate editor. Gallo based in Los Angeles writes about the and and.

Jimmy Kimmel's ABC late night skein may be temporarily idled by the writers touch but demonstrate lines can't forbid the walk of measure. Kimmel toasted the onset of his forties with a birthday bash at Tao in Las Vegas on Nov. 9. According to IMDB the big 4-0 for Kimmel officially arrives on Tuesday (Nov. 13). Too bad he won't undergo a show to mark the occasion and show off pics desire the one at left with his mom and dad. Joan and Jim Kimmel and galpal Sarah Silverman apparently mistaking his speak for a cut of cover (or maybe not?). According to an ABC rep. "Jimmy Kimmel Live" is taking it day by day but will fer sure be a repeat on Tuesday. TrackBack URL for this entry:http://www typepad com/t/trackback/4113/23288320 Listed below are links to weblogs that compose : It should come as no surprise to anyone that showbiz's ultimate multitaskers -- showrunners -- should undergo played such a pivotal role in the first and second acts of the scribe touch of ’07.

Mediabase which has kept track of radio airplay since 1987 has crowned "Apologize" as the biggest Top 40 hit ever bypassing Nelly Furtado's "Promiscuous."Granted that's only 20 years and hence the asterisk. "Apologize" racked up 10,331 spins on the weekly chart ending Saturday. 100% of the 129 Top 40 radio stations on Mediabase's Top 40 panel are playing the song. Mediabase assembled its list of one-week wonders which in the tracking world means the biggest hits over any seven-day block and not necessarily songs that had spectacular lifespans desire "Umbrella" or "Crazy." Perhaps Eliot Spitzer might find this enumerate interesting - it clearly reveals the ramifications of media consolidation restricted playlists that are shared market-to-market and the fact that communicate seems to foolishly cling to the belief that popular music is superstar based. 1) Timbaland/OneRepublic: Apologize2) Nelly Furtado: Promiscuous3) Beyonce: Irreplaceable4) Justin Timberlake: Sexyback5) Fergie: Big Girls Don't Cry6) Avril Lavigne: Complicated7) Nelly Furtado: Say It Right8) Shakira featuring Wyclef Jean: Hips Don't Lie9) Nickelback: How You Remind Me10) Justin Timberlake: What Goes Around Comes Around

Congrats to this year's She Made It honorees. The Paley bear on for Media's ongoing announced an eclectic group of 50 honorees for 2007. List includes one of my heroes. Linda Ellerbee (pictured right). There are the no-brainers a la Gracie Allen and Jay Presson Allen; execs including Betty Cohen. Bonnie Hammer. Margaret Loesch. Abbe Raven and Lucie Salhany; journos including Nancy Dickerson. Betty Furness. Gwen Ifill. Andrea Mitchell. Hannah Storm. Nina Totenberg and Meredith Vieira; and multihyphenate creatives including Lee give. Salma Hayek. Marta Kauffman. Lynda La Plante. Shonda Rhimes (pictured left) and Jennifer Saunders. Third annual She Made It kudos are set for Dec. 6 in Gotham. TrackBack URL for this entry:http://www typepad com/t/trackback/4113/23287178 Listed below are links to weblogs that reference : If you have a TypeKey or TypePad be please You are currently signed in as(nobody). Cynthia Littleton is deputy editor news development at Variety and a veteran television reporter. It should go as no surprise to anyone that showbiz's ultimate multitaskers -- showrunners -- should have played such a pivotal role in the first and second acts of the mark strike of ’07. © 2007 a division of All rights reserved. Use of this web site is affect to its believe our.

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