Calculating Success

  On a day when LA holds its breath, waiting to hear "And the Oscar goes to...," I, very much unlike an actress,  spent the day tucked away in my office doing my taxes.  I'm holding my breath wait to find out "And the refund goes to..!"  But one biz-related bright point of this calculating, headachey day happened when I took a break to run to Blockbuster. There on the wall of new releases in the "B" section, I found two of my friends!  Jen Nikolaisen starring in Bundy: An American Icon, alongside Corin Nemec.  She plays Stephanie, the girlfriend of the famous serial killer.  Go Jen!  Then just to the left a bit, I saw America Olivo starring in Bitch Slap alongside Erin Cummings (another friend and amazing actress!) and Julia Voth.  America plays the kick-ass Camero, willing to stop at nothing to steal 200 million in diamonds from an underworld kingpin.  YAY for friends kicking ass in this crazy business!  Made my Oscar weekend.  That, and the fact that I don't have to add up receipts again for another 12 months or so.  

Hurt is Hurting!

In my next life I want to be Kathryn Bigelow. That said, what a week for the amazing film she directed, The Hurt Locker. First we have James Cameron on "60 Minutes" saying that Bigelow (his ex-wife, by the way!) will win Best Director at the Academy Awards this Sunday. He sours the prediction by saying, "She would be the first female director to win. It's too good of a story to resist." This wouldn't have bothered me so much if he weren't really saying : "I should win forAvatar, but Bigelow will win because of her vagina." Avatar should NOT win for best director, or best film. Visually captivating, pretty colors, lame story, way too long. As soon as I got over that,The Hurt Locker producer Nicolas Chartier was banned from attending this Sunday's Academy Awards because he awfully stupidly sent e-mails to academy members, urging them to vote for his film. WOW. How many flavors of moron can you name in that campaign? And now, Army Sergeant Jeffrey S. Sarver, is suing the makers of The Hurt Locker, claiming the story was all about him and that he even coined the phrase "the hurt locker." Yikes. Well hopefully things will look up for, The Hurt Locker, this Sunday when the film sweeps all or most of the nine Oscars it's been nominated for. Or at least win more than Avatar does. Bigelow and Cameron married? Huh? Well, at least it only lasted two years.