Nate writes: Barrie Osborne is on KQED radio San Francisco right now (the show is called Forum). In the Bay Area it’s on 88.5 (streamed live at kqed.org). It might repeat tonight at 10, and it should be available at online in a day or two once they’ve archived the show. [More]
Month: January 2004
Don’t bank on Peter Jackson’s epic taking all the Oscars back to Middle Earth, writes Glenn Whipp. To hear some people talk, this year’s Academy Awards might as well be cancelled because The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is a shoe-in for best picture, best director and a passel of other Oscars. [More]
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – According to their cameraman peers, the top feature film cinematography this year was seen in epics of both historical and fantastical nature. The five ASC Awards contenders, announced Tuesday by the American Society of Cinematographers, are: Russell Boyd for “Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World,” Andrew Lesnie for “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King,” John Schwartzman for “Seabiscuit,” John Seale for “Cold Mountain” and John Toll for “The Last Samurai.” [More]
An apparent Brit glitch is making a ballot brouhaha for Oscar. Even though Academy Awards ballots are due Saturday, many voters in Europe still have not received their forms in the mail. So on Monday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences resent 330 ballots to European voters — 241 of them in the U.K. [More]
Belladonna writes: As part of his book promotion tour, Andy Serkis will be on Radio West in Salt Lake City on FM 90.1. You can also listen to it streaming at kuer.org. The one hour show starts at 11am MST and then repeats without live calls at 7pm tonight. [kuer.org]
Also ABC 4 TV (local Salt Lake station) will have an exclusive interview with Andy tonight on ABC 4 News at 10. (That’s 10 PM Mountain time.) Ringers that have friends that live in Utah, call them and tell them to program the Tivo…
UNION SQUARE, NYC — The room is hot and overcrowded. The chairs have all been claimed long ago, and now it’s standing room only — though precious little remains even of that. An excited chatter arises from the throng: “I wonder what he’s like?”, “Oh, I saw the entire cast at the Lincoln Center event on Saturday — he’s awesome.” [More]