Posted on January 13, 2013. Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Academy Of Motion Picture, Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences, Aversion, Best Picture, Condemnation, Controversy, Digs, Drumbeat, Film Critic, Intriguing Report, Kathryn Bigelow, Kenneth Turan, L A Times, Les Miserables, Motion Picture Arts, Nra, Oscar Snub, Oscars, Reagan, Right Wing Politics, Running Out Of Time, Vagaries, Wall Street, Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal has this intriguing report about the so-called Bigelow Snub: That the director of the movie Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow, was the victim of (ready now? It’s shocking!) right wing politics! That the Academy caved to right-wing criticism surrounding this movie and refused to nominate the director (the film was nominated […]
Elwood "Sandy" Sanders is a Hanover attorney who is an Appellate Procedure Consultant for Lantagne Legal Printing and has written ten scholarly legal articles. Sandy was also Virginia's first Appellate Defender and also helped bring curling in VA! (None of these titles imply any endorsement of Sanders’ views)
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Posted on March 9, 2010. Tags: Academy Awards, Academy Member, Al Gore, Best Actress, Best Picture, Blind Side, Daily Basis, Director Kathryn Bigelow, George W Bush, Hurt Locker, Mark Boal, Nancy Reagan, Oscar For Best Director, Oscars, Ronald Wilson Reagan, Sandra Bullock, Screenplay, Soldiers In Iraq, Technical Awards, Woes, Women And Men
I usually do not watch the Academy Awards or other award shows because someone stands up and blames George W. Bush or America for the world’s woes or praises Al Gore for his work on global warming or uses bad language. Why have that temptation to anger? But Sunday’s show was astounding; I almost wished […]
Elwood "Sandy" Sanders is a Hanover attorney who is an Appellate Procedure Consultant for Lantagne Legal Printing and has written ten scholarly legal articles. Sandy was also Virginia's first Appellate Defender and also helped bring curling in VA! (None of these titles imply any endorsement of Sanders’ views)
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