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How to win an Oscar – some simple rules

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Regardless of how you might take Kate Winslet’s risqué tips on bagging that Academy Award, there are some simple rules to securing an Oscar. Let’s look at the … Continue reading

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Does Colin Firth have a point about the plight of gay actors?

Earlier this week A Single Man star and Oscar nominee Colin Firth voiced some long overdue statements about the problem that exists for gay actors in Hollywood. Click here for the full news story. “If you’re known as a straight … Continue reading

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Couch Potato Pickings | Arthur, and a Music Quiz

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video If you get caught between the Moon and New York City The best that you can do …… The best that you can do is fall in love … Continue reading

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Couch Potato Pickings | Philadelphia and the AIDS pandemic

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video It’s 16 years since this powerful, deeply moving, Oscar-winning film was made. If Swine Flu is a pandemic, then what on earth is AIDS? There are 36 million … Continue reading

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Couch Potato Pickings | Brokeback Mountain: Why didn’t it win that Best Picture Oscar?

The other day I told a film critic friend of mine that I’d decided to do a post about Brokeback Mountain because it was going to be showing on TV within two days of Crash? (Come back on Monday for … Continue reading

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Philadelphia

Couch Potato Pickings On Fiver tonight at 7.30pm Back in the late 1980s, early 1990s, everyone was sure that it wouldn’t be long before a cure for Aids would be found. It’s now 15 years since this film was made … Continue reading

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