Congratulations to Kyra Sedgwick who just got her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame!
Remember when it looked for a millisecond like she might get an Oscar nod for playing Julia Robert’s sassy sister inSomething to Talk About back in 1995? Stealing scenes from Julia might seem like a hard thing to do and commendable, too, but it pisses Academy voters right off. One must not pull focus from their Pretty Woman!
Future Julia Roberts co-stars consider yourself forewarned! If you steal a movie from the billion dollar grin, you will get media attention. You will get a Golden Globe nomination. But, come Oscar nomination morning, THE BIG SNUB AWAITS YOU. the case evidence:
Sally Field, Steel Magnolias (1989)
Hector Elizondo, Pretty Woman (1990)
Dustin Hoffman, Hook (1992)
Sophia Loren, Pret-à-Porter (1994)
Liam Neeson, Michael Collins (1996)
Kyra Sedgwick, Something to Talk About (1995)
Rupert Everett, My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997)
Hugh Grant, Notting Hill (1999)
Yes all of them were Golden Globe nominated and then Oscar snubbed.
Rupert Everett was considered a lock in ‘97. No nomination. Argh!
There is reason to believe that this golden curse has been broken: Natalie Portman and Clive Owen (Closer) and Philip Seymour Hoffman (Charlie Wilson’s War) all survived pulling Julia’s focus in recent years, trading in their Globe hoopla for coveted Oscar nominations. But that said Natalie & Clive won the Globes but still lost the Oscar. So, I still say that Javier Bardem ought to watch his back on the set of Eat, Pray, Love if he wants another run at Oscar in 2011. *
Welcome to Last Hope TD! Your main task will be protecting the Earth from alien invasion.
To fulfill this important mission you will have the ship class AT-021.
Unfortunately the Earth does not have enough resources to supply new arms to the ship,
but you can improve the ship collecting weapons in the rubble after the fight.
You can also buy combat turrets with unique properties and improve them.
The campaign consists of 5 levels. Also available 2 additional free games.
Her follow up project, Woody Allen’s Manhattan (another future classic) was opening in just two weeks time. Welcome to Meryl Streep Month. Sorry for the delays. We’ll begin with a trip back to her feature debut, Julia (1977) tomorrow. *
Johnny Depp turns 46 today. We’ve loved him since April of 1990 when that first single teardrop fell in glorious closeup in Cry-Baby. Twenty years of richly deserved movie stardom followed.
Blessed are the richly cheekboned, for theirs is the Kingdom of Hollywood * Up next for Johnny: John Dillinger in Public Enemies (another Oscar run?), Paul Kemp in The Rum Diary (Vanity Fair shoot) and The Mad Hatter in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland.After that only Johnny knows… numerous movie possibilities (about 14 of them) are vying for time on his calendar.
Earlier today at the Clift Hotel in San Francisco, we convened a group of journalists, partners and customers for a discussion on Google Apps in the enterprise. We’re pleased to report that the “state of the cloud” is strong, and we’ve taken a number of steps to make it stronger.
At the event we discussed the growth of our business, introduced some new customers, and announced a feature that makes switching to Apps even easier. The Clift was a particularly appropriate venue because it’s a member of the Morgans Hotel Group, which is deploying Google Apps to its 1,750 employees. JohnsonDiversey, a global provider of commercial cleaning and hygiene products and solutions, has also gone Google. Choosing Apps helped JohnsonDiversey migrate its 12,000 employees to one communications platform while lowering its IT costs and furthering its commitment to sustainability through the elimination of a number of energy-intensive email servers.
Of course, when big companies like Morgans move all their employees from Microsoft Exchange to Google Apps, there are often a few folks who aren’t ready to give up Microsoft Outlook right away. To help them make the transition, today we also introduced Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook to our Premier and Education edition customers. It lets Outlook work easily with Apps and — like offline Gmail and the Google Apps Connector for BlackBerry® Enterprise Server — is another example of how we’re making it dead simple to switch to Google Apps.
To read more about Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook and hear why 1.75 million companies are now running their business on Google Apps, check out the Google Enterprise Blog.
Posted by Matthew Glotzbach, Product Management Director, Enterprise team
At Google, we consider translation a key part of making information universally accessible to everyone around the world. While we think Google Translate, our automatic translation system, is pretty neat, sometimes machine translation could use a human touch. Yesterday, we launched Google Translator Toolkit, a powerful but easy-to-use editor that enables translators to bring that human touch to machine translation.
For example, if an Arabic-speaking reader wants to translate a Wikipedia™ article into Arabic, she loads the article into Translator Toolkit, corrects the automatic translation, and clicks publish. By using Translator Toolkit’s bag of tools — translation search, bilingual dictionaries, and ratings, she translates and publishes the article faster and better into Arabic. The Translator Toolkit is integrated with Wikipedia, making it easy to publish translated articles. Best of all, our automatic translation system “learns” from her corrections, creating a virtuous cycle that can help translate content into 47 languages, or over 98% of the world’s Internet population.
Besides Wikipedia, we’ve also integrated with Knol, and we support common document types including Word and HTML. For translation professionals, we provide advanced features such as terminology and translation memory management.
For more information, check out our introductory video below. And if you’re a professional translator or just a linguaphile, try Google Translator Toolkit for easier and faster translations. Be sure and let us know what you think.
Posted by Michael Galvez and Sanjay Bhansali, Google Translator Toolkit team
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I hadn’t seen the same movies as Katey this week so instead of reviewing a movie, we’re both listing our top five of January through May. The requirement was that the films already had opened. Otherwise my list would have included Prodigal Sons (discussed here) and maybe (500) Days of Summer (discussed here).
The 2009 film I’m most worried about having missed at this point is the well reviewed Sin Nombre (trailer) so I’ll be seeking that out. Obviously our rankings are subject to change, given the “sticky” factor (you never know which films will refuse to leave your mind until a month or three later) and the comparative factor (does upcoming film B suddenly reveal cracks in similar earlier film A?). It’s been a good year thus far but I still doubt we’ve seen many of our Oscar competitors even if we have most definitely seen two or three future film experience nominees.
P.S. If you’re looking for a Tuesday Top Ten the series will relaunch properly soon. My favs (disregarding release schedules) thus far in descending order go like so: Prodigal Sons, Hunger, Coraline, Up, Julia, (500) Days of Summer, Duplicity, Star Trek, Anvil: The Story of Anvil and… uh… three way tie for 10th — it’s early don’t make me decide — between Moon, Chéri and That Evening Sun. *
I normally don’t report on who is dating who. But… an exception must be made.
This morning scanning the gossip blogs I read three “new couple!” alerts about actors Evan Rachel Wood & Shane West. This just goes to show you the short memories of most media writers or their alarming youth. Not a one of these reports has mentioned that Evan Rachel Wood and Shane West are SISTER AND BROTHER… well, fictional sister and brother but they’ll always be “Eli and Jessie Sammler” on Once & Again (1999-2001). That’s how they got famous in the first place! So I hereby decree that this fling must end. It’s too upsetting to my fragile psyche which already has trouble distinguishing acted fiction from lived reality.
I never thought I’d want Evan to run back to Marilyn Manson but incest is illegal in most states and should remain so in (Young) Hollywood, California as well. *
Remember when it looked for a millisecond like she might get an Oscar nod for playing Julia Robert’s sassy sister in Something to Talk About back in 1995? Stealing scenes from Julia might seem like a hard thing to do and commendable, too, but it pisses Academy voters right off. One must not pull focus from their Pretty Woman!
Rupert Everett was considered a lock in ‘97. No nomination. Argh!
