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Just kidding, but wouldn’t it have been amazing if she’d been nominated for her dressed-down performance in “Precious?” Speaking of Lee Daniels’ films, both Mo’nique and Gabourey Sidibe received nominations by the Hollywood Foreign Press Assoc. for the 67th annual Golden Globes. And that’s it for the women of color, if you don’t count Penélope Cruz.
Matthew Goode and Colin Firth in Tom Ford's "A Single Man"
Now that fall is almost done and winter is headed our way, your local movie house—assuming you don’t live in a red state or on Staten Island—will be heading into what is normally considered the prestige film season that lasts from September right up to December 31st, when films become ineligible for next year’s Academy Awards nominations. Sure, sometimes the odd Hollywood blockbuster/disaster/action movie will sneak in under the radar (read: “2012″), but for the most part you can assume that most of the movies with a post-September release date will be gunning for a golden statuette. And now, with several publications and other film organizations beginning to release their top flicks of the year—you can see the picks the International Press Academy chose here—we figured it might be best to offer up a look at what you don’t want to miss. After the jump, a few films you’ll want to check out as 2009 comes to a close — lest your Oscar ballot become a bigger flop than Labor Pains.
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This weekend, so many amazing things are taking place in New York City. Here’s a sample.
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HN friend and contributor, Nick Burd, makes the OUT 100 List this week. Full disclosure, Nick Burd is perhaps one of the smartest and chillest guys we’ve ever met– so we’re really excited for him. Read more about Burd’s novel, “The Vast Fields of Ordinary” here. Purchase a copy here
When Burd’s coming-of-age (and coming-out) novel The Vast Fields of Ordinary debuted in May it proved anything but typical—The New York Times hailed it as “fascinating and dreamy” and “the best kind of first novel.” An alum of the University of Iowa, the New School, and the indie rock band Burn Disco Burn, 29-year-old Burd (right) is a program manager at the literary/human rights organization PEN American Center and is now at work on a new novel he calls “a noirish tale about a gay grifter in Recession-era New York City.”
Other HN favorites include Brad Goreski (”Rachel Zoe Project”), Michael Urie (”Ugly Betty”), poet Mark Doty, Adam Lambert (”American Idol”), Edmund White, Felice Picano, Andrew Holleran, Pedro Almodóvar and, of course, the charming Neil Patrick Harris. [Source: OUT]
