Live Oscar Blogging! Live Oscar Blogging!

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What's this? Another shameless attempt to attract readers with an Oscars story?

Shamelessness in the pursuit of readers is not a vice. Shamelessness in the pursuit of Oscar is nothing new. Check out my latest Houston Culture Map essay here.

If you're dipping into an Oscar pool this weekend...

My predictions for the 82nd annual Academy Awards are up over at Houston Culture Map.Which is where, by the way, I'll be blogging Sunday during the Oscarcast. Please join me.

Blogging Oscar: Prologue

Do I have any last-minute additions or deletions to my Oscar predictions? Not really, though I may have been too facile in describing Atonement as "the sort of glossy Brit period piece that often gets the grand prize..." Actually, Joe Wright's intimate epic (masterfully adapted by Christopher Hampton from Ian McEwan's acclaimed novel) is an exquisitely crafted and eloquently acted romantic tragedy about the fatal power of words and the terrible caprices of fate, building inexorably toward a final sequence that vividly illustrates both the irresistible impulse to rectify the past thorough art, and the immutable truth that some wrongs can never be righted. Could it pull an upset? We'll soon find out.

Oscar night: Yep, I'll be blogging

Like most other folks who blog about movies, I'll be posting before, during and after the Oscarcast on Sunday evening. Please drop by and join the fun, you'll be more than welcome. I promise to keep the snark to an absolute minimum.