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trinityofoneI am soooooooo boriiiiiiing.
Anyway, help me out with something for work! We're putting together our Alternative Oscar Ballot. This means I need to think of humorous categories and five entries for each for this year's (past, current, and upcoming) films. Past examples include:
BEST PERFORMANCE BY ONE OR MORE RODENTS
Mr. Jingles in The Green Mile
Stuart Little in Stuart Little
The rats in The Bone Collector
Mickey Mouse in The Hand Behind the Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story
Sean Penn in Sweet and Lowdown
or
OVERPRAISED '70S DIRECTOR WHO MOST CLEARLY DEMONSTRATED HE'D LOST TOUCH WITH REALITY
Stanley Kubrick for Eyes Wide Shut
Peter Hyams for End of Days
Martin Scorsese for Bringing Out the Dead
Robert Altman for Cookie's Fortune
George Lucas for Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace
Thank kind of thing. You know, funny and clever. Two things I am (at least currently) not.
So. Any suggestions?
Also: does it bug people that I ask for help with this sort of thing? I've been worried that it might be annoying, but LJ is such a good resource. Still, please tell me if it's annoying. And really, I'll try to post something interesting soon.
ETA: I don't actually need more rodent suggestions—that was just an example. We're actually looking for new categories. Sorry for any confusion!
Anyway, help me out with something for work! We're putting together our Alternative Oscar Ballot. This means I need to think of humorous categories and five entries for each for this year's (past, current, and upcoming) films. Past examples include:
BEST PERFORMANCE BY ONE OR MORE RODENTS
Mr. Jingles in The Green Mile
Stuart Little in Stuart Little
The rats in The Bone Collector
Mickey Mouse in The Hand Behind the Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story
Sean Penn in Sweet and Lowdown
or
OVERPRAISED '70S DIRECTOR WHO MOST CLEARLY DEMONSTRATED HE'D LOST TOUCH WITH REALITY
Stanley Kubrick for Eyes Wide Shut
Peter Hyams for End of Days
Martin Scorsese for Bringing Out the Dead
Robert Altman for Cookie's Fortune
George Lucas for Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace
Thank kind of thing. You know, funny and clever. Two things I am (at least currently) not.
So. Any suggestions?
Also: does it bug people that I ask for help with this sort of thing? I've been worried that it might be annoying, but LJ is such a good resource. Still, please tell me if it's annoying. And really, I'll try to post something interesting soon.
ETA: I don't actually need more rodent suggestions—that was just an example. We're actually looking for new categories. Sorry for any confusion!
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Date: 2006-10-17 06:12 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-17 06:14 pm (UTC)Or is it David Hewlett because that would somehow cause some cataclysmic tear in the fabric of the universe?
*is pleased to have already snuck Paul Gross into the magazine once*
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Date: 2006-10-17 06:16 pm (UTC)actually, David Hewlett was in a tv miniseries that lasted TEN THOUSAND HOURS with Paul Gross about some war or another. MOST BORING THING EVER.
but you can totally cheat.
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Date: 2006-10-17 06:26 pm (UTC)I got PG by convincing my editor that we needed to include Slings & Arrows in our "12 DVDs of Christmas" feature. So there's a very flattering review (written by me) and a picture of the S1 box art.
Hey, it's a start!