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- From: reiher@ficus.cs.ucla.edu (Peter Reiher)
- Subject: Re: Emma Thompson a shoe-in for Best Actress??
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- In article <1h0oi5INNpda@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> rod@cats.ucsc.edu (Rodrick Su) writes:
- >
- > Clint East was
- > LA's choice for best actor, and I believe Tim Robbins was NY's.
-
- I forgot this one, first time, also. It was actually Denzel Washington,
- for "Malcolm X". Robbins was one of the runners up.
-
- By the way, Spike Lee is making a play for the Foolish Desperation award
- for this year. He's complaining that multiplexes are selling tickets to
- "Malcolm X," but crediting the sales to other films, such as "Aladdin"
- and "Home Alone 2". Warner Brothers has proof that this has happened.
- What they and Lee don't like to mention, however, is that it happens mostly
- because of incompetent employees who are hired for the holiday rush and
- who punch up the wrong tickets. When a reporter pointed out to Lee that,
- all things being equal, "Malcolm X" has probably gotten its share of
- sales for people who were actually going to see "Aladdin" or "Home Alone 2",
- the best he could come up with is, "well, my movie needs the sales figures
- more." I suspect that a complete audit of all tickets sold would not
- significantly move "Malcolm X's" revenues at all.
-
- To bolster his claim for this award, Lee's talking about how Black History
- Week, which is in February, will lead to an upsurge in ticket sales for
- "Malcolm X". Unless Warner's does a special re-release just for that
- purpose, chances are this film won't be in any significant number of
- theaters in February, given the way its admissions continue to slide.
-
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- Peter Reiher
- reiher@wells.cs.ucla.edu
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