LAFCA: Can’t quit the big green guy

So Ang Lee was rolling along at the Los Angeles Film Critics Association dinner Tuesday in Century City, making what must have been his 587th or so award acceptance speech this year for directing “Brokeback Mountain.” He thanked these writers, those producers, the studio executives who kept the faith in his gay cowboy movie, yadda yadda yadda. But then, suddenly . . .

“These few weeks, I seem to walk in something like a dream,” the Taiwanese filmmaker said in his slightly ajar English. “A dream I have to share with so many other people. So, my thanks go to Avi Arad of Marvel for giving me such a great chance; to Dennis Murren and everybody at ILM for those groundbreaking works; and to Stan Lee for his great inspiration.”
Of course, those were all people involved with Lee’s previous film, the overproduced, critically savaged broke-blockbuster “The Hulk.”
“Please forgive me for dreaming,” was Lee’s deadpan punchline, which cracked the roomful of reviewers up. “But more importantly, thank you, too, for sometimes also waking me up.”

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