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LAFCA: Can’t quit the big green guy

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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 . . .
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LAFCA: Oscar’s loss

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German director Werner Herzog, in accepting his award for the documentary “Grizzly Man” at the Los Angeles Film Critics Association dinner Tuesday night, shrugged off the fact that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences failed to include his widely acclaimed film on its short list of nominees for this year’s documentary Oscar.
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LAFCA: It’s a girl!

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Those who follow such things know that the Los Angeles Film Critics Association gave their best actress award to little-known Vera Farmiga for the seen-by-12-people drug addict drama “Down to the Bone.”
Well, the actress was so thrilled about the recognition that when she accepted her plaque at Tuesday night’s awards dinner in Century City, she promised . . .

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Oscars: Where’s the ABBB?

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That would be Anything But BrokeBack.
With both the vast majority of legitimate critics and now the starstruck moron groups (Broadcast Critics, Hollywood Foreign Press Association) declaring the gay western 2005’s best movie, academy members have an extremely limited pool of pictures to choose from if they want to maintain the illusion that they’re not influenced by organizations that are either smarter or dumber than they are.
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