Unless you’ve spent the past six weeks under a rock, you’re well aware that it’s just about time for the biggest, sexiest and campiest dog-and-pony show on the planet: the Academy Awards (81st annual).
The Oscars are traditionally preceded by a somewhat lesser dog-and-pony show, although one in which you might be more personally invested: your workplace’s annual Oscar pool. If you are determined to finally defeat that crowing nit in Sales who seems to win year after year, stop listening to the empty Oscar chatter in the elevator, and fill in your Xeroxed ballot with DRIVEN’s predictions, to be found after the jump.
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Just one of oh-so-many perfect exchanges of dialogue from easily the best year-2008 novel to have crossed my desk to date:
“We’re on the same side here.”
“You know what? … The very fact that you think it’s necessary to reassure me of that tells me we’re not.”
—Richard Price, Lush Life (p397, ARC)
Man, ain’t that the truth?
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March 17, Toronto—You can opt for the traditional wearing of the green, drinking of the stout, and mangling of the brogue for Saint Patrick’s Day this year, or you can head down to Roy Thompson Hall in Toronto and catch the Chieftains, one of Ireland’s most loved musical exports. (On a scale from Lord of the Dance to U2-before-Bono-met-Paul-Martin, the Chieftains land somewhere between the Pogues and Van Morrison.)
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