SubscribeNo joke: HFPA deems 'Pride & Prejudice' a comedy
Within the next few days the Golden Globes will announce whether films and TV shows fall into the drama or comedy/musical categories. That prepares everyone for what comes down on Dec. 13 when nominations will be unveiled.
Meantime, there's much drama going on behind the scenes. Producers petitioned the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to have "Hustle & Flow" classified as a comedy/musical. After all, it's loaded with great rap music, eh? But the chief reason they want that classification is so that star Terrence Howard can have an easier time getting nommed. The matchup for best drama actor is an overcrowded smackdown.
Alas, HFPA hustled Howard over to drama. Other borderline films placed there include that other rap pic "Get Rich or Die Tryin'" plus "Shopgirl," "In Her Shoes" and "The Upside of Anger."
Thank gawd Jane Austen's dead. Otherwise, the poor dear and most serious scribe might keel over to hear the news that "Pride & Prejudice" is a comedy. The HFPA has decreed these pics will compete against it: "Breakfast on Pluto," "Broken Flowers," "Elizabethtown," "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" and "The Squid and the Whale."
Photo: As Elizabeth (Keira Knightley) discovers, Mr. Darcy (Matthew MacFadyen) ain't no laugh a minute.
(Focus Features)
Sarah Jessica Parker will get nominated!
Posted by: Gladys | December 01, 2005 at 06:15 PM
Rosario Dawson for the win.
Posted by: MaydocBeanandCherry | December 01, 2005 at 02:48 PM
Well the clear the decks to nomation Parker for sure and Maybe Jen for Rumor Has It. Plus wild card here but want if the see Keener as lead for 40YOV? That would be a cool surpise.
Posted by: Paul8148 | November 30, 2005 at 10:29 PM
Mr. O'Neil,
Thank Gawd Jane Austen *is* dead, or she'd maybe bean you on the noggin for calling her "a most serious scribe." There's so much talk about "having seen the movie" on this site lately -- what about having read the book??
Austen is famous for her charming, intimate, most hysterically funny novels -- the first modern novels to be sure -- but still, some of the best laugh-out-loud scenarios of British family life ever written.
If the latest film version of "Pride and Predjudice" even partially lives up to its source material, it sure as hell better be nominated as a comedy by HFPA.
Tsk, tsk, Tom. Does your high school English teacher know you relied on the Cliff's Notes?
Posted by: Clarence Turak | November 30, 2005 at 08:19 PM