• The New York Film Festival will include the North American premieres of lots of top Oscar hopefuls, including Clint Eastwood's "Changeling" and Darren Aronofsky's "The Wrestler," between September 26 and October 12. Also shown: Mike Leigh's "Happy-Go-Lucky," Ari Folman's "Waltz with Bashir," Steven Soderbergh's "Che" and the Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or winner "The Class." The Hollywood Reporter has the full list HERE.

• Rob Licuria of AwardsHeaven.net has a podcast chat with Glynn Turman, who is Emmy nominated for his guest role in HBO's "In Treatment." His appreciation of the recognition is poignant as he equates it to another milestone in his acting career: a moment in 1975 when he saw his name on a movie marquee at a theater showing "Cooley High" on 47th Street in New York — "right around the corner from where I performed 'A Raisin in the Sun' on Broadway at the age of 11," he says. To check out the podcast, CLICK HERE.

• As part of InContention.com's "Script to Screen" series, Kris Tapley reviews the screenplay for Oliver Stone's "W.," penned by Stanley Weiser: "Packed to the brim with dialogue meant to secure George W. Bush’s position as a simpleton who managed his way into the most powerful position in the free world, 'W.' reads more like a parody than the modest character study it aims to be . . . . There is room in a script like this for directorial development, no question about it.  But any time I read something this striking in its thematic exactitude, trying so hard to make so small a point, I get worried." READ MORE

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