Orphanage Oscar Bait

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The Weinstein Co. has acquired Julian Schnabel's Miral, which won't stay in my head some reason. There's something...I don't know, vague and indistinct about the name "Miral," which is the name of the the main character, played by Freida Pinto. The film is obviously being positioned as an Oscar contender -- Best Picture, Director, Actress, Supporting Actress, etc. The whole shmear.

Julian Schnabel and Miral screenwriter Rula Jebreal -- pic is based on her book of the same name.

Based on a book by Rula Jebreal, pic is about a real-life orphanage established in Jerusalem by a Palestinian lady named Hind Husseini (Hiam Abbass) following the 1948 creation of Israel by Lee J. Cobb, Sal Mineo and Paul Newman. A fictional storyline shows Miral being sent to the orphanage in 1978, and then going on to teach at a refugee camp and falling for an activist." An anti-Isareli or pro-Isareli activist?

"[This] is the first film I am involved in that shows the 'other side' of the Israel-Palestine conflict," Harvey Weinstein said in a statement "As a staunch supporter of Israel, I thought this would be a movie I would have a hard time wrapping my head around. However, meeting Rula moved me to open my heart and mind and I hope we can do that same with audiences worldwide."

Schnabel told me some weeks back that he would unveil Miral in Venice and Toronto. (But not Telluride, he added -- too much running around in a too-short time frame.)

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on June 8, 2010 at 10:50 AM

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raygo says ...

I've liked all of Schnabel's directing efforts thus far. I think Javier Bardem should have had Russel Crowe's Oscar that year, and David Bowie was overlooked for his Andy Warhol performance in Basquiat.

Posted by raygo at June 8, 2010 11:46 AM

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Travis Crabtree says ...

A "PRO-Israeli activist"? Really? Yeah, right.

Posted by Travis Crabtree at June 8, 2010 11:48 AM

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LexG says ...

Greatest look ever. He should go around ranting I AM AN OIL MAN, long, loooong after it gets old, just to make everyone in his circle still have to fake-laugh at it and even though he knows the laughs aren't genuine, he keeps going and going with it just to be a dick. Good idea.

Posted by LexG at June 8, 2010 11:49 AM

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Sabina E says ...

as someone who is pro-Palestine (but not anti-Israel, just anti-Israeli government) I am so excited for this. About f--king time we hear the other side's story.

I'm confused if Indian-born Freida Pinto had to use a different accent to play a Palestinian woman in an English language film....? Anyone knows?

Posted by Sabina E at June 8, 2010 11:55 AM

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crazynine says ...

About f--king time we hear the other side's story.

You haven't watched or read the news since 1982, have you?

Posted by crazynine at June 8, 2010 12:12 PM

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LexG says ...

DeafBrownTrashPunk:

Doing her best to get on a government watch list since 2006.

Like, lady, you DO know the Internet is monitored, right?

Posted by LexG at June 8, 2010 12:13 PM

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Travis Crabtree says ...

LexG...... laffs for the Daniel Plainview reference.... good call...

crazynine... also a good call

(I've put on my helmet and battened down the hatches for the arrival of the inevitable, full-scale, screeching DeafBrown scud attack....)

Posted by Travis Crabtree at June 8, 2010 12:22 PM

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Sabina E says ...

LexG:

I don't care. as a Muslim American & South Asian Indian woman, I've known many Muslims and non-Muslims of Middle Eastern, Iranian, Afghan, African, and Indo-Pak origin, who were questioned by the FBI and taken away. one of my sisters' friends was even taken away for her possession of COMIC BOOKS (another story for another day).

I don't care if I'm being monitored. I didn't do anything wrong and I'm not gonna be quiet. I'll fucking voice my opinion, thanks.

Posted by Sabina E at June 8, 2010 12:27 PM

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Sabina E says ...

crazynine: typical American response.

Posted by Sabina E at June 8, 2010 12:28 PM

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Travis Crabtree says ...

Where've you people been? This is 2010. Bush & Cheney are long gone. Haven't you heard? We've gotten all of our civil liberties back. No more Orwellian "watch lists" or phone tapping. No more profiling. No more Gitmo. All is good. Breathe easy.

crazynine: just go back to eating your Big Macs and watching your Rambo movies and driving your big, gas-guzzling cars!

Free Helen Thomas!

Posted by Travis Crabtree at June 8, 2010 12:41 PM

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Sabina E says ...

I find it hilarious that Helen Thomas is being scrutinized for her comments, yet Pat Robertson, Glenn Beck and other racist, homophobic, sexist, Islamophobic, anti-Semitic piece of shit douche-bags are still allowed to be on the air.

hypocrites.

Posted by Sabina E at June 8, 2010 12:51 PM

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LexG says ...

Helen Thomas looks like Clouseau in one of his Professor Balls disguises from Strikes Again.

Posted by LexG at June 8, 2010 12:55 PM

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Travis Crabtree says ...

Another score for LexG... You're on a roll, today, you bastard.

Deaf..... puh-leeze.... Pat Robertson only appears these days on a television network he owns.... if he were any more marginalized he'd be a binder hole.....

Helen Thomas is a nasty, Jew-hating old bag. And she looks like one of the cranky, talking apple trees from "Wizard of Oz".

Posted by Travis Crabtree at June 8, 2010 1:03 PM

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Science Adventure says ...

Every DeafBrown post gives me a migraine. Anyone else get this?

Posted by Science Adventure at June 8, 2010 1:29 PM

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Sabina E says ...

I found her comments offensive, too. yet Glenn Beck still remains on the air. occasionally, Pat Robertson gets on-air gigs (on MSNBC).

hey Science Adventure, KISS MY ASS.

Posted by Sabina E at June 8, 2010 1:42 PM

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CitizenKanedForPostingThoughts says ...

I'm offended by you being offended.

Posted by CitizenKanedForPostingThoughts at June 8, 2010 2:05 PM

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Sabina E says ...

I'm offended that everyone's offended by me offended by some offensive comments today.

Posted by Sabina E at June 8, 2010 2:23 PM

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bmcintire says ...

I swear to Christ that I mis-read that headline as "Orange Oscar Bait" more than once. Looking at that preternaturally bronzed screenwriter, it actually fits.

Now THERE is something Jeff can rail against!

Posted by bmcintire at June 8, 2010 2:26 PM

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George Prager says ...

Does anyone actually publish Helen Thomas's column?

Posted by George Prager at June 8, 2010 3:08 PM

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George Prager says ...

Check out this groovy interview with an early 70s Sal Mineo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eCdH4TAMOQ

It's a shame that Coppola couldn't use him.

Posted by George Prager at June 8, 2010 3:10 PM

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Travis Crabtree says ...

Prager... King of the Links

Ah, the seventies.... the sound of cocaine in the nose.... the serious discussion about oujia boards.....

No shit about Coppola..... he would've been a dead ringer for one of Brando's kids

Posted by Travis Crabtree at June 8, 2010 5:28 PM

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dangovich says ...

Help me out here, what is "pro-Israel?" Support for the Gaza blockade in its current form? Support for settlement expansion? Unfortunately, in the USA, "pro-Israel" has come to mean unquestioning support for right wing Likudnik policies. It's like calling the Republican party "pro-American." In other words, it's moronic.

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