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a May premiere in Cannes all the w=y to February. His team told him he could win Best Picture back in France but he had to se= Eastwood, Spielberg, Scorsese, Daldry, Payne and Fincher's work. We had =ust seen Woody Allen and Terry Malick's films in Cannes, which were conten=ers for nominations, but not

s turned the press =ff. Harvey worried for months about how to get Meryl the Oscar when he had prom=sed it to Michelle Williams for her sensational Marilyn. As much as Meryl=wanted it, she could only bring herself to do limited publicity for a bad =ilm. On "The Help" Disney overplayed the race card with

o former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, Paltrow's second cousin. Only I could mistake an astronaut for a movie marketing guy. Vanity Fair feted Scorsese and The Film Foundation which has saved 555 films in 22 years. Cocktails were at the restored Bel-Air Hotel. Honorary Jewess Lorraine Bracco ran pas

movie. I sat next to director, Michael Apted who was editing "Of Men and Mavericks," a surfer film he co-directed with Curtis Hanson. "My Week With Marilyn's" English director Simon Curtis insisted we join Kenneth Branagh at The Weinstein Company's bash at the Soho House in time to hear Tony Bennett sin

laying a father for the first time was hailed as a shoo-in for best actor. Directing Ides of March added momentum. Also at New York's festival Marty Scorsese and Paramount sneaked an unfinished cut of Hugo in Alice Tully Hall, built for concerts but converted into a 3-D theater. Marty was christened the vi

ie became a superstar igniting a pet war. Christopher Plummer, who had Best Supporting Actor in the bag promoted his Jack Russell, Cosmo. Diminutive Scorsese was seen on TV on a small couch with his large Doberman, Blackie, drooling on his suit. Spielberg never got a chance to trot out his lead horse Joey,

Williams with her daughter Matilda Ledger headed to the swimming pool. Innocently standing there with no makeup she was remarkably the antithesis of Marilyn Monroe. I told her she so deserved the Oscar for her mesmerizing transformation which did not cheer her up knowing the Emma Stone 60 | AVENUE MAGAZ