Oscars: How a big win for "The Hurt Locker" could change the Academy Awards
With The Hurt Locker now having all but vacuumed up the year’s critical acclaim, and with Avatar having just this week become the top-grossing domestic movie of all time, Avatar vs. The Hurt Locker is an awesomely symbolic race (and not just because James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow were once married). It’s a clash of size, values, popularity — of essential notions of What Movie Art Is in the 21st century. A Hurt Locker victory would open the door to a new definition of Oscar glory, a defiant celebration of artistry over commerce. A win for Avatar would be, in its way, a definitive assertion of the same old same old.
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Logo Redesign of the Day: MTV stops pretending; drops “Music Television” from its logo in the channel’s first rebranding campaign since its launch in 1981.
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Threadless Tee of the Day: David Schwen’s “Burgervetica” has finally been greenlit, and is now available for your purchasing pleasure via Threadless.
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