With fireworks and airplane stunts, Thursday’s links are on the up and up.
Grab some popcorn! NewsFeed’s Glen Levy brings you the movies you should check out (or avoid) this weekend.
He perfected the speech impediment while preparing for his Oscar-winning role. Now it appears he’s having trouble parting with it.
First he played a king. Now Colin Firth may be in line to meet a queen if he picks up a knighthood in Her Royal Highness’ Birthday Honors List.
And the Oscar for Best Snub goes to …
Colin Firth’s Oscar acceptance speech on Sunday night was everything we want from a speech: eloquent, charming and sincere. We’re so glad he didn’t Melissa Leo it up.
The planned My Fair Lady remake, if the right actors come to the party, might just be an event of such magnitude that it puts the Great into Britain.
And the winner of Best New Envelope goes to…
“Two men in a room” it may be, but Tom Hooper’s movie starring Colin Firth as King George VI overcoming a stammer looks unstoppable this awards season. Next and final stop: The Oscars. (via TIME)
No fewer than 151 — count ‘em! — of this year’s class of Oscar attended the annual luncheon and they came with their appetite and wit intact.
