2008 Spirit Awards Exclusive Clips #4 and #5

Like most of you, I'm looking forward to the Academy Awards ceremony this Sunday evening. There's probably not going to be a lot of excitement this year (I wonder what the Vegas odds are for any actor who's not Daniel Day-Lewis or Javier Bardem?) But I'm hoping that my boy Jon Stewart will keep us entertained nonetheless.

I'm actually more excited about the 2008 Film Independent's Spirit Awards this year, which are often a bit overshadowed by the 800 lb. Oscar gorilla, since they take place on the same weekend. I am often more interested in the nominated films & actors at the Spirit Awards (and this year is no exception), and the ceremony itself is usually a bit more hip and fun than the Oscars.

The Spirit Awards have Rainn Wilson as host this year, too, who is one of the few people on Earth that might have the power to woo me away from Jon Stewart. I can't exactly vouch for Wilson's hosting skills, but he seems like he'd be a natural. And since he's long been on my short list of People I'd Watch Even If They Were Just Waiting In Line At The License Branch, I expect to fully enjoy the festivities.

So, I officially recommend that everyone tune in to the live broadcast of the 2008 Spirit Awards this Saturday, Feb. 23rd at 5:30 Eastern on IFC. Or, if you're like me and don't have access to IFC in your backwater town, you can catch an edited rebroadcast on AMC later that evening at 10:00 Eastern.

To whet your independent movie appetites, here are 2 more exclusive clips, this time from Juno producer Mason Novick. First, he talks about nominated screenwriter Diablo Cody:

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Novick, producer (JUNO)
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And in this clip, Novick discusses Juno star and Best Female Lead nominee, Ellen Page:

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2008 Spirit Awards Exclusive Clip #3

Today's clip is from Tamara Jenkins, writer/director of nominated film The Savages:

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Jenkins, writer-director (THE SAVAGES)
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So Who REALLY Made Huckabee?

For those of you who (much like myself) have been living under a rock for the past few weeks, here's a clip from last night's Late Night with Conan O'Brien that sums up the Great Late Night Talk Show Host Controversy of '08:




Good stuff... If you'd like to watch more of the related footage from A Daily Show and The Colbert Report, there's a good post on TV Squad that has clips from all 3 shows.

Disregarding Mike Huckabee's opinion on the subject - and I do urge everyone to disregard Huckabee on just about every subject - we are now left with the great philosophical question of our time: Who really made Huckabee?

Before we try to answer, let's quickly recap: Colbert made Huckabee, O'Brien made Colbert, Stewart made O'Brien... so, who made Stewart? Would not that same person, by the Transitive Property of Talk Show Host Equality, have therefore also made Huckabee?

So, who can lay claim to such a feat? Who is, was and forever shall be the undisputed King of All the Talk Show Hosts? Why, of course - it's Sp-a-a-a-a-c-e G-h-o-o-o-s-t! (With a little help from Moltar...) See for yourself:




Now, Space Ghost: Coast to Coast was made by Cartoon Network... so does that mean that Ted Turner created Mike Huckabee? Wow, I bet Ted's pissed.