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Last night, we watched Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront, starring Marlon Brando and Karl Malden. Budd Schulberg wrote the screenplay. Nominated for twelve Academy Awards, it won eight. The picture, Kazan, Brando, and Schulberg all won Oscars in 1954. Malden got snubbed. While most people remember Brando lamenting that he "could've been a contender", the

For New Year's Day, my wife, two friends, and I saw Les Misérables. Visually, it's amazing. I found Anne Hathaway's performance most compelling and I decided that Eponine, played here by the broad-shouldered, tiny-waisted Samantha Barks, should have been called "Corsette." There is the critical scene in Hugo's masterpiece where Bishop Myriel, also known as