Seriously? OMG! WTF?

AFI’s top 10 movies and television programs of the year:

Films in alphabetical order:

"Babel"
"Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan"
"The Devil Wears Prada"
"Dreamgirls"
"Half Nelson"
"Happy Feet"
"Inside Man"
"Letters From Iwo Jima"
"Little Miss Sunshine"
"United 93"

Television programs in alphabetical order:

"Battlestar Galactica"
"Dexter"
"Elizabeth I"
"Friday Night Lights"
"Heroes"
"The Office"
"South Park"
"24"
"The West Wing"
"The Wire"

Variety

Another yawner 

2006 Los Angeles Critics Association winners

Picture: "Letters From Iwo Jima"

Runner-up: "The Queen"

Director: Paul Greengrass, "United 93"
Runner-up: Clint Eastwood, "Flags of Our Fathers" and "Letters From Iwo Jima"

Actor: Sacha Baron Cohen, "Borat" and Forest Whitaker, "The Last King of Scotland" (tie) (no runner-up)

Actress: Helen Mirren, "The Queen"
Runner-up: Penelope Cruz, "Volver"

Supporting actor: Michael Sheen, "The Queen"
Runner-up: Sergi Lopez, "Pan’s Labyrinth"

Supporting actress: Luminita Gheorghiu, "The Death of Mr. Lazarescu"
Runner-up: Jennifer Hudson, "Dreamgirls"

Screenplay: Peter Morgan, "The Queen"
Runner-up: Michael Arndt, "Little Miss Sunshine"

Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki, "Children of Men"
Runner-up: Tom Stern, "Flags of Our Fathers" and "Letters From Iwo Jima"

Production design: Eugenio Caballero, "Pan’s Labyrinth"
Runner-up: Jim Clay and Geoffrey Kirkland, "Children of Men"

Music: Alexandre Desplat, "The Queen" and "The Painted Veil"
Runner-up: Thomas Newman, "The Good German" and "Little Children"

Foreign-language film: "The Lives of Others"
Runner-up: "Volver"

Documentary/non-fiction film: "An Inconvenient Truth"
Runner-up: "Darwin’s Nightmare"

Animation: "Happy Feet"
Runner-up: "Cars"

Douglas Edwards experimental/independent film/video award: "Old Joy" (Kelly Reichardt) and "In Between Days" (So Yong Kim)

New generation award: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris (directors) and Michael Arndt (screenwriter), "Little Miss Sunshine"

Career achievement award (previously announced): Robert Mulligan

Variety 

How boring 

Lindsay Lohan says sex is the most important thing in a relationship. The 20-year-old actress – who has previously admitted to dating more than one man at a time – insists if the sex isn’t good she will dump a guy over his inept bedroom skills. She told Elle magazine: "If the sex is bad, the relationship isn’t going anywhere. I like variety, I think everyone does, especially at my age. "But if I’m going to give my body to someone, I’d rather them not be with other people. But I want to be able to if I like someone else." Lindsay has been spicing up her love life of late. The ‘Bobby’ star was recently seen splashing out $820 on some kinky diamond-encrusted gold handcuffs at Beverly Hills’ store Fred Segal.

Female First 

Now we know why she doesn’t wear underwear

Hollywood star Kate Winslet finds the glamorization of ultra-thin "size zero" models and actresses "unbelievably disturbing" and says she keeps magazines featuring such women away from her 6-year-old daughter. "It’s so disturbing because young girls are impressionable from 11 up to 19 or 20 even. Women are very impressionable at those ages," Winslet told British Broadcasting Corp. television’s "Sunday AM" program. "They’re trying to figure out who they are, and they want to be loved, and what I resent is that there is an image of perfection that is getting thinner and thinner, and it’s truly upsetting to me." Stick-thin celebrities like Kate Moss, Nicole Richie and Victoria Beckham have been criticized as poor role models for young women and accused of contributing to the rise in eating disorders. A major fashion event in Madrid, Spain, banned ultra-thin models from the catwalk earlier this year, and other shows have indicated they plan to do the same. The 31-year-old Winslet, who burst on the movie scene in "Titanic" and stars in the current romantic comedy "The Holiday," said it was "unbelievably disturbing what’s going on at the moment" with the popularity of the ultra-thin. The British actress said she refuses to allow any magazines featuring rake-thin models into her house for fear her daughter, Mia, will see them. "It’s only a matter of time before she becomes aware of it, and it frightens the life out of me," said Winslet, who is married to director Sam Mendes. Winslet said she hoped her success will be an inspiration to others. "I hope that in some small way I’m able to say, ‘I’m a normal person, I’m doing all right.’ I’ve got a lovely husband and children and I didn’t lose weight to find those things, and those things are what should be important."

AP 

Good for her! She is so right, now if only some of the ultra-thin models and actresses would listen to what she said!

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