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IMDB.com: Oscar nominations

I had no idea that anyone gave a shit about The Reader…that taking the place of The Dark Knight is the other big surprise for me. Not that I think TDK needed to be nominated…I just sort of thought it would be, despite all the backlash. I would have liked to see The Wrestler get a nod too. I’ll have to wait until I see The Reader, Frost/Nixon and Milk before I decide which ones needed to be booted for the two guys in tights.

The other immediate craziness: no nomination for Springsteen. I’m fine with that, since he won for Philadelphia. I respect the man, but don’t really care about him. Nevertheless, I figured that he would get some love. Slumdog is great, but two songs from it? Whatever, the good part in all that is hopefully this creates a clear path for my boy Peter to win a statue.

Good to see the Downey love, even though on the whole Tropic Thunder was a letdown for me.

This year’s Norbitaward: the DVDs for Wanted can now tout is an Oscar nominated picture. Huh.

My unofficial early predictions after the jump.

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So we’ve been meaning to reboot this site (which has, as you might be aware, been dormant for a couple of months) since the start of the new year. Well, what better time to do that than on this historic day? None…none better time.

That being said, I was up early on the west coast to watch the inauguration events unfold. And I kept a little live diary of it. It’s after the fold. I will come back and edit it later, but as of this posting (9:46am PST) I’m just putting up what came out in real time. Welcome back, SP readers.

(Reuters/Brian Snyder)

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