Auditions have been moved to next week sometime. So, no news on that front.

Starting next week I will probably start doing a blog a week detailing someone who is involved with the film.

A Hurt Locker producer was lobbying for his film to win best picture... which is all fine and well, but then he started lobbying to slam Avatar on the ballots (which is warranted given Avatar's quality), but that is against Academy rules. So, Hurt Locker looked like a good bet to win Best Picture (it's not, but it is better than Avatar), but now... who knows. Makes it more fun at least. That producer is banned from the ceremony now... and probably hurt his career pretty bad.

I will put up my Oscar pics in a day or so.

This is via Chud... about a skit cut due to James Cameron being a baby...

"But one thing we won't be making fun of is a Ben Stiller/Sacha Baron Cohen skit that pokes fun at Avatar and James Cameron. The reason? According to Vulture the Oscar producers think that Cameron is so thin-skinned he could literally walk out of the ceremony. What's so offensive?

Our insider informs us that Baron Cohen planned to appear onstage as a blue-skinned, female Na’vi, with Stiller translating “her” interplanetary speech. As the skit went on, though, it would become clear that Stiller wasn’t translating properly, because Cohen would grow ever more upset. At its climax, an infuriated Baron Cohen would pull open “her” evening gown to reveal that s/he was pregnant, knocked up with Cameron’s love child, and would go on to confront her baby daddy as if s/he were on Jerry Springer.

What's nutty is that this doesn't even sound all that offensive. But then again, I guess when you're a director with a habit of sleeping with your leading ladies, this is a joke that hits close to home. "