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Don't Give It to Mickey!

Or Sean Penn. Frost/Nixon’s Frank Langella deserves the Best Actor award, and the future of acting may be at stake.

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I’ve been having a recurrent and terrifying Oscar daydream which must have something to do with a short story by Delmore Schwartz that I once read.

In that famous tale (it was Vladimir Nabokov’s favorite) a man dreams that he is sitting in a theater watching a movie about his parents’...

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