THIS WEEK’S PROJECTIONS
BEST PICTURE Projected Nominees [1] “Invictus” (Warner Brothers, 12/11, trailer)

INTERVIEWS: JOE AND ZOOEY TALK “500 DAYS OF SUMMER”
Last Sunday, I met with the up-and-coming actors Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel in the bowels of New York’s Museum of Modern Art, surrounded by art from Tim Burton’s new exhibit, to discuss their film “500 Days of Summer” (Fox Searchlight, 7/17, trailer), a romantic-dramedy that was one of this summer’s surprise hits and is n

A BREAKDOWN OF THE TOP GOLDEN GLOBE CONTENDERS
Best Picture (Drama) “An Education” “Avatar” “Bright Star” “The Hurt Locker” “Inglourious Basterds” “Invictus” “The Last Station” “The Lovely Bones” “Precious” “A Single Man” “Star Trek” “Up in the Air” Best Picture (Musical

INTERVIEW: JAMES TOBACK, RING MASTER OF “TYSON”
At a little after 9pm on Wednesday, November 11, I learned via Twitter that boxer Mike Tyson, the former heavyweight champion of the world, had just scored his latest knockout. Unfortunately for “Iron Mike,” early reports indicated that the opponent was not a fellow boxer but an overagressive paparazzo; the fight took place not in a ring but at Los Angeles International Airport; the referee was not wearing a striped shirt but a police badge; and the prize was not the millions of dollars t

HOW “AVATAR” COULD BEAT THE ODDS, WIN BEST PICTURE
The fact that nobody has seen more than a few minutes of James Cameron’s “Avatar” (20th Century Fox, 12/18, trailer) hasn’t stopped awards pundits from speculating about its Oscar prospects. Most have concluded that a film of such ambition, made by top-of-the-line talent on a massive budget, supported by a big studio, and scheduled for a late-in-the-year release date will almost certainly earn a best picture nomi