In case you missed 'ems: Let's start this holiday weekend edition
The weather outside is frightful, but the films are so delightful ...
-- Tied to today's release of "The Impossible," which comes nearly eight years to the day after the Indian Ocean tsunami that is the linchpin of the story, are call-to-action public service initiatives stemming from the Tsunami Plus 10 Project.
-- The Cinema Eye will give Chris Hegedus-D. A. Pennebaker 1993 documentary "The War Room" its 2013 Legacy Award on Jan. 9 at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, New York.
-- "Argo" director Ben Affleck will receive the Humanitarian Award from Cinema for Peace its gala Jan. 11 at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
-- "This Is 40" director Judd Apatow will receive the Louis XIII Genius Award at the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards ceremony Jan. 10 in Santa Monica.
-- "Saturday Night Live" guru Lorne Michaels will be among the kudo recipients at the Feb. 19 Costume Designers Guild Awards, along with Anne Hathaway and career-achievement honorees Judianna Makovsky and Eduardo Castro. Michaels will receive the Distinguished Collaborator Award.
Enjoy your screeners, everyone!
A native of Los Angeles raised by two parents and "Hill Street Blues," Jon Weisman ankled his scriptwriting career and began working for Variety in 2004, subsequently serving as associate editor of features and television reporter before becoming awards editor. He promises not to use this platform to retroactively campaign for Oscars for “The Misfits,” though he’d feel justified in doing so.
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