I CANNOT EXPRESS my happiness for Henry Selick, Neil Gaiman, and all the crazy tiny-sweater-knitters and miniature-rat-wranglers, regarding the Oscar nomination of the film, CORALINE.
I HOPE THE ACADEMY LIKES CRYSTAL HEAD VODKA, because they are going to be getting a lot of it from me in a shameless attempt to buy their vote.
BUT BRIBERY IS NOT NECESSARY. It is an astonishing film, and I am so proud to be a part of it.
ONE TRAVESTY, however, is that THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS were not nominated for BEST SONG.
WITNESS:
THAT’S JOHN LINNELL SINGING, of course. Not me. I did record a version of the song, but thankfully, they came to their senses.
WHAT YOU MAY HAVE HEARD IS TRUE: I portray the voice of the Father and Other Father in the forthcoming movie “Coraline”
I TOOK THIS JOB primarily so that I might sit for hours in a very small room with director Henry Selick, and increase my excuses for having dinner with Neil Gaiman from time to time.
ONLY NOW, however, two years after I sat in that tiny room, do I realize that THEY ACTUALLY MADE A MOVIE, and it is beautiful and creepy and brilliant.
THAT IS VERY FINE LUCK for me, and also FOR YOU. It opens on February 6. As Bruce Campbell used to say, if you like things that are good, and you want to see more good things in the future, vote with your wallet and buy a ticket.
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is Dutton, publishers of Ken Follett and Darin Strauss
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is Riverhead, publishers of David Rees and The Rza
1781, BATH, ENGLAND: German-born astronomer William Herschel becomes the first modern scientist to discover a new planet within our solar system. He is not taken seriously at first. After all, the three “new planets” he had previously “discovered” turned out to be the sun, a fly on the lens of his telescope, and Earth, respectively. But this time he got it right: Uranus is a planet, and since our last writing, it has been admitted to THE CLUB OF PLANETS. (a) (a). Please see page 147 of The Areas of My Expertise under the heading “The Club of Debated Planets.” — MARCH 13