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The Fighter’s Mom, Alice Ward, Died At 79

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‘Fighter’s’ Melissa Leo KO’s Best Supporting Actress nominees for Oscar win

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The Real Scoop on the Oscars

The world's least-competent celebrity reporters return for a special Oscars(r) Edition of "The Real Scoop." Brock-Cody Stewart Thomas and Becky Lake bring you all the news that's unfit to print, from sultry Celine Dion's role in the ceremony (and Becky's sad personal life) to sexy Javier Bardem's way with words. You'll definitely want to roll out the red carpet for this dopey duo, even if Becky isn't allowed anywhere near the actual red carpet after last year. (It's a long story; just watch.)

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The Cinefiles-"The Oscars"

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The 17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Award 2011 Winners

The big winners of The 17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Award 2011 were THE FIGHTER,... more

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The 17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Award 2011 Winners

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2011 Screen Actors Guild Award Winners (Live)

A liveblog of the 2011 Screen Actors Guild Awards.

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Complete News Winter’s Bone

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A David O. Russell Retrospective: The Director Relates Sharing "Spanking the Monkey" With His Son

With all the awards buzz for The Fighter (and its recent Golden Globe wins for actors Melissa Leo and Christian Bale), the Museum of the Moving Image in New York is honoring the film's director David O. Russell with a retrospective of his five films to date.

On Wednesday, Russell sat down with his friend and fellow filmmaker Spike Jonze and rattled off stories about The Fighter, I ♥ Huckabees, Three Kings, Flirting with Disaster, and of course, his first feature, the mother-son incest fest Spanking the Monkey. "That's the one that got me started," Russell said.
Russell had filmed a few shorts -- Bingo Inferno and Hairway to the Stars -- and he was actually working on a separate project, when he was selected for jury duty. "That was the trick," he said. "You got to trick yourself into writing, and the best stuff comes when it doesn't count. Like emails, or during jury duty."
Taking some real-life details and turning them into elements of a "pornographic fantasy," Russell found himself musing on how his mother had smashed up her car one summer and how he had been stuck taking care of her. "She had a drinking problem, and my dad was away a lot, and I was painting houses," he said, "and I spun that into a really sick story, a filthy, angry fantasy. And it told itself."
At first, Russell didn't have any plans for the story, but since "it was the best thing I had written," he decided it would become his first feature-length film. "There was always a longer version of the film that I wanted to do, too," he said, "if you went even further with it, and they had the sex earlier, and the son is walking around in his dad's robe and slippers and really getting into the role more, and [the mother and son] went to cocktail parties together and stuff. Someday!"
Russell's own parents were not pleased with even the 100 minute version. "They of course hated it," he laughed. "When I was making Three Kings, my mother said to me, 'What's this one about? Incest again?' And I said, 'Yes, it's about incest in Iraq, during the Gulf War.'"
More than his parents, Russell was worried about the reaction from his own son, who is now sixteen. "I kind of always dreaded him ever seeing that film," Russell said. That didn't stop the teenager, who snuck the DVD in the player during one family movie night.
"I said, 'I don't want to watch that,' and he said, 'Let's watch it,' and he won," Russell said. "And the first half was such an uncomfortable experience for me. The emotional content, it's just gross. I'm squirming. And then there's also the aspect of it being your first film, so the way it was shot, the way it was edited, being forced to look at your mistakes. I could see ten minutes that should come out of it, and it was too indulgent, indulgent, indulgent."
By the second half of the movie, Russell relaxed. "I'm happy to say the second half works," he said. "It's a mechanism that works. Even with all the mistakes and the grody material." And the more important verdict was in: his son loved the movie.
The David O. Russell retrospective continues at the Museum of the Moving Image with Spanking the Monkey on Friday, January 21.

Three Kings airs on Current TV on Saturday, February 26 at 12 am ET/9 pm PT.
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Melissa Leo Explains Her Hotel Rendezvous with David O. Russell

Melissa Leo shocked a few folks when she gave her Golden Globes acceptance speech --... more

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Justin Bieber Presents Golden Globe to TOY STORY 3 at The 68th Golden Globes 2011

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2011 Golden Globes: 'The Social Network' Wins Big in Movie

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2011 Golden Globe Winners (Live)

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The Fighter Reviewed by Rotten Tomatoes on infoMania

Brett Erlich and Ellen Fox review "The Fighter," Mark Wahlberg's... more

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The Fighter (2010) review

A review for the sports drama The Fighter starring Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, and... more

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Movie theater rundown: Edwards Marq*E 12/14/10

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Movie openings for December 17, 2010

A rundown of the week's new theatrical releases with commentary.

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The 68th Annual Golden Globe Awards Nominations 2010

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2011 Golden Globe Nominations Announced

A listing of the 2011 Golden Globe Nominees with a few words about their redundancy.

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Movie Review: 'The Fighter' triumphs as one of the year's big KOs

Believe the great 'Fighter' hype. Director David O. Russell scores a major... more

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