While Oscar Was Sleeping…

As post-Oscar coverage continues to bottleneck the mass media, some interesting (and decidedly non-Oscar related) footnotes have slipped through the cracks: critic David Thomson applauds the “bold experiment” that led to the establishment of United Artists nearly 90 years ago; Brian De Palma vents to the Independent about why he’s considered “a left-wing wacko traitor who should be horsewhipped.” Bruce Handy writes about the “nocturnal fantasies” of Federico Fellini (pictured here); and the LA Times spares some ink on an obituary for Ben Chapman, “the 6-foot-5 former Tahitian entertainer and ex-Marine [who] played the title character in The Creature from the Black Lagoon, the classic 1954 3-D monster movie.” Alas, it’s not all Juno out there…