March 2, 2009 Vol. 173 No. 8
Best Actress: Why it's Kate Winslet
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Best Actress: Kate Winslet's Moment
By Mark Harris Thursday, Feb. 19, 2009
Kate Winslet
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It's 11 days before the Academy Awards, and Kate Winslet is giving her third best
performance of the year. The occasion is a lunch at New York City's Oak Room at
which 100 or so invited guests have gathered to honor her performance in Stephen
Daldry's The Reader. This particular publicity event, orchestrated in the 26th mile of
the Oscar marathon, has multiple purposes: it's designed to entice any wavering
voters in the few days before the last postmark lands on the last ballot. It's also
intended to defuse complaints that the movie's treatment of the Holocaust is too
manicured. Thus, Elie Wiesel has been drafted to host the meal, which would have
been a masterly counterstroke of damage control for distributor Harvey Weinstein
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