Oscar winner Sienna Miller. Folks, it could happen.
The Weinstein Company has just scheduled Factory Girl - that long-percolating Edie Sedgwick biopic in which Miller was initially cast, then replaced by Katie Holmes, then cast again when Herr Cruise said nien! to his bride-to-be working - for December 29. This means that gorilla-like studio head Harvey Weinstein will be threatening everyone in Hollywood with cement shoes until Sienna gets on the Best Actress ballot.
Harvey is, of course, notorious for virtually inventing the Modern Whorish Oscar Campaign, and for brainwashing voters into anointing flavor-of-the-month starlets over more consistent, established actresses. It’s why Renee Zellweger got three nominations for three Miramax movies three years in a row, finally winning for her bizarre Ma Kettle turn in Cold Mountain. It’s why “Oscar winner Gwyneth Paltrow” has been a valid epithet since 1999.
This year, Sienna’s competition will likely include those over-the-hill slags Helen Mirren and Kate Winslet, who already have six nominations between them yet have never won.
We’re not suggesting that gluttonous gulps of fellatio are involved in this charade. But we will suggest that getting Sienna Miller’s name even mentioned in Oscar buzz columns necessitates at least a Harvey Handy.
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