In the past month (give or take), I’ve pestered four people, who had not previously not done so, into watching Inglourious Basterds. All four of them absolutely loved the movie, so what are you waiting for? Incidentally, Christoph Waltz appeared last night on “The Late Show With David Letterman,” who enthusiastically raved about Waltz’s performance:

Last week’s server woes prevented me from mentioning that Basterds has earned eight Academy Award nominations: Best Picture, Actor in a Supporting Role (Christoph Waltz), Directing (Quentin Tarantino), Writing (Original Screenplay, Tarantino), Film Editing (Sally Menke), Cinematography (Robert Richardson), Sound Editing (Wylie Stateman), and Sound Mixing (Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti and Mark Ulano). And, at the “Audi Celebrates The Academy Award Nominations For Inglourious Basterds party, the Basterds have finally experienced “The Dude” (the original one portrayed in The Big Lebowski). Eli Roth tweeted that “Jeff Dowd, The Dude -the actual guy the movie was based on- stumbled and spilled wine on me” (see below photo), but then Omar Doom followed up by tweeting that he “smoked a joint” with The Dude. Even though Eli told me that Tarantino found the wine-spilling incident quite hilarious, I’m pretty sure that Omar wins this round. Stay tuned for more Basterds escapades.

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