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But it should be stated that complaint websites are not a one way street. Good complaints websites can turn negative remarks into positive publicity by increasing customer satisfaction in just one individual. That's actually what a good complaint website should be all about. The best sites in the business target a specific region and becomes a conduit for angry consumers and responsible business. The best sites allow visitors to rage unrestricted by complex registration rituals, but also give corporations an equal opportunity to respond, while the membership body grades the quality of each submission.
Canadians are not complainers. Up here in Toronto Canada we have never had a full blown revolution, or even a good tax revolt; it's not in our culture to talk back to authority (or retailers or suppliers etc) . We quietly tolerate scandalous politicians, unpopular wars, and fiscally irresponsible car companies. Should I even mention the cell phone industry that charges 'system access fees' each month? Canadians are too nice, and as a nation we get shafted all the time.
Right up until January 2009 there was no online venue built specifically for Canadian 'social complaints'.
Tell Oscar is the first real complaints website in Canada. The site lets Canadians praise good customer service and record their bad experiences. The idea is that corporations can be made to listen and made to understand the relevance of having and maintaining a good social reputation. More importantly, the website encourages business leaders to get involved and emails them if and when there are critical remarks or compliments posted on site. Turning negative remarks into positive publicity and increasing customer satisfaction is what good complaints websites do best. 
Celebrity gossip magazines such as Star Magazine and the National Enquirer give their readers information on every single facet of celebrity life. Readers look forward to the feature spreads at the myriad of awards show covered by these popular magazines. However, the categories never change. We all have our favorite for in categories such as best actor or actress in the movies and best new artist for the music categories.
These categories never change and have become stale over the years. Through gossip magazines such as Star and shows like Access Hollywood we are inundated with information on celebrities and it is high time we come up with a whole new set of categories and winners for what I will call the Tinseltown awards.
Least Amount of Female Friends
Nominees in the category for least amount of female friends are Angelina Jolie and Paris Hilton. Angelina Jolie is known for her ability to attract, whether or not they are currently attached. Ms. Hilton has quite a bit of notoriety for her amorous affairs with attached fellows as well. However, Ms. Hilton, with her own adult video is known for having been best friends with the likes of Nicole Richie, Kimberly Stewart, and Kim Kardashian to name a few. She can never seem to hold on to friends for very long and has been accused on occasion of questionable behavior with the significant others of her friends.
Though Paris Hilton definitely cannot seem to keep friends for very long, at least she has had some. The award for the least amount of female friends will of course go to Angelina Jolie. Jolie, has never been seen in public with a BFF, and is probably the only co star that women forbid their husbands to work with. She is reportedly to blame for the bust ups of Laura Dern and Billy Bob Thornton, and her current partner Brad Pitt, was married to Jennifer Aniston when they met on the movie set for their movie Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Rumors, though to be fair are unsubstantiated have been swirling that Ethan Hawke, may have had an affair with Jolie while they worked together though he was married to Uma Thurman at the time.
Perhaps the reason Jolie is adopting is not all that altruistic. Maybe she would like to have some friends of her own, and decided the best way to do so is to adopt them and raise them herself.
Smallest Grocery Bill
Hollywood is a town of decadence. The best cars and the most lavish homes align the streets of the most exclusive neighborhoods in the country. Paying $100,000 for a car is not unheard of. Perhaps, after spending thousands of dollars there just is not a lot of money for the bare necessities. This may be the reason that nominees Kate Bosworth and Nicole Richie do not seem to have enough money to purchase food at the supermarket.
Bosworth, was famously photographed by a popular gossip magazine wearing a revealing black dress. Unfortunately, the look was anything but sexy as the imprint of her ribs was showing in her breastplate, this from the fabulously buff actress of the movie Blue Crush.
Richie was the pleasantly plump sidekick of Paris Hilton in the Fox Channel show The Simple Life. There is probably more pressure in Hollywood to stay thin than anywhere else on earth. Perhaps, Richie caved to pressure to lose a few pounds, but before long she had lost a healthy amount of weight, got rid of the multi colored hair extensions and hired a decent stylist. Unfortunately, began to go awry as the shrinking reality television star started losing even more weight. Like Bosworth, pictures of her emaciated frame begin to make the rounds in the gossip magazines.
The award this year for the least expensive grocery bill goes to Richie because she is so skinny she makes headlines when she is out in public eating.
There are many awards left to give, for the tackiest break ups, most trips in rehab, and the most famous for doing absolutely nothing to name a few. It is going to be a busy year.
Submitted By: Lisa James
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The ‘Coin Killer Game’ is an interactive solution to a viral marketing challenge posed by most anticipated release of 2007, the new Coen brothers movie, No Country for Old Men.
This attraction is being hailed as the best piece of filmmaking ever evidenced by the cinematic siblings - its certain to be a ‘must-see’ movie for millions of devoted fans. In this film, a compressed air tank welding villain played by Javier Bardem asks a gas station attendant ‘How much have you ever wagered in a coin toss?’. The same dialogue has been preserved online in the opening frames of the Coin Killer Game.
After uploading a personal photo, each visitor must click the ‘flip this coin’ prompt and watch as an American quarter rotates up above the banner, where it disappears… The user is asked to chose ‘Heads or Tails?’
This exciting challenge ends with each visitor ultimately losing the match, and then watching in horror as his or her personal photo becomes a ‘death portrait’.
The game imagines the player's death portrait and simulates what each face would look like after being struck by the villain’s signature weapon. Check out the author’s own face after the gruesome attack.
The Coin Killer Game is the next evolution of online marketing; already a facebook widget, this application is almost certain to convey tens of thousands of unique viewers to the No Country for Old Men site before the campaign ends in late November.
Will Win: NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
Of all the pictures that are nominated (and I have seen them all) this one was the most cohesive throughout and aside from one story point that I totally disagree with was the most enjoyable filmgoing experience
Should Win: NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
This movie cannot be denied
Got Robbed: INTO THE WILD
A great movie from top to bottom (script, directing and acting) that received almost universal critical acclaim yet got snubbed by the Oscars for some odd reason. Maybe they hate Sean Penn.
BEST DIRECTOR
Will Win: Joel & Ethan Coen (NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN)
After having to basically flip a coin to see who gets credit for waht on their fiolms, the brothers are finally nominated as a duo and they truly deserve to win for making a truly great film.
Should Win: Joel & Ethan Coen (NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN)
See above.
Got Robbed: Sidney Lumet (BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU'RE DEAD)
Lumet showed just how awesome a director he still is with this movie and just how much so many of today's directors can learn from him. If you haven't seen this movie you are doing yourself a disservice. Besides how many more chances will there be to recognize Lumet's genius? The man is a billion years old!
BEST ACTOR
Will Win: Daniel Day-Lewis (THERE WILL BE BLOOD)
I hated There Will Be Blood, I hated it with a passion but there is no denying Day-Lewis' performance. It is the single most intense performance by any actor since...well since Day-Lewis' last role.
Should Win: Daniel Day-Lewis (THERE WILL BE BLOOD)
What did ya think I was kidding about how good he was?
Got Robbed: Denzel Washington (AMERICAN GANGSTER)
The movie was astoundingly uneven but Washington gave a great performance, bringing a level of understated malevolence that I didn't think Denzel had in him.
BEST ACTRESS
Will Win: Ellen Page (JUNO)
The Academy loves to think of themselves as "discoverers of talent" and what better way to show that then by giving a big award to a little snot nosed punk? Now I loved Juno and though Page was wonderful in it but if we are being honest it wasn't an Oscar worthy performance. If they wanted to give Page some credit they should have nominated her for Hard Candy; now that was a great performance!
Should Win: Laura Linney (THE SAVAGES)
Linney is one of the most underrated actresses in Hollywood and this was a part that seemed to be tailor made for her talents.
Got Robbed: Angelina Jolie (A MIGHTY HEART) & Keri Russell (WAITRESS)
A Mighty Heart wasn't very good but Jolie gave a strong performance that deserved recognition and should have been given the nom over Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth: The Golden Age.
Russell was a revelation in Waitress and if the Academy wanted to give the lead actress in a small independent comedy-drama a nomination then Russell was the one who deserved it.
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Will Win: Javier Bardem (NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN)
Bardem transformed himself into the years best villain as well as one of the best bad guys in film history. And he did it all while sporting one of the most ridiculous looking hair styles in the world.
Should Win: Javier Bardem (NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN)
Javier Bardem ftw.
Got Robbed: Ben Foster (3:10 TO YUMA)
Foster's deranged sidekick with distinctly homo-erotic undertones was was the best thing about this movie
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Will Win: Ruby Dee (AMERICAN GANGSTER)
At 83 this is Dee's first nomination and it will likely be her last so I see her being the beneficiary of the "recognize 'em before they die" award that would have gone to Hal Holbrooke if he wasn't competing with Javier Bardem.
Should Win: Amy Ryan (GONE BABY GONE)
Ryan kicked massive amounts of ass as the lousy mother of an abducted child and was the best of this bunch of nominees.
Got Robbed: Can't think of any other performances this year that were deserving.
BEST ANIMATED MOVIE
Will Win: RATATOUILLE
Like all of Pixar's movies this is really good but not the best of the year or even of the nominees.
Should Win: PERSEPOLIS
Based on a really cool graphic novel, watching Persepolis is like having the comic come to life. It is an amazing film.
Got Robbed: THE SIMPSON'S MOVIE
How the hell does Surf's Up get nominated but the Simpson's Movie doesn't? Did the Academy think they were nominating Happy Feet or something? And why is this category only allowing three nominees while all the others have four? This is just dumb.
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Will Win: WAR DANCE
Of all the nominees this is the most hopeful so I can see the Academy wanting to reward that.
Should Win: NO END IN SIGHT
This movie makes my blood boil and should be required viewing for every US citizen. It's been years since I've had as visceral a reaction to a film like I had for this one.
Got Robbed: KING OF KONG
My favorite movie of 2007 and deserving of as many accolades as it can possibly get. The Academy really fucked up by not nominating this movie.
I was looking at some of my children's books. Picked up the a Sesame Street one, and started examining the differences in the character. Once I figured it out, I tried my hand at drawing them.
- Everyone but Grover have round eyes
- Grover has oval eyes and one red lip
- Oscar has fuzzy eyebrows
- Cookie and Elmo almost looks the same
- Cookie's eyes are googly
- Elmo eyes are not
- Cookie has no nose
Letters and numbers add the finishing touch!
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