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· Hey, did you know that most movies nominated for a Best Picture Oscar don't actually win? We know! In a totally unrelated To Do item, the Great To Be Nominated screening series will show a different film each Monday night at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater for the next 18 weeks, showcasing Best Picture nominees that accumulated the most Academy Award nominations in all categories in a particular year, but did not ultimately win the big one. Got that? Tonight's entry is The Grapes of Wrath, the Okie-baiting masterpiece from 1940.
· Pulitzer-winning LAT automotive critic Dan Neil puts his award where his mouth is with a free lecture about design at UCLA’s Perloff Hall. Anyone can attend, not just the kids reaping the benefits of California's fine higher education system.
·The ninth annual City of Lights, City of Angels festival is a week of French film premieres at the DGA theater, right here in our own little city, with no intercontinental travel required...except in your mind. We heartily recommend you visit the festival's website, where a pinwheeling graphic is surely trying to activate some kind of post-hypnotic suggestion that will render you unable to resist the charms of French cinema.
· Garbage plays the Wiltern. Should you attend, expect Scottish rocker/pixie Shirley Manson to haunt your dreams forever.