Monday, April 10, 2006

PERHAPS THE ONLY AWARDS SHOW AT WHICH BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN WILL NOT BE A NOMINEE: Sure, this time of year is a slow time for awards show junkies--sure, we had the Peabodys last week (yay! South Park!)--but we're still several months from the Tonys, the MTV Movie Awards, and the train wreck that will be the MTV Video Music Awards. But next Monday, the Pulitzer Prizes will be announced. I fully expect the reporting categories to be dominated by Katrina coverage (if the efforts of the Times-Picayune aren't worthy of special attention, I'll eat my hat). But there's also the literary categories. Of course, one of the most interesting this year is the drama category, with only one "new American play" having made a splash on Broadway this year (David Lindsay-Abaire's excellent Rabbit Hole). I'm going to offer a left-field suggestion--no screenplay has ever before won, but what about giving the Pulitzer to the writers of Crash, which is unquestionably the original dramatic work that had the most to say about American life in the last year? So, who ya got?

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