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SAG Awards and More in Road to the Oscars
The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards bestowed their Janus-faced statuettes on Hilary Swank and Jamie Foxx, increasing the odds that anyone else will see much of Oscar gold at the end of the month; on the TV side, it was all about the Desperate Housewives, including sexy Nicolette Sheridan. See the rest of the winners and our huge passel of photos (from our good friends at WireImage) from the event. Also, vote for the nominees YOU'D like to see win in our 2005 Oscar Poll and check out the results of our glorious, user-picked Best of 2004 poll and the not so glorious Worst of 2004 poll. It's all in our Road to the Oscars section, presented this year by Kotex.

Today's IMDb Poll Question Is:
So Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou are going to star in the upcoming adaptation of the runaway bestseller The Da Vinci Code -- thumbs up or thumbs down? (And while you're at it, vote in our 2005 Oscar Poll) (vote)

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IMDb Movie of the Day
If you didn't know it with indie flick My New Gun, art-house fave A Walk on the Moon or sleek adultery thriller Unfaithful, then by the end of Under the Tuscan Sun you'll know that Diane Lane, she of the face that can convey a panorama of emotions in mere seconds, is one of the best American actresses working today. A lightweight comedy-drama grounded by its leading lady, Under the Tuscan Sun gives Lane a chance (finally) to excel at comedy, a gift which hasn't been on display since... well, pretty much not since Lane's film debut 25 years ago in A Little Romance. A story of a woman, a house and the Northern Italian countryside, the movie was based on Frances Mayes' runaway bestseller, a memoir that was more about the wonder that is Tuscany and less a standard three-act story fit for film. Alas, Hollywood dictated the necessity of an actual storyline, and writer-director Audrey Wells obliged by grafting a standard divorced-woman-finding-herself tale onto Mayes' ode to all things Italian. Happily, Wells' "fleshing out" was the exception to the sentimental rule, and the additional characters she created to co-exist alongside Lane are all polite, friendly, engaging company who wisely never overstay their welcome. But it's Lane who will hold your focus for the entire film, and her performance both honors the conventions of the screenplay and mocks them ever so gently, giving a surprising amount of heart to this modern-day fairy tale. - Mark Englehart (more) (Movie of the Day Archive)

Please Meet Valbona Coba
Our new Publicity Photos Self-Service feature allows agents and other authorized representatives to quickly and easily submit their client's headshot and gallery photos to the IMDb! Valbona Coba's agent sent this shot (which we actually prefer) and then realized that they wanted a different presentation (to your left). The system ensures faster response time and the satisfaction of seeing your submission online before it is sent to our photo editors (but if you do change it, as they did, it is an additional fee). Go to your client's page, click on the "Primary Photo Not Submitted" image to start this simple process or head directly to the IMDb Publicity Photos purchase pipeline.

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Truly Trivial In 2003, as part of a year-long tourist promotion at the Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he narrated the facility's audio tour. (answer)

Movie/TV Quote of the Day

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I spent four hours on the internet and I couldn't find one single case of a 16-year-old girl's heart just stopping. I spoke to three different doctors and not one of them could tell me exactly what happened to my daughter.