2B - Thursday, February 25, 2010

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FOOD WARS
ANGELO'S e THE BROKEN EGG

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At Ann Arbor's most renowned break-
fast joint, there had better be some good
eggs. And there are! The extras are allot-
ted in generous but not overstuffed por-
tions and the tastes all meld perfectly. But
the omelette just isn't fluffy enough to
stand up to some of its competitors. It's a
delicious mix to be sure, but it's not that
magic we expect from Angelo's.

Though its Main Street location has
kept The Broken Egg from becoming a
mainstay eatery for students, one bite of
one of their omelets will change every-
thing. You can stuff your colossal egg
glob with ingredients from a long list of
fresh herbs, veggies, meats and cheeses.
No matter the combination, you'll be wel-
comed with a burst of flavor.

OMELETS
SAVA'S AFTERNOON DELIGHT
Sava's makes a mean breakfast. While Step through the cafeteria-style coun-
Angelo's and Cafe Zola get all the glory, ter at Afternoon Delight and treat your-
Sava's remains underappreciated, which, self to a patented Giant Omelette. Maybe
happily, means verylittle standinginline. you'll go for the Mexican, with gener-
Sava's omelets have the gourmet touch, ous servings of meat and a side of chips.
with fluffy, quality eggs and fresh-tasting Or perhaps you'll prefer their Veggie,
ingredients, whether they be cornedbeef, stuffed with eclectic greens (zucchini!).
asparagus or goat cheese. A top-quality Either way, you'll leave full, satisfied and
breakfast without the massive queue. cholesterol-giddy.
AND THE WINNER IS: AFTERNOON DELIGHT
CAMPUS CLASH
LAST WEEK'S RESULTS:
Barack Obama, the President of these United States, steps into the arena, ski
pole in hand, audacious as ever. But Abhishek Mahanti has passed a resolu-
tion to win, and he looks to keep it. Wielding his curling rock, he charges the
president, but Secret Service agents take him down. He manages to fight his
way out of the pile and, in a final act of desperation, passes a resolution for
peace in the Middle East. It succeeds. Heartbroken, Obama falls to his knees
in shame. (Fun, fake fact: This got more votes than the MSA election.)
WINNER: ABHISHEK MAHANTI? REALLY?
THIS WEEK'S FIGHT:
RICH THE
RODRIGUEZ VIC NCAA
ARMED WITH: ARMED WITH:A
Ensured employment Allegations and three
and crocodile tears. angry weasels.

Pangea Piercing's captain j.c.
potts describes body
modification through the ages
and across cultural boundaries.
See piercing in action, the
inner working and inventory of
Pangea and detailed photos
of different kinds of
modifications.
Weekend Freebies
Because boredom doesn't end
when your cash flow does
Thursday, February 25
University Symphony Orchestra
Compositions by student composers,
conducted by students, fo free!
Hill Auditorium, 8 p.m.

Friday, February 26
Dissertation Recital:
Pantelis Polychronidis J
Spanish music, fo free!
E.V. Moore Building, 8 p.m.
Go see "Dis Illusion" 1
Art ahout illusions... ortis ?
Go find out, fo free!
E.V. Moore Building, 8 p.
Michigan Union, 10 p.m.
Sunday, March 7
Dissertation Recital:
Matthew Thompson
A jazzy, showy piano concert.
Fo free, oftcourse!
E.V. Moore Building, 5 p.m.

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For the Academy, will it be she?.

Kathryn Bigelow can soundstage somewhere in Califor-
nia. And don't forget the half-bil-
make history with lion-dollar budget at his disposal.
Meanwhile, Bigelow brought
'The Hurt Locker' her vision to life three miles from
the Iraqi border, where her cast
many years too late and crew occasionally had to deal
with rocks and bullets whizzing
By NICK COSTON about their heads. She often rolled
DailyArts Writer four cameras simultaneously
during 12-hour shoots under the
For81 years, the Oscar, awarded unbearably hot sun, resulting in
by the Academy of Motion Picture over 200 hours of footage. And she
Arts and Sciences, has been the only had $11 million to bring it all
pinnacle of cinematic achieve- together.
ment. The awards have been pre- Those aren't the only odds
sented to men and women in a against Bigelow. Since 1936, the
host of categories - acting, cos- winner of the Academy Award
tume design, makeup, editing and for Best Director has been cho-
the big one, directing. Actually, sen from a field of five nominees.
scratch that last category. Since That's 370 nominations over the
the very first Academy .Awards past 74 years and dozens more in
in 1929, no woman has ever been the nine preceding years of vari-
honored as the best director of the able nominations. Only four of
year. those nominees have been women.
Women have flown under the After Linda WertmUller's
radar in the world of directorial breakthrough nomination in 1976
fame for decades. But with next for "Seven Beauties," only Jane
month's Academy Awards, one Campion ("The Piano") and Sofia
woman just might deliver the kill- Coppola ("Lost in Translation")
ing blow to that longstanding ano- have come as close to the Oscar for
nymity. For her outstanding work Best Director. Both Campion and
on "The Hurt Locker," Kathryn Coppola left their respective cer-
Bigelow has been nominated for emonies with the Academy Award
the Academy's 82nd award for for Best Original Screenplay.
Best Director. In an extra juicy As of today, those three women
twist, the man who stands most stand as the benchmarks for female
directly between Bigelow and his- directors. They made it to the final
tory is her own ex-husband, box- round. Though they didn't get to
office annihilator James Cameron, the podium, they shared with their
whose sci-fi epic "Avatar" grossed male counterparts the hallowed
a billion dollars in 17 days and awkward split-screen anxiety
became the highest-grossing film that comes just before the tear-
of all time after only 40 days. ing of the envelope and the forced
There's no question that "Ava- conciliatory applause required of
tar" is a work of scientific genius. defeated nominees. Some of their
Cameron's technical achieve- efforts, like Campion's and Cop-
ment is unparalleled; after all, he pola's writing, were (according to
personally invented the camera the Academy) even better than the
system that shot the film. But he men's. But the 78 other years have
was also able to create his uni- been entirely male-dominated.
verse entirely within a series of It must be noted that there are
high-powered computers and on a more male directors than there are

female. According to the Associ-
ated Press, of the just over 13,000
members of the Directors Guild
of America in 2007, only seven
percent were women. And in the
1930s, this number was probably
even lower. But compared to the
meager one percentage of nomina-
tions female directors have gar-
nered, there must be some other
explanation.
Maybe studios just don't trust
women to make the kind of mov-
ies upon which the awards circuit
smiles. Director. It's a masculine
word. It's a man's job. The direc-
tor is a manly man who solves
all the problems and puts all the
pieces together. He gives orders.
Sometimes he yells at people. No
wonder female directors can only
make gentle, unassuming films.
Or so those with closed minds
(which could include the big
movie execs) might think. In real-
ity, women have matched and
surpassed male directors in the
emotional, the violent, the sexual,
the grotesque and the poignant
alike. Even sophomoric comedies
like Penny Marshall's "Big" and
Amy Heckerling's "Fast Times at
Ridgemont High," long cherished
by pimply teenage boys, have made
their way onto the screen thanks
to their female directors.
In the past decade, perhaps
no film has held such a hyper-
masculine allure as "American
Psycho." You've no doubt seen a
broseph's Facebook status or two
pulled directly from its cheerfully
insane dialogue. The film's com-
mentary on modern materialism
via the sick machinations of a yup-
pie serial killer has found a last-
ing appeal in an overwhelmingly
male audience in its second life on
DVD after a modest run at the box
office.
That audience might be sur-
prised to learn that the film, writ-
ten off in 1999 as "un-filmable" by

Hollywood insiders, was adapted
to the screen and directed by Mary
Herron. Through her screenplay
and direction, Herron launched
the career of star Christian Bale
and created one of the most iden-
tifiably male films of the early 21st
century.
Herron going unrewarded for
her efforts probably wasn't in
itself a marked injustice; the film
was highly divisive in its initial
critical reception for the supposed
nihilism of its extreme violence
and sexuality, and it retains its
detractors today. Three years later,
however, another gruesome film

was widely lauded upon its release.
"Monster," starring Charlize
Theron, told the story of Aileen
Wuornos, a prostitute who mur-
dered seven men during the late
1980s and early 1990s. For her de-
beautified performance as Wuo-
.rnos, Theron swept the awards
circuit, winning the Best Actress
award from the Screen Actors
Guild, the Golden Globes and
even the mighty Academy. But
the woman who made her perfor-
mance possible, writer and direc-
tor Patty Jenkins, went unnoticed.
On Jan. 30, Bigelow's peers
named her the best director of

the year at the Directors Guild of
America Awards. In the 61-year
history of the DGAs, only six win-
ners have not been similarly hon-
ored at the Oscars. Less than a
month later, "The Hurt Locker"
and "Avatar" went head-to-head
in eight categories at the British
Academy of Film and Television
Arts (BAFTA) Awards. "The Hurt
Locker" won six, including Best
Picture and Best Director. If Big-
elow wins the Oscar, it won't just
be another statue in her growing
collection. It will be a landmark
victory for all the filmmaking
women of the world.

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Kathryn Bigelow is only the fourth woman in history to be nominated for a Best Director Oscar.

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