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L.A. Confidential

Chest Rockwell / Brock Landers Award for Best Character Name

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Hollywood Jack, the Big V, Pierce Morehouse Patchett’s initials, Buzz Meeks and Dick Stensland are nominated.

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  • Hollywood Jack, the Big V, Pierce Morehouse Patchett’s initials, Buzz Meeks and Dick Stensland are nominated.
  • Unnamed councilmen and the police chief are jokingly considered missed naming opportunities.
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The Amanda Dobbins Award for Best Piece of Real Estate

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Lynn’s Hancock Park house is favored; a personal open-house visit and later reported $7.5 million sale are discussed.

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  • Lynn’s Hancock Park house is favored; a personal open-house visit and later reported $7.5 million sale are discussed.
  • A flex selector chooses Patchett’s house, identified as the Lovell house by Neutra; another participant wanted a larger interior.
  • Bob’s Market in Echo Park is additionally mentioned as a recognizable Fast and Furious location.
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Sean Fennessey Award for Stealth Homage That Gives Every Movie Nerd a Criterion Orgasm

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Roman Holiday plays on the couple’s date; The Bad and the Beautiful appears on the Pantages marquee beside the Frolic Room, linking to an acknowledged influence.

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  • Roman Holiday plays on the couple’s date; The Bad and the Beautiful appears on the Pantages marquee beside the Frolic Room, linking to an acknowledged influence.
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Jesse Eisenberg “That’s good. You should be proud of that right there. Don’t worry if you don’t make it any further” Award for Best Line Reading

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Jack asking why Exley wants to dig deeper into the Night Owl killings is the flex selection.

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  • The flex choice is the line asking why anyone would dig deeper into the Night Owl killings.
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The Butch’s Girlfriend Award for the Weakest Link in the Film

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Basinger is written down reluctantly without a firm argument.

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  • Basinger is written down reluctantly without a firm argument.
  • DeVito is criticized as an unconvincing Italian actor playing a Jewish character.
  • The unclear passage of years and heroin plot are raised, though the time issue is partly withdrawn.
  • DeVito’s familiar comic persona and broad acting distract, although his opening narration works.
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Recasting Couch

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Buscemi and Kevin Pollak are suggested for Sid.

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  • Buscemi and Kevin Pollak are suggested for Sid.
  • Billy Crystal is preferred if casting a famous star; Larry David is a dream choice because his face was less familiar in 1997.
  • Billy Crystal is rejected as too famous; the counterargument prefers him if the part requires a celebrity.
  • A Sid alternative transcribed as Panow is suggested; the actor identity remains unresolved.
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What’s Aged the Worst?

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Spacey’s reputation and reported conduct toward Pearce are raised; Ellroy’s shifting opinion of the adaptation is noted.

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  • Kevin Spacey’s reported behavior on set toward Guy Pierce is discussed alongside James Elroy’s shifting assessments of the film.
  • Patchett’s house is again criticized as insufficiently extravagant.
  • The opening promise of abundant jobs, cheap land and homeownership, plus downtown-to-beach travel in twenty minutes, feels dated.
  • Bud’s beating should have killed Exley or caused more damage.
  • Using photos of Lynn and Exley to provoke Bud seems unnecessarily elaborate when the villains could simply kill Exley.
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The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award

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One participant cannot find a hot take.

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  • One participant cannot find a hot take.
  • The film is called a perfect modern period piece, combining 1950s design with 1990s acting and cutting.
  • It is called the second-best Wizard of Oz adaptation: Bud needs brains, Ed a heart, Jack courage, Lynn home, and Dudley is the wizard.
  • Patchett’s exploitative celebrity-lookalike business is jokingly praised as commercially brilliant and compared with deepfakes.
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Casting What-Ifs

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McConaughey reportedly regretted declining, Crowe was persuaded after refusing, and an Isabella Scorupco offer is explicitly doubted alongside reports Basinger was first choice.

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  • McConaughey reportedly regretted declining, Crowe was persuaded after refusing, and an Isabella Scorupco offer is explicitly doubted alongside reports Basinger was first choice.
  • A Michael Madsen as Bud report is rejected as implausible.
  • A Pamela Anderson as Lynn report is also disbelieved; the hosts discuss unreliable trivia accumulating over time.
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