The Dion Waiters Award for Best Heat Check Performance
Ed Burns; Eli Wallach; Lindsay Lohan; Katherine Hahn
In the discussion (5)
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- There are many choices doing a lot in little screen time: Lindsay Lohan, James Franco, Catherine Hahn, John Krasinski, Dustin Hoffman; Eli Wallach is debated as too big a role, settled by the rule that he is not on the movie poster.
- The unnamed newsroom friend who tells Iris nobody is friends with an ex who cheats on them is liked for extreme real talk; Ed Burns, Cameron Diaz's ex, is added to the list with an explicit 'I would say he wins it', and Eli Wallach is also chosen as so great in the movie.
- The award is explained as the heat check, coming in for a short time and going off; Kate Winslet has three men, the ex Jasper (Rufus Sewell, a waste of time), Arthur and Jack Black, but Jack Black is billed as a star and Eli Wallach is not on the poster, which becomes the new eligibility definition.
- Dustin Hoffman is questioned since he is in for five seconds, and it is hard because these people are in it so briefly; one pick lands on Lohan out of a soft spot for her.
- The guest's pick is Katherine Hahn, out of love for her: the character name Bristol Farms is such an L.A. name, and her small part here looks tiny next to all the later work; there are a lot of great small roles for extremely famous people. — Kari Simmons