Razz It Up

The Razzie Awards have just been announced! Yes, the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation has handed out its awards for the worst of American cinema of the past year. The most surprising thing about this year's raspberry puree is that the Simpson sisters, Jessica and Ashlee, were heavy favorites going in but ended up coming out outdone by someone most of us have long since forgotten about.

Jenny McCarthy, an MTV no-talent hostess who was last culturally relevant (if even that) when Newt Gingrich was Speaker of the House, walked away with honors (or dishonors) for worst actress, worst picture, and worst screenplay for Dirty Love, a movie she starred in, wrote, and produced and her soon-to-be-ex-husband directed. He won worst director for his efforts. Well, you gotta admit, there's no way the Simpson girls can compete with that!

How obscure is this movie? Even I never heard of it. :-p

As expected, though, Paris Hilton easily won worst supporting actress for House of Wax. though GRAF founder John Wilson admitted he knew she would win as soon as she heard she was going to be in the movie. :-D

Rob Schneider - Pauly Shore under an assumed name - won worst actor for Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo. Hayden Christensen unexpectedly won worst supporting actor for the last movie in the Star Wars prequel trilogy, Revenge of the Sith, with Wilson complaining he played Darth Vader as a "Backstreet Boy gone bad." Funny, I thought he was adequate as a young punk sliding into darkness, but that's just me.

Tom Cruise won a Razzie for most tiresome tabloid target, a new category obviously created for Cruise himself. By the way, how many of you who saw Rain Man - one of my favorite movies of the eighties, actually - got the impression that Cruise, who played a spoiled middle-class punk, wasn't acting?