Oscar Picks

Here's who I think will win and who I want to win:

Picture - BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN (CRASH could steal their thunder, though)

Director - Ang Lee, BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN

Actor - Philip Seymour Hoffman, CAPOTE (If Heath Ledger won for BROKEBACK, I'd be happy too)

Actress - Reese Witherspoon, WALK THE LINE (I want Felicity Huffman to win for TRANSAMERICA)

Supporting Actor - George Clooney, SYRIANA (I want Paul Giamatti for CINDERELLA MAN or Jake Gyllenhaal for BROKEBACK to win)

Supporting Actress - Rachel Weisz, THE CONSTANT GARDENER (I want Michelle Williams for BROKEBACK to win)

Original Screenplay - CRASH, by Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco

Adapted Screenplay - BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, by Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana

Original Score - MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA, by John Williams (I want Gustavo Santaolalla for BROKEBACK to win)

Enjoy the Academy Awards on Sunday, March 5th!

Celebrity sighting: George Hamilton in his BMW stopped next to us in traffic on Santa Monica Blvd. in Beverly Hills.

PS: I received my first script notes from the producers interested in one of my scripts. Now I have to absorb their notes, read a similar script they suggested, and finally, rewrite the script. Meanwhile, I have two other projects I'm working on, plus I need to rewrite another one that a manager just requested. But when? I have a friend from NY coming for a visit. When it rains, it pours I guess.