Searchlight Sets Gold Standard Early

By S.T. VanAirsdale

A year after fielding the muscular Oscar field of The Last King of Scotland, Little Miss Sunshine and Notes on a Scandal, the marketing and publicity gang are wasting exactly no time in Toronto positioning its awards-season front runners. To wit, this week's cover of the local weekly NOW featuring Laura Linney -- the otherwise respectable star of the devastating family saga The Savages -- as JonBenet Ramsay:

Six more months of this, people. Thank God for this country's socialized health care; I have to hit the pharmacy.

Posted at September 6, 2007 11:49 PM