Street Sign at Hanover and Prince Attacks Woman; Blog Denies Involvement

Um………………we would like to enter a Not Guilty plea, your honor.

PS: But seriously, we hope she’s OK.

From today’s Boston Globe:

BOSTON

A 36-year-old woman was hit on the forehead by a falling street sign yesterday at the corner of Hanover and Prince streets in the North End as a busy Easter church service was getting out about noon. The victim was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital, where she reported feeling lethargic with neck pain, police said. The victim’s husband told police that the pair was crossing the street when the sign suddenly came flying down toward them. A Boston Emergency Medical Services spokeswoman said the woman suffered a small cut on her head and is expected to be all right. Boston Public Works and police are investigating.

Hanover and Prince’s Academy Award Nomination Predictions!

And for good measure, so our picks are not influenced by the Golden Globe winners, here are our predictions for most of the 2009 Academy Award nominations(yes, we make predictions of predictions. )

We kind of like movies.

Enjoy!

• Best Picture:

>The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button

>Frost/Nixon

>Slumdog Millionaire

>The Dark Knight

>Milk

• Best Director:

>Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire

>David Fincher, The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button

>Gus Van Sant, Milk

>Ron Howard, Frost/Nixon

>Mike Leigh, Happy Go Lucky

• Best Original Screenplay:

>Dustin Lance Black, Milk

>Mike Leigh, Happy Go Lucky

>Woody Allen, Vicky Christina Barcelona

>Charlie Kaufman, Synecdoche, New York

>Jenny Lumet, Rachel Getting Married

• Best Adapted Screenplay: 1927 to present

>Eric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

>John Patrick Shanley, Doubt

>Simon Beaufoy, Slumdog Millionaire

>Sam Mendes, Revolutionary Road

>Peter Morgan, Frost/Nixon

• Best Actor in a Leading Role: 1927 to present

>Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler

>Sean Penn, Milk

>Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon

>Clint Eastwood, Gran Torino

>Richard Jenkins, The Visitor

• Best Actress in a Leading Role: 1927 to present

>Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married

>Meryl Streep, Doubt

>Kate Winslet, Revolutionary Road

>Melissa Leo, Frozen River

>Sally Hawkins, Happy Go Lucky

• Best Actor in a Supporting Role: 1936 to present

>Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight

>Robert Downey Jr., Tropic Thunder

>Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt

>Dev Patel, Slumdog Millionaire

>Michael Shannon, Revolutionary Road

• Best Actress in a Supporting Role: 1936 to present

>Viola Davis, Doubt

>Penelope Cruz, Vicky Christina Barcelona

>Kate Winslet, The Reader

>Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler

>Taraji P. Henson, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

• Best Art Direction:

>The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

>Changeling

>Mamma Mia!

>Wall-E

> The Duchess

• Best Cinematography:

>Slumdog Millionaire

>The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

>Revolutionary Road

>The Wrestler

>Frost/Nixon

• Best Film Editing:

>The Dark Knight

>The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

>Slumdog Millionaire

>Iron Man

>The Wrestler

• Best Visual Effects:

>The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

>The Dark Knight

>Hancock

• Best Sound Mixing:

>The Dark Knight

>Slumdog Millionaire

>The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

>10,000 B.C.

>Wall-E

• Best Sound Editing:

>The Dark Knight

>Slumdog Millionaire

>The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

>Iron Man

>Wall-E

• Best Original Song:

>The Wrestler, Bruce Springsteen

>Gran Torino, Jamie Cullum

>Wall-E, Peter Gabriel

>Bolt, Miley Cyrus

>Cadillac Records, Beyonce

• Best Original Score:

>The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

>Changeling

>Slumdog Millionaire

>Defiance

>Frost/Nixon

• Best Costume Design:

>Revolutionary Road

>The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

>Mamma Mia!

>The Duchess

>Sex and the City

· Best Makeup:

>The Dark Knight

>The Duchess

>The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

• Best Animated Feature:

>Wall-E

>Bolt

>Kung Fu Panda

• Best Documentary Feature:

>Man on Wire

>Vals im Bashir (Waltz with Bashir)

>Standard Operating Procedure

>Encounters at the end of the World

>Trouble the Water

• Best Foreign Language Film:

>Vals im Bashir (Waltz with Bashir)

>Gommorah

>I’ve Loved You So Long

>The Baader Meinhof Complex

> Everlasting Moments

Boston Globe Doesn’t Know What ‘MBTA’ Stands For, Creates New State Agency

Noah Bierman, who writes the weekly Starts & Stops column every Sunday, might want to brush up on his basics.

[Copied and pasted from Boston.com at 1:49 p.m. today]

STARTS & STOPS

Many awaiting movement on Green Line extension

By Noah Bierman  |  January 11, 2009

Shocking. A state transportation project is missing a deadline, prompting concerns about delays. Round up the usual suspects.

OK, so maybe it’s not too surprising. But the Massachusetts Bay Turnpike Authority’s Green Line extension to Somerville and Medford is worthy of attention – one of the state’s highest priorities and among its most expensive public transit projects underway in the next few years.

Hanover and Prince’s Golden Globe Picks

We’re going to the Golden Globes tomorrow night!

Well, not really. We’ll be watching them on television, just like you.

Anyway, we’re the biggest movie buffs you will find over here in the North End (TV shows aren’t too bad either), and we’re pumped for the awards.

Here are our picks! Agree or disagree, let us know what you think!

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BEST MOTION PICTURE, DRAMA
Slumdog Millionaire

BEST MOTION PICTURE, MUSICAL OR COMEDY
Happy-Go-Lucky

BEST DIRECTOR
Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire

BEST DRAMATIC ACTOR
Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler

BEST DRAMATIC ACTRESS
Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married (EDITED)

BEST ACTOR, COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Dustin Hoffman, Last Chance Harvey

BEST ACTRESS, COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Kate Winslet, The Reader

BEST ANIMATED FILM
Wall-E

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE PICTURE
Waltz With Bashir

BEST SCREENPLAY
Peter Morgan, Frost/Nixon

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Alexandre Desplat, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

BEST SONG
“The Wrestler” (performed by Bruce Springsteen, written by Bruce Springsteen), The Wrestler

BEST TV SERIES, DRAMA
Mad Men

TV SERIES, MUSICAL OR COMEDY
30 Rock

BEST ACTRESS, TV DRAMA
Anna Paquin, True Blood

BEST ACTOR, TV DRAMA
Jon Hamm, Mad Men

BEST ACTOR, TV MUSICAL OR COMEDY
David Duchovny, Californication

BEST ACTRESS, TV MUSICAL OR COMEDY
Tina Fey, 30 Rock

BEST MINISERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
John Adams

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MINISERIES OR A MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Laura Linney, John Adams

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MINISERIES OR A MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Kevin Spacey, Recount

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A SERIES, MINISERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Laura Dern, Recount

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A SERIES, MINISERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Jeremy Piven, Entourage
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Pictures From The Best Holiday Party of the Year

Sure, we’ve still got New Year’s Eve tomorrow night, but it’s about that time to take stock of the best holiday parties in Boston this season (We’d also love to hear from you to see which companies threw the best bashes.)

Our #1 is the party our friends over at CondoDomain threw in the Fort Port Channel on A Street on December 18. More than 500 people, including two live DJ’s, gathered in the spectacular exposed-brick loft space for lots of food and drink. We had a fantastic time and thank our friends Erica (Queen of the CondoDomain Blog) and Tony for the invitation, and encourage everyone to check out the fantastic pictures at CondoDomain’s Facebook page!

Hanover & Prince Gets No Respect from the Boston Globe

Speaking of that WBZ video, it actually got a mention in the Boston Globe’s Names section this morning. Did the Globe mention the blog that originally discovered and posted the video?  No, of course not.

Let’s go to the video

WBZ’s Kate Merrill is becoming a YouTube star – and we all know that’s not good. Earlier this month, the Channel 4 reporter got her video uploaded for calling the embattled Chicago governor “Lavoyabitch.” (In her defense, Blagojevich is a mouthful.) Next, Merrill was cussed out live, on the air, by an f-bomb-dropping pedestrian after she yelled at him for crossing in front of her news van during a snowstorm. “Back to you,” she chirped brightly afterward, trying not to laugh. But anchor Jack Williams addressed the blooper head-on. “Another happy person in Boston, full of God’s love,” he boomed. So far, about 40,000 YouTubers have checked it out.

CBS Broadcasting Finally Blocks Live F-Bomb Video (after 38,874 views)

Got a lovely email from YouTube yesterday morning letting us know that CBS filed a copyright infringement claim on the video we posted two weeks ago. The clip caught an F-bomb being dropped on live coverage of the December 19 snow storm. We thought it was all in good fun. Or not.

CBS Broadcasting, Inc has claimed some or all audio and visual content in your video Random Dude Drops F-Bomb During Live Storm Coverage on Boston TV News. This claim was made as part of the YouTube Content Identification program.

Your video is no longer available because CBS Broadcasting, Inc has chosen to block it.

We’ll be in the timeout corner if you need us.

LOLz!!!!!!!! Random Guy Drops F-Bomb Live on WBZ-TV Channel 4 Storm Coverage

This is pretty self-explanatory.

And quite hilarious!

Kudos to Jack Williams for handling it with a sense of humor!

Wild Winter Weather ‘08: North End Update #2 (3 p.m.)

OK things have changed a little bit.

PS: In the first photo, Downtown is like, right there. But not.

What the same view normally looks like…

And a couple more.

Wild Winter Weather ’08: North End Update #1

Things looking good from the North End at 12 p.m.