Josh Brolin continues to be the most entertaining person on the awards circuit this year. “Josh Brahlin,” he drawled when he took the podium at the National Board of Review awards ceremony, mimicking host Whoopi Goldberg’s mispronunciation of his name. “That’s how fucking famous I am… I just whispered in her ear, I said, ‘What the fuck is the matter with you?’ And she goes, ‘I don’t know. I’m high.’” Following last week’s New York Film Critics Circle Awards, at which Brolin loudly declared his love for Sean Penn and told Daily Intel about mooning Ben Brantley, the NBR audience held its collective breath, and Brolin sensed it: “I know that ninety percent of you right now are going, what’s he going to say?”
He introduced The Visitor’s Richard Jenkins, the Spotlight Award winner, as a Hollywood newcomer: “It’s amazing that he’s just in his early twenties, yet he portrayed Professor Walter Vale as a man in his late fifties, early sixties, with such conviction and grace… We’re all on the edge of our seats as to what he’ll do next.” Also, he marveled at the fact that Jenkins has starred in “in excess of fifty movies in the past three years,” calling the actor a virtuoso whose talent surpassed that of Day-Lewis, Crowe, DiCaprio, “and of course, Clint Eastwood, wherever you are, who many also think is in his sixties or seventies, but who is really 32.” Brolin further noted that 2008 was a great year for Jenkins, “the sexiest man alive, a tireless spokesperson for Rogaine, opening up new pathways for the future of acting.” He paused dramatically, and then said, “Okay, that’s all the funny shit.”
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