Almost as though to deliberately undercut the BFCA's self - appointed, self - important positioning as the most accurate bellweather for Oscar whims, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association responded to the BFCA's highly prescriptive, strategic best supporting actress award for Winslet's arguably leading performance in The Reader by handing Winslet two Golden Globes (one for The Reader, the other for Revolutionary Road, Winslet's official leading performance bid). (slantmagazine.com)
Berkshire is about as bellweather as they come. (fortune.com)
Both races can be seen as bellweather contests for state Senate races next year — Erie and Suffolk counties (and those individual regions of western New York and Long Island) are battlegrounds that could decide control of the chamber. (nystateofpolitics.com)