Doubt

Last night’s SAG Awards were less than thrilling but there were a few Oh Snap moments.

What is the opposite of doubt? Is it certainty? Belief? Or is it hope?

When John Patrick Shanley decided to bring Doubt, his Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning play, to the screen as both the film’s director and writer, he tackled the project, which he called “the hardest script I ever wrote,” with a tremendous amount of love, trust and belief that the adaptation could soar as the stage production had.

This year’s Golden Globe nominees were announced early Thursday morning with The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Doubt and Frost/Nixon leading the pack with five nominations each.

Award season is getting rolling and the Washington Critics Association is the first to pounce on proclaiming their best of the year including bestowing another posthumous honor on Heath Ledger (ya’ll know he’s winning that Oscar, right?).

He may be a Broadway veteran, but John Patrick Shanley might want to brush up on his rules of Hollywood etiquette

At the junket of his new film Doubt, starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams, we asked writer-director Shanley how Adams had been cast when originally there was another actor offered the role of the emotionally conflicted nun.

"I'm trying to think of what the etiquette is on this," Shanley chuckled, blushing a bit.

"Hit us with it," we said.

Enchanted star Amy Adams is engaged to boyfriend of six years, Darren Legallo.  Adams, 33, met Legallo, an actor and artist, in acting class in 2001 and began dating after a year of friendship. The couple plans to marry sometime next year. 

“He’s really special,” Amy said, “I’m really lucky because he’s not competitive with me. He supports and embraces my success as mine. And he has his own goals for himself, but he never makes my success his failure.”