The Old Man and the She.

Nicole Kidman as Martha Gellhorn and Clive Owen as E. Hemingway

I don't give two hoots who wins the Oscar, but since today seems like a good day for toasts (Manhattans at lunch!) I think I'll have another toast at midnight--Bellinis in honor of the nods for screenwriting, direction and picture for Midnight in Paris, in which a very butched up and bewigged Corey Stoll (the bald detective from the last incarnation of Law and Order) plays Hemingway.  Next up:  In May HBO's Hemingway and Gellhorn, about Hemingway's relationship with tough woman writer Martha Gellhorn, who, as Nicole Kidman puts it, "out Hemingway'ed Hemingway."

A true Bellini, by the way, should be made with fresh peach pulp and Prosecco. (For the Bellini inventor, Guiseppe Cipriani, the head bartender at Harry's in Venice, the cocktail's peachy color evoked the robes worn by St. Francis in a painting by Giovanni Bellini.)  But in a pinch, a Bellini with peach schnapps and champagne will do. 

Just be sure to mutter something like the world is a fine place and worth fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.  Also try to look tough.