After two months of respite from the relentless speculation and reams of flattery that is Oscar season, it’s way past time to start the conversation up again.
First up: Steve Carell, the comedy favorite who was perennially snubbed by the Emmys during his great run as Michael Scott on “The Office.” After mid-aught success with “The 40 Year Old Virgin” and a darker turn in “Little Miss Sunshine,” Carell is, by all indications, poised to earn his best reviews yet as the star of Bennett Miller’s drama “Foxcatcher.”
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The film, which was originally supposed to come out last fall, features Carell as John du Pont, a mentally unstable heir to the vast du Pont family chemical fortune and obsessive wrestling booster; he spent nine years working with Olympic gold medalist Mark Schultz, then murdering his brother, fellow gold grappler Dave Schultz.