The best thing in N.Y. Times guy David Carr‘s Oscar prediction chart [click on “Juicy Subplots & Other Picks”] is the roundabout suggestion that if and when Little Miss Sunshine wins Best Picture, that the officially nominated producers — David T. Friendly, Peter Saraf and Marc Turtletaub — plus the film’s actual hands-on, Michael Arndt-hiring, Jonathan Dayton-and-Valerie Faris-hiring producers who weren’t nominated because of the Academy’s clumsy and insensitive rule-of-three — Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa, of course — “perform a rear-guard action” and appear on-stage together as a quintet, arm-in-arm, all for one and one for all.
