“The producers of Happy Feet have Andrew Sarris‘ bladder to thank for their movie winning the New York Film Critics Circle’s prize for Best Animated Feature,” says a N.Y. Post “Page Six” item that doesn’t credit Bilge Ebiri’s nerve.com story as the source. “Sarris, of the New York Observer, was in the men’s room during the vote yesterday that gave the prize to the penguin musical, narrowly defeating Richard Linklater‘s A Scanner Darkly. Back from the toilet, Sarris said he meant to pick Scanner, thus making it the winner — but his choice was discounted because the result had already been announced.” What — the NYFCC couldn’t wait five minutes? Odd.
