You had me at "HEIL, HITLER..."

Saturnwatcher, I highly doubt that the allies would have negotiated with Germany, even if Hitler would have been assassinated. I don't believe that. Germany had become impossible once and for all. I also read that Churchill did have his doubts about Stalin. Roosevelt, however, thought that he could co-operate with him.

Germany had always hoped that the Western allies would prefer Germany to the USSR, but they were wrong at that point, and Hitler knew that. In fact, this is one of the reasons why Hitler declared war against America, which was nothing but a welcome invitation to Roosevelt. With that, Hitler delivered the reason for Roosevelt to enter the war, something that Roosevelt desperately needed, because he had promised American voters that he would stay out.

I don't think that assassinating Hitler prior to his rise to power would or COULD have had any more catastrophic results. Germany started WW II under Hitler, and the Holocaust took place under Nazi power. I very much doubt that anything else could have been much worse.

Anyway, I hope this image helps lighten things up a little bit:

Photocredits: BerlitzFrench @ imdb.

But he's up against the likes of Robert Downey Jr. (also for "Tropic Thunder") and Health Ledger's Joker from "The Dark Knight" in that same catagory (Best Movie Actor in a Supporting Role). Chances of Cruise winning: very slim. Chances of Cruise winning our award: very promising.

Remember what I said: if you give him Worst Actor over Eddie Murphy and Mike Myers, your fan base might turn against you.

So it's not THAT bad, but not great either? Oh well. The better the chances for Murphy or Myers to "win".           

We have a fan base? How come no one has ever asked me for an autograph?

The voting membership of the Razzies is rather large, so had Cruise made it on the ballot and won, it would have been because a lot of people viewed him as deserving. Evidently there is already significant doubt as to his worthiness, consequently, he probably won't win this year, nor is it a given that he would have won had he appeared on the ballot. Of course, with the possibility of write-in he still could pull it off, but it's doubtful.

Incidentally, I feel confident that I can speak for the vast majority of the membership, at least in this case, in expressing our complete indifference as to any opinion the L.A. Times may have of us or our choices.

Well there are still of people to Razz, so I guess we will have to go with those choices...