Just great news. Paula Wagner, who ran Tom Cruise’s production company for years, will produce the Governor’s Awards for the Oscars on November 16th in Los Angeles at the Dolby (formerly Kodak) Theater. The awards are going to Angelina Jolie, Angela Lansbury, Steve Martin, and Piero Tosi. Wagner is a favorite in Hollywood, one of the good guys, married forever to Rick Nicita, also great. They’re former CAA agents turned producers. Paula produced all the good Cruise movies like “Jerry Maguire” and “Mission: Impossible.” She’ll do a terrific job. Last year’s Governor’s Awards was one of the outstanding events of the season. Another good choice from the Academy.

Exclusive: Randy Jackson called Michael Jackson’s executors “the three stooges” this past weekend in a podcast interview with his former attorney Brian Oxman. He named them, too– John Branca, John McClain, and Howard Weitzman (who is not an executor but the attorney who represents the estate).

Oxman was a lawyer once until he was disbarred after several disciplinary actions by the California Bar Association. After representing Randy Jackson in his divorce, Oxman also claimed for years to be the Jackson family attorney. He was fired from Michael Jackson’s defense team in 2005 during the child molestation trial in Santa Maria by Thomas Mesereau.

In the podcast, which I’ve linked below, Randy says: “My family is not happy with McClain and Branca. We don’t believe the will is real. We don’t support [the estate]. We’re not happy.”

Randy also says that “this is the tip of the iceberg” in relation to the Michael Jackson Estate’s current problems with the Internal Revenue Service. He says, “I know something is wrong.” Neither Randy nor any of his siblings received any money from Michael Jackson’s will. One brother, Jackie, is on the estate payroll, however. Randy says in the interview: “A few of my brothers and sisters I’m not getting along with right now.”

Last year, in June 2012, Randy was part of a trio with Janet and Jermaine Jackson who spirited their mother, Katherine Jackson, away to Arizona. The trip turned into a full scale scandal when Paris Jackson tweeted that no one knew what had happened to her grandmother. Randy refers to the incident as “the kidnapping” and suggests that someone–the executors?– invented that to take the heat off his now famous letter to the executors demanding that they resign.

Randy also suggests that “someone” was giving Dr. Conrad Murray orders to drug Michael.

How Brian Oxman got an internet radio show is another question altogether.

http://brianoxman.com/brian-oxman-show-9-8-13-hour-2/

This is too much: Harvey Weinstein has bought up four films at the Toronto Film Festival, all for release next year and certain to be Oscar nominees in some way for 2015. Kuh-razy!

At this year’s Toronto, Weinstein has picked up “The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby,” “The Railway Man,” and “Can A Song Save Your Life?” Just before Toronto, right after Venice, The Weinstein Company bought “Tracks” with Mia Wasikowska and Adam Driver. The other films star respectively– James McEvoy and Jessica Chastain; Nicole Kidman and Colin Firth; and Mark Ruffalo and Keira Knightley.

All four films are top notch– I’ve seen them all. “Eleanor Rigby” is three hours long and very reminiscent of another TWC hit, “Blue Valentine.” It’s the story of a young couple told from each of their perspectives as they battle to save their marriage. McEvoy and Chastain are utterly fantastic. Ciaran Hinds is wonderful as McEvoy’s father, and William Hurt is very moving as Chastain’s. The whole thing runs three hours– very long by Weinstein standards– but exceptional in its own way.

I wrote about “The Railway Man” a few days ago. Firth and Kidman are very very good. Harvey will likely tweak the film, but it’s a big, proper Hollywood Oscar film.

“Tracks” you can read about here. There aren’t enough good things to say about it.

And “Can A Song Save Your Life” was probably my favorite new film of this year’s TIFF. Adam Levine plays a rock star named Dave Kroll (rhymes with Grohl) who is the boyfriend of Knightley. She and Mark Ruffalo, as the head of an indie record company, do the best work ever. And the songs by Gregg Alexander and Danielle Brisebois are superb.

So wow, let’s all go home. I don’t know what else to say. That’s quite a clutch of films for 2014.

Oprah Winfrey could be a double Oscar nominee next year. Her OWN network is going to release its first film for Oscar consideration in November. It’s first theatrical release from OWN.

Barbara Kopple’s documentary “Running from Crazy” chronicles Mariel Hemingway‘s exploration of suicide and depression in her family, from grandfather Ernest to her own sisters. In the film Mariel comes to the conclusion that her late father, John, sexually abused both of her sisters. One of them, Margaux, who became an internationally known model and actress, committed suicide.

OWN will release “Running from Crazy” for Oscar eligibility– which basically means “four walling” or just renting a theater in New York and Los Angeles for one week runs before the end of the year before it’s shown on TV. The movie is fascinating. And of course Kopple is an Oscar winning, important filmmaker.

Oprah is already the leading contender for Best Supporting Actress in “The Butler.” So it will be interesting to see what support she puts behind “Running from Crazy” to get it nominated in the doc category. We could be seeing her twice on the Dolby Theater stage on March 2, 2014.