Tinseltown is set to bestow its highest honour - an Oscar - on Bob Dylan, according to rumours. Unfortunately for Bob he won't be receiving the award, as actress Cate Blanchett has been tipped for the accolade after her previously reported interpretation of a younger Bob in soon-to-be-released Dylan film, 'I'm Not There', wowed critics at the film's screening during the Venice Film Festival.
Director Todd Haynes added: "Jude [the name of Blanchett's Dylan character] was always meant to be played by a woman. I felt it was the only way to resurrect the true strangeness of Dylan's physical being in 1966, which I felt had lost its historical shock value over the years. But of course it would take an actor of Cate's supreme intelligence and ability to bring to the role the kind of depth and subtlety she delivers so stunningly on screen".
In related news, it has been announced that schools all over the UK are set to study Bob's lyrics as part of National Poetry Day. The singer, oft referred to, of course, as a something of a poet, will have the lyrics to songs including 'A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall' and 'Three Angel' presented to the kids as part of the poetry fest, something that Poet Laureate Andrew Motion couldn't fail to praise, saying: "Dylan is unique having this extraordinary combination of wonderful melodies with these very interesting words wrapped around them. I think it will be a real help, particularly to those people that find poetry in the classroom difficult or off-putting or irrelevant. I'm not sure how cool Dylan is amongst the people this is aimed at or how much they're listening to him compared to my generation. But, that said, I think it is a wonderful idea".