Best Picture awards: 1917 (drama), Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (comedy), Parasite (foreign language), Missing Link (animated).
Best actor: Joaquin Phoenix
Best actress: Renee Zellweger
Complete list here.
Category: Entertainment
Gervais was brilliant, as always.
Some of his best zingers:
“Apple roared into the TV game with ‘The Morning Show,’ a superb drama about the importance of dignity and doing the right thing — made by a company that runs sweatshops in China. You say you’re woke, but the companies you work for, I mean, unbelievable: Apple, Amazon, Disney. If ISIS started a streaming service, you’d call your agent.”
“I came in a limo tonight and the license plate was made by Felicity Huffman.”
“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, nearly three hours long — Leonardo DiCaprio attended the preview and by the end, his date was too old for him.”
“The world got to see James Corden as a fat pussy. He was also in the movie Cats.”
“But dame Judi Dench defended Cats, saying it was the role she was born to play – because she loves nothing better than plunking herself down on the carpet, lifting her leg, and licking her own minge.”
“It was a big year for pedophile movies: ‘Surviving R. Kelly’; ‘Leaving Neverland’; ‘The Two Popes.’”
She had a baby last year – at age 54.
Belinda Bauer in that eccentric 70s film, Winter Kills, which constantly walks a fine line between drama and comedy, often uneasily.
The details behind the production are as weird as the film itself:
Per Wikipedia:
“The film’s original producers were wealthy marijuana dealers Robert Sterling and Leonard Goldberg, who had previously worked on releasing the French softcore Emmanuelle films in the U.S. Many of the film’s interior scenes were shot in 1977 at the Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills, then home to the American Film Institute’s film school. The production went so far over budget that it was shut down three times, having declared bankruptcy. Goldberg was murdered (most likely by the Mafia) in the middle of production, for failure to pay his debts, and Sterling was later sentenced to 40 years in prison for marijuana smuggling.
Director Richert and stars Bridges and Bauer went to Germany and filmed a comedy called The American Success Company (released in 1980), whose distribution rights made enough money for Richert to fund a resumption of Winter Kills two years later. Director of photography Vilmos Zsigmond had moved on to other projects, and was replaced by John Bailey.
The film’s distributor, Embassy Pictures, controlled the final cut, but a few years later, Richert acquired the rights to the film and re-released a director’s cut, with a new ending, in 1983.”
Movie notes follow in the “read more” area
“Wonder Woman is captured by KISS and forced to dance and sing for them before being taken away by Gene Simmons, if you know what I mean …”
This is an excerpt from “Lynda Carter’s Rock ‘n Roll Fantasy,” in which she does a lot of jiggling.
Kathleen Turner in Ken Russell’s Crimes of Passion (1984)
What an odd movie this is.
Quick, name a movie where Anthony Perkins is totally loony, hangs around a run-down hotel/motel, talks to himself, peeps through peepholes at naked women, and ends up being killed while in drag wearing a cheap wig.
Maybe I worded the question wrong. Too easy. If you can name a Tony Perkins movie at all, he probably did those things. In addition to Psycho 1 through 37, there’s also Crimes of Passion.
Debra Winger in “The Sheltering Sky” (1990)
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If you love alienation and existential despair, this book and movie could be your Holy Grail. If that sounds like your kind of movie, it is done superbly by Bertolucci, although John Malkovich is miscast as a starry-eyed, beautiful idealist. Port is supposed to be a beautiful, spoiled, but sincere rich liberal kid. Malkovich does a lot of things well, but beauty and sincerity are not among them. He brings his usual creepy air of superiority to the part, which adds a mocking tone from the start.
It’s an arty, philosophical movie from a book which is about interior processes. It looks and sounds magnificent, but most people (including me) find it tedious. Ebert and other reviewers suggest following up the movie by reading the book, which many consider the best novel written by an Englishman since World War 2. It was probably meant to remain on the printed page.
Vanessa Howard in The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer (1970). At the end of the scene she runs from the tub stark naked. Good nude scene.
Many people love this movie. I get what they admire, but I found it disappointing.
“The audience will be asked to draw along from their living rooms during class “
Then you’re gonna love Kourtney Kardashian’s stupid vagina tricks.
Or not.
She says of GoT:
“I’d been on a film set twice before then, and I’m now on a film set completely naked with all of these people, and I don’t know what I’m meant to do and I don’t know what’s expected of me, and I don’t know what you want and I don’t know what I want.”
Kubrick’s Lolita is no longer with us.
She was only 73, but it seems like she should have been older, given that her last performances were about 40 years ago. She just retired young. She did everything young. She was a star and Golden Globe winner at 15. She was married at 17 (and divorced at 18) to Hampton Fancher III, the guy who later wrote the screenplay for Blade Runner. While still in her mid 20s, she met, married, and divorced her third husband while he was a prison inmate convicted of murder. She left the spotlight for good while still in her early 30s.
Her only nudity was in an obscure Spanish film called Autopsy, aka Tarot, aka Tarots, aka The Magician aka Game of Murder. Here are some (non-nude) captures from that film.
TRIVIA: Her paycheck for Lolita was only $25,000.
From the golden age of youthpolitation – early to mid 80s – comes Caren’s epic “older woman” to seduce her fresh-faced French student, played by Matt Lattanzi.
Matt who?
Our list of the world’s luckiest guys must include Matt Lattanzi, who not only scored the lead in this film, but somehow managed to wed Olivia Newton John, and he accomplished it all with absolutely zero talent. We have mentioned the luck of Pete Davidson, Dax Shepard and Brad Hall, but this guy tops them all in the four leaf clover department. Compared to him, Brad Hall is the second coming of Orson Welles and Pete Davidson is the new Richard Pryor. Lattanzi was arguably the worst actor in the history of acting, but he was handsome, and must have had some kind of magic, because he had a life that many of us would envy.
Well PART of his life, anyway.
His career really had ups and downs. About a decade after this film, he was working on a construction crew. Then he scored a minor comeback as a soap star, only to fall back on his face again. The last I heard, he was living somewhere off the grid. Even his own daughter rarely posts pics of him on social media. Here’s what he looks like today.
As for Caren Kaye, she left acting about 30 years ago and got a bunch of advanced degrees. Last I heard she was Dr. Caren Kaye, psychologist. About two years ago she wrote a LinkedIn article about her parents, who were married for an incredible 68 years.
Final list:
Aimee Garcia, Lucifer s4e6
Aimee Lou Wood, Sex Education s1e1
Alexa Demie, Euphoria s1e1
Alicia Vikander, Earthquake Bird
Alison Brie, GLOW s3e3
Amber Heard, London Fields
Anna Paquin, The Affair s5e1
Anya Chalotra, The Witcher s1e3, s1e5
Arienne Mandi, The L Word Generation Q, s1e1
Ashley Gallegos, The L Word Generation Q, s1e1
Bella Heathcote, Strange Angel s2e3-5
Betty Gilpin, GLOW s3e4
Cara Delevingne, Carnival Row s1e3
Carla Gugino, Jett s1e5
Caroline Vreeland, Red Handed
Charlotte Hope, The Spanish Princess s1e1
Chloe Dykstra, Diminuendo
Christie Herring, Bloodline
Cleo Pires, Legalidade
Dakota Johnson, Suspiria
Debora Nascimento, O Olho e a Faca
DeWanda Wise, She’s Gotta have It s2e1, s2e5, s2e9
Dira Paes, Divine Love
Dora Madison Burge, Bliss
Elena Anaya, Jett s1e2
Ella Purnell, Sweetbitter, s2e1
Ellen Page, My Days of Mercy
Emily Browning, American Gods s2e5
Emily Browning, The Affair s5e1
Emily Meade, The Deuce s3e3
Emma Appleton, Traitors
Erin Moriarty, Driven
Freya Mavor, Twice Upon a Time, s1
Gaite Jansen, Jett s1e2-3
Hanni Choi, Warrior s1e7
Hannah Murray, Charlie Says
Ilfenesh Hadera, She’s Gotta have It s2e1
Irene Jacob The OA, s2e5
Isabelle Grill, Midsommar
Jemima Kirke, Untogether
Jessica Barden, Scarborough
Joanna Vanderham, Warrior, s1e1
Jodie Turner Smith, Jett s1e6
Julianne Moore, Gloria Bell
Julia Schlaepfer, Charlie Says
Julie Ann Emery, Catch 22
KaDee Strickland, Grand Isle
Karla Crome, Carnival Row s1e1
Kate Mara, My Days of Mercy
Katee Sackhoff, Another Life s1e8
Kathryn Hahn, Mrs. Fletcher s1e2
Kelli Berglund, Now Apocalypse s1e1
Kiki Sukezane, Earthquake Bird
Kinsey Wolanski, Slasher Party
Kristen Stewart, JT LeRoy
Logan Browning, The Perfection
Mackenzie Davis, Terminator: Dark Fate
Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Deuce s3e3
Maisie Williams, Game of Thrones s8e2
Manon Pages, The Demonologist
Margaret Qualley, Donnybrook
Margarita Levieva, The Deuce, s3
Mariana Nunes, Divine Love
Marsha Stephanie Blake, Luce
Maura Tierney, The Affair s5e1
Melissa Barrera, Vida s2e5
Mishel Prada, Vida s2e3
Monique Parent, Cuck
Noemie Merlant, Curiosa
Olivia Cheng, Warrior s1e1
Olivia Luccardi, The Deuce s3e1
Paula Beer, Never Look Away
Paulina Gaitan, Diablo Guardian, s2
Phoebe Tonkin, Bloom
Rachel Griffiths, Total Control s1e3
Rosanny Zayas, The L Word Generation Q, s1e1
Roxane Mesquida, Now Apocalypse s1e1
Ruby O Fee, Polar
Saskia Rosendahl, Never Look Away
Scottie Thompson, Crown Vic
Seychelle Gabriel, Get Shorty, s3
Simona Brown, Kiss Me First
Sydney Sweeney, Euphoria s1e1
Tamzin Merchant, Carnival Row s1e7-8
Toni Duclottni, Dolemite is My Name
Virginie Efira, Sibyl
Yetide Badaki, American Gods s2e8
Results here.
This is the magazine piece that forms the basis for A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.
The article and the movie stress the same central point: that Fred McFeely Rogers was exactly what he appeared to be. And when he walked the streets, he was a rock star. Tiny Latrobe, Pennsylvania (pop 8,000) produced two people in that category, two of the 20th century’s most beloved and charismatic pop culture figures, two men who attracted crowds as if they were the messiah in the flesh: Mr. Rogers and Arnold Palmer.
Must be something in the Latrobe water supply.
This is four years old, but still a handy recap through the end of 2015
The cartoonist for the Atlanta AJC newspaper is probably the country’s #1 in his field.
Before Howard Stern came along, he was the best thing that ever happened to radio. Unlike Stern, he wasn’t always funny. Sometimes he was just grouchy, and perhaps he never really grew or changed with the times, but in the bland world of early-70s radio, his trailblazing iconoclasm was very welcome. If Stern was the savior of radio, Imus was Don the Baptist.
What a year for goofy guys! First Pete Davidson and Jost, now this guy joining the “wtf?” club with Brad Hall and Dax Shepard.
Maybe I do have a chance with Emmy Rossum. I’ll call her if Jon Lovitz really ends up with Morgan Fairchild.
“TMZ says that 41-year-old Bill and 38-year-old Rachel were seen at a Starbucks in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Saturday. They’re there because Bill is from Oklahoma, which means Bill brought Rachel home for the holidays.”
Bill Hader and Rachel Bilson on Coffee Date in His Hometown https://t.co/4T7MsDGCeV
— TMZ (@TMZ) December 22, 2019