LornaHansonForbes
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DANG! I had NO IDEA MUPPETS CHRISTMAS CAROL was that old!
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17 minutes ago, CinemaInternational said:
[That said, I loved Dead Man Walking and would have loved to see it kick that boring slog of a film Il Postino out of the lineup]
UGH, Il Postino.....
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I think if BABE hadn't won best Musical/comedy in 1995/6, it would not have gone on to get its well-deserved Oscar nominations.
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I stand by an earlier statement in another thread that 1992 was a crummy year for movies.
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1 minute ago, CinemaInternational said:
As for Scent of a Woman's win in 1992, that was a bit fishy seeming. The film was good, but not great. And Pacino's constant "Hoo-Haw!"s were annoying. But it was really an overreaction for one entertainment writer to moan that year after the Oscar nominations came in that if Scent or A Few Good Men would win best picture, it would be "the end of civilization as we know it".
...well, he was only off by 30 years....
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7 minutes ago, CinemaInternational said:
This isn't the first time something like this has happened or something close to it. The globes were kicked off of TV in the late 1960s, around 1967 or so. They still had a ceremony then. Very few celebs turned up; Dustin Hoffman, up for The Graduate, was one of the few there and he said it was misery. Poor Sally Field was harnessed up breezing around the auditorium hanging from a track recreating her Flying Nun stance.
I had no idea!!!!!!
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4 minutes ago, CinemaInternational said:
Not to mention that sometimes an out-of-left-field Globe nomination or win could possibly pan out in a surprise Oscar nod instead of the same old, same old. i also liked that they had seperate top categories for comedies/musicals. Gave a bit more variety.....
MARILYN MONROE actually won BEST ACTRESS MUSICAL/COMEDY for SOME LIKE IT HOT, but never came close to an Oscar.
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honestly, I think it's kinda sorta a shame, because if you go back and take inventory of past winners and nominees, I feel like the HFPA actually made wiser calls than the AMPAS on a regular basis (odd moments aside, like SCENT OF A WOMAN winning best bicture, Drama)
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for those not prone to clicking links, it seems as if THE GOLDEN GLOBES have gone the way of that tree falling in the woods- because of long-time-building animus towards members of the HOLLYWOOD FOREIGN PRESS, a mass boycott has been organized and as of 1/5/2022
no celebrity presenters have been booked
no nominees will be in attendance
it will not be televised.
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with all apologies to JAKEEM, I kinda feel like this story is big enough to merit its own [specific] thread:
https://dlisted.com/2022/01/05/no-celebrities-have-agreed-to-appear-at-the-2022-golden-globe-awards/
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while we're at it, I think it's about time the world welcomed DAME KATE BUSH
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13 hours ago, CinemaInternational said:
Now let's see them also try to give one to Sheena Easton or Kim Wilde as well....
See, that’s why I love this website, I am constantly learning new things. There is no apostrophe in “Howards end,” Sheena Easton is Scottish, There are six levels to the Kinsey scale….
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17 minutes ago, txfilmfan said:
This earlier picture of Dench might be surprising to some. She played Sally Bowles in the original London cast of Cabaret.
She's giving me TINKERBELL'S DRUNKEN AUNT vibes....
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58 minutes ago, Roy Cronin said:
Are they friendly I wonder, Redgrave and The Scowl Queen?
They probably tolerate one another’s existence.
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34 minutes ago, Swithin said:
And perhaps on the marquee (but not on any marquess or marchioness), they could post an image of what Dame Vanessa did with that crucifix!
I think it was a DEAD MANS FEMUR, but maybe she did something with a crucifix too, A lot of what I remember about that film is a blur.
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i really really really really really really wish LYNN REDGRAVE had won the Oscar for GODS AND MOSNTERS. I know there were people who said it was a CLORIS LEACHMAN impression, but I thought she was truly the heart of the film.
the only legit excuse for her not winning was that she didn't have enough screen time- but then again, ahem, look at who did win supporting actress that year....[i'll give you a hint, it was for roughly 7 minutes of scowling]
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Just now, jakeem said:
Not in "Gods and Monsters"!
I thought she was THE MOST FUN CHARACTER IN THAT WHOLE FILM!!!!!!
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although I still say there is NO DOUBT that LYNN was THE FUN ONE!
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8 hours ago, jakeem said:
Despite being tripped up myself by that darned non-apostrophe from time to time, "Howards End" features my favorite Dame Vanessa performance. It's short but sweet.
But it's still hard to forget how her character in Antonioni's "Blow-Up" tried to seduce David Hemmings' photographer in order to obtain his negatives.
i've brought this up elsewhere, but I actually don't care for most of VANESSA REDGRAVE'S early work, I find her cold, remote and a little hostile- as if various members of her family were being held at gunpoint just off-camera...
but then, in 1993, I went into HOWARDS END (no APOSTROPHE) and was CHARMED AGAINST MY WILL by this delicate, ephemeral, WARM presence onscreen.
and I've since seen her in some other films- THE GATHERING STORM and PRICK UP YOUR EARS- come to mind immediately, where she is very vibrant and real- in PRICK UP YOUR EARS, she genuinely plays every scene as if she has just put her clothes on after experiencing the most marvelous o r g a s m ever, and it's fascinating.
I just wish I could someday get the chance to see KEN RUSSELL'S THE DEVILS (possessive apostrophe, no apostrophe, plural) so I could reevaluate her work in that one, it is such a FLAMETHROWER TO THE SENSES, I have no recollection of her in it all these years later.
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2 hours ago, TikiSoo said:
I too love this movie. When introducing classic movies to my partner, started with those including Joan Blondell whom he affectionately calls "Banjo Eyes". Love Wallace Ford too, always amazed he's the same guy as Phroso in FREAKS. Did he do his own backflips at the end of that? Could be...his life is an amazing story from English orphan to traveling Canadian troupe to Hollywood.
WALLACE FORD and I share a birthday- February 12th.
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that EM FORSTER was a clever little bunny rabbit....
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10 hours ago, Vautrin said:
C'mon people, it's friggin' Howards End, no apostrophe. 🤠
You literally caused me to have an epiphany this morning and a whole new appreciation for HOWARDS END.
OF COURSE THERE IS NO POSSESSIVE APOSTROPHE because HOWARDS END belongs to NO ONE, it is a stand in for ENGLAND, or (possibly) HEAVEN, or just SOCIETY ITSELF, it is where we spend our days, where some end in tragedy, and (in spite of several spurious claims to the contrary) it is TRULY owned by not one person but many.
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OBIT THREAD for The Golden Globe Awards (1944-2022)
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Addison de Wit....?