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| billyweeds |
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| carrobin |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2014 11:51 am |
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| My real name came out depressingly normal. "Harry Lime" however, came out "Holly Loing". An apt first name. Anna got them confused too. |
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| lshap |
| Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2014 3:36 pm |
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bartist wrote: Gravity always wins.
Damn, but I do love this line! |
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| lshap |
| Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2014 3:40 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: Well, there were no outright travesties last night--meaning American Hustle didn't win anything. I would have preferred wins for DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street, Judi Dench, and June Squibb, but nobody won who didn't deliver award-worthy work. I'm extremely pleased that the sweep went to Gravity rather than 12 Years a Slave, even though 12 Years won Best Picture, the closest thing to a severe disappointment for me. By the time it won, I had convinced myself Gravity was going to conquer all.
Ellen Degeneres was a charming, sometimes very funny host who made the three-and-a-half hours seem shorter than it was. I liked the fact that they let the winners talk at length, something I'm sure a lot of people didn't like.
Still, it's the Oscars, and therefore pretty silly. The two most memorable moments were "oops" events--Kim Novak's tragic facial surgery (coupled with the ironic fact that she gave the "animation" award to Frozen) and John Travolta's unforgivable mangling of Idina Menzel's name. What a fucking oaf he is.
Aside from your curious dislike of American Hustle, I agree with pretty much every word, even the idea that DiCaprio was the more deserving winner. Biggest surprise went to Kim Novack's face (love your line about "Frozen"!), biggest disappointment that Goldie Hawn's face seems to be headed in the same sideways direction. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2014 12:48 pm |
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Thought Blanchett would win and I wanted her to win because her varied performance was excellent. Still don't know why Blue Jasmine wasn't nominated.
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| bartist |
| Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2014 12:57 pm |
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Mine (Barton Fink) became "Brendan Florzes." My actual name suffered less damage to the first name than the last, "Patryk Nicheems."
I'm surprised that one could get anything funny out of "Harry Lime."
I felt bad for Goldie Hawn's face. Saw an interview with Eva Marie-Saint, where she talked about never getting plastic surgery, and I couldn't help but notice that her natural face, wrinkles and all, looked soooo much better than all those nipped and tucked monsters running around Hollywood. |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2014 1:07 pm |
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| I saw that Eva Marie Saint interview too--on "CBS Sunday Morning"--and loved her answer when the interviewer asked whether, when kissing Cary Grant, she'd pretended he was her husband, to whom she's been married something like 60 years. "Are you crazy?" she responded. (Only a man would ask that question. What interviewer would ask a man who had kissed Marilyn Monroe if he'd thought of his wife!) |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2014 12:57 pm |
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Yes, "Are you crazy?" seemed the only answer to such a question.
Here's a masterpiece the Academy overlooked this year....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrFCuJ-m9KU |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2014 1:10 pm |
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carrobin wrote: What interviewer would ask a man who had kissed Marilyn Monroe if he'd thought of his wife!
Tony Curtis said kissing MM was like kissing Hitler. |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2014 6:24 pm |
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| I think Tony later said he was kidding. (I've got his autobiography, which I found on the free table at the office some years ago--but of course I haven't read it yet.) (Besides, when did he ever kiss Hitler? He was Jewish!) |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2014 8:32 pm |
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| carrobin--He didn't exactly say he was kidding, just that he overstated the case. She was apparently impossible to work with for him. They shot that kissing scene in Some Like It Hot over and over and over because she couldn't remember her lines or something. His performance reached its peak somewhere along the line, but because MM was whom the customers came to see, they had to keep shooting until she got it right. |
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| Joe Vitus |
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| He has said emphatically "I never said it." Maybe revisionist history, but he said it. I heard him myself. (On Larry King, I think; not in person.) |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2014 3:49 pm |
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Joe Vitus wrote: He has said emphatically "I never said it." Maybe revisionist history, but he said it. I heard him myself. (On Larry King, I think; not in person.)
He must have changed his story a few times, because I heard him say it the way I described it. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2014 12:44 am |
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An internet search seems to indicate he did say it (Monroe even responded to it without naming him). But when I saw him on t.v., he denied it and was very defensive of Monroe herself.
I don't know about you, but he always seems weird (not in a good way) when I see him in interviews. Don't know if something happened to him between his heyday as a heartthrob and the years thereafter, but I don't particular trust what he says about it either way. |
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