Re: AARP Movies for Grownup Awards
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2020 4:13 am
Filmed for PBS, this is now streaming:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/episodes/ ... zGkwnTw%3d
I watched it last night. It was a little awkward at times but featured the most heartfelt speeches of the season, all of them delivered without interruption and not a dull one in the bunch. Even the often annoying Tony Danza was congenial as the host: "I'm the anti-Ricky Gervais."
Pedro Almodovar was the first winner presented: "I got to meet Warren Beatty who was in a clip in my movie."
Noah Baumbach, introduced by Alan Alda, was next and very funny paying tribute to divorced parents, ex-wives and ex-husbands, acknowledging that Alda, who has been married to the same woman for 60 years, is the one who got it right.
Kasi Lemmons, introduced by a descendant of Harriet Tubman, owing to the seriousness of her film, was the only winner who didn't try to be funny, thanking all the women who worked on her film.
Linda Ronstadt, introduced by Maria "Midnight at the Oasis" Muldaur, remarked that "none of us thought we would still be here at 73."
Tom Hanks, on film, was mostly reverential of Mr. Rogers.
Laura Dern was introduced by her 84-year-old mother, Diane Ladd, who remarked "I told her not be an actress at 6, 10 and 14, but she snuck out behind my back and became one anyway." She thanked her mother anyway.
Don Johnson and Jamie Lee Curtis were next. Johnson, who is 70, recalled being so upset at receiving his welcome letter to AARP at 50 that he went out and had three more children.
Lulu Wang brought the actors who played her father (Tzi Ma) and grandmother (Shuzhen Zhao) to the stage with her and never mentioned Awkwafina.
Billy Crudup made a gushing introduction to Annette Bening, accompanied by a wealth of film clips, who paid tribute to her still living parents in their 90s as well as husband Beatty and her four children.
Adam Sandler was appropriately respectful but Renée Zellweger, introduced by a gushing Finn Wittrock was a revelation. With none of the cutesy-poo nonsense that marred her higher profile acceptance speeches, she seemed genuinely as enamored of Wittrock as he was of her: "I can't wait to see what you do next."
Finally, Scorsese, who had De Niro and Keitel at his table, seemed as happy as he ever has and extremely appreciative of the two actors who showed up for him: "Keitel was in my first movie and he was in Tarantino's first."
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/episodes/ ... zGkwnTw%3d
I watched it last night. It was a little awkward at times but featured the most heartfelt speeches of the season, all of them delivered without interruption and not a dull one in the bunch. Even the often annoying Tony Danza was congenial as the host: "I'm the anti-Ricky Gervais."
Pedro Almodovar was the first winner presented: "I got to meet Warren Beatty who was in a clip in my movie."
Noah Baumbach, introduced by Alan Alda, was next and very funny paying tribute to divorced parents, ex-wives and ex-husbands, acknowledging that Alda, who has been married to the same woman for 60 years, is the one who got it right.
Kasi Lemmons, introduced by a descendant of Harriet Tubman, owing to the seriousness of her film, was the only winner who didn't try to be funny, thanking all the women who worked on her film.
Linda Ronstadt, introduced by Maria "Midnight at the Oasis" Muldaur, remarked that "none of us thought we would still be here at 73."
Tom Hanks, on film, was mostly reverential of Mr. Rogers.
Laura Dern was introduced by her 84-year-old mother, Diane Ladd, who remarked "I told her not be an actress at 6, 10 and 14, but she snuck out behind my back and became one anyway." She thanked her mother anyway.
Don Johnson and Jamie Lee Curtis were next. Johnson, who is 70, recalled being so upset at receiving his welcome letter to AARP at 50 that he went out and had three more children.
Lulu Wang brought the actors who played her father (Tzi Ma) and grandmother (Shuzhen Zhao) to the stage with her and never mentioned Awkwafina.
Billy Crudup made a gushing introduction to Annette Bening, accompanied by a wealth of film clips, who paid tribute to her still living parents in their 90s as well as husband Beatty and her four children.
Adam Sandler was appropriately respectful but Renée Zellweger, introduced by a gushing Finn Wittrock was a revelation. With none of the cutesy-poo nonsense that marred her higher profile acceptance speeches, she seemed genuinely as enamored of Wittrock as he was of her: "I can't wait to see what you do next."
Finally, Scorsese, who had De Niro and Keitel at his table, seemed as happy as he ever has and extremely appreciative of the two actors who showed up for him: "Keitel was in my first movie and he was in Tarantino's first."