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- Sat Jun 15, 2024 12:55 pm
- Forum: The Cam Dagg Memorial Theatre and Literature Forum
- Topic: The 2024 Tony Awards
- Replies: 15
- Views: 902
Re: The 2024 Tony Awards
The show is but 30 or so hours away, so, thoughts about who'll win -- based largely on "what I hear", since my own exposure is limited. Stereophonic appears to be sweeping the boards for best play -- an ambitious, lengthy piece that won the Drama Critics prize and has a boatload of nominat...
- Fri Jun 14, 2024 6:31 pm
- Forum: The People
- Topic: R.I.P. Tony Mordente
- Replies: 2
- Views: 41
Re: R.I.P. Tony Mordente
He was just a name to me -- couldn't picture him if I tried, but recall the name from as far back as reading the liner notes on the West Side Story cast album. Seems to have had a career, which I always applaud. But the story about him dealing with the Jet actors while dating Rivera is, honestly, sh...
- Thu Jun 13, 2024 12:47 pm
- Forum: The People
- Topic: R.I.P. Tony Lo Bianco
- Replies: 2
- Views: 58
Re: R.I.P. Tony Lo Bianco
I'm pleased to have seen both of his most praised stage performances, in Yanks 3 Detroit 0 Top of 7th and A View from the Bridge. He was actually thought a strong possibility to win the Tony for the latter, but affection for Torch Song Trilogy carried Harvey Fierstein over the line. He never did hav...
- Tue Jun 04, 2024 12:23 pm
- Forum: The People
- Topic: R.I.P. Janis Paige
- Replies: 4
- Views: 198
Re: R.I.P. Janis Paige
It's always astonishing when someone you remember from long-ago youth -- someone you've not thought of in many years -- turns up to have still been alive (though inactive). Two of her credits stand out for me: the seductive minx trying to steal David Niven away from Doris Day in Please Don't Eat the...
- Tue Jun 04, 2024 1:17 am
- Forum: The Cam Dagg Memorial Theatre and Literature Forum
- Topic: The 2024 Tony Awards
- Replies: 15
- Views: 902
Re: The 2024 Tony Awards
Merrily We Roll Along should have no problem winning Best Revival of a Musical and both Jonathan Groff and Daniel Radcliffe should easily win their categories. Lindsay Mendez might have a tougher time winning in hers as she is a recent winner for the excellent 2018 revival of Carousel. I saw the sh...
- Mon Jun 03, 2024 11:05 pm
- Forum: 2024
- Topic: Cannes 2024
- Replies: 67
- Views: 4853
Re: Cannes 2024
Well, from the sound of the reviews. Jeremy Strong might have contended for a supporting nomination had the movie broken through. But I think the chances that people -- so many of whom wish Trump would just get out of our friggin' faces -- would turn out in any significant numbers for this movie, ar...
- Thu May 30, 2024 4:27 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Trump's Indictments & Convictions
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4517
Re: Trump's Indictments & Convictions
I feel like the jury wanted to quote The Producers: "We find the defendant INCREDIBLY guilty"
- Thu May 30, 2024 2:48 pm
- Forum: 2024
- Topic: Challengers reviews
- Replies: 7
- Views: 852
Re: Challengers reviews
There's definitely a much worse version of this movie -- one not made by such a gifted director, without talented actors, with more routine dialogue than the often imaginative/pungent exchanges that comprise this film. I'd have really disliked that film. The thing is, I can't really love the film th...
- Mon May 27, 2024 2:13 pm
- Forum: General Off-Topic
- Topic: R.I.P. Bill Walton
- Replies: 1
- Views: 222
R.I.P. Bill Walton
I've never been much an NBA fan -- I know the famous names, and mostly who ends up winning, but little beyond. So I'm not much familiar with Bill Walton as either a player or during his long career as announcer/analyst. But I knew who he was from his UCLA days, when he helped lead his team through t...
- Mon May 27, 2024 2:02 pm
- Forum: The People
- Topic: R.I.P. Richard M. Sherman
- Replies: 3
- Views: 235
Re: R.I.P. Richard M. Sherman
Reading the Times obit today, I find out he and his brother were also responsible for the top ten hit "You're Sixteen", which I always thought contained the line that epitomized 1950's America: "You came out of my dream, and into my car". As for "It's a Small World" and...
- Sun May 26, 2024 1:39 pm
- Forum: The People
- Topic: R.I.P. Richard M. Sherman
- Replies: 3
- Views: 235
Re: R.I.P. Richard M. Sherman
Most of his later nominations were ones that had us groaning in the late 60s and 70s. But I can do the Mary Poppins soundtrack from memory, and still love basically every bit of it.
- Sat May 25, 2024 5:45 pm
- Forum: 2024
- Topic: Cannes 2024
- Replies: 67
- Views: 4853
Re: Cannes 2024
Cannes predictions: Palme d'Or: Anora , Sean Baker Grand Prix: The Seed of the Sacred Fig , Mohammad Rasoulof Jury Prize: All We Imagine as Light , Payal Kapadia Best Director: Francis Ford Coppola, Megalopolis Best Actor: Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice Best Actress: Karla Sofía Gascón, Emilia Pere...
- Sat May 25, 2024 2:22 pm
- Forum: 2024
- Topic: Cannes 2024
- Replies: 67
- Views: 4853
Re: Cannes 2024
I watched the presentations on YouTube, though in French, so I had to wait for the chiron to tell me who each winner was. And, even when someone accepted in English, the commentator spoke over them, translating. So all I can comment on are the choices. As Sabin noted the other day, the latter half o...
- Sat May 25, 2024 12:03 pm
- Forum: 2024
- Topic: Cannes 2024
- Replies: 67
- Views: 4853
Re: Cannes 2024
(So, Anora must win the Palme?)Answer: Yes Grand Prix to All We Imagine As Light. Jury prize to Emilia Perez. Best director is Gomes for Grand Tour. "Special award" to The Seed of the Sacred Fig. Best actress goes to the ensemble of actresses in Emilia Perez. Best actor Jesse Plemons in Ki...
- Sat May 25, 2024 11:42 am
- Forum: 2024
- Topic: Cannes 2024
- Replies: 67
- Views: 4853
Re: Cannes 2024
By reports of who's been asked back, this ought to be the list of films contending for prizes: Emilia Perez (Audiard) Anora (Baker) Megalopolis (Coppola) The Substance (Fargeat) Grand Tour (Gomes) All We Imagine As Light (Kapadia) The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Rasoulof) Jia Zhangke posted (briefly; su...