[PO] Penelope's Elimination Game
Italiano, we've already done Supporting Actor 1960 (Sal Mineo eliminated Peter Ustinov)...do you have an alternative category?
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Jesus, ITALIANO, what's wrong with Jack? What's he ever done to you?
I'm glad you're taking it in stride, Jack. You're a good guy.
I'm glad you're taking it in stride, Jack. You're a good guy.
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This is my last post in this thread. As I said, from now on I will post only rarely here. I hate to leave the field to people like jack, but it seems that it's "men" like him that this board wants. Good for him.
Have I missed something here? Or is Italiano not refering to me with this comment...
If he is, what have I done?
That's a shame, Italiano. I've enjoyed your posts in this thread and liked passing categories off to you. In any event, good luck.ITALIANO wrote:This is my last post in this thread.
"The mantle of spinsterhood was definitely in her shoulders. She was twenty five and looked it."
-Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
-Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
This is my last post in this thread. As I said, from now on I will post only rarely here. I hate to leave the field to people like jack, but it seems that it's "men" like him that this board wants. Good for him.
Anyway - for my last choice in this game...
Not easy. Mercedes Ruehl wasn't bad, and maybe even deserved her Oscar - but I wouldn't use my pass even leaving this game. All five nominees were good actually, but I wouldn't give my Oscar to any of them. I guess I'd have to choose between Diane Ladd and Jessica Tandy, and since probably Tandy won't get her Oscar for Driving Miss Daisy here, she's my pick now.
To Penelope (I think): Best Supporting Actor, 1960.
Anyway - for my last choice in this game...
Not easy. Mercedes Ruehl wasn't bad, and maybe even deserved her Oscar - but I wouldn't use my pass even leaving this game. All five nominees were good actually, but I wouldn't give my Oscar to any of them. I guess I'd have to choose between Diane Ladd and Jessica Tandy, and since probably Tandy won't get her Oscar for Driving Miss Daisy here, she's my pick now.
To Penelope (I think): Best Supporting Actor, 1960.
Flipp, Best Actress 1974.
So glad I got this category. A complete, no-hesitation, no-brainer for me. First off, Ellen Burstyn, as much as I love her, loses her Oscar for Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. A fine, even charming, performance in a mother-son road trip movie that no one really watches anymore. And frankly, I cheesily admit that enjoyed the TV sitcom inspired by the film much more, featuring the wonderful Linda Lavin in the title role (and singing the wonderful theme song!) and Polly Holliday as Flo (vastly superior to Diane Ladd's nominated work in the film version as the same character, as has been pointed out elsewhere on this board). Besides, I suspect someone will bequeath La Burstyn with a well-deserved Oscar for her shattering performance in Requiem for a Dream somewhere down the line.
Diahann Carroll in Claudine gives a noble performance, but it's just too dated and TV-movie-ish for me to award here (although, I wish I could just give her an Oscar for what she said in The E! True Hollywood Story for Dynasty "I was watching that show and thought, 'This show needs a black bitch'". Ha!). Faye Dunaway's precise and haunting in Chinatown and her character's revelation towards the film's end gives us one of the most memorable scenes of 1970's cinema, but I'd also award her elsewhere. Valerine Perrine as Lenny Bruce's long-suffering, ex-stripper drug-abusing love gives the kind of performance in Lenny that should be studied by today's film actress'. It is superb. As much as I love it though, I can't give it to her…
…because of Gena Rowlands. Her tour-de-force performance in A Woman Under the Influence is just beyond all description. I haven't seen it in awhile because it's such a hard film to watch, but what Rowlands does in that film is, quite simply, astounding -- it's a performance which reveals its brilliance to the viewer in small, peeled onion shavings until it has grabbed ahold of you like a dynamo, daring you to let go. The lunch scene where the husband and the workers are fed while Mabel slowly breaks down into a dithering mess is one of the most uncomfortable film scenes I've ever experienced. My best friend (who cites Rowlands' performance as her all-time favorite) and I still talk about that scene to this day. The film's whole documentary (almost home movie)-style look and rejection of all Hollywood conventions adds another layer of realism to an already courageous and unflinching performance. Truly devastating and worth checking out if you haven't already seen it.
ITALIANO: Best Supporting Actress, 1991.
Oh, and Penelope, I'm definitely still in the game.
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"The mantle of spinsterhood was definitely in her shoulders. She was twenty five and looked it."
-Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
-Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
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