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Post by Mattsby on Sept 30, 2021 19:36:03 GMT
Not mentioned yet David Strathairn whose last name I always misspell....he's an Emmy winner (Temple Grandin), Oscar nominee (Goodnight and Good Luck, which he won the Volpi Cup for) and he's been in several acclaimed Broadway plays including Dance of Death btwn the powerhouse of Mirren/McKellen and Chekhov's Three Sisters and The Heiress w Chastain, and Pacino's Salome with Dianne Wiest - he reminds me of Wiest, same age, always dependable and often likable and smart-seeming, she had Woody, he had Sayles coming up in the 80s. Strath's also done a lot of regional stage work, including Shakespeare and Pinter - and I just missed an opportunity to see him on stage last week! which got me thinking about him. I always like him - all the Sayles, a Sopranos pit stop, and up to now, Nomadland which he was Oscar snubbed imo. Best thing about the movie. Looking a little ahead, he's perfectly cast in Nightmare Alley in what's a small but potent part. Any fans?
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Post by Mattsby on Oct 2, 2021 1:06:05 GMT
Happy October! We don't have mentions of the holy trinity - Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing. The lack of awards for any of them is a horror itself. All have a wildly iconic degree of talent and movie / tv work and pockets of stage cred too - Price was in like a dozen Broadway plays. But for today, let's Cush. Cushing was an experienced repertory theater actor before he pierced the screen. Thru the '40s and 50s he quite consistently worked the West End and Old Vic, and starting 1949 toured for years with Olivier and Vivien Leigh. He became a sort of star of the BBC in their live productions in the '50s - he won a TV BAFTA in 1956 - including a lava hot production of 1984 with Donald Pleasence. Year later he laid the Hammer down and never looked back. So many great, astute perfs - as Frankenstein, Van Helsing, Sherlock Holmes (movie and series), The Gorgon, Corruption, Captain Clegg, Twins of Evil, From Beyond the Grave, a little Star Wars, and among his very best- Cash on Demand. On TV that I've seen - he's solid in Welles Great Mysteries, House of Horror w Brian Cox, and Tales of the Unexpected. So much work I still haven't seen...
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2021 15:02:11 GMT
There are currently 6 winners of the "British Triple Crown of Acting" - the BAFTA Film Award, the BAFTA Television Award, and the Laurence Olivier Award... Judi Dench Nigel Hawthorne Albert Finney Julie Walters Helen Mirren Mark Rylance stephen - Edited for correctness - never take Wikipedia's word for it!
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Post by Mattsby on Oct 8, 2021 16:04:47 GMT
There are currently 6 winners of the "British Triple Crown of Acting" - the BAFTA Film Award, the BAFTA Television Award, and the Laurence Olivier Award... Judi Dench Nigel Hawthorne Albert Finney Julie Walters Helen Mirren Mark Rylance Can't believe we hadn't checked into this before! Very useful info especially when the day comes I'm called to argue Finney as the GOAT Brit. I just checked to see how many BAFTA TV awards Olivier has only to see none?? and only two noms.....when he has five Emmy wins! Even his fellow Hamlet cast member Peter Cushing has a BAFTA TV win! Who do we think is next to join these ranks? Cumberbatch/Power of the Dog possibly...
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2021 17:31:56 GMT
There are currently 6 winners of the "British Triple Crown of Acting" - the BAFTA Film Award, the BAFTA Television Award, and the Laurence Olivier Award... Judi Dench Nigel Hawthorne Albert Finney Julie Walters Helen Mirren Mark Rylance Can't believe we hadn't checked into this before! Very useful info especially when the day comes I'm called to argue Finney as the GOAT Brit. I just checked to see how many BAFTA TV awards Olivier has only to see none?? and only two noms.....when he has five Emmy wins! Even his fellow Hamlet cast member Peter Cushing has a BAFTA TV win! Who do we think is next to join these ranks? Cumberbatch/Power of the Dog possibly... Fun Trivia! As best I can tell, Jennifer Ehle is the only American to receive nominations from all three of the British Triple Crown groups... Please correct me if I'm wrong. pacinoyes
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2021 17:33:57 GMT
There are currently 6 winners of the "British Triple Crown of Acting" - the BAFTA Film Award, the BAFTA Television Award, and the Laurence Olivier Award... Judi Dench Nigel Hawthorne Albert Finney Julie Walters Helen Mirren Mark Rylance Can't believe we hadn't checked into this before! Very useful info especially when the day comes I'm called to argue Finney as the GOAT Brit. I just checked to see how many BAFTA TV awards Olivier has only to see none?? and only two noms.....when he has five Emmy wins! Even his fellow Hamlet cast member Peter Cushing has a BAFTA TV win! Who do we think is next to join these ranks? Cumberbatch/Power of the Dog possibly... Also, Maggie Smith needs only the BAFTA Television Award, for which she's been nominated five times... Shocking she's not here, right? Helen Mirren is currently the only actor to have overlap between the American and British Triple Crowns. pacinoyes stephen
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Post by stephen on Oct 8, 2021 17:44:45 GMT
Can't believe we hadn't checked into this before! Very useful info especially when the day comes I'm called to argue Finney as the GOAT Brit. I just checked to see how many BAFTA TV awards Olivier has only to see none?? and only two noms.....when he has five Emmy wins! Even his fellow Hamlet cast member Peter Cushing has a BAFTA TV win! Who do we think is next to join these ranks? Cumberbatch/Power of the Dog possibly... Also, Maggie Smith needs only the BAFTA Television Award, for which she's been nominated five times... Shocking she's not here, right? Helen Mirren is currently the only actor to have overlap between the American and British Triple Crowns. pacinoyes stephen I think Rylance stands the best chance of being the next to join Mirren, especially if the second Cromwell miniseries sticks the landing.
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Post by Mattsby on Oct 8, 2021 17:52:06 GMT
Fun Trivia! As best I can tell, Jennifer Ehle is the only American to receive nominations from all three of the British Triple Crown groups... Please correct me if I'm wrong. pacinoyes I found one more: Martin Sheen! Three noms - Olivier Best Actor (86, The Normal Heart) BAFTA Best Actor (80, Apocalypse Now) BAFTA TV Best Actor (84, Kennedy)
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2021 18:05:20 GMT
Fun Trivia! As best I can tell, Jennifer Ehle is the only American to receive nominations from all three of the British Triple Crown groups... Please correct me if I'm wrong. pacinoyes I found one more: Martin Sheen! Three noms - Olivier Best Actor (86, The Normal Heart) BAFTA Best Actor (80, Apocalypse Now) BAFTA TV Best Actor (84, Kennedy) Awesome!
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Post by Mattsby on Oct 12, 2021 0:26:50 GMT
Born today, October 26th, 1942 - the late, and often great Bob Hoskins. He wasn't an awards horse ........but he gave what was an all-time great film performance that would have won the Oscar in any other year ( Mona Lisa)....multiple great TV performances including the original Pennies From Heaven........ the best Iago on film (opposite and stolen from Anthony Hopkins)......several times awesome in film - Nixon, Felicia's Journey, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Long Good Friday and stage too. He's a perfect example of an actor that is easy to forget but surprised you almost every few years of his career..... What about Elizabeth McGovern? In the early 90s she also appeared in a filmed BBC adaptation of Thomas Middleton's Jacobean hit The Changeling opposite Bob Hoskins and Hugh Grant - this is available to stream now on Amazon Prime, Mattsby ! I've been watching a lot of Hoskins, and it's his bday this month, so....a bump! I've also seen a lot of Stephen Graham recently... and they're very similar to me, sort of masters at playing sensitive toughs. They would've made a terrific father-son duo but never worked together - though they appeared in separate eps of the series The Street (2009) for which Hoskins won an International Emmy fwiw. Anyway, I watched The Changeling, Tyler - I don't forget a rec! I should get around to more BBC Performance pics bc I seem to like them and I liked this one a lot. It flirts with being ghostly and murderous, so for a non-horror it quite fit the monthly tone. I liked the slow zooms and inner monologues like Polanski's Macbeth and the perfs! Hoskins most of all, his perf is satyric, and feels as if performed on a precipice, capable of anything - he's pained, tempted, and gets a wild sexually possessed scene as if he was Adjani or something! It feels drawn from his own theater experience and his all-timer level supporting tv perf as Iago. Speaking of theater - Tyler did you know he played Diana Rigg's father in a 1974 production of Pygmalion. NYT said her perf was elegant and that Hoskins was a "vigorous" standout. Ol Bob did plays constantly from the late 60s into the 80s - multiple years of National Theatre repertory, Royal Court, Shakespeare Company. Opposite Helen Mirren in '81 The Duchess of Malfi right after they did The Long Good Friday (his best perf imo!). He had underrated range as an actor. Just look at his tv credits. Thick as Thieves sitcom, to Pennies from Heaven, to Iago, to Mussolini. Even with small roles he'd come on like a roman candle, you don't forget him - look at Nixon, Brazil, his hilarious Frasier guest spot. And like Pac says, you can find good work every few years - his talent never flagged. Just see The Street a perf of much heart. Lotta overlooked stuff too - like Twenty Four Seven (1997) where he's a sort of smoothed hooligan, charming and affecting. That one is directed by Shane Meadows who's found a favorite muse in Stephen Graham - you wouldn't doubt why.
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Post by stephen on Oct 12, 2021 0:49:43 GMT
Piggybacking off of Mattsby's mention of him during his appreciation of the late great Bob Hoskins, let's focus on his cinematic heir apparent: Stephen Graham.Graham blazed onto the scene in a big way with This is England and since then, he's been the go-to guy for playing volatile English chaps, more often than not with a Napoleon complex. There are times where he evinces a similarity not just with Hoskins, but with American actors who mastered hair-trigger tempers like Joe Pesci. Graham glommed onto Scorsese early in his career with a small part as DiCaprio's crony in Gangs of New York, but that relationship bloomed later on when he was gifted his most iconic role to date: Al Capone in Boardwalk Empire. Graham obliterated former portrayals of Scarface with his nitroglycerin-laced bombast, while at the same time finding the humanity in what others would revel in building on the caricature (see De Niro, Robert and Hardy, Thomas). Graham later showed an effective command of the screen in his scenes in The Irishman, and in a different world it's easy to see him slip into the role of Hoffa with ease. It wasn't just Scorsese who took note of Graham’s explosive presence in the gangster milieu; Michael Mann used him to great effect in a proto-Capone performance as Baby Face Nelson in Public Enemies (surely his audition reel for Boardwalk), and he’s cropped up in works by Guy Ritchie as well. But where Graham truly has made his mark is in television across the pond, and it’s not just in brutish roles, either. Just this year he appeared in Time, where he plays a conflicted prison guard to staggering effect, and a man ravaged by early-onset dementia in Help. Graham is scarily good at showcasing the vulnerability that can paralyze a man’s body and soul. It’s these moments I think of most often when I consider his body of work. Hell, for me, the most effective moment in his performance as Capone aren’t the beatdowns. It’s when, after his brother has been shot to death by the police, he sits in emasculated grief-stricken silence before he declares that “every fucking thing that crawls is gonna pay.” There is so much hurt, so much rage, so much emotion in that line that nearly a decade later it still gives me chills. Graham is a national treasure in the UK. It's time we make him global.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2021 14:25:07 GMT
Have we mentioned Martha Plimpton in this thread? A true actor's actor... Three Tony nominations, an Emmy win, and always a welcome presence in film. Her performance in Mass is just earth-shatteringly good, seriously. I was bawling.
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Post by Mattsby on Nov 10, 2021 19:32:36 GMT
Apparently she hasn't been mentioned ever on MA........... Former classmate of Brando, pals with Noel Coward and Sondheim, 4x Tony nominee (each in a different decade), 8x Emmy nominee--3x winner (Law & Order, 30 Rock). It's the raspy, radiant Elaine Stritch of course. She was a major stage actress and appeared in over fifty tv programs but only twenty or so feature films. She easily spiced up the screen - she could've been a serious supporting actress in the movies but her work was scattered. No movies btwn Providence (1977) w Resnais and September (1987) w Woody - both very good perfs. She's quite good as well in the underground Who Killed Teddy Bear (1965). Over to tv, I think she was the runner-up to play Bea Arthur's role in The Golden Girls... She sometimes was unlucky like that (she lost a lot of parts to Angela Lansbury) or just practically. She spent a while in London doing Brit sitcoms (gotta BAFTA nom!) and West End theatre. I recently found a few eps of the short-lived, now obscure The Ellen Burstyn Show - Stritch is the mother of Burstyn (who seems like Pfeiffer) who's the mother of Megan Mullally and they're all helping raise the kid. It was abruptly cancelled by ABC a week before Full House premiered - you can tell they found a better thing but it ain't bad! Stritch in particular is riotously funny and it might've been an iconic part if it was given time. Any fav perfs?
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Post by Mattsby on Dec 8, 2021 20:59:00 GMT
I wanted to add a scene for Brian Cox which shows how he can do that listening, pause technique - next time you see him in a film it's a great thing to look for and one of the great actor techniques currently: I loved that clip so I sought out the whole thing - posting the link for anyone interested. The filmed workshop is from '87 the same year Cox did Titus at the RSC and won the Olivier for it, and same year he did Rat in the Skull for television. He goes thru scenes from Hamlet, Macbeth, Titus, The Changeling. Laurence Olivier's daughter and an enchanting Cathy Tyson (year after Mona Lisa) are among the students he's teaching and it's interesting to see them take on his direction. Lotta insight on actor physicality. Cox demonstrates his gravitas. "The greatest actors are those that displace the air when they move," he says. Also wanna shoutout the serial The Devil's Crown (1978) where Cox plays Henry II. I've been looking at it between Succession eps - they're similar! It's a dynamic, saucy perf - played big. There's a lot of rolling around and veering in his movements here, he keeps needing to engage others, play out impulses, he magically makes charisma look like paranoia. Lotta very good, hidden tv perfs from Cox. The Devil's Crown has 85 IMDb votes. The Negotiator has 31. Rat in the Skull has none. And so much I haven't seen -- the ol' Scot is approaching 250 credits! It's funny how Succession plays a little like Lear in reverse - he seems to grow only stronger. (And his costar somehow stole his S2 Emmy.)
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Post by Mattsby on Dec 14, 2021 20:04:12 GMT
I've been wanting to post about soaps - Any favorite perfs? and at what level do we regard the Daytime Emmy and does the news that they're merging with the big-boy Emmys (like they did before '74) change its merit? I know @tyler briefly mentioned soaps in the thread but we haven't really discussed it. I had a complete about-face on soap operas earlier this year...... beforehand I'd basically mute them out when looking at IMDbs and then I started digging around and checking scenes and episodes from actors I like and it was very fun - with perfs surprisingly good or entertainingly broad. Here are some of my favs that deserve some highlighting..... Julianne Moore - As the World Turns (1985-88). Main cast and Daytime Emmy winner for it. Played dual roles! Marisa Tomei - As the World Turns (1984-85). She's rather good and tbh outacts Moore in the clips available online. Gena Rowlands - Peyton Place (1967) - Lovely and kinda campy. Looking at her clips jumpstarted my soaping around. Ray Liotta - Another World (1978-81). This was a shocker. Different side of Liotta- gentler, ached, romantic. Joan Bennett - Dark Shadows (1966-71). Emmy nominee. And she has some sizzling perfs in her film career. Some I haven't seen but wanna note: Anne Heche - Another World (1984-92) Daytime Emmy winner. pacinoyes fan? Al Freeman Jr - One Life To Live (1972-88) Daytime Emmy winner. Took up much time from maybe the most underrated actor ever? Susan Sarandon - A World Apart (1970-71) over 300 eps. and s/o to Aussie rite-of-passage soaps Neighbours and Home And Way - Russell Crowe, Naomi Watts, Margot Robbie etc.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2021 20:14:29 GMT
Mattsby - My family is obsessed with The Young and the Restless and I've watched it on and off since high school.
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 14, 2021 20:53:59 GMT
I've been wanting to post about soaps - Any favorite perfs? and at what level do we regard the Daytime Emmy and does the news that they're merging with the big-boy Emmys (like they did before '74) change its merit? I know @tyler briefly mentioned soaps in the thread but we haven't really discussed it. I had a complete about-face on soap operas earlier this year...... beforehand I'd basically mute them out when looking at IMDbs and then I started digging around and checking scenes and episodes from actors I like and it was very fun - with perfs surprisingly good or entertainingly broad. Here are some of my favs that deserve some highlighting..... Julianne Moore - As the World Turns (1985-88). Main cast and Daytime Emmy winner for it. Played dual roles! Marisa Tomei - As the World Turns (1984-85). She's rather good and tbh outacts Moore in the clips available online. Gena Rowlands - Peyton Place (1967) - Lovely and kinda campy. Looking at her clips jumpstarted my soaping around. Ray Liotta - Another World (1978-81). This was a shocker. Different side of Liotta- gentler, ached, romantic. Joan Bennett - Dark Shadows (1966-71). Emmy nominee. And she has some sizzling perfs in her film career. Some I haven't seen but wanna note: Anne Heche - Another World (1984-92) Daytime Emmy winner. pacinoyes fan? Al Freeman Jr - One Life To Live (1972-88) Daytime Emmy winner. Took up much time from maybe the most underrated actor ever? Susan Sarandon - A World Apart (1970-71) over 300 eps. and s/o to Aussie rite-of-passage soaps Neighbours and Home And Way - Russell Crowe, Naomi Watts, Margot Robbie etc. I loved that Anne Heche performance - she played twins - Vicki and Marley - she would go waaaaayyyyyyyyyyyy of the page and use everything around her like she was a genius with coffee mugs, purses and pillows. I thought she could have played Veronica Lake in that period because she was superb at playing drunk which was a necessity - I mean if the make-up did its job - no one actually "looks" like Lake really did anyway ........but Heche was closer to her (very) general pixie appearance and her height (not really Lake was like 4'11 ) and her figure too. Not a perfect match but .....maybe. Eric Roberts was also on Another World too briefly pre- King of the Gypsies.......that show was kind of stacked liked that ........ Howard Rollins and Morgan Freeman too.
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Post by Mattsby on Jan 14, 2022 2:00:03 GMT
the fool in King Lear (1984) and Rocket to the Moon (1986)We discussed Judy Davis around May 2019, and I said she'd make my Top 10 fav actresses then, and that was before seeing Nitram, Naked Lunch, Eye of the Storm and several TV Movies, where she's always so great, including her Emmy winning perfs- Judy Garland, Serving in Silence opposite Glenn Close. But I wanna talk about her 1980s.... and single out her least seen movie, an American Playhouse production of a Clifford Odets play, Rocket to the Moon (1986). In 1989 the LA Times wrote, “It is her theater work where Davis has roamed, by all accounts, magnificently free and wide.” They also compare her to Vanessa Redgrave, Anna Magnani, Jeanne Moreau. At the start of the decade, My Brilliant Career put her on the map, released in US/UK in 1980 and she won the BAFTA in '81, then she's Emmy nominated for playing Golda Meir in 1982, in the same year she's Olivier nominated for playing Marilyn Monroe at the Royal Court Theatre, and appears as one of the Merry Wives of Windsor for the BBC. She's a sensation on the Aussie stage - Miss Julie 1983, King Lear 1984 as Cordelia AND The Fool (the biggest name actress to ever do so, in fact maybe the only? though Ruth Wilson pulled it off on Broadway recently). '84 is also when she's Lead Actress nominated for A Passage to India (only 29y/o, don't forget). At this point, she takes a year off. She's turning down or not quite getting some big Hollywood parts (among them--Out of Africa, Fatal Attraction, Broadcast News). 1986 she's back in Australia doing Hedda Gabler and then returns to the screen in a PBS production of an old, unliked Odets play! American Playhouse made a lot of gems in the '80s and Rocket to the Moon isn't really one of them but no doubt is Judy Davis wonderful in it. It has one view on Letterboxd and I am that one! It costars John Malkovich and Eli Wallach. I don't think I had even heard of it before this week... She plays Cleo, a dentist's assistance, all nasally New York and sadly self-deluded. She's brilliant in the way she suggests insecurity - quick turns, cautious to trust what she cannot see, she pretends to be higher class, while failing to imply her idea of glamor. Even her smiles don't resemble joy, as much as covering what we sense is someone deeply wounded. "I'm more confident now" she says, while melting under the words - no longer able to ignore the lie. It's beautiful, heartbreaking work! At the time the NYT called her riveting in it, with "a fascinatingly edgy vitality." An Odets biographer refers to Cleo as "The Judy Davis Part" because he was so taken by her performance. (Marisa Tomei played Cleo in a '96 production under Joanne Woodward as director.) Why the movie has been so rare opens up the discussion of all the remarkable obscurer work from our great actresses in older shows of television - many of which you can find online if you can bear 360p, but most of which you cannot. But anyway... Shakespeare x2, Strindberg, Ibsen, Odets, Golda Meir, Monroe. EM Forster elegance, drug-addict prostitute (Winter of Our Dreams). My god is that some range.....and she's hardly 30 and we didn't even get to High Tide yet!!! Or her Tom Stoppard US stage debut in '89. Or her next 12 Emmy nominations! If this thread was only Movie/TV.....We're talkin' the Queen. @tyler MsMovieStar pacinoyes wendy
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2022 2:45:44 GMT
Mattsby - Are we going to leave out that she momentarily turned Glenn Close while they filmed Serving In Silence? (For which they both won Emmys!) Seriously, that's how good she is! “Oh, it was amazing. It changed me. It was like this Aha! moment. It was not intellectual—it was like a visceral feeling, being attracted, being in love with your own gender. It has informed me a lot. It was a good thing to go through.” - Glenn Close
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Post by Mattsby on Jan 14, 2022 2:48:05 GMT
Mattsby - Are we going to leave out that she momentarily turned Glenn Close while they filmed Serving In Silence? (For which they both won Emmys!) Seriously, that's how good she is! “Oh, it was amazing. It changed me. It was like this Aha! moment. It was not intellectual—it was like a visceral feeling, being attracted, being in love with your own gender. It has informed me a lot. It was a good thing to go through.” - Glenn Close Oh wow. But have you seen Juliette Lewis giving Judy a mad back rub and kissing by the airport paperbacks in Gaudi Afternoon?? Btw have you seen any of The Starter Wife, her third Emmy win? That's like 16 episodes in all, and I can't find them anywhere!
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Post by MsMovieStar on Jan 20, 2022 10:48:50 GMT
Mattsby - Are we going to leave out that she momentarily turned Glenn Close while they filmed Serving In Silence? (For which they both won Emmys!) Seriously, that's how good she is! “Oh, it was amazing. It changed me. It was like this Aha! moment. It was not intellectual—it was like a visceral feeling, being attracted, being in love with your own gender. It has informed me a lot. It was a good thing to go through.” - Glenn Close Oh wow. But have you seen Juliette Lewis giving Judy a mad back rub and kissing by the airport paperbacks in Gaudi Afternoon?? Btw have you seen any of The Starter Wife, her third Emmy win? That's like 16 episodes in all, and I can't find them anywhere! Oh honeys, I can't believe I almost missed this JD thread! I have The Starter Wife on DVD but I think it's the first miniseries. It didn't really grab me at the time as it is definitely Messing's show, and for me, Davis's supporting role wasn't as particularly as memorable as say, her turn as Marilyn Dean in The Break Up. I recently watched The Echo of Thunder, which was a first for me, and she certainly didn't pick easy or particularly sympathetic roles.
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 8, 2022 17:10:07 GMT
Today's topic is luck - and how sometimes it can be a bit cruel. Mentioned but not profiled in this thread and called a GOAT contender from the UK. The problem is that 4 of her general peers (although not generational exactly) have already won the Triple Crown while she has somehow not - Judi Dench. There is no Triple Crown rivals group even close to this competitively and Glenda Jackson, Maggie Smith, (the much younger) Helen Mirren, and Vanessa Redgrave have all achieved it - 3 of them all in Lead (except Redgrave). Dench won an BA Oscar and did much marvelous film work, carries a monumental/legendary stage background including a definite Lady Macbeth - and won a BA Tony too but 3 times has lost the Emmy award. Her reputation covers some huge ground to the extent that she is still mentioned as that greatest level whether she has the hardware - and she has plenty of other awards anyway - or not. An actress of uncommon strength and dignity and when she wants to - a frighteningly cold aspect as well. With her 8th Oscar nod today - Judi Dench had quite a year and is along with Glenn Close, the most painfully "missing" person from The Triple Crown (arguably). Dench turns 88 this year and hasn't done TV in a while to get that Emmy but she might - which would make her the oldest to get it too....... Dench didn't get an Oscar nomination until she was late 50+ (possibly 60 !?!) - like Anthony Hopkins (her co-star below in Antony and Cleopatra) - remarkable from a career POV......... for a female especially.
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Post by flasuss on Feb 8, 2022 23:48:09 GMT
Dench was 64(!) when she got her first.
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 9, 2022 0:22:38 GMT
Dench was 64(!) when she got her first. It's such a great story it can blow your mind in several ways - her awards run over those 25 years - just going by the release date rather than the ceremony - is pretty mind-boggling...............the senior citizen female run of all time maybe (?): Just in those 25 years 1997 - 2022:8 Oscar nods (1 win), 10 BAFTA film nods (2 wins), 3 BAFTA TV nods (1 win), 1 Tony nod (win), 3 Emmy nods (no wins), 11 solo SAG Film nods (1 win), 1 solo SAG TV nod (1 win), 5 Olivier Award nods (1 win), 9 Golden Globes nods Film (1 win), 3 Golden Globes nods TV (1 win)
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Post by stabcaesar on Feb 9, 2022 17:05:35 GMT
Dench was 64(!) when she got her first. Judi Dench and Christopher Plummer truly embody "it's never too late".
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