“The Loves of Carmen starring Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford is the first film to use plastic food throughout. In accordance with the austerity trend, Columbia no longer uses real food in its pictures, except where it has to be eaten. In one scene, plastic sausage and cheese, and plaster replicas of roast fowl are used. Only a single turkey drumstick, which Miss Hayworth eats, is real.”
Because the algorithm spat it up at me I watched the 1986 Courtroom Romantic Comedy Thriller Legal Eagles last week. The film really doesn't know what it wants to be, and suffers for it.
The thing that stood out to me is that in 1986 Redford was a very handsome 50. The romantic comedy plot is him and Debra Winger jousting in preparing the case, but the plot also calls for the client, Daryl Hannah, to try to seduce him.
LA Marathon is this weekend in LA... Not the right time to go to downtown LA, Silver Lake, Hollywood, Westwood or anywhere in between for non-Marathon related stuff. #traffic#LosAngeles#Hollywood
#Houthis have easily destroyed the image of the #US war machine, which #Hollywood has worked hard for over the last 60 years, and revealed their real situation.
I can see how American conservatives feel alienated from #Hollywood because you honestly don't see a lot of movie heroes who are good pious Christian Nationalists and loud aggressively stupid bigots who evangelize hatred, intolerance and conformity and demand everyone believe and behave exactly as they do and accept their divinely regimented fate as lesser species whose only role in society is to bow down and serve their overlords as God intended, and, in fact, if you even see that kind of character, the cinematic storyteller nearly always seems to be suggesting that kind of person is bad. Weird that.
Robert Downey Jr. has won his first Oscar on his third nomination. He takes home the gong for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as Lewis Strauss in "Oppenheimer." Here's more from IndieWire.
A fun fact from The Wrap: Robert Downey Jr. is the first SNL cast member to win an Oscar — he had a one-season run in 1985 before getting the boot. His castmates included Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Joan Cusack and Anthony Michael Hall.
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Ramy Youssef wore an Artists for Ceasefire pin on the Oscars red carpet, telling Deadline: "We have a growing list of so many artists who want a permanent immediate ceasefire in Gaza. To get really universal about it, it’s about stop killing kids." Other artists who the magazine spotted wearing the red pins include Billie Eilish, Finneas O’Connell, "Nimona" actor Eugene Lee Yang, director Misan Harriman, who was behind the best live action short nominee "The After," and filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania, of best documentary feature nominee "Four Daughters." Here's more.
For the past 13 years, the Hollywood Reporter's Ben Zaumer has been using a mathematical model to predict the Oscars. Here's what he says is going to happen tonight — "Oppenheimer," Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr. and DaVine Joy Randolph seem like dead certs in their categories, but it's a coin-toss between Lily Gladstone and Emma Stone for Best Actress. Here's the full rundown.
Our writer argues that, despite its flaws, Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi epic Dune: Part 2 hit at just the right time... and is illustrative of a bigger problem in Hollywood.
From worst film to worst screen couple, “Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey” won all five categories for which it was nominated at the 2024 Golden Raspberry Awards, also known as the Razzies. The awards, held on “Oscar Eve” and hosted by comics Aaron Goldenberg and Jake Jonez (The Mean Gays), honor the worst of Hollywood’s year. The Hollywood Reporter has more. https://flip.it/WVBrTn #Culture#Entertainment#Movies#Hollywood#Razzies#Oscars
An accusation of plagiarism has been made about Alexander Payne's "The Holdovers," which is nominated for the Best Screenplay award at this year's Oscars. Simon Stephenson, who wrote "Luca" and "Paddington 2," emailed the Writers Guild of America's senior director of credits on Jan. 12 to discuss the issue, referring to the "Holdovers" script as a "line-by-line" plagiarism from his screenplay, "Frisco," which was doing the rounds in Hollywood in 2013 and which Stephenson says Payne had seen. Variety has the exclusive.
There are no categories for animals in the Academy Awards, though last month, the Academy announced on X, "The Oscar for bestest boi goes to Messi from Anatomy of a Fall." Esquire magazine recognized this grave injustice last year, when it gave Jenny the Donkey from "Banshees of Inisherin" the first annual Best Animal Actor award. Here's their breakdown of animal actors this year. We want to know, what was the most iconic animal performance of all time.
If there were Oscars for animals, our poll participants would have awarded one to Jonesy from "Alien," who got 29% of the vote. But commenters pointed out our options were anything but comprehensive. Apologies to the Black Stallion, Cujo, Asta, the Littlest Hobo, Rex from "Hudson and Rex," Milo from "The Mask," Tonto from "Harry and Tonto," Benji, Babe the Pig, and Mr. Ed. No apologies to Godzilla or King Kong who for obvious reasons don't count (unless there's something we don't know). Here's a story from Atlas Obscura about the now-defunct PATSY (Picture Animal Top Star of the Year) awards.
Oliver Stone Was Linked to Planned Series of Pro-Dictator Docs
Russian producer Igor Lopatonok pitched financiers on multiple pro-autocrat projects, including on the leaders of Belarus, Turkey and Azerbaijan, who would be interviewed by the 'JFK' and 'Platoon' director on camera.
The Response to Dune: Part 2 Is Less About the Movie and More About Current Hollywood's Problems - IGN (www.ign.com)
Our writer argues that, despite its flaws, Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi epic Dune: Part 2 hit at just the right time... and is illustrative of a bigger problem in Hollywood.