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Tom Hank’s “A man called Otto” with his and Rita’s son Truman Hanks playing the character as a young man in flashback scenes.
Somewhat resembles his dad, but the “likability” factor that Tom is known for simply isn’t there.
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8 minutes ago, absnow54 said:
I thought it was an interesting juxtaposition that highlighted that Connor is the only Roy child who wasn't living for his father's approval. The other three were carefully tightrope walking around the narrative of what their actions would do and how it would effect the company.
In hindsight Logan’s last live conversation with them, “you are not serious people” establishes the narrative homestretch framework for the rest of the episodes remaining.
Can they prove Daddy wrong as they now actually have to battle for succession.
From this episode its glaring how Carl, Karolina, Gerry and the rest of the sychophants don’t take the kids serious either.
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I thought the “money talk” between Karl and Yaya was an insightful comic highlight.
Karl yelling in desperation “Its not about the money” should strike a chord with many per relationships and finance, of course he was only half right. It’s not about the money but simultaneously also it IS about the money.
So sad about Charlbi Dean (played YaYa) dying so tragically young.
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All these pretentious, above it all actors who moan the competitiveness and race horse aspects of the awards season (Cate Blanchett, Edward Norton, Kate Winslet, etc) conducted their own campaign, now they have horse manure under their fingernails…
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Does anyone have a good article that explains the controversy? I keep on hearing mentions of ranked voting to work the system, but then when I read any stories on it, they only talk about famous people hosting screenings and tweeting their support.
https://theweek.com/celebrity/1020500/why-andrea-riseboroughs-oscar-nomination-is-so-controversial
QuoteOn Jan. 14, Titanic star Frances Fisher also urged her fellow actors on Instagram to vote for Riseborough and nominate her in the first position on their ballot, writing that it "seems to be that Viola [Davis], Michelle [Yeoh], Danielle [Deadwyler] & Cate [Blanchett] are a lock for their outstanding work." This could be another potential violation of the rule about singling out the competition, with Fisher suggesting followers need not vote for Davis and Deadwyler because they're guaranteed to be nominated. (It turns out, they weren't.)
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Objectively speaking, Its quite ingenious what the Riseborough camp did to secure her nomination. And yes, Studios/producers spend plenty of money pushing/pandering nominations for their films.
Having said that, its still an uncomfortable mix of seeing a tight circle of entitled white power players work the system.
Just a wild guess, but I don’t think Viola Dais was invited to these private screenings with her HW “friends” lobbying her to place Riseborough first in her best actress ballot.
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Interesting that a circle of friends/business acquaintances figured out that Andrea Riseborough just needed X number of 1st place ballots to secure a nomination. Seemed that was the specific goal for all that outreach by her actor friends.
Surprised nobody figured out that strategy before.
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On 12/26/2022 at 8:58 PM, Irlandesa said:
I don't know that she misses the point, exactly. She flat out states that she doesn't really care much about the nepo baby conversation. Nor is she wrong that nepotism isn't exclusive to Hollywood. In fact, I think Lily Allen's point was pretty accurate in that it happening in less public places can be more damaging. In Hollywood, the failure of a nepo baby can be pretty public and hard to ignore.
But I think some of the examples given in the Nepo Baby article also seem pretty silly.
Understandably of course she doesn't care for any nepo baby conversations.
However Hudson doesn't even acknowledge any advantages she may have had getting her foot in the door, even if her argument is you still have to have talent and work hard regardless. (Many families all the members are storytellers..) I'm not saying Hudson has to wear sackcloth, but to divert from her huge headstart in the business by stating modeling has more nepotism and in others professions it's more dangerous or harmful just seems bizarre deflection.
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Understandably, Kate Hudson misses the whole point:
Here are some of her gems
Quote“I look at my kids and we’re a storytelling family,” she continued. “It’s definitely in our blood. People can call it whatever they want, but it’s not going to change it.”
Quote“I actually think there are other industries where it’s [more common]. Maybe modeling?” she said. “I see it in business way more than I see it in Hollywood. Sometimes I’ve been in business meetings where I’m like, wait, whose child is this? Like, this person knows nothing!”
You can't make up her arguments.
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On 12/21/2021 at 10:02 AM, RealHousewife said:
Love Story was a very moving film, but some of the writing could have been better.
The problem goes back to the actual novel by Erich Segal whose writing is really, really bad, sophmorically trite. Segal himself on a talk show actually conceded his book was not great literature to say the least.
The line “Love means never having to say you’re sorry” is taken straight from the novel. Even though it doesn’t actually make sense ( only peripherally I suppose in that you should sense the emotions/feelings of your loved one without verbalizing) it came to be of those iconic sayings of that era.
This film literally made Ali Mcgraw’s acting career, for that alone it should live in infamy.
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On 10/5/2022 at 11:38 AM, Rinaldo said:
Marilyn Miller is one of those musical stage performers, like Gertrude Lawrence, who were widely adored as special charismatic stars in a way that can be difficult to substantiate through their film work. Only in "Wild Rose" in Sally (coincidentally the only segment for which the original color film survives) do I see the magic happen, and understand.
Are there any others who belong in this category?
I'm not sure if it's because she had few movie roles worthy of her talent, but Helen Morgan as Julie in the 1936 "Showboat" comes to mind.
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1 hour ago, sistermagpie said:
I agree with that too. Rhaenyra would be in a much better position if she had legitimate children--even she knows that, and tried to have some. Her decision to have children any way she could makes sense to me, but of course it makes her really vulnerable that they're so obviously illegitimate. She has given everyone a pretext. Or, a second pretext, I should say, because everyone was already rooting for Aegon because he's the son of the king and she's the daughter.
Yes, look at the example from one of the opening scenes from episode 1 of her Aunt Rhaenys, impeccable pedigree and yet because she wasn't a man, she was not made Queen.
The fact that Vicerys had an heir, all Lords swore obeisance to his daughter's future rulership, and yet was still pressured by his court to marry again and produce a male son pointedly indicates that Rhaenyra would not be accepted by many.
She could have had a dozen white haired Targaryen babies and still being a woman, could not be expected to rule without a battle.
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Still having a hard time with the 180 turn in Alicent's character. I know she's fearful for her children's lives , feels Rhaenyra betrayed their friendship (though Alicent did it first by secretly wooing her father), is scornful of Rhaenyra's sexual freedom, but in the miserable state that that is her own marriage may lie the root of her bitterness. Just wish we could have seen some of that gradual hardening of character.
I dunno, in l GRRM fashion, that kid getting the dragon is going to backfire on him something fierce.
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The actress portraying Princess Rhaenys:
Perfection as “Bitter, party of one.”
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On 7/1/2022 at 3:05 PM, toodywoody said:
Since we really didn't seen Brenner die, I'm expecting him to show up again.
And yet, we can’t get back Barb ?!!?
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Sometimes it’s best not to know the link to the parents. Amazon’s superhero series “The Boys” Hughie is Jack Quaid, yes I just discovered is the son of Dennis and Meg Ryan. It’s a fully fleshed out character, well written role and Jack does well. However now I see his parents every time I watch an episode, LOL. He does and he doesn’t look like them, hard to explain.
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There is a storyline purpose with The Deep as a barometer of how obsequious and subservient someone can get with Homelander, well, him and the current CEO bald lady. Or maybe, I dunno, a dumbed down version of Aquaman has endless comic appeal to me.
Homelander seems to be a Superhero Caligula, where everyone trembles because at a whim he just offs who he wants if they fall short, and let's face it, EVERYBODY falls short and disappoints him.
However the show is in "The Handmaiden" territory of season 3 where the relentless pessimism just grinds everything down. Homelander is so heads and shoulders above everyone that the tension is dissipating. Maybe Frenchie with some mad scientists can improve on the V compound so at least the Boys have a viable reason to stand toe to toe with Homelander, because otherwise the plot convulsions why he doesn't blast them all to smithereens is getting ridiculous.
Homelander parenting Ryan is going to be such a clusterf***, imagine the first time that kid really gets petulant and annoying and doesn't give back unconditional love to Daddy. So I expect Becca to rise up with the values she instilled in her supe son.
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On 7/21/2017 at 12:48 AM, voiceover said:
...Having said that, I'm at a loss to understand this reading. There's some strong, clever people of both sexes in this story. Every single character could rightly be declared "manipulative"; some are more successful at this, in the parameters of the plot, but even Lloyd (arguably the weakest) is no pushover. He comes back hard at Margo (their fight after Eve's audition) by making the eternal Writer's Argument: Do it the way I wrote it, because I know this story better than you, because I wrote it, bitch...
In hindsight Lloyd is an even bigger tool. My biggest issue with Lloyd is that the film sets up that he is this brilliant playwright and that Margo is practically the Queen of the stage and they have had successful collaborations for years...
And yet...somehow writing for her he can't conceive beyond a 20 something year old character for his 40 year old leading lady, and this is hammered home when he basically says (paraphrasing) how refreshing it is to have a part played as he conceived it when the younger Eve auditions to be Margo's understudy.
Hello Lloyd, you're a playwright , why don't you write a role suited for Margo's age, you idiot.
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14 minutes ago, caracas1914 said:
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On 7/17/2017 at 8:44 AM, Yokosmom said:
My only problem with the film is the "a woman is nothing without a man" trope that it embraces fully. Definitely of it's time, but still annoying. Other than that gripe, fabulous film. Very well written and acted. So many memorable scenes.
The famous car scene where Margo (Bette Davis) says to Karen :
Quote" Funny business, a woman's career - the things you drop on your way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. That's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman. Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted. And in the last analysis, nothing's any good unless you can look up just before dinner or turn around in bed, and there he is. Without that, you're not a woman. You're something with a French provincial office or a book full of clippings, but you're not a woman. Slow curtain, the end."
I agree that it is of it's time, but there's the trope that success without someone to love and share it with is a less complete life. Of course we acknowledge that not all fulfilled people share that sentiment, but many do. So I take it that Margo wanted to love and be loved and that was her way of articulating that she didn't want to be defined completely just by her career. (The annoying part is that you are not a complete woman whereas a single successful man in that time period is still a man, so yeah sexist). Today we realize that both women AND men come to realization that their life choices have consequences which leaves them less than satisfied. So I think Margo's dialogue still strikes a chord with how many think about life, love and career and the balance of it all, so I don't think it's just sexist tripe Margo is expressing but what she genuinely wants out of life, or her concept of a complete life.
I dunno, I never got the impression Margo felt compelled to completely give up her career or Bill was asking her to do it.
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Well Sam Elliot has apologized for his earlier bashing:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/sam-elliott-apology-power-of-the-dog-1235128001/
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Watching "The French Lieutenant's Wife" you have Meryl Streep and it reminded me that she has her 3 acting daughters, including Louis Jacobson getting a big splash TV debut in "The Gilded Age" but also Jeremy Iron whose son Max is also in the profession.
Have to say, like Streep, his son doesn't have that extra star quality that Jeremy Irons has, but he's actually carved out a nice career, and I do think he does very well with his Spy series "Condor" based on the novel and the 1975 Robert Redford flick "Three days of the Condor".
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On 1/31/2022 at 10:42 PM, methodwriter85 said:
Wow, I did not know about that. That explains a lot.
J. Lo did a similar "burning bridges" interview in 1998 and I remember noting that AFTER she did it, she was pretty much never able to get higher quality roles as opposed to the ones that first established her like Selena and Out of Sight.
That said, she did chug herself along in her romcoms and Lifetime-with-a-budget thrillers to the point that at 50-something she's still a name and she even got her "Oh, yeah she can act" reminder with Hustlers that got her a Golden Globe (and suggested Hollywood has finally forgiven her) but still...you gotta wonder what her career might have looked like if she had been better at playing ball.
Man, though, it is so hard to imagine any currently young actor making a faux paus like that. If you ever notice or follow the social media/promotions young stars of various movies/t.v. shows do, they ALWAYS gush over each other and are all, "Yeah, we totes luv each other and we're all best friends!"
Maybe I'm nuancing it , but the difference with JLO is that she was dissing some of her fellow female actors, so there's a difference between that and knocking your movie or producer or writers on a project or even getting a reputation of being difficult to work with on set. While I'm sure that interview didn't make her look good but it's hard to believe that derailed her career all by itself. Also it's not as if she's just focused on a film career all these years.
JLO is an interesting case: in that she established her acting career before going into the music route. Some actors/singers dabble in both but they pull out from one or the other or find it difficult to juggle both simultaneously (Beyoncee, Justin Timberlake, Mariah Carey, George Strait, etc with different levels of success).
Of the younger ones, one could count on Haillee Steinfeld as the best dual threat, and of course Justin Timberlake, but again it's fairly rare to keep both going for so long.
Love her or hate her, one can't deny she is an icon, JLO is a brand.
I remember she had the #1 movie and the #1 album simultaneously around 1999 or 2000, so yeah, she never became a prestigious actress in the Meryl Streep vein, but TBH she's had a film career AND a music career spanning 20 years each and she still has leading roles. Part of it is she's not a white male actor who can get lots of chances even with misfires, (Sue me, I liked "The Cell") so most women actors don't get that many opportunities past a certain point. Still, getting 20 years of Rom/coms is sorta impressive, I mean she can still pull them off.
TBH, wouldn't be surprised if in the future she gets offered a few choice character roles, but with her I get the impression her acting career is just one of several things she is managing.
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Maybe it's more a plot point, but the quick visual and script shorthand establishing that the city folk are heartless, cold , manipulative and career- driven creatures versus the "real" living, caring, non materialistic and nurturing values people in the idyllic country.
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Hollywood Nepotism: The Good, the Bad, and The Ugly
in Everything Else Movies
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Oh I agree that the character is not suppose to be “nice” and Hanks as an old curmudgeon was the point. Still think alot of good younger actors could have had better chemistry with the actress playing the younger wife. He looks/doesnt look like his father like so many offspring do.
Also agree that Colin is much more like his dad, but since this is the nepotism thread can’t see why Truman won the role other than his parents were the exec producers.