Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

ITALIANO wrote:Even just the idea of MENTIONING Martha Hyer sounds rather weird.

Why?

Big Magilla channeled the rationale a typical, older Oscar voter (in this case specifically, Martha Hyer) might adapt in not choosing Carey Mulligan on their ballot in the predictions thread. I was fascinated by how effortlessly he slipped into her psyche. I think Magilla's example of Martha Hyer w...

Someone still should explain that Martha Hyer thing. Big Magilla channeled the rationale a typical, older Oscar voter (in this case specifically, Martha Hyer) might adapt in not choosing Carey Mulligan on their ballot in the predictions thread. I was fascinated by how effortlessly he slipped into h...

ITALIANO wrote:Someone still should explain that Martha Hyer thing.

She refuses to sign autographs.

I don't dislike 3 Women, I'm just not all that enamored of it. Let's not forget that the AARP gave Joan Plowright its best actress award for Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont and Reza gave her one his Oscar Shouldabeens for it. She won mine for Tea With Mussolini. ??? I guess you're not the only Rex Re...

Hogan's Goat (1971) Glenn Jordan 9/10 In off-year elections I try to get my fill of politics by watching The Last Hurrah, The Best Man, Advise & Consent or something else election related. This year I wanted to watch something different. Hogan's Goat concerns the 1890 Brooklyn mayor's race in t...

Damien wrote:Bleecker Street

Sorry I'm going off into a tangent but is there still a cinema on Bleecker Street? I recall watching a number of films there in the 1980s.

Mason I like a lot better than either of her co-stars, the over-rated Dreyfuss and the precocious brat who played her daughter. LOL. I love Drefuss' performance in The Goodbye Girl. Voted for Keaton. My top 5 of the year: Diane Keaton, Annie Hall Jane Fonda, Julia Simone Signoret, Madame Rosa Shirl...

NY times November 4, 2009 THEATER REVIEW | 'NIGHTINGALE' Redgrave Uncorsets a Relative Long Gone By CHARLES ISHERWOOD Lynn Redgrave explores the life of her maternal grandmother through the prism of her own in her reflective new solo show, “Nightingale,” which opened Tuesday night at City Center, c...

Precious Doll wrote:Best Actress

Ann Todd for Love from a Stranger

Ann Harding was in Love From a Stranger

The Doctor Takes a Wife (Alexander Hall, 1940) 5/10

Screwball antics between a spinster writer (Loretta Young) and a doctor (Ray Milland) pretending to be married to each other and the complications that ensue. The leads look their best while doing their thing.



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