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Post by **Big Magilla** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 8:21 pm

Lily Tomlin's character in Nashville was written by/for Louise Fletcher whose husband Jerry Bick who had produced Altman's The Long Goodbye and Thieves Like Us, but when Altman and Bick had a falling out Altman recast the role with Tomlin.

One wonders what the 1975 Oscars might have been had Fletcher kept the part and Anne Bancoft, Ellen Burstyn, Jane Fonda, Geraldine Page, Angela Lansbury or Colleen Dewhurst, all of whom turned it down, had played Nurse Ratched instead of Fletcher.

Post by **Penelope** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 7:37 pm

You know, the praise for Lily Tomlin in Nashville has always mystified me; sure, the scene in the nightclub, when she's listening to Keith Carradine sing, is exquisite, but, overall, I think any of the other Nashville ladies, from the nominated Ronee Blakely to the non-nominated Gwen Welles and Barbara Harris, were far superior.

Sabin · Post by **Sabin** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 5:16 pm

Well, now I know. Lee Grant is very amusing in Shampoo but her role is feather light. She shows her cans in the opening scene and has some very good lines but this is something she can phone in. Lily Tomlin wuz straight-up robbed.

Post by **The Original BJ** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 3:40 pm

--Sabin wrote:Did Lee Grant deserve the Oscar over Lily Tomlin?

No way. Lee Grant is intermittently amusing and has some good zingers but it's not a very challenging role at all.

I think an all-Nashville lineup would have been one of the greatest slates of all time. Blakley. Chaplin. Harris. Tomlin. Welles. I'm getting a little giddy just thinking about it!

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Sabin · Post by **Sabin** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 2:51 pm

Shampoo (Hal Ashby) - 7.5/10

Sexual realignment as political realignment. I can dig it. It's a good time that ostensibly could have been about a little more. Love the Paul Simon score. La Ronde in Laurel Canyon.

Post by **Precious Doll** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 3:54 am

Far North (2008) Asif Kapadia 4/10

The Wave (2008) Dennis Gansel 4/10

La Sconosciuta (2006) Giuseppe Tornatore 4/10

Post by **Reza** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 10:43 pm

Easy Virtue (Stephan Elliott, 2008) 4/10

I'm surprised this play was never adapted for the big or small screen in between the Hitchcock version in 1928 and this boring version.

dreaMaker · Post by **dreaMaker** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 5:47 pm

Shi mian mai fu (The House of Flying Daggers)

8.5/10

Beautiful, pure poetry.

Zahveed · Post by **Zahveed** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 5:07 pm

--Damien wrote:Goldie Hawn's the best thing in Shampoo.

I love out-of-context statements.

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Post by **Precious Doll** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 4:56 pm

Bekleme odasi (2004) Zeki Demirkubuz 5/10

Wendy and Luck (2008) Kelly Reichardt 9/10

Tom Brown's School Days (1951) Gordon Parry 7/10

mlrg · Post by **mlrg** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 9:00 am

--Big Magilla wrote:

The performance that was criminally ignored was Beatty's. His was easily the year's best lead comedic work. He should have been nominated in place of Walter Matthau's hambone crapola in The Sunshine Boys.

The Sunshine Boys is on my shelf waiting to be seen, part of my accolade of seeing all acting nominees since 1970, but I agree with you on Beatty.

Ironically, although I think Busgy and Bonnie and Clyde still remain as my favourite Beatty's performances, I think he is very good on comedic roles.

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Post by **Big Magilla** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 8:18 am

Hal Ashby's first seven films as a director - The Landlord, Harold and Maude, The Last Detail, Shampoo, Bound for Glory, Coming Home and Being There - were quintessential 1970s films. Every one of them is worth revisiting from time to time.

All of them feature great performances. The greats in Shampoo were Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn and Lee Grant. I didn't care for either Jack Warden or Carrie Fisher. Warden's best screen performance IMO was in The Verdict seven years later.

Grant though good, was better in The Landlord. Lily Tomlin and Ronee Blakley were the year's standout supporting actresses in Nashville but Grant was considered due.

The performance that was criminally ignored was Beatty's. His was easily the year's best lead comedic work. He should have been nominated in place of Walter Matthau's hambone crapola in The Sunshine Boys.

mlrg · Post by **mlrg** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 2:13 am

--Sabin wrote:Really want to see Shampoo. I'm a very big Ashby fan. Did Lee Grant deserve the Oscar over Lily Tomlin? I can't imagine a better performance that year.

I still have to see Nashville but I think Grant fully deserved at least a nomination. Jack Warden for me is the one who deserved it.

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Post by **Damien** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 1:42 am

Goldie Hawn's the best thing in Shampoo.

Post by **Reza** » Sun Mar 29, 2009 8:55 pm

--Penelope wrote:I agree, Grant is fabulous, it's a showy role, but she doesn't ham it up the way she did in subsequent films.

Hey I loved her hair clutching scene in Voyage of the Damned (1976). Pure ham...all the way!!

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