Profile for MrMidwest

Brittany Murphy would've been transcendent.

Oh, Arthur, you were doing so well until you said that The Misfits was MM's "first dramatic role." So Don't Bother to Knock and Bus Stop never happened, huh?

Apparently Natalie Wood taught her some Russian for this meeting!

“You’re very tough on the Strasbergs in your memoir,” I say. “Well, I meant to be,” Miller says. “You describe them as poisonous, and vacuous.” “That’s a good description.” “Humbugs.” “Mr. and Mrs.” “The inference one draws is that they were almost instrumental in Marilyn’s dissolution.” “Well, put it this way. They had an immense influence on her mind. Immense. Not the wife, but him. The wife she saw through, pretty much. But she never saw through him. He had the fascination of a guru. Not j...

Fighting anti-semitism through art.

Kelly Lynch and Bronson Pinchot are just a couple of people who have talked about Denzel being difficult/controlling when they worked with him.

For the younger people who might not know why Annie Potts is so beloved/adorable/hilarious:

Carol sings 2 songs from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcyDo0fthZI

I remember there was an episode of Newlyweds where she was coming back from the studio and she said something like "they said I was singing the song too gospel-y, like people can't sing a long." So clearly at a certain point she was being coerced to try to fit in with the pop music scene of that period.

Thanks for posting all of the information, PalJoey. So awful. I can barely think about it without wanting to throw up.

So does Aaron Ramey actually have lines or not?

How do y'all think they have both grown as artists in the last 10 years?

Do you think James Marsden takes a look at Chris Pine and thinks, "I was born too early and started too late."?

"Does anybody think sticking him in a recording studio would have produced a better vocal performance?" He sounds about 10 times better here than he does in the scene in the actual film. Did they wait til after the shoot to teach him proper breath control and comfortable placement of the voice?

I was moved by the Les Miserables film. It's a bold movie. It just keeps coming at you with raw emotion. But when the singing is so off at certain points that it's all you can think about, it should be fixed.

Pierce Brosnan's singing is cute and funny. He's not off key..his voice is just very odd.

The Confrontation song was the worst for me in the film. Russell was just so flat. The Neil Patrick Harris/Jason Segal version is better sung and more compelling, no lie.