Annie Wilkes in Misery. MS. BATES!

[NuggetMonkeys]

Posted: 10/30/04 at 3:28pm

Sooooooo haunting.
I finally saw the movie last night.
I am/was horrified.
How lastingly haunting!
GAH!
She is brilliant.
Absolutely brilliant.
-d.b.j-

[Glebb]

Posted: 10/30/04 at 3:30pm

Perfection.

[ShbrtAlley44]

Posted: 10/30/04 at 3:32pm

I had rather a bad time eating at Planet Hollywood once because I was sitting directly beneath Kathy Bates' dress from the movie.

[Matt_G]

Posted: 10/30/04 at 3:34pm

So one could say that you couldn't eat because you were staring up Kathy Bates' dress?

[beacon1]

Posted: 10/30/04 at 3:35pm

She's my role model...

(Somewhere a dog howls in the distance, there is a clap of thunder, and Patrick Wilson feels a cold chill run down his spine.)

Just kidding everyone...

It was Hugh Jackman's spine.

[MaTakeALookAtMe]

Posted: 10/30/04 at 4:08pm

She looks like my mother. seriously. when they make the movie of my life, she'll be playing mom

[NuggetMonkeys]

Posted: 10/30/04 at 4:10pm

That was an absolutely - yes, perfect - performance.

AND EWWWWW. Ma, have you seen Misery?
That would haunt me every time i looked at my mom.
gross.
-d.b.j-

[Glebb]

Posted: 10/30/04 at 4:12pm

A dirty birdy performance.

[NuggetMonkeys]

Posted: 10/30/04 at 4:13pm

Ohh, Paul.

[popcultureboy]

Posted: 10/30/04 at 4:13pm

Nuggs, I can't believe it took you so long to see it, but I'm glad you loved it, you dirty birdy.

Interestingly, none of the Oscar pundits, if I recall, thought Kathy would win, they ALL picked Joanne Woodward in Mr & Mrs Bridges as the likely winner. Except for me. I predicted Kathy would win and I cheered when she did.

[Glebb]

Posted: 10/30/04 at 4:14pm

We're her #1 fans.

[popcultureboy]

Posted: 10/30/04 at 4:19pm

Oh don't get me started. I can quote whole parts of this movie off the top of my head.

[Glebb]

Posted: 10/30/04 at 4:20pm

OK Mister Man!

[ShbrtAlley44]

Posted: 10/30/04 at 4:22pm

He didn't get out of the C*CK-A-DOODIE CAR!

[popcultureboy]

Posted: 10/30/04 at 4:23pm

This isn't what happened last week. Have you all got amnesia? HE DIDN'T GET OUT OF THE COCKADOODIE CAR!

[Broadwaylady]

Posted: 10/30/04 at 4:43pm

Great movie. She scared the bejesus out of me!!!!!!! But, she is great in everything.

[Glebb]

Posted: 10/30/04 at 4:48pm

She made my pusle hectic.

[BroadwayMonkey]

Posted: 10/30/04 at 5:15pm

Loved it!

[Glebb]

Posted: 10/30/04 at 5:17pm

Come to think of it, any woman who loves Liberace and "that dago" who painted the ceiling in the Sistine Chapel can't be that bad.

Updated On: 10/31/04 at 05:17 PM

[Marc Shaiman]

Posted: 10/30/04 at 5:26pm

and what would a BWW thread be without ME tooting my own horn...

did ANY of you happen to notice who scored MISERY? did ANYONE take the time to notice just WHO wrote the music to accompany her little hissy fits, or who composed all those jittery string passages to encourage Paul to race back into his room in his wheelchair, or that lovely melody that underscores the big fight when Paul clobbers her with a pig...huh? HUH? HUH???

just asking...

[beacon1]

Posted: 10/30/04 at 7:14pm

Here's the link to the Internet Movie Database page for Marc.

http://imdb.com/name/nm0003299/

Yep. Misery is listed as number 48.

And, check out the trivia/bio. I had no idea you were the pianist for the Sweeney Sisters on SNL. They were hilarious!

[MaTakeALookAtMe]

Posted: 10/30/04 at 8:06pm

As already stated, she was great in Misery, but I also loved her in About Schmidt.

[ShbrtAlley44]

Posted: 10/30/04 at 8:43pm

Oh my God, Marc, I'm sorry I never noticed that. It's an amazing score. *applause and many regrets for being ignorant*

God, those strings creeped the s*it out of me. Updated On: 10/30/04 at 08:43 PM

[Marc Shaiman]

Posted: 10/30/04 at 9:02pm

I wrote that score in the front room of a small house at the end of a raod that we rented in L.A....at night, people walking their dogs would pass by and hear screaming from my window "YOU KILLED HER!!!" or "CHOKE ON IT, YOU SICK, TWISTED F**K"!!!"

they always looked at me funny after that Updated On: 10/30/04 at 09:02 PM

[ShbrtAlley44]

Posted: 10/30/04 at 9:16pm

*snerk* Way to scar the neighbors for life...