Cher winning an Oscar — Page 3

Kirkland's campaign started before the Golden Globe nominations were announced. She personally bought and sent VHS copies of the film to every member of the HFPA. After the nominations were announced she attended the nominees luncheon in Beverly Hills where she peronally greeted and posed for photos with every member of the HFPA. She also had a shopping bag filled with wrapped gifts for every member.

The HFPA bans such gifts now but back then the organization was quite controversial. Remember in 1981 Pia Zadora won a Golden Globe for BUTTERFLY after sending Sony Walkmans to every member of the HFPA.

It's a small thing but Cher's accent in Moonstruck really bugged me. This wasn't a woman living in Bensonhurst. She was living in a brownstone off the Brooklyn Heights Promenade with her parents, whose accents were far less inner-borough than hers was.

Updated On: 10/24/13 at 12:47 PM

Best12, it's typical that kids might not have the particular accent than their parents do, or have less of it. Especially when they are not living in the place where the accent typically develops. What I found odd in Moonstruck is that instead of having less of that particular Brooklyn accent (certainly not the accent one normally finds in people living in townhouses in the Heights, but the accent that would likely be found in "the old neighborhood" that your parents came from) than Gardenia and Dukakis did, Cher had considerably more of one.

Updated On: 10/24/13 at 02:49 PM

I don't know about way back then but now that part or Brooklyn you hear a lot of Russian. Polish. Serbian spoken there.

Not so much italian.

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Updated On: 10/24/13 at 05:40 PM

Sue, I disagree.

The house in Moonstruck is at the corner of Willow and Cranberry in Brooklyn Heights. The Brooklyn Heights Promenade is visible from the house in the movie. What you are most likely to hear there, now as well as 25 years ago - and quite likely even 250 years ago - is standard American English. That neighborhood is just about as established, upscale and "old New York Yankee" as any in NYC.

Updated On: 10/25/13 at 07:24 PM

Carlos,

"As I walked up to the stage, electricty was streaming out of my eyeballs - Where am I? What is this? Who are all these people? I had practiced my acceptance speech for my whole life in the shower, but I didn't have anything prepared that night. I was going to say something, and then I just kind of collapsed on the podium and started laughing, and nothing came out exactly right. I couldn't really see anybody from the stage, and I hadn't made a list. I totally forgot to thank Norman Jewison or Nicky Cage or anybody else in the cast. I didn't even thank the Academy. Afterward everyone was pissed because I thanked my hairdresser and my makeup artist, but the truth was, we had just made three movies together back to back with no days off, and the two of them were my only constant companions throughout all three. And I was in shock."

-Cher

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