Cher winning an Oscar- Page 3

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 10/23/13 at 5:03pm

I can't gush enough about Cher's performance, she makes it look so effortless and naturalistic, which takes so much work behind the camera. And has anyone had so much chemistry with Nick Cage before or after? It's the kind of performance that reminds me of say Joan Crawford in MILDRED PIERCE, where she just takes over the screen and simply delivers a hell of a star turn; but unlike Crawford's performance (which I adore and rate as one of my all time favorite lead actress wins), she absolutely disappears into the part without calling attention to the fact that she's freaking Cher. It's so warm, comfortable, passionate, and exciting.

[bobs3]

Posted: 10/23/13 at 7:38pm

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.

[best12bars]

Posted: 10/23/13 at 7:43pm

So basically, Harvey Weinstein learned a lot from Sally Kirkland.

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 10/24/13 at 12:47pm

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

[best12bars]

Posted: 10/24/13 at 12:53pm

It didn't bother me. I know plenty of kids who don't have the same accents as their parents. I grew up with the dad who had a New York accent. I didn't have one though.

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 10/24/13 at 2:49pm

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

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 10/24/13 at 5:36pm

I found it odd that Cher thanked her makeup artist, hair stylist and her personal assistant but failed to acknowledge Norman Jewison, John Patrick Shanley or any of her co-stars during her acceptance speech.

[suestorm]

Posted: 10/24/13 at 5:40pm

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.

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

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 10/24/13 at 6:44pm

Carlos, I feel like in a limited amount of time, it's quite classy to recognize the people who never actually get recognized in public. Her speech is really one of my favorites ever, just the fact she thanks "Mary Louise Streep" makes it a classic.

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 10/24/13 at 7:24pm

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

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 10/24/13 at 7:30pm

... just the fact she thanks "Mary Louise Streep" makes it a classic.

Yeah, i liked that part of her speech. It was cool she acknowledged her. They obviously bonded during the making of SILKWOOD.

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 10/24/13 at 10:34pm

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

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 10/25/13 at 6:39am

Thanks for sharing that Jay Lerner-Z.

Cher is such a class act. That's why I love her.