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Your personal GG winners
popcultureboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/23/03
#25re: Your personal GG winners
Posted: 12/13/05 at 6:06pmCrap crappity crap. I just realised Scarlett Johannson and Rachel Weisz are in the same category. Now I'm totally torn.
#26re: Your personal GG winners
Posted: 12/13/05 at 6:12pm
Interesting, credible argument, WickedRocks. Unfortunately, Cinderella Man is mid-2005's news whereas Cold Mountain was relatively fresh. Renee had two nominations before her win. Giamatti has none. It may be considered enough to just nominate him, if even that, and then wait to award him with his next performance or the one following that.
Jake Gyllenhaal for Brokeback Mountain (NBR winner) and Matt Dillon for Crash (sentimental favorite for many people) may provide formidable competition. But, I definitely think Giamatti has a great chance; he's just no sure thing.
#27re: Your personal GG winners
Posted: 12/13/05 at 6:46pm
In my opinion, Giamatti shouldn't even be nominated. There are several other performances that outshined his this year.
While I didn't care for CRASH, the performances in that movie are undeniably strong. Matt Dillon (whom I always dismissed as an "actor," not an ACTOR) completely blew me away in this movie - as did Thandie Newton, Sandra Bullock, and several others. Even Don Cheadle's performance is clear and certain perfection. Both Cheadle and Dillon reach heights in their performances that sheer writing doesn't allow for in CINDERELLA MAN. I sincerely and truly hope that Dillon will win the GG and the Oscar. But, history tends to repeat iteslf, and this category will be another repeat of last year.
Clive Owen was the best in the category - he won the GG, but lost the Oscar to Morgan Freeman who, really, won the award because he's Morgan Freeman rather than for his particular performance. This year, I suspect that Dillon will win the Golden Globe and that Giamatti will win the Oscar. I don't think the Academy is ready to think of Matt Dillon as an Oscar winner whose performance record is, while respectible, not steady.
#28re: Your personal GG winners
Posted: 12/13/05 at 6:49pmSpeaking of Million Dollar Baby... how weird would it be to give two boxing coaches the supporting actor award back to back, when neither role demands that much range?
#29re: Your personal GG winners
Posted: 12/13/05 at 7:05pmThat is true! They could also reward two boxers in a row- Swank and Crowe - but Crowe definitely won't win, even if he's able to score a nod.
#30re: Your personal GG winners
Posted: 12/13/05 at 7:09pmI really hope that Giamatti doesn't win this year. His performance in Cinderella Man was mediocre at best. I was hoping that Robert Patrick would score a nod for his superb work in Walk the Line.
#31re: Your personal GG winners
Posted: 12/13/05 at 7:13pm
Or the guy from CAPOTE - I can't think of his name.
Who was Patrick in WALK THE LINE? Cash's father?
#33re: Your personal GG winners
Posted: 12/13/05 at 7:16pmEvelyn, your signature makes me laugh everytime I see it. I love the "meeeee." That movie is amazing.
#34re: Your personal GG winners
Posted: 12/13/05 at 7:17pm
Patrick was Cash's father.
Munk, I believe you are referring to Clifton Collins Jr.
#35re: Your personal GG winners
Posted: 12/13/05 at 7:18pm
I disagree that Patrick should have been nominated.
But yes, Clifton Collins Jr. was brilliant.
#36re: Your personal GG winners
Posted: 12/13/05 at 7:19pm
LOL thank you Munk. I'm actually having another Mommie Dearest party this week - in an attempt to make yet another person who took the film seriously as a child see it differently. And... when MichaelBennett comes to Chicago... he and I are talking about hosting a big screening of it in a theater...
I'm still trying to get the "But I can't keep doing it LBeeeeeeee" line down for my next quote.
#37re: Your personal GG winners
Posted: 12/13/05 at 7:20pm
Agree about Collins.
I really think that Patrick's performance was the best supporting performance I've seen this year (and that really isn't saying much). Of the five people nominated, the only person I could even think about giving it to was Bob Hoskins.
#38re: Your personal GG winners
Posted: 12/13/05 at 7:24pm
In an ideal world (i.e. one where I control everything haha), Koji Yakusho, Matthew Broderick and Jake Gyllenhaal would fight this one out.
Of course I'm talking out of my ass; I haven't seen Brokeback Mountain or The Producers. I just have a gut feeling that Broderick and Gylleenhaal will join Yakusho on my favorite supporting males list.
#39re: Your personal GG winners
Posted: 12/13/05 at 7:26pmGyllenhaal deserves to be nominated just as much as Ledger does, IMO. I was surprised to see him not recognized.
#40re: Your personal GG winners
Posted: 12/13/05 at 7:56pmTINAAAAAA! BRING ME THE AXE!
#41re: Your personal GG winners
Posted: 12/13/05 at 7:58pm
I just watched "no. 4" on the DVD today. I cannot get enough of how quickly Joan's mood changes between when Uncle Greg tells her she got the movie role over the phone, and when she catches Christina "making fun" of her in the mirror...
"Oh YES... it was thrilling... I'm so GRATEFUL to you ALL... my WONderful fans... who have made me A STAR........ Mommie!"
#42re: Your personal GG winners
Posted: 12/13/05 at 8:00pm
Hmmmm I do believe this thread has been jacked.
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#43re: Your personal GG winners
Posted: 12/13/05 at 8:00pm
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMAZING.
I want to write a musical based on MOMMIE DEAREST for Off-Broadway - I think it would be a huge success. I want to to be something completely random, though - like "Mommie Dearest: The Opera," or "What's Wire Hangers Doing in Here, the musical."
#44re: Your personal GG winners
Posted: 12/13/05 at 8:03pm
A 13-year-old who posts on IMDB is already planning "Barbara Please!" (the musical)
And of course you have heard of Mommie Queerest, the play with strobe lights used to represent Christina's hair as Joan hacks away at it.
When did you first see the film?
#45re: Your personal GG winners
Posted: 12/13/05 at 8:12pm
When I was a kid - it frightened me to death.
I recently watched it for the first time in a LONG LONG time (about a month ago) and I laughed for two hours straight.
popcultureboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/23/03
#46re: Your personal GG winners
Posted: 12/13/05 at 8:17pm
If you're going off-Broadway and you wanted to be really avant garde with the title, you could always use a Bette Midler line when she was talking about seeing Joan Crawford wearing a t-shirt with the slogan "I never laid a f***ing hand on those kids". Has a certain ring to it, no?
And I am truly stunned by Hoskins being nominated. As I said when talking about Mrs Henderson on here, it amazes me that he continues to find work.
DG
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/05
#47re: Your personal GG winners
Posted: 12/13/05 at 8:21pm
pop - all the ushers would have to wear the t-shirt with the venetian blind shadows streaked across her face 
popcultureboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/23/03
#48re: Your personal GG winners
Posted: 12/13/05 at 8:24pmPerfect
#49re: Your personal GG winners
Posted: 12/13/05 at 8:27pm
There are so many musicalizations of Mommie Dearest in the works. Marc Shaiman is even writing one. Someone will beat him to it, too. Here's a suggestion from someone not talented enough to write a musical...
CHRISTOPHER: THE UNTOLD STORY.
Whoa boy. Read Christina's book and Crawford's own 1962 autobiography. The movie would've been THAT much funnier if Bette Davis were in it, and if we had the opportunity to see things Joan did to Christopher while Christina was away at boarding school and the convent...
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