Your personal GG winners — Page 2

Crap crappity crap. I just realised Scarlett Johannson and Rachel Weisz are in the same category. Now I'm totally torn.

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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.

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That 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.

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Or the guy from CAPOTE - I can't think of his name.

Who was Patrick in WALK THE LINE? Cash's father?

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Evelyn, your signature makes me laugh everytime I see it. I love the "meeeee." That movie is amazing.

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I disagree that Patrick should have been nominated.

But yes, Clifton Collins Jr. was brilliant.

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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.

Gyllenhaal deserves to be nominated just as much as Ledger does, IMO. I was surprised to see him not recognized.

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!"

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."

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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.

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pop - all the ushers would have to wear the t-shirt with the venetian blind shadows streaked across her face

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...