Monday Night Open Thread

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I’m still building my movie library. I’m even cheating to do it.

My goal is to have all the movies that won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor/Supporting Actor, Best Actress/Supporting Actress, and Best Screenplay. I may expand to include more. I’m getting there, slowly but surely.

But what about you? What’s on your mind? Got something you’d like to share? It’s Monday Night Open Thread.

Who wants to start?

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  3. See, my goal is to not see every movie that has won best picture, best actor and best actress since 1983.
    I’m doing pretty good at it too.
    In case you’re wondering, yes. It was Ghandi that forced me to realize the Best Picture! and Best Actor usually weren’t.

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    • Ghandi beat out:
      E.T.
      Missing
      Tootsie
      The Verdict

      You right. Weakest of the bunch. Hell, Sophie’s Choice wasn’t even nominated.

      Kingsley beat:
      Dustin Hoffman (Tootsie)
      Jack Lemmon (Missing)
      Paul Newman (The Verdict)
      Peter O’Toole (My Favorite Year)

      Again, weakest of the bunch.

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          • Benjy Stone: [about to throw up] Mr. Swann, I think I am going to be unwell.
            Alan Swann: Stone, women are unwell, men vomit.

            Alan Swann: I’m not an actor; I’m a movie star!

            K.C.: Do you think there are funny people and not-funny people?
            Benjy: Yes. Definitely. On the funny side there are the Marx Brothers, except Zeppo; the Ritz Brothers, no exceptions; both Laurel and Hardy; and Woody Woodpecker. On the unfunny side there’s anyone who has ever played the accordion professionally.

            Alan Swann:
            Alfredo, telephone the Stork Club, we’ll be two for dinner.
            Alfi:
            You sure you want the Stork Club, Mr. Swann?
            Alan Swann:
            It’s been a year and a half. Surely they’ve repaired the wall of the bandstand by now

            Alan Swann: Rookie, your Meatloaf Mindanao was superb!
            Rookie Carroca: Thanks. That takes two days to prepare, you know.
            Alan Swann: Really! Tell me, what was that rather pungent taste?
            Rookie Carroca: Parrot!
            (someone spits up and Aunt Sadie swoons; the parrot cage is empty)
            Rookie Carroca: And they’re not easy to work with. They put up some squawk.
            Alan Swann: I can imagine!

            Sy: Leo, it gets me sick to think we gotta put up with some washed-up jaboni who’s gonna be running around Central Park with his schlong hangin’ out!
            Alan Swann: My dear fellow, what I choose to do with my schlong is my business.
            Sy: (who didn’t know Swann had entered) How’s business?
            Alan Swann: Never better.

            Leo Silver: (reading from the newspaper) “In response to the question, ‘What were you doing in Central Park, in Bethesda Fountain, at 1 in the morning, naked?’, Swann replied, ‘The back stroke.'”

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  4. I’m trying to negotiate becoming the Host of the 2019 Oscars but they are saying it will be a Hostless event this year. They wouldn’t appreciate my anti-Obama and AOC jokes anyway even though I would do it Pro Bono. Whatever happened to free time for opposing views anyway? Oh well.

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  5. Well, you’re in for a disappointment if you are looking to have any Charlie Chaplin films in your collection.

    And Hitchcock never won for Best Director.

    So, screw the Academy Awards as a standard.

    .

    And I know there is a fault line between those who like 2001 (and Kubrick), and those who don’t, but come on: Which movie is still being viewed and discussed?

    The 41st Academy Awards were presented on April 14, 1969, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. It was the first Academy Awards ceremony to be staged at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. For the first time since the 11th Academy Awards, there was no host.

    Oliver! became the first—and so far, the only—G-rated film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. . . .

    As the special effects director and designer for 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick was the recipient of the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects this year. It was the only Oscar he would ever win.

    [Academy rules said that no more than 5 people on one film could be nominated for “Best Visual Effects,” and 2001 had six. Therefore Kubrick’s name was on the nomination, and some of the the six special effects wizards later were disgruntled. Understandable on both parts.]

    .

    Controversy was created on Oscar night when Johnny Carson and Buddy Hackett announced in a sketch on the evening’s Tonight Show, which was recorded three hours before the awards ceremony, that Oliver! would be the winner for Best Picture and that Jack Albertson would win for Best Supporting Actor. Columnist Frances Drake claimed that most observers believed Carson and Hackett “were playing a huge practical joke or happened to make a lucky guess.”[3] As Carson recalled it on the air years later, it created a huge controversy and people at Price Waterhouse were fired. Referring to it as “The Great Carson Hoax,” PricewaterhouseCoopers stated in a 2004 press release that it was “later proven that Carson and Hackett made a few lucky guesses for their routine, dispelling rumors of a security breach and keeping the integrity of the balloting process intact.”[4] The Academy later hired Carson five times to host the ceremony.

    – Wikipedia

    Did they hire back the people they fired??

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      • Worst Oscar Winners:

        Include Geena Davis. (“The Accidental Tourist”)
        Bland.
        Limp.
        Unremarkable.
        Pale.
        Emotionless.
        Featureless. Well, big cheekbones.
        No Katherine Hepburn.
        No Ingrid Bergman.

        Need I go on?

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        • People who lost to Geena Frellin’ Davis that year.

          Working Girl – Sigourney Weaver
          Working Girl – Joan Cusack
          Dangerous Liaisons – Michelle Pfeiffer
          Mississippi Burning – Frances McDormand
          The Accidental Tourist – Geena Davis

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  6. 1941 Best Picture Winner and Nominees

    How Green Was My Valley Winner
    Blossoms in the Dust
    Citizen Kane
    Here Comes Mr. Jordan
    Hold Back the Dawn
    The Little Foxes
    The Maltese Falcon .
    One Foot in Heaven
    Sergeant York .
    Suspicion

    Hollywood is crazy.

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