Monday
Dec192011
Random Question For Anyone Who Lived Through the 1980s
Monday, December 19, 2011 at 5:45PM How hard would you have laughed at someone who told you in 1988 that scary seductress Glenn Close (of Fatal...Liaisons fame) and firestarter Sinéad O'Connor of "The Lion and the Cobra" fame would one day be nominated for a Golden Globe for penning an end credits lullaby to a quaint little movie about a gender bending waiter by the name of Albert Nobbs?
Glenn Close and Sinéad O'Connor at the Albert Nobbs premiere
Funny how things change. Makes you wonder how tame today's provocateurs will be in 2034.
Which of the Golden Globe "Song" nominees will repeat with an Oscar nomination? Or here's a better question for you: why do the Golden Globes even have this category when they don't have on air musical performances by which to jusity it?
Reader Comments (9)
Funny that you talked about songs today... The Academy just announced their pre-nominations for that category.
http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/in-contention/posts/39-tunes-announced-as-eligible-for-best-original-song-oscar
'José and Pilar', Portuguese Oscar submission, managed to get one song eligible.
The Portuguese song right here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb6GpygKxVo&feature=share
Curiously, Glenn just won the Golden Satellite Award for Best Original Song. How unbelievable it would be should she gets her long-awaited (and much deserved) Oscar not for acting, but for songwriting??? (Just like Chaplin, who didn't won a competitive Oscar as producer, actor, director or screenwriter, but in 1972 got a Best Original Score prize for a movie released twenty years before?)
But the Glenn Close of The Natural ,with her halo of corn-blonde sweet saintliness, could have written lullabies, national anthems, and Take Me Out to the Ball Game.
An Original Song Oscar is really the best way to honor Glenn Close's awesome contribution to cinema? An Original Song Oscar can't undo the harm the Academy perpetrated when they chose Jodie Foster over Glenn in 1988. If she loses again (which is the probable outcome of the season) give her an honorary Oscar for her career.
Eww, I honestly can't even look at Glenn Close after sitting through Albert Nobbs and then filing a whopping 953 words on it. She is so undeserving of being in this year's Oscar mix, which is otherwise overflowing with stellar performances. A friend recently articulated the oh-so obvious: "Written by Glenn Close, produced by Glenn Close, starring Glenn Close, and with a song co-written by Glenn Close, Albert Nobbs is a total vanity project." It's also a total knee-jerk awards magnet.
Sorry for the angry words. Blame it on The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo! #channelinglisbeth
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All I know is that after listening to that cloying song in the trailer about half a dozen times over the last month, I am physically repelled from seeing this movie. And I like Sinead and Glenn! Man, does that song sound terrible.
Both are looking good. I think that, this is a good meet up for both...