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Tuesday, March 15, 2011 at 10:15AM 
TwitVid Jake Gylllenhaal and Pee Wee Herman. tee hee.
Cinesnatch runs down that Streep Tease show in LA for you. It sounds fun. I especially love the idea of a one-man conversation between multiple Meryl characters. Hopefully I'll get to see it next time I'm in LA. Whenever that is...
Business Spectactor Speaking of Meryl Streep, this is how you know someone's cinema achievements (of any sort) have totally entered the realm of the popular mythic, when they're brought up in totally non-cinema related ways. Streep as defense of aging executives! Haha
Awards Daily I keep meaning to link up to this article on astrology and Oscar. Super interesting chart if you're into signs, baby. And it's all about Aries apparently.
The House Next Door Gregg Araki's new muse Thomas Dekker.
Twitch has a piece on how the PG-13 rating killed the films it was meant to protect, the films aimed at very young teenagers.
Senses of Cinema here's an interesting piece on Leo McCarey, his 1937 Oscar win and his preference for his drama Make Way For Tomorrow over his indisputable screwball classic The Awful Truth. I haven't seen Make Way... but I've never though artists were the best judge of their own art.
Rants of a Diva has an Oscar winning dream.
Serious Film has great advice for screenwriters of romantic comedies.
Capital New York. A fine review of Certified Copy starring Juliette Binoche though I'd urge you to see the movie first before reading it. It's a must-see film but one of the most beautiful things about it is the sense of evolving surprise as the film keeps shifting. So maybe read no reviews at all until afterwards. Then you'll want to read them all.
Finally La Daily Musto shares the news that that Barbra Streisand version of Gypsy that we were all excited / worried / shocked about has been cancelled already. Just as we'd gotten used to the idea. Apparently Stephen Sondheim is to blame. So here is Babs singing one of her best songs about nostalgia for what once was or what could have been.
Take it away Babs.
I love the guy bouncing up and down in the audience as she starts (notice him to the far right?). Babs fans were very excitable from the very start!
Babs, Gregg Araki, Gyllenhaalic, Gypsy, MPAA, Meryl Streep, Oscar Trivia, Oscars (30s), Pee Wee Herman, Theater
Reader Comments (12)
Both the McCarey films are terrific (the best single year in Hollywood history?), but Make Way for Tomorrow is indeed the stronger film. Amazing.
"Don't rain on my parade" would also be suitable ;)
Make Way for Tomorrow is terrific and McCarey did indeed deserve the Oscar for that film (though I need to add that The Awful Truth is one of my favorites too)
Odd year that the Academy gave out an Oscar for a comedy over a drama.
To be fair to the Academy, Robert, comedies in general were a lot funnier and more sophisticated back in 1937. See the Serious Film link for one reason why they usually suck now.
I'm an Aries so maybe one of these days huh...
Certified Copy is so mysteriously beautiful. Just watching Juliette Binoche applying on make up and her perfect face (What? She is 46?!!) perfectly framed by the screen gave me goosepbumps. Also, can anyone cry more beautifully than her? I expect to see her performance amongst your best of 2011.
Maybe it's just me, but I don't think Paul Reubens has aged a day...or maybe it's just good makeup and hair dye.
I'm a sagittarius! Glad to see we're kind of sweeping at supporting actress (Basinger, Dench, Tomei...) although we suck at everything else...
Interesting to see Babs (circa '75) with stick-straight, "Flower Child" hair right before she went all frizzed out and dark(er) the very next year. (And a yellow tuxedo shirt under brown polyester doesn't make for easy, gleeful bobbing & weaving so...hats off.)
P.S. 'Make Way for Tomorrow' is devestating and poignant, but classic screwball is a lot harder to make than some (McCarey included) make it look, so bless his recognition for that effort.
"The Awful Truth" is marvelous, but "Make Way for Tomorrow" really is a singular achievement. I've been on a movie-watching binge lately, but that one has stuck with me like glue since I watched it a few months ago. I couldn't recommend it more highly, Nate.
Woody, I beg you, please please write a leading comedy role for Barbra. She's free now. Heck, throw in music which you love. The clock is ticking for both of you, and this needs to happen. Give it your best shot, not one of your throwaway movies. Okay?
Make Way for Tomorrow made me cry like a girl. I was inconsolable. I get the impression the same thing happened to Orson Welles.
Screwball comedies are maybe my favourite thing in the world, and The Awful Truth is among the finest. But still, I'm with McCarey - Make Way for Tomorrow is the superior of the two.
And yes, 1937 was marvellous. Beyond McCarey's two classics, we also have 4 other masterpieces: Grand Illusion, Angel (Lubitsch's incredibly wise, incredibly sharp and typically adult dramedy), Nothing Sacred (Carole Lombard outdoes her fabulous self), Snow White. Then there's the delightful A Day at the Races, the original and really excellent A Star Is Born, Lost Horizon, Garbo in Camille, You Only Live Once, Stage Door (which no true actressexual could afford to miss: it's like The Women only laced/lathered with melodrama and everybody plays an actress), The Prisoner of Zenda etc etc