All Male Revue: Brad, Andy and Ryan (who is just too Ryan).
Monday, September 26, 2011 at 7:38PM 
The Film Experience is known the world over for its actressy devotions but for this quickie link-list, we've gone Men Only for some reason. Must be all that Best Actor talk in the air... or rather in the internetz. On that front I would like to note that my Best Actor chart is HAUNTING ME. It went the way of the dinosaur once Moneyball hit... rendering past speculations moot and the html coding is suddenly acting up, too. Yes, Brad Pitt vaults up when the charts are all redone on Friday. Weekly updates, however minor, follow from then on. Aren't you excited?
Okay okay. Enough screams and tears of joy for weekly charts. Settle.
Hello Giggles a must-read letter to Ryan Gosling. "You have to stop. Just stop. It’s getting to be too much."
Oscar Metrics Mark Harris in the lonely outfield, doubting Brad Pitt's nominatability for Moneyball.
In Contention surveys the crowded Best Actor field and talks Michael Fassbender and Michael Shannon.
Cinema Blend Justin Timberlake has already played one man who rocked the rock world (Napster founder in The Social Network.) Next he'll play Neil Bogart who introduced 70s acts like KISS and The Village People to the world in Spinning Gold.
Towleroad Actor Sean Maher (of Firefly and The Playboy Club) comes out of the closet.
Movie|Line talks to Corey Stoll of Midnight in Paris career-boosting.
Oh and only because I know I'll forget. A very happy 50th birthday to Andy Lau tomorrow. He's been super busy lately what with festival appearances, multiple new films and headlining the Hong Kong Oscar submission A Simple Life which stars Deannie Yip (Best Actress Venice) as his life long nanny who suddenly needs him to caretake. Please to remember that Lau was Matt Damon before Matt Damon was Matt Damon in The Departed by way of the original film Infernal Affairs. Have you ever seen that one?
Here's the subtitled trailer to his Oscar entry A Simple Life.
Reader Comments (8)
Sorry to nitpick but on the Actor chart you have Johnny Depp with only two prior nominations, even though he's had three. :)
Also thank you so much for sharing that link to the Ryan Gosling letter. My thoughts exactly.
So as happy as I am about brad possibly being nominated (if only for the fact we could see him and Angie on the red carpet) do you really believe he will be nominated? I'm only asking because I feel like his soulful performance might be drowned out later by much "showier" work as has happened in the past...
Kris Tapley seems suspicious of the lasting power for Brad Pitt's buzz but it seems pretty real to me. You seem to think so too. Do you think his buzz is sustainable?
It's already "tomorrow" in Hong Kong, so you are good.
Casey -- well it's ALWAYS hard to sustain buzz over the long haul so we'll see. I just think he's better loved that Gary Oldman you know? so if they're going for career capping honors... of course tehre's always LEO still.
Andy Lau is ageless! He looks like he drank from the fountain of youth and stopped ageing 20 years ago. Possibly unpopular opinion: Infernal Affairs is superior to The Departed in every way except the actresses (who are minimally written in both, but marginally better served in TD).
The open letter to Ryan Gosling was hysterical. I envy the writer who so brilliantly and hilariously articulated an obsession I can certainly relate to. Thanks for sharing.
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