Links: Jennifer's World, Screenplay Competition, Gena's Glory
Thursday, October 15, 2015 at 6:00PM 
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<-- If you haven't yet read Jennifer Lawrence's short essay "Why Do I Make Less Than My Male Co-Stars" you should.
Salon on the many stars who are coming out in support of JLaw on Twitter
Teen Vogue Jennifer Lawrence and other stars before they were famous posing for Abercrombie & Fitch
THR Actress Joan Leslie (Yankee Doodle Dandy, Sergeant York) has died at 90
Tracking Board Yorgos Lanthimos' (The Lobster) next project is about Queen Anne and it's called The Favorite. The female driven film will star Rachel Weisz, Emma Stone and Olivia Colman
David Poland "20 Weeks To Oscar" he thinks only four movies are locked up in Best Picture: The Martian, Spotlight, Steve Jobs and Room but here's what I found most interesting. He argues that only Brie Larson & Kate Winslet can rest easy in their respective actress fields and I can see that The rest of the fields are fluid.
AV Club Because Ryan Murphy isn't spread thin enough he's pitching an anthology series called "One Hit Wonders" to star Goop herself, Gwyneth Paltrow
Oscar Chatter
Awards Daily on the Screenplay races. Celebrity writers + Best Picture heat
In Contention Kris Tapley on the makeup race. Can box office bombs factor in?
General Linkage
Interview talks to Emma Donaghue the novelist who adapted her own work for the screen in Room
Criterion has an amazing conversation with the French director Arnaud Desplechin (Kings & Queen, My Golden Days). They talk Oscars, Lars von Trier (?), male versus female actors, nudity, everything. I like this bit on his relationship to Mathieu Amalric who is in most of his films:
Mathieu is hard with me. He’s really hard. You don’t know all his French films, but I saw all his French films. He always plays the same part in all the films. They’re quite good, but I remember when I proposed Kings & Queen to him, he told me: “Arnaud, the script is great, but I don’t want to play the same character as in My Sex Life. You have to prove to me that this is another character.” I have to prove to you? Come on, you play the same character in five films, why am I obliged to prove that to you? He said, “Because it’s love, so you have to prove it.”
Birth. Movies. Death Thor: Ragnarok will be Marvel's darkest. But will it introduce Valkyrie? (People will be completely be over superheroes by the time the females arrive. sigh)
Empire NOooo. Now they want to make a Die Hard "origin story". Boo
Playbill two underused fine actors Aaron Tveit & Mary Elizabeth Winstead headlining a new CBS comic thriller BrainDead with a truly bizarre premise
AV Club broke down 22 references in the Hail, Caesar! trailer
MNPP Jason has some thoughts on a possible tv version of Y: The Last Man
Finally...
"I had seen her when I was a teenager in Lonely Are the Brave with Kirk Douglas. I'd never seen anyone that beautiful with a certain gravitas. It was particularly unique in that time, when many women were trying to be girlish, affecting a superficial, 'I'm a pretty girl' attitude. It seemed to be the best way to succeed, but Gena did none of that. There was a directness—not that she wasn't fun and didn't smolder—but it came from a place that was both genuine and deep.
-Mia Farrow on Gena Rowlands"
Elle Magazine's "Women in Hollywood" issue is available digitally now and comes out next week featuring Gena Rowlands, Alicia Vikander, Salma Hayek, Kate Winslet, Carey Mulligan, Ava DuVernay, Amy Schumer, and Dakota Johnson.
Reader Comments (17)
Kris Tapley calls Johnny Depp's BLACK MASS make-up "iconic".
Thank god for that Gena Rowlands magazine cover.
Glenn -oh dear. but we know Kris is very in with that Scott Cooper so...
I guess Cal Roth fainted. I almost did. That cover is everything!
While every bubble has to burst, I don't think the Superhero trend will end soon enough that it'll effect Thor: Ragnarock because it comes out in 2017. Therefore, we maybe getting both Valkyrie and Wonder Woman in the same year... Captain Marvel might come too late, though. We'll see.
Glad the Academy saw fit to give Rowlands her elusive honorary statuette.
Daniel Armour: Um...Pan (written by Jason Fuchs, the same guy writing Wonder Woman) is bombing? Production WILL be delayed, probably to a timeframe that lets critical and commercial reaction to Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice decide if that film goes forward at all? (After all, Warner Bros. doesn't have anyone nipping at their heels over the rights, so they can afford to take a "when it's right" approach to everything.) We might be switching over to the DCXU as a string of supervillain films if Suicide Squad is successful? Remember: Keep that in mind as a possibility.
While never a top star Joan Leslie was one of the last of the NAME actresses from the Golden Age left walking among us. She would turn up on Turner Classics from time to time to talk about working with Bogart and Lupino in High Sierra or some other film, Gary Cooper in Sergeant York or one of the many other legends she knew. 90 is a terrific run and it sounds like she had a happy life but another window on Hollywood's past has closed and that's a shame.
PRETTY DARN BUMMED THAT WINSLET WAS REPLACED IN "The Favourite". Not that Weisz isn't wonderful, just was really looking forward to seeing her work with Yanthimos.
Isn't the "Die Hard" origin story "Die Hard"? John McClane wasn't an action hero before that, a prequel would just be a movie about a wise-ass New York cop driving his wife away.
You just don't photoshop Gena Rowlands's face! I love that she made this cover, but, please, respect her age
One more thing: JLaw becomes the star of an equal pay campaign, her movie is about a successful female entrepreneur and for some reason I've just realized that she's headed for that second Oscar? We all already love her, and now this!
What did they do to her face?!? She's an octogenarian, she's earned every line on her face! It's called experience! ELLE should have shown some respect. She doesn't need to look like a refugee from the Land of the Unold!
Why do so many people say Jennifer Lawrence is headed for a second Oscar? We know nothing about JOY to be saying this. Seems far more likely Blanchett would get a third at this stage because we've actually seen the films she's in contention for. So strange.
Jennifer Lawrence will win a second Oscar. For it's inevitable after they gave her one for a weak performance at age 22. And the most hyperbole in the world surrounds her. She almost beat Lupita! How ridiculous and insane is that? I don't believe Joy is her second Oscar. The other contenders in her category have to somehow appear weak. And potentials like Brie Larson and Blanchett are nowhere near weak.
Of course the boy who hates prime era Glenn Close (cal roth) just loves to eat off of Lawrence's booty. God this is why we can't have nice things. The loudest voices have the worst taste.
/3rtful & glenn -- sorry to disappoint but i'm with Cal on this one. I think the narrative and love is there for Jennifer to win a second IF Joy delivers. I don't quite understand Hollywood's JLaw obsession (i like her but nowhere near my favorite in her age bracket) but they definitely have it.
Do you believe precursors will lineup for her? And no critics awards do not count. Televised ceremonies are the only ones which Oscar pays attention to and they rarely go their own way.
Thank God finally Gena Rowlands is getting an honorary Oscar. No one deserves that more. In my opinion, she's the best actress in the world. (and I hope La Streep will forgive me).