Beauty vs Beast: The Sun Also Sets
Monday, June 6, 2016 at 2:39PM Jason from MNPP here with this week's edition of "Beauty vs Beast" - I think I must have had fever of the brain (to the lay-person that's called Kopfgeschlagen) last week because somehow I didn't take advantage of the 25th anniversary of one of my most favorite comedies of ever, Michael Hoffmann's Soapdish, the fizzy slapstick tale of backstage shenanigans at a daytime soap opera full of narcissistic psychopaths. Somewhere in the late 90s I wore out my VHS I watched this movie so many times - Soapdish is one you could stand me in front of a crowd, tell me to go, and I could perform the entire thing from start to finish, from crawdad butts to Tawny the Tweety-Bird Couturie.
The cast is to a tee in top form - even semi-cameos like Carrie Fisher's classic bitch Betsy Faye Sharon leave impressions so sharp I can summon up their character-names on command. But it's the poisonous rivalry between show queen Celeste Talbert (Sally Field) and "Nurse Nan" Montana Moorehead (Cathy Moriarty) that gives this Soap its eternal dishiness...
PREVIOUSLY With what could turn out to be her final X-Men movie we took the opportunity to say goodbye to Jennifer Lawrence's two blockbuster turns, and Katniss carried the day to the tune of about 80% of your vote - said Tom:
"I thought she was quite good in First Class (and looked great in that mod costuming). But it seems that her heart was always more focused on Katniss than Mystique. She openly expressed that she doesn't really wish to return to the role. She never seemed bored as Katniss, a complaint often lodged at her in regards to her X-Men performance."
Reader Comments (6)
My Mom's favorite actress: #TeamFields Forever!
What am I, 70, David? Why don't you just put me in a walker? Buy a goddamn walker and put me in it!
#celesteforever
Since Sally's fictional diva is famously modeled after Erica Kane, and since I watched All My Children since a wee gayling, it has to be team Celeste.
the real beauty is the auditioning actor betsy faye asks to "maybe try one without your shirt"
[to this day "i think we've found our waiter" is my code for hot guy alert]
but in this twosome? team montana - just for getting out of syosset, long island
Since cruelly there is no option to vote for both I went Team Celeste though my love for Montana Moorehead is eternal.
One of my all-time favourite movies which I LOVE to introduce to friends as it's 100% under-rated. Oh and my favourite quote from the film...
Maggie: "I never said I was the best mother in the word. Give me a little
credit will you; credit for being someone who tired, to love you
the only way she knew how."
Laurie: "I know that speech."
Maggie: "You do?"
Laurie: "Yeah, it was ah, the Thanksgiving show when Maggie meets Bolt's blind
nephew."