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Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 8:00AM 
Marisa Berenson, Joel Grey and Liza Minnelli at the premiere of Cabaret (1972)Vanity Fair smart piece by Mark Harris on what four Oscar campaign's (or rather the potential success thereof) might tell us about the "new" Academy including Lupita Nyong'o in Us
The Guardian talks to Marisa Berenson (Cabaret) on why she walked away from the spotlight so many years ago.
After the jump animated short Oscar hopefuls, Taylor Swift Cats news, Jeff Goldblum, a new film from The Lighthouse's Robert Eggers and more...
The Sunday Times profiles Jeff Goldblum. Great subheader on this piece that makes you want to read: "Cult actor. Style icon. Jazz star. Viral meme. Older dad. Where did it all go so right for Jeff Goldblum?"
MovieMaker Sienna Miller thinks her best scene in American Woman (which, yes, they're still pushing apparently!) was left on the cutting room floor. For the record we agree that she's terrific in that little seen 2019 indie.
Variety Producer Robert Evans (who Dustin Hoffman famously got Oscar nominated for doing an imitation of in Wag the Dog) has passed away. Have you ever seen The Kid Stays in the Picture? That was quite a juicy showbiz doc
Cartoon Brew 92 animated shorts believed to have qualified for the Oscars in that category (and we would like to add that it's beyond annoying that Oscar no longer lists the eligible contenders and we can't find a valid reason for that decision)
iTunes there's a third trailer for Star Wars Episode IX: Rise of Skywalker but we think 1 teaser is more than enough for a movie that everyone on the planet will likely see even if there were no trailers.
MNPP details on the next project from Robert Eggers (The Witch, The Lighthouse) which is lining up an incredible cast: Kidman, Skarsgård, and Anya Taylor Joy). Update: It's called The Northman
Out Taylor Swift wrote an original song for the Cats movie, and its reprised twice so watch out for it in Best Original Song at the Oscars
Film School Rejects there's a new book out on Rick Baker, Hollywood's most honored Makeup magician called "Metamorphosis"
MNPP wants us to stop undervaluing Mia Wasikowska, who just turned 30
Reader Comments (11)
The shorts who stand with me by the trailer are
Augur
The Daughter
Hair Love
Henrietta Bulkowski
Ian, a moving story
Jing Hua
Les Mans 1955
Reneepoptosis
The Physics of Sorrow
Uncle Thomas: Accounting for the Days
Marisa Berenson is one of those all-time captivating people. In I Am Love she is just exquisite.
Beautiful Marisa Berenson came at a time when women no longer wanted to look like movie stars (because there was no longer "that" kind of Audrey, Marilyn, Grace movie star) but like the models that became the epitome of beauty in the vacuum left by the old-fashioned movie stars that died out. Now the stars were proudly like "real-life women." So it was up to the models to be the "make-believe women." Like Marisa Berenson.
Luca is great at letting worldy women flex their sophistication onscreen. Tilda is the obvious example but Marisa Berenson (I Am Love) and Amira Casar (Call Me By Your Name) come to mind too.
Sienna Miller definitely was amazing in American Woman. Hope she gets a big push!
Rick Baker Legend.
Rick Baker, like Edith Head, has become synonymous/metaphor for his profession/category at the Oscars.
I'd believe in chances of a nomination for Lupita Nyong'o a few months ago, but now that the competition has heated up with new possibilities, I have doubts. But I think Us has chances in other categories. Seems to me that for it qualities will receive some nomination.
Please, do not have Taylor Swift at the Oscars. She is an evil succubus.
Marisa Berenson is indeed beautiful and still a knockout.
I have seen The Kid Stays in the Picture, Robert Evans is a legend despite his bad taste in wearing bolo ties (ugh) and that horrendous "Get High on Yourself" campaign. How come no one did a parody of it with the song title "Go Fuck Yourself".
Yes, we'll have Taylor Swift at the Oscars. How do I know? She wrote the mentioned song with Mr. Musical in person Andrew Lloyd Webber. He won a golden statuette for the new song made for Evita (1996) with Madonna and was nominated for the new song made for The Phantom of the Opera (2004) with Gerard Butler and will certainly be nominated for this new song of Cats - The Unexpected Movie. Bringing with him Taylor Swift. At least one nomination they get, especially with ever-waning competition making the Academy hunt songs in documentaries. He was also nominated for the soundtrack of Jesus Christ Superstar (1973).
Rick Baker Make Up Master!
I like Mark Harris, but he seems to be reaching this time. I'd argue that only one of those is even a remote possibility, so it seems unfair to pin it on the Academy. It's not necessarily a tribute to the new membership if any of them do get nominated, and it's not necessarily an indictment on the old membership if they don't. And the Almodovar mention is odd since, as he states, it already happened earlier this year (and once before that).
Side note: are we now recasting Olivia Colman's win as a complete shock, and Green Book's win as a numbing inevitability? It's been a few months, but I seem to recall that Colman was a solid 2nd place (her movie was much better received that Glenn's) and Best Picture was a solid two (or three) horse race.