by Nathaniel R
Before we move on to the final push for 2020 and a special trivia-filled overview of where the Supporting Actress Smackdown has been over the years (we know how y'all love stats), here's one last push for the 1987 Discussion with the rising busy actor Ato Essandoh, former TFE member and now author Manuel Betancourt (seriously buy his book "Judy at Carnegie Hall" - it's a perfect stocking stuffer gift!), and the critics Kathia Woods and Naveen Kumar. Listen in at the bottom of the post on on iTunes
Index (1 hour and 15 minutes)
00:01 Meeting the Panel
04:30 Throw Momma from the Train
19:00 The zeitgeist impact of Fatal Attraction in 1987 and Glenn Close's brilliance
37:15 Disability drama Gaby and the Old Hollywood actresses of Whales of August
53:30 Moonstruck has aged beautifully. And why Olympia Dukakis won
1:06:00 Final 1987 Recommendations from our panel and Role-Switcheroos
Other pieces on 1987
- 1987 Vintage -An overview of what was hot that year
- Baby Boom
- Carmen Maura in Law of Desire
- Cher, She ruled the world in '87
- Child acting in '87, an unusually Oscar-calibre bunch
- Cinematography Nominees
- Costume Design Nominees
- The Dead, John Huston's Swansong
- Faye Dunaway in Barfly
- Karen Allen in The Glass Menagerie
- The Last Emperor's Forbidden City
- The Living Daylights, unpopular Bond
- Maurice, James Ivory's misunderstood gem
- Moonstruck, over and over
- Robocop, a discussion
- Sally Kirkland's historic Oscar campaign
- Supporting Actress Profiles
- Supporting Actress Smackdown
- Vanessa Redgrave in Prick Up Your Ears
- Veronica Cartwright in The Witches of Eastwick