Showbiz History: Love Story wins, Captain America begins, United Artists formed
Friday, February 5, 2021 at 9:25AM 8 random things that happened on this day, February 5th, in showbiz history
1919 United Artists is formed with four of the most iconic silent film powerhouses Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, and Director DW Griffith joining forces...
1921 Oscar winning production designer Ken Adam is born. More on him in a second since it's his Centennial.
1936 Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times has its world premiere at the Rivoli Theater in NYC
1942 Woman of the Year with Katharine Hepburn & Spencer Tracy is released in theaters. It wins the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay the following year and Katharine Hepburn snags one of her many Best Actress nominations.
1944 Captain America, the movie serial, begins playing in movie theaters. It was the first time any Marvel superhero made it to screen. And the last until various iterations of Spider-Man popped up on TV in the 1970s.
1953 5th annual Primetime Emmy Awards are held. It was only the second year the Emmys had been a national event. I Love Lucy wins Best Comedy Series. There were only 12 categories (Hee! How times have changed). On the same day Walt Disney's Peter Pans opens in movie theaters.
1971 28th Golden Globes. Love Story (drama) and MASH (comedy) win Best Picture. Both are nominated later at the Oscars though neither wins (with Patton in the way). Did you know that Love Story is getting a new BluRay release for its 50th anniversary in a couple of days? Now you do!
2004 The 54th annual Berlin International Film Festival begins with opening night film Cold Mountain (2003) which had already been playing for two months in the US and a week earlier it has been nominated for 7 Oscars. German-Turkish director Fatih Akin's potent sexual drama Head-On will win the Golden Bear by festival's end. Head-On is when I fell hard for the great German actress Sibel Kekilli who later got more internationally famous with When We Leave (2010) and Game of Thrones (2011).
2012 Madonna performs the halftime show at the Superbowl with guest appearances from LMFAO, Nicki Minaj, MIA, and CeeLo Green.
Today's Birthday Suit
Happy 75th birthday to the iconic Charlotte Rampling, whose always had sensational style, on and offscreen.
Other showbiz birthdays today: Emmy winner and constantly losing Oscar & Tony nominee The Lovely Laura Linney (seriously, what is it going to take to Triple Crown?), Japan's Isuzu Yamada (Throne of Bloode, Yojimbo), Nora Zehetner (The Right Stuff, Brick), Emmy winner Darren Criss (American Crime Story, Glee), John Carradine (The Grapes of Wrath, Stagecoach), Oscar nominee Tom Wilkinson (In the Bedroom, Michael Clayton), Oscar nominee Jennifer Jason Leigh (Hateful Eight, Possessor), Michael Sheen (Underworld, Frost/Nixon, Masters of Sex), Thailand's Tony Jaa (Ong Bak, Triple Threat), Bollywood's Abhishek Bachchan (Happy New Year, Dhoom 3), Tony nominee Alex Brightman (Beetlejuice on Broadway), Luke Newton (Bridgerton, The Lodge), Oscar nominee Barbara Hershey (Black Swan, Portrait of a Lady), Oscar winner Red Buttons (Sayonara, The Poseidon Adventure), Director Michael Mann (The Insider, Heat), Oscar winning documentarian Erroll Morris (The Fog of War, The Thin Blue Line), Director Christopher Guest (For Your Consideration, Waiting for Guffman), Jeremy Sumpter (Peter Pan, Into the Storm), Vivian Wu (The Last Emperor, The Pillow Book) director Mia Hansen-Løve (Things to Come, Eden), Diego Serrano (The Men Who Stare at Goats, Time of Your Life), David Chisum (NCIS, Timeless), French director Benoît Jacquot (Farewell My Queen, 3 Hearts), Denmark's Oscar winning short film director Anders Walter (Helium, 9 Meter, I Kill Giants), and artist HR Giger who helped make the Alien franchise unforgettable.
Reader Comments (16)
Have you finally seen Love Story?
Biro Ünel, the male lead in Head On, made my dick as hard as chinese arithmetic.
Where is Charlotte Rampling's honorary Oscar? Or better yet a competitive one! She should have won for 45 Years.
Love Story is being remastered....now we can watch Ryan O'Neal and Ali MacGraw give terrible performances in sharper relief!
Ali MacGraw didn't look like she was dying of cancer for even a second of Love Story. I mean, I get that she's beautiful and the producers and/or the audience probably didn't want to see her look bad, but it was so unbelievable.
Regarding Love Story, if you have to watch terrible acting, it's not torture when the awfulness is delivered in such beautiful vessels as Ali and Ryan.
Love Story has a legendarily terrible reputation. Please sheath your daggers, but it's really not that bad, if you accept it on its own simple terms. It is an enjoyable latter-day example of the rewarding classic Hollywood style you never really see anymore.
"Love means never having to say you're sorry"
"Love means having to say you're sorry every fifteen minutes" - John Lennon
Rampling rightfully lost for 45 Years the second she decided that diversity was racism towards white people.
Love Story features 2 great supporting performances one which was Oscar nominated,Ali grates but Ryan is nahdsome and actually alright in it,I think her bad rep leaks into criticism of his performance,he had a lot of charisma.
Love story is just a mediocre movie, not that terrible, but how the leads got oscar nominations?
I supose it was a very weak year for the academy, other of the nominees was Airport!
The best thing about Love story is the music.
Wait a minute, I've never even seen or heard of Head-On. I think I've mixed it up all these years with that possibly Australian immigrant gay movie called Head On. Right? Another one I'd have to try and find on a streaming site somewhere.
I remember sitting unmoved in the theatre when Love Story was all the rage, The weeping was uncontrolled and almost contagious by the end of the film.
There is so much to gripe about in the film, but my pet peeve is why doesn’t this dying co-ed have any women in a support system? Beyond Preppie’s mother, there are no women in the cast.
Love Story: Proving that average movies provide more conversational fodder than legit classics like Modern Times.
The costumes are fabulous in Love Story. Definitely one of the best-dressed movies if there's not much else one can say about it.
Christopher Plummer R.I.P.
Isuzu Yamada, the actress who played the creepiest character of all time, that Japanese Lady MacBeth. The shot of her disappearing and reappearing in the dark is one the most awesome and striking things I've seen.
John Lennon is right. Love means having to say you're sorry every 15 minutes. Love Story is a load of bullshit.
Charlotte Rampling should've had at least one Oscar. She is amazing and... I'd still like to be her bitch.
the lovely laura linney has said of not winning at the tonys “you don’t lose anything” which is a healthy [and lovely] attitude to the whole awards brouhaha