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Thursday
May192016

On This Day: Marilyn Mania and Sarah Connor x 3

May your 19th be beautiful.

On this day in history as it relates to the movies...

1536 Anne Boleyn is beheaded. Her tragedy is later reenacted by hundreds of actresses on tv, stage and film including Natalie Portman, Vanessa Redgrave, Helena Bonham Carter, and Genevieve Bujold (Oscar nomination).
1836 Cynthia Ann Parker is kidnapped in Texas during an Indian raid after her family is slaughtered. That's a tough break but not many people get to live on in history through multiple classics albeit under pseudonyms like "Debbie Edwards" (Natalie Wood in The Searchers) and "Stands With Fist" (Mary McDonnell in Dances With Wolves). 
1925 Malcolm X is born. 67 years later Denzel Washington wins his second Oscar playing him (Shut up! This is our preferred version of history because Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman. Ugh, really?)
1941 Nora Ephron is born spewing witticisms.

1958 Attack of the 50 Foot Woman is released in movie theaters.
1962 Marilyn Monroe, who looms larger than 50 Feet in the American consciousness, sings happy birthday to President John F Kennedy 
1978 Thank God It's Friday released. Out-discoed in collective disco-movie memories by Can't Stop the Music, two years later.
1982 Rebecca Hall is born. Remains underappreciated 34 years later

1984 It is a very very bad day to be named "Sarah Connor" in Los Angeles. Unless you're unlisted. [src]
1989 Legendary bad movie Road House opens in theaters
1992 Sam Smith is born. 24 years later he tortures global audiences with an off-key rendition of a song no one likes and Hollywood hands him the Oscar -anything to make him stop.
1999 Star Wars: the Phantom Menace opens in theaters which is something like discovering a razor blade in your Halloween candy. Jar Jar Binks is the razor blade. Nostalgia is the candy.
2017 Baywatch: The Movie opens. God help us all.

and finally...


2154 Jake Sully will arrive in his wheelchair on Pandora and meet his Avatar. Just in time for James Cameron to be cryogenically unfrozen and announce that he's starting production on Avatar 2 and Avatar 3. For real this time, promise.

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Nat,not a fan of Sam then,me neither.

May 19, 2016 | Unregistered Commentermark

Nat: Of the nominees? I'd probably go with Clint or Robert Downey Jr. (Denzel is not bad in Malcolm X, but he's NOT a justifiable multiple winner. Sorry.) Of the year, I'd probably go with the OTHER Al Pacino performance, the one that got the category fraud (Lemmon leads the first half, Pacino leads the second and Baldwin, Spacey, Arkin and Pryce are, in qualitative order, the genuine supporting players) nom.

May 19, 2016 | Unregistered CommenterVolvagia

Denzel is not bad in Malcolm X, but he's NOT a justifiable multiple winner.

Malcolm X remains his best performance. Not comprehending why he'll never qualify to you as a justifiable multiple winner? What criteria do you base such a thing?

May 19, 2016 | Unregistered Commenter/3rtful

Lemmon is Lead.

May 19, 2016 | Unregistered Commentermark

mark: I didn't say I don't categorize Lemmon as Leading, more that Lemmon leads for, roughly, minute 1-50 and Pacino leads for the rest. Both leads, so Pacino's nomination there is fraud.

May 19, 2016 | Unregistered CommenterVolvagia

Yay for Rebecca Hall! I want to see CHRISTINE to see if she could be in the running for a Best Actress nomination (ya never know). It sounds intense but interesting.

May 19, 2016 | Unregistered CommenterSteve G

I can't believe no one loved my Avatar joke *CRIES* (... but really May 19th IS the day he arrives on Pandora.)

May 20, 2016 | Unregistered CommenterNATHANIEL R

Nat: Yeah, the big reason these haven't started filming? It's probably not the tech at this point. It's that Zoe Saldana's Neytiri is the ONLY engaging pre-existing element that was left at the end of the first one. Sarandon's character is dead, Lang's character is dead and a Worthington but no Saldana Avatar sequel? That's not a $1.3-2 billion movie. That's $600 million, max, and Cameron almost certainly knows that.

May 20, 2016 | Unregistered CommenterVolvagia

Marilyn Monroe, who looms larger than 50 Feet in the American consciousness, sings happy birthday to President John F Kennedy. Both assassinated dead within the year, she within months of this recording.

May 20, 2016 | Unregistered CommenterPaul Outlaw
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