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Wednesday, January 25, 2017 at 6:08PM NYT TV comedy legend and dramatic Oscar nominee Mary Tyler Moore (Ordinary People, The Mary Tyler Moore Show) dies at 80
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/Film X-Men is getting its own TV series, unrelated to the movies. Good luck with that
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Reader Comments (21)
So sad to hear of MTMs passing. She should have won the Oscar back in 1980 for Ordinary People. A standout performance. RIP.
I know that an X-Men show probably should have been what they did in the first place. However! This X-Men show is probably going to carry over the film franchise's gaping mistakes, ones that were occasionally kind of cute at feature length, but will get irritating as a TV show. Those are: Everyone being mopey, angst driven or rebellious, even when it undermines telling a classic story well (cough, cough, if Jean Grey is never allowed to be boringly perfect, Dark Phoenix will never work as well), the portentous, kind of unnatural dialogue (not AS overt in that regard as Nolan, but enough that it would get grating over a show's time frame) and the mutant sub-culture idea being basically non-existent in the X-Mansion 1/2 of the films.
Wait...Negga, Ali, Spencer, and Affleck don't qualify as subtle (and recognized) work?
Just coming here to say what brandz said. MTM's performance in Ordinary People is one for the ages. Truly brilliant.
Mel Gibson loves to show good looking young men suffer on screen - from the over the top sado masochism of "The Passion of the Christ" put more blood on Jesus to this latest film which looks like gay porn for straight men
Should have won Supporting for FLIRTING WITH DISASTER in 94.
But, truly, Rest in Peace.
R.I.P. Mary Tyler Moore, one of the best women that ever lived and one of the hottest. Her scenes in Flirting with Disaster were hilarious and hot.
In an unrelated note, R.I.P. to Butch Truck of the Allman Brothers Band who died last night.
Sucks that Scarlett has failed once again in another marriage but.... she's single so I have a shot at being the next ex-Mr. Scar-Jo.
Half of those performances are anything but subtle.
I really liked Mary Tyler Moore.
Dammit. I had no desire to see Hacksaw Ridge but I can't resist unintentional(?!) homoeroticism.
She gave one of my favorite performances ever in ORDINARY PEOPLE. I think about her character all the time when watching other movie mothers.
Is the Top 10 podcast coming soon?
Armie´s arm ;(
RIP MTM. Her 70's series was one of the best sitcoms ever, and her work as Beth Jarrett in Ordinary People was, well, extraordinary.
I grew up watching MTM...heartbreaking to know she's passed on. Many years ago I bought the entire series from Amazon as it was on fire sale (for 2 days only). Guess I will rewatch some of my favourite episodes this weekend. RIP.
MTM was an icon of the 60's & 70;s. Mary Richards represented single women in the way they would look to Carrie or Elaine years later. I grew up with her, grew up wanting to be her. Like others, I will cherish her memory and spend the weekend watching some old episodes.
Mary starred in two of my favorite films, Thoroughly Modern Millie and Ordinary People. I agree with those who say she should have won the Oscar for the latter. And her TV characters were indelible in our culture. She was a symbol of all that is the best in us. A wonderful lady.
Everything brookesboy said, but I am going to watch the best David O. Russell again in her honor this afternoon.
I wonder if Adams' problem was voters' overconfidence that "everyone else" would of course vote for her so they used their ballot for underdogs they wanted to bolster, like Huppert and Negga.
And god bless MNPP - he is truly doing the lord's work.
So sad about MTM. Her work in Ordinary People is extraordinary.
DJDeeJay: Where's this "Huppert the underdog" thing still coming from? She WON THE GLOBE. At that point, you can't call her an "underdog".
Sure, but Globe voters aren't Oscar voters and it's a foreign language performance in a VERY...different...kind of movie for the Oscars. I'm just wondering if people assumed Adams was safe so they gave their top spots to others.
Paul, she is so good in that!! That's going in my queue too.
MTM was one of my favorite TV actresses. I think DVD and MTM are my two favorite TV shows and they share something in common of course.
I don't think MTM should have won the Oscar for Ordinary People since that rightly went to Sissy, BUT she certainly deserved more and better roles after that. Oh well.