Showbiz History: Streisand makes history and Elijah Wood turns 40
Thursday, January 28, 2021 at 8:00AM 
6 random things that happened on this day, January 28th, in showbiz history...
1973 The 30th Golden Globes with The Godfather and Cabaret both winning Best Picture setting up their nail-biting historic Oscar night. Also on this night Diana Ross won the "New Star of the Year" award for playing Billie Holliday in Lady Sings the Blues for which she'd also be Oscar-nominated. Will Andra Day be as awards-lucky in the forthcoming United States vs. Billie Holliday?
1978 The 35th Golden Globes with The Turning Point and The Goodbye Girl winning the Best Picture prizes...
The Oscars would later disagree making The Turning Point one of the all time biggest "losers" and giving Best Picture to Annie Hall. Anyway 1977 is a totally fascinating film/Oscar year for numerous reasons.
Danny and Rhea in the 1970s
1982 Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman marry. He was already a sitcom star with Taxi and she was about to become one with Cheers. We always thought they were an adorable made-for-each-couple. Sadly they're no longer together even though they haven't divorced but it's reportedly very amicable.
1984 The 41st Golden Globes with Terms of Endearment and Yentl winning Best Picture. Yentl also won Best Director for Barbra Streisand, the first time a female director had ever won. So, fact: The Globes beat the Oscars to honoring a female director by a remarkable 26 years! Sadly the Oscar voters got kind of snobby and patriarchal about Barbra's historic multi-tasking and denied her all four Oscar nods she was eligible for (Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay, and Actress).
1989 In one of the strangest occurences of all time at the Golden Globes (which is saying a lot) there was a three-way tie for Best Actress with Jodie Foster (The Accused), Sigourney Weaver (Gorillas in the Mist), and Shirley Maclaine (Madame Souzatska) all winning at the 46th annual Golden Globes . It shocked both the presenters (a Fatal Attraction reunion) and the winners. Sigourney, who had won Best Supporting Actress that same night for Working Girl beautifully declared it a five way tie honoring the "losers" too Christine Lahti (Running on Empty) and Meryl Streep (A Cry in the Dark). Bizarrely, though perhaps there was an explanation for it at the time, Dangerous Liaisons was entirely snubbed receiving zero nominations! For Best Picture Rain Man
1994 Blink, a creepy thriller involving organ donations and Madeleine Stowe being gobsmackingly beautiful , opens in theaters. Stowe really should have become a much bigger star.
Today's Birthday Suit
Happy 40th birthday today to Frodo himself Elijah Wood, pictured here in... I think... Maniac (2012). Can someone explain why he has doll anatomy?! He sure does make a lot of horror pictures, doesn't he?
Other showbiz birthdays today: Oscar nominee and Emmy winner Alan Alda (MASH, Marriage Story), Will Poulter (MidSommar, The Maze Runner), Oscar nominated director Hiroshi Teshigahara (Woman in the Dunes, Zatoichi), Oscar nominated writer/director Frank Darabont (Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile), Tao Zhao (Ash is Purest White, Mountain May Depart), 70s star/model Barbi Benton (The Love Boat, Fantasy Island), Ariel Winter (Modern Family), Tom Hopper (Black Sales, Terminator: Dark Fate), Mary Boland (The Women, Ruggles of Red Gap), Calum Worthy (The Act, Austin & Ally), Kathryn Morris (Minority Report, Cold Case), director Tarik Saleh (The Nile Hilton Incident, Metropia), Golden Globe nominee Marthe Keller (Marathon Man, Hereafter), Harley Jane Kozak (When Harry Met Sally, Parenthood), Susan Buckner ("Patty" in Grease), Karen Lynn Gorney (Saturday Night Fever), Chance Kelly (Generation Kill, Aquarius), Tyra Ferrell (White Men Can't Jump, Poetic Justice), the late writer/director Richard Glatzer (Grief, Still Alice), writer/actor Mo Rocca, and a lot of singers including Sarah McLachlan, ridiculously sexy Colombian pop star Maluma, and boybanders *Nsync's Joey Fatone and Backstreet Boys Nick Carter.
Reader Comments (24)
Sigourney should've won the supporting actress then I wouldn't have been upset about it for 30 plus years.
The Turning Point is a great movie and far better than The Goodbye Girl.
Elijah works restoring mannequins and hates women and in this scene sees himself without genitals as the films theme is emasculation.
Stowe was everywhere in the 90's but not Box Office unless with a male star.
Streisand deserved Lead and Directing nods for Yentl
Stowe is very good in Blink and she really shone in that period (she was a wonderful partner for DDL in Michael Mann’s The Last of Mohicans and for me she could quietly deemed MVP in Altman’s Short Cuts)
Is “The Godfather and Cabaret” the best pair of drama/comedy winners that the Globes ever awarded?
If I'm not mistaken, Warner Bros. didn't screen DANGEROUS LIAISONS to the HFPA in time for Globes consideration.
Loved Blink. Probably watched it 15-20 times back in the '90s. And you're right - her not becoming a bigger thing is puzzling. But if she had we might not have seen her in Revenge and she was so much fun in Revenge.
It's always amazing to look back at old awards ceremonies and see how SHORT the speeches are compared to that of today's ceremonies.
Danny and Rhea are no longer together??? Thanks for ruining my day!
Gobsmackingly beautiful is right in describing Madeleine Stowe. I saw Blink sometime ago and she and Aidan Quinn were quite delightful even if the film is dark.
I thought Sigourney Weaver's best was in The Ice Storm but she is always a refreshing presence in films, well except maybe for that ending scene on long shot in Annie Hall. Was that really her?
I didn't know Dangerous Liaisons got zero nominations at the Golden Globes. For me, that year's best picture.
Why is Tao Zhao not a bigger star?
It still kills me that Christine Lahti wasn't Oscar nominated for Running on Empty. Such a beautiful performance.
I'm not as crazy for Yentl as many but I think Babs should have received a nom for Adapted Screenplay if nothing else.
And damn it Sigourney Weaver should have an Oscar!
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Grace Kelly in the role of Deedee(Shirley MacLaine) and Audrey Hepburn playing Emma(Anne Bancroft). Think about that! Almoçar happened. They loved the script and really wanted to make it, but on one hand, Grace's wonderful husband said "no, no". From the other, Hepburn remarked losing it was her biggest regret. MacLaine and Bancroft are wonderful in the movie.
Madeleine Stowe has a career similar to that of Andie MacDowell: short stardom and full of hits and classics. We will always talk about both because of films like Sex, Lies and Videotape/1989, Groundhog Day/1993 and Four Weddings and a Funeral/1994 (Macdowell), The Last of the Mohicans/1992, Short Cuts/1993 and 12 Monkeys/1995 (Stowe). Both are in the cast of Robert Altman's brilliant Short Cuts and starred together in Bad Girls(1994), a fanciful and fun western that today would be called feminist. They are for the 1990s what Hedy Lamarr and Veronica Lake are for the 1940s.
Love Blink. Both Stowe and her co-star Aidan Quinn were everywhere in the 90s. There’s also a nice supporting turn from Laurie Metcalfe.
The 1977 Best Picture lineup is still something short of a miracle. Not one but TWO movies centered around female friendship (Julia and The Turning Point), and not one but TWO movies centered on a title female character around which all the action occurs (Annie Hall and The Goodbye Girl). Has there even been anything like it before or since?
And Madeleine Stowe's lack of movie stardom or even roles is such a mystery to me. I almost think she must have been Weinsteined or something.
Weep not for Barbra Streisand. She got as many nominations as she deserved.
Madeleine Stowe in 12 Monkeys is A++
Barbra never deserved any nomination outside of Actress or Song in any movie and even her wins are disputable.
Paranoid Android - everyone raves about Brad Pitt (he’s great) and Bruce Willis (also great) but I agree that Stowe is the best performance in Twelve Monkeys - even in such a stacked year she easily makes my Top 5 in Leading Actress...
Barbara should've been nominated for Best Director for The Prince of Tides at the Oscars and I'm not even a fan of Streisand. Yet, it was a great fucking movie that still holds up and totally worthy to be part of the Criterion Collection. Way more than fucking Armageddon.
The Prince of Tides is such an embarassment. If only Barbra weren't in the movie (in such a problematic part)...
Considering the 3-way tie and the 8 times Meryl has won the Golden Globe, it's kind of shocking that she didn't win for one of her best performances in "A Cry in the Dark".
Barbra should have won Best Actress for The Way Were and it should have won Best Film. She should have gotten a nomination for A Star Is Born and Nuts. And she should have won Best Actress for Yentl, Best Director Yentl and Best Director for The Prince Of Tides. TPOT should have won Best Film. Her career hasn't been as prolific as her fans would have liked, but she always goes for perfection.
Barbra Streisand should have won Oscars for The Way W Were ,biggest movie of that year and one of the best! She should have been nominated and won for best director in Price of Tides and Yentl! Both are top of the line films and should have been recognized!
Everyone : Pat Conroy's The Prince of Tides is a beautiful book. The soul of the novel lies in the flashbacks. If made today it would surely be a miniseries. Much more time was needed to tell the full story. The film focused too much on the Lowenstein character, to its detriment.
cal -- i agree. i *love* Barbra and I think she should have been up for YENTL (love that movie)... i think PRINCE OF TIDES is a mess and not well directed. not sure what happened there but...
Michael -- ... maybe that's what happened.