This year for our "thankful for" column we're mixing it up a bit. Instead of asking our contributors to share a brief list of favourite things, I wanted to share with you, dear readers, why I love the team so and then ask them a few key questions so you can get to know them better. This afternoon one of our newest contributors BABY CLYDE.
Baby has been with us for just a year but he's one of our most Old Hollywood obsessed contributors. He's told us a fun personal anecdotes about Mickey Rooney, expressed big love for Lana Turner and relived a big Cher year (1987 to be specific). In a more contemporary post he sang the praises of Anthony Hopkins in The Father (that Oscar win should'nt have shocked anyone).
Here's our short interview!
When did you first fall in love with the movies?
March 24th 1986 precisely
Which current actor do you feel truly grateful for?
Lupita Nyong'o
Tis this season to be thankful. What wouldn't you have wanted to live without this past year?
Cinemas Reopening - Because I can watch a film in it's allotted time rather than stopping to eat, Tweet, answer the phone, look things up multiple times on Wikipedia, go to the toilet, have a snooze and every other thing I find myself doing at home.
Simon Rex in Red Rocket - Should be sweeping all the awards. Probs won't even get nommed.
Letterboxd Top 20 'Most Watched' Ranking - There was a time before my whole life revolved around whether Bette was beating Cary, Joan had bumped Olivia, if Mae was gonna make it to the end of the year and how exactly I was going to vanquish Porter Hall, but it's not a period I want to return to.
The Month After April 25th - When the longest, most exhausting Oscar season ever, finally ended, with the worst ceremony in living memory and I took a month off of social media to recover.
London Film Festival - For the second year in a row I didn't make it to my spiritual home of TIFF. Fortunately I got to see virtually everything on my doorstep at #LFF and saved a couple of thousand pounds at the same time #Result
The Fifth Dimension in Summer of Soul - Immediately added them to my fantasy concert list alongside Janis Joplin and Ella Fitzgerald.
Quo Vadis, Aida? - Is this a 2020 or 2021 film? Who cares it's the best of either year.
I Carry You With Me - That spectacular slow reveal as the three intertwining time frames merge had me sobbing. I NEVER sob.
23 minutes and 39 seconds into Tick, Tick...BOOM! - When I decided life was too short and turned it off.
Pick your favourites, Baby Clyde
If you were to magically win an Oscar, who would you thank in your acceptance speech?
My Twin Brother Jompy/My Mum/Dolly Parton & Cher - All the most important people
You're throwing a Thanksgiving dinner feast. You can invite 5 movie characters. Go!
Margo Channing - All About Eve
Prissy - Gone With The Wind
Dumbo - Dumbo
Rusty Dennis - Mask
Chance Wayne - Sweet Bird of Youth
Who wouldn't want to attend this party???
You can follow Baby Clyde on Letterboxd and Twitter and we're crossing our fingers he joins Instagram since his photos are so fun.