4 random things that happened on this day, February 21st, in showbiz history...
The Globes weren't crazy about A Streetcar Named Desire
1952 9th annual Golden Globes are held with An American in Paris and A Place in the Sun both winning before battling it out at the Oscars. The Globes weren't that into A Streetcar Named Desire so the only one of the acting wins shared by the two shows was Kim Hunter as "Stellaaaaaa!" I had the pleasure of speaking about this competition on the "And the Runner Up Is..." podcast. And speaking of podcasts, 1951 is one of the few remaining years for the Supporting Actress Smackdown final season.
1981 Prince performs on Saturday Night Live for the first time. Charlene Tilton (Dallas) was the host and he sang "Party Up" from the album "Dirty Mind"...
1990 The 32nd Grammys were held. It was a huge night for movie music since "Wind Beneath My Wings" from Beaches took both Record and Song of the Year and Danny Elfman won a Grammy for his Batman theme, too. What's more music from Working Girl, The Fabulous Baker Boys, and The Milagro Beanfield War also took home Grammies in various categories.
Meryl Streep's jury: Clive Owen, Lars Eidinger, Malgorzata Szumowska, Alba Rohrwacher, Brigitte Lacombe and Nick James at the closing ceremony
2016 The 66th Berlinale ends. Meryl Streep was Jury president and the Golden Bear went to the Italian documentary Fire at Sea which was also the closing night film (and an Oscar nominee in Best Documentary). Director Gianfranco Rosi is hoping to repeat at this year's Oscars with a follow up nomination for his latest doc Notturno.
Today's Birthday Suit
Happy 30th birthday to beautiful talented British actor Joe Alwyn. Remember his deeply romantic wedding night in The Favourite?
I am hard as a rock and it is our wedding night!
Hee. What a masterpiece.
(P.S. Do you find yourself thinking of him while listening to Taylor Swift's "Folklore" and "Evermore"?)
Other birthdays.today: Titus Burgess (Dolemite is My Name, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), Elliot Page (Juno, The Umbrella Academy), Joe Alwyn (The Favourite, Bily Lynn's Long Halftime Walk), Christopher Atkins (A Night in Heaven), Billy Baldwin (Sliver, Backdraft), Writer/director Jordan Peele (Us, Get Out), Aunjanue Ellis (Lovecraft Country, If Beale Street Could Talk), Jennifer Love Hewitt (Party of Five, I Know What You Did Last Summer), Tuppence Middleton (Imitation Game, Sense8), Sophie Turner (Game of Thrones, X-Men Dark Phoenix), William Peterson (CSI, Manhunter), Tyne Daley (Cagney & Lacey, Judging Amy), South Korea's Kang Ha-Neul (Twenty, When the Camelia Blooms), Tony winner Christine Ebersole (The Wolf of Wall Street, American Horror Story), Mélanie Laurent (Inglourious Basterds, Beginners), Patrick Gallagher (Night at the Museum, Glee), Jack Coleman (Dynasty, Heroes), writer/director Sam Peckinpah (The Wild Bunch, The Getaway), German director Margaretha von Trotta (Hannah Arendt, Marianne & Juliane), C-3PO himself Anthony Daniels (Star Wars), director Bob Rafelson (Five Easy Pieces, Head), composer Rupert Gregson-Williams (Wonder Woman, Hacksaw Ridge), writer Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club, Choke), producer David Geffen (Little Shop of Horrors, Interview with the Vampire), and late greats like Alan Rickman (Die Hard, Truly Madly Deeply), Zachary Scott (Mildred Pierce, Flamingo Road), Lucille Bremer (Yolanda and the Thief, Meet Me in St Louis), Ann Sheridan (King's Row, They Drive By Night), Rue McClanahan (Golden Girls, Maude), and the singer Nina Simone.