Links: Multiple Sherlock Holmes, Change in Oscar Venue, and more...
Friday, April 9, 2021 at 6:51PM • Crime Reads an amazing piece ranking the 100 best, strangest, and worst portrayals of Sherlock Holmes. I LOL'ed several times.
• Deadline icymi the Visual Effects Society awards were held. The Midnight Sky, The Mandalorian, Project Power, Lovecraft Country, and Soul were all winners
• Variety on the absence of Latinos at the Oscars. Rosie Perez speaks out about never being asked back. And she's not even talking about being nominated again.
“Not even to sit in the audience, not to present, nothing—and I’m a member. I love the Academy Awards. I cheer on my peers, but it hurts. It’s like when your home team doesn’t ask you to come back into the stadium after you got up to bat and hit the home run.”
More after the jump including Los Angeles streets during Oscar week, Youn Yuh-jung, Queer as Folk, and more...
• Coming Soon new trailer and poster to The Woman in the Window that movie that seems like it's never going to come out. Just drop it already-- the buzz will not change at this point.
• NPR Youn Yuh-Jung talks about her historic Oscar nomination
• The Telegraph Andrew Scott joins The Crown as Tony Blair
• The Guardian BAFTA predictions from the UK. Given how tiny juries managed the nominations it's anyone's guess what the wide membership will now do!
• Theater Mania watch scenes from Wicked... in Korean! If any of you speak Korean did they do a good job with lyric translation. That's such a skill as it cant be exact due to rhyming and such
• NYT Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth II's husband, has died at 99
• Pitchford Rapper/actor DMX has died at 50
• /Film Phoebe Waller-Bridge to star in Indiana Jones 5 opposite Harrison Ford
• Guardian Andrei Konchalovsky interviewed on his BAFTA nominated film Dear Comrades!
• MNPP Queer as Folk being rebooted again. Jason shares feelings that I quite relate to on this
In case you wanted to see Daniel Brühl dance for an hour (!!!) as Baron Zemo from outtakes on The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. The show is zzz but we always love seeing Brühl doing anything and this club scene was definitely a surprise in episode 3.
Finally...
If you live in Los Angeles you should be aware of the traffic changes coming due to the change in Oscar venues this year (the Oscars being in Union Station due to the pandemic). The Academy has a helpful document on April street closings and there's also this map...
Reader Comments (16)
Ah yes... the Zemo Cut! A masterpiece of its kind. To see a great villain dancing and showing everyone why he's one of the best.
In all seriousness, get Daniel Bruhl his Emmy. He's just so fucking good.
Perez's grievance seems like first world problems. Maybe Oscar nominees have a distorted sense of self? Once granted an Oscar nod you may feel as though you're no ordinary actor. And therefore expect a different Hollywood than the one you struggled with before landing the gig that made you a nominee.
Accents, ethnicity, race, gender, class, everything that makes us different or vulnerable can make us a star and impede our careers. Rosie Perez's unique journey to stardom never made her as respectable to the powers that be. She likely always came across as a disposable trend. If I were her I'd be fighting for parts to land me a sophomore nod.
Ah the Los Angeles street closings. I used to work in Beverly Hills. I always made sure I worked mornings that day, first to get home in time to watch the Golden Globes, and second to make sure I didn't need to leave two hours early to get around all the street closures.
Love Rosie in The Flight Attendant!
But yeah what else is there to complain about? This is not a race on who gets to be the biggest loser at the Oscars
Rosie Perez is my spirit animal. Shoulda been nominated in '92 for White Men Can't Jump alongside her Brooklyn sister Marisa Tomei.
And I still can't choose between her, Winona and Anna P the next year.
To be fair, I am not from Los Angeles, but... is this year's ceremony in a train station?
Already pushing the latino narrative for the next season with In the Heights and West Side Story.
Rosie Perez has a right to voice her feelings on the Oscars and her career in Hollywood. It's relevant to the broader discussion of the treatment of Latinos in Hollywood. Surprised by the snark in the comments.
So, we have to be campaigning MCU for Emmy for
Male Lead: Bettany (WandaVision) and Hiddleston (Loki, still unseen, but COME ON). Maybe Stan as well for Falcon and the Winter Soldier (his tearing up in the Wakanda scene...)
Female Lead: Olsen (WV)
Supporting Male: Brühl (F&WS), maybe Park (WV) as he was always engaging and breathing life, along Jennings to the non-hex scenes.
Supporting Female: as much as I loved Jennings, this is Hahns's to lose, both for WV.
If I was Marvel I would focus on the WV chances, but problem being, it would have been 1 whole year since its release by voting time.
Oh No Phoebe Waller Bridge in Indy 5.
I am team RP here. Many former Oscar nominees (ahem, Sally Kirkland) have showed up at the Oscars just to walk the red carpet and sit in the audience. Whether race is a factor in that is harder to say, but I suspect, if she been there, she would have been one of the few rocking out to Lose Yourself last year, which would have been nice to see.
Rosie is great on Flight Attendant. But I am confused: living nominees aren’t guaranteed an invite to the show itself? Just to watch? Who is in all those seats?
Paranoid - no. I think it's mostly that year's nominated films and nominees get a certain number of tickets. But also there's clearly some invites for previous nominees (since Sally Kikrland (aforementioned) used to often be there.
Rosie Perez would always be a welcome sight at the Oscars. I'm surprised they don't ask her to present more often.
^^She wasn't asked to present EVEN ONCE. :)
I'm Latino and would love to have more Oscar winning Latino actors and creatives like previous winners Jose Ferrer and Rita Moreno. But let's give awards for work that deserves it.