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Thursday, February 18, 2021 at 12:00PM by Nathaniel R
The Film Bitch Awards continue with ballots for Best Score, Best Sound, Best Original Song, and in the non-Oscar parallel category Best Adapted, Combined, or Song Score (since so many films opt to have scores that lean into "soundtracks" as opposed to "scores" if you know what we mean)...
Thursday, February 18, 2021 at 10:00AM 6 random things that happened on this day, February 18th, in showbiz history...
1928 Sonja Henie wins her first of three consecutive gold medals in women's figure skating (a feat that's never been equalled in women's figure skating). Hollywood comes calling in the mid 30s (back when they used to make movie stars of famous athletes -- see also Buster Crabbe, Esther Williams, and Johnny Weismuller) and she headlines several hit films, starring with One in a Million in 1936...
Wednesday, February 17, 2021 at 10:11PM by Christopher James
Rosamund Pike cares a lot, not about her elderly wards, but about winning.Music and The Mauritanian weren’t the only movies that showed up at the Golden Globes without people having seen the film. Rosamund Pike nabbed a nomination in the Best Actress in a Musical/Comedy for the Netflix film I Care A Lot, which some critics saw during the Toronto International Film Festival. The Globes have long loved Rosamund Pike, even nominating her for A Private War in 2018. Is this latest nomination a case of the Globes being goofy, or is Pike awards worthy in this new black comedy?
The answer is yes and no on both fronts. Pike uses “Amazing Amy” ability to establish a horrifying, gleefully bloodthirsty businesswoman who fleeces the elderly. Unfortunately, she does so in a vehicle that points that talent in the exact wrong directions...
Wednesday, February 17, 2021 at 1:46PM "The Furniture," by Daniel Walber. (Click on images for magnified detail)
Opulence isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Sometimes things that are expensive are worse. This is the message of Mank.
Or, rather, a message. But much of the film’s impact does spring from an acknowledgement that it would be cost-prohibitive to replicate the colossal excesses of the real Hearst Castle. Production designer Donald Graham Burt is pretty clear about that in this short video feature about his work. So, rather than trying and failing, they did something different...
Wednesday, February 17, 2021 at 11:00AM The Supporting Actress Smackdown will resume in March 2022. Final Season!
Happy Smackdown to you Happy Smackdown to you
Happy Smackdown you actressexuals,
Happy Smackdown to youuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!
After StinkyLulu graciously let us continue/revive the series here eight years ago (eep!) we've done 42 episodes: 1937, 1938, 1941, 1943, 1944, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1952, 1954, 1957, 1960, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1968, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1994, 1995, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, and concurrently with Oscar races as they happened 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, and 2021
So, where to now?
THE REMAINING YEARS
1951 Joan Blondell (The Blue Veil) | Dunnock (Death of a Salesman) | Grant (Detective Story) | Hunter (A Streetcar Named Desire) | Ritter (The Mating Season)
1997 - Basinger (LA Confidential) | Cusack (In & Out) | Driver (Good Will Hunting) | Moore (Boogie Nights) | Stuart (Titanic)
2004 -Blanchett (The Aviator) | Linney (Kinsey) | Madsen (Sideways) | Okondo (Hotel Rwanda) | Portman (Closer)
We might offer up a reader poll to choose one of the years that were done a long time ago at StinkyLulu, too. We'll see.
Smackdown 