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It's part two of this week's Reader Questions. If you missed the first installment in which we covered topics like Cynthia Erivo's film future and Star Wars favorites, click here.
Six more reader questions? YES PLEASE. Let's go...
BHURAY: What are your 5 favorite Toni Collette performances?
I love her so much I have to do a top ten. Hers is surely the star career with the single biggest disparity between how much talent she provides versus how often and well deployed she is by Hollywood. My favorite performances are hard to rank as I think she's the same amount of wonderful consistently but it might go something like this...
Everyone knows that Meryl Streep is Oscar's all time acting nomination queen. This year the queen received her 20th nomination, this time for playing the worst opera singer Florence Foster Jenkins. But Streep's astonishing numbers get a little less intimidating if you break them up into supporting and lead categories. So let's do that to place Streep in a slightly different context in the history of Oscar'ed actresses.
We'll ignore wins in this particular exercize. Streep isn't #1 in the supporting sweepstakes, but she remains #1 by a very comfortable margin for leading actresses. More details after the jump...
Alanis Morrisette had a baby daughter. Named her "Onyx Solace" MNPP Chris Hemsworth's Australian commercial Film School Rejects Where is Shelley Duvall? Coming Soon First photo of Colin Firth on the set of Kingsman: The Golden Circle Christian Siriano of Project Runway fame, got married in black - guests (a celebrity who's who including Danielle Brooks and Christina Hendricks) wore white Revelist on Poussey & Soso's relationship in the new season of Orange is the New Black (spoilers)
Mike's Movie Projector remembers Deborah Kerr's iconic nun characters Towleroad apparently Christoph Waltz kissed Tarzan in the original cut of The Legend of Tarzan. Test audiences were perplexed i09 Kiefer Sutherland takes a supporting role in the remake of a film he once starred in, Flatliners (1990) Pajiba whiny women-fearing Ghostbusters haters are still at it, giving the movie a 3.5 rating on IMDb before the pubic has seen it Times of Israel talks to Quentin Tarantino about his career. Sadly he's still planning to quit after a 10th movie so we only have two left. I hated The Hateful Eight but I'd rather not see him quit altogether Interview Jon Favrea (The Jungle Book) talks to Idris Elba about his career thus far Theater Mania Marisa Tomei is starring in The Rose Tattoo at the Williamstown Theater Festival. If only she'd get roles that good in film! (Christopher Abbott co-stars) Michigan Avenue Scarlett Johansson was recently honored in Chicago with a "Renaissance Award" and talked about her love for her job and for playing The Black Widow AV Club looks at the collaboration of Woody Allen & Scarlett Johansson in their "Together Again" series /Film Carrie Coon will play the chief of police in the third season of Fargo. Ewan McGregor co-stars. I guess I have to start watching.
It's October, so Manuel is here trying to get into theHalloweenChristmas spirit. Wait, isn’t it a little early? Perhaps, but these three films are hoping to get you excited about the jolly holidays.
Hope away, holiday movies, but it's hard to be remotely excited about any of these. Still, we're glad Lizzy Caplan & Mindy Kaling (The Night Before), and Toni Collette & Alilson Tolman (Krampus) are getting work. Though, as actressexuals go, Love the Coopers is where it’s at: Diane Keaton, Amanda Seyfried, June Squibb, Olivia Wilde, and Marisa Tomei.
You can check the trailer below...
Bring your own Yes No Maybe So (BYOYNMS) in the comments. And yes, those comments can mostly be about how three time Oscar player Marisa Tomei deserves better films.
Marisa Tomei earlier this year in LA. She is 50 years oldOnce the Rumor Spreads I will not be linking to anything Marisa Tomei as "Aunt May" in Spider-Man related until it is "official" -- and with the internet nowadays that line is always blurred since people report "in talks" as official when in talks only means a role is being discussed and contracts might be signed. Until this is not official, though, I'll be over here weeping in the corner as this possible tragedy befalls one of my favorite actresses who should NOT be rushing her "last fuckable day" to play a famous part that has for 50 years in pop culture, or as long as Marisa Tomei has been alive, signalled grandmotherly love and worry. Marisa Tomei is as sexy as ever. When people say that anyone is aging well they might as well be saying "they look pretty good for their age. Not as good as Maria Tomei does at 50 but then who looks that good?!?"
Links 429 terrific juicy interview with Jonathan Groff on Looking, celebrity, coming out, dating other actors, and more Grantland Mark Harris on Jake Gyllenhaal's incredible artistic growth of late, really upping of his game as an actor The Dissolve not sure why I didn't see this piece earlier but this a very heartfelt defense of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, a film I did NOT respond well to, that is helping me see it a different light... though it sounds like the changes they made from the novel were unwisely reductive in terms of the film's reductive/protagonist's view Matt Zoller Seitz says goodbye to The Dissolve. I love MZS THR in terrible news Paramount and AMC collaborating on making theatrical window even shorter. It's like they want to kill moviegoing altogether i09 Elektra is official for Daredevil S2. The Greek assassin, easily the best of Daredevil related characters, will be played by Elodie Young who is of French & Cambodian descent
Elodie Young is on twitter and while I type this she has 5,766 followers (or like 1,000 more than me to show you how unfamously few). By the time you read this her numbers have probably skyrocketed to god knows what. Movie City News David Poland reacts with a partial history of the changes in the theatrical distribution model over the years Matt McGorry wants to #FreetheNipple PressPlay video essay on Shakespeare on the silver screen Pajiba looks at Adrien Brody's strange filmography of late. Bet you you've only heard of like one or two of them! NYT talks to Stephen Sondheim about Lin-Manuel Miranda's new Broadway musical Hamilton Comics Alliance awesome 15" sculpture of Michelle Pfeiffer's Catwoman available for preorder -- sadly it's $270
Off Cinema Slate fascinating disagreements out there on whether cats are domestic or wild animals
Finally... I highly recommend checking out this tumblr "Every Single Word" which takes movies and reduces them only to lines of dialogue spoken by actors of color. I really hope they make more of these videos. Here are two examples: American Hustle and Enough Said... though I suppose Enough Said is more impactful if you've watched all of them.
Monday, May 8, 2017 at 7:00PM 
BHURAY: What are your 5 favorite Toni Collette performances?
