Thursday, February 21, 2019

Podcast update

Apparently I was given the wrong information (i.e. alternate facts) on a couple of the actors who never won Oscars.  But the good news is you guys actually pay attention to this nonsense I transmit.  And it creates a sort of fun "Where's Waldo" game to this week's entry.  So you're invited to play along.  Find the mistakes.  You don't win anything but it will heighten your listening experience. 

Just scroll up to the big gold arrow and click.

And besides, what better way to prepare you for the Oscars than with a screw up? 
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8 comments :

  1. Lemuel2/21/2019 8:55 AM

    Funny "Honest Trailers" about 2019 Oscars:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI3T87CXM04

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  2. Tommy Raiko2/21/2019 12:08 PM

    Find the mistakes. You don't win anything but it will heighten your listening experience.

    OK. I'll play along. At around 3:12, when you mention actor Ralph Fiennes you pronounce his name wrong. As Entertainment Weekly noted long ago it's pronounced Rafe Fines.

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  3. therealshell2/21/2019 1:35 PM

    Oddly, Donny Most's character on HAPPY DAYS was Rafe Malph, but it was pronounced RALPH MALPH. Garry Marshall told me that, in a dream.

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  4. Buttermilk Sky2/21/2019 3:36 PM

    Most nominations without a win: Peter O'Toole

    Not even an honorary: Buster Keaton, Greta Garbo

    The "oops!" award, for ignoring years of better performances: Al Pacino for "Scent of a Woman"

    I look forward to your comments on the looming train-wreck.

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  5. Peter2/21/2019 6:34 PM

    Jeff Bridges gave better performances than the one he eventually won for, Crazy Heart.

    The Departed is a great film, but there can't be anyone who seriously believes Martin Scorsese shouldn't have got Best Director much earlier for Taxi Driver or Raging Bull or Goodfellas.

    Better late than never, I guess, but it still pisses me off that Goodfellas and Scorsese lost to Dances with Wolves and Kevin Costner respectively.

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  6. Mike Barer2/21/2019 8:29 PM

    Go with Tom Hanks, you can't lose!

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  7. Chris2/22/2019 10:42 AM

    @Buttermilk Sky: Both Buster Keaton and Garbo received Honorary Oscars. Keaton was there to get his, Garbo was not. Not trying to be a wiseguy, but those great artists were at least acknowledged in some way.

    Ken, I know you said Kubrick did not receive an Oscar, and perhaps you meant for directing, but he did win a competitive award for the effects in "2001: A Space Odyssey."

    Weird Oscar fact: Charlie Chaplin, Paul Newman, and Henry Fonda all won competitive Oscars the year AFTER they were given Honorary Oscars. Chaplin's was the weirdest as he won for scoring "Limelight," a 1952 film that was eligible in 1972 because it was never released theatrically in Los Angeles until the later date. The Academy has (had?) some very specific rules about these things.

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  8. Tommy Raiko2/25/2019 5:56 AM

    Weird Oscar fact: Charlie Chaplin, Paul Newman, and Henry Fonda all won competitive Oscars the year AFTER they were given Honorary Oscars.

    And after this year's ceremony, add one more name to that list, with Spike Lee having won a competitive Oscar for screenwriting after having been given an Honorary Academy Award in 2015.

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