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Best. Lesbian. Decade. Ever. (2000 - 2009)
31 December 2009 3:40 PM, PST
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As 2009 comes to a close, we take a look back at some of the people and events that made this the Best. Lesbian. Decade. Ever. in pop culture.
Luckily for all of us, there was far more information to have mentioned from the last ten years than we could have included in this brief survey. That's why our lists for each year are not intended to be exhaustive, but are instead snapshots of different memorable moments that included the representation of lesbians and bisexual women in film, television, music, literature, comics, sports and the Internet since the year 2000.
2000
Chavela Vargas comes out
Mexican ranchera music legend Chavela Vargas publicly came out as a lesbian at the tender age of 81.
Angelina Jolie wins Best Supporting Actress Oscar
Angelina Jolie won an Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Girl, Interrupted and told Talk Magazine, "I only play women I would date.
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Nicole Kidman, Steven Spielberg, Sam Worthington: Golden Globes 2010 Presenters
30 December 2009 12:50 PM, PST
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Nicole Kidman, Steven Spielberg and Avatar’s Sam Worthington have been set as presenters at 2010 Golden Globes ceremony on Sunday, January 17. They join previously announced presenters Jennifer Aniston, Halle Berry, Colin Farrell, Matthew Fox, Julia Roberts and Mickey Rourke. Additionally, Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio will present the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s Cecil B. DeMille Award to Martin Scorsese for his "outstanding contribution to the entertainment field."
Nicole Kidman has been nominated for seven best actress Golden Globes; she won three: for To Die For (1995, comedy or musical), Moulin Rouge! (2001, comedy or musical), and The Hours (2002, drama).
Steven Spielberg has been nominated for 11 Golden Globes (10 as a director; 1 as a screenwriter), winning [...]
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16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards Nominations
17 December 2009 7:11 AM, PST
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Nominees for the 16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAG Awards) for both film and television categories were announced this morning. Michelle Monaghan and Chris O'Donnell announced the nominees at the Pacific Design Center's Silver Screen Theater in West Hollywood.
The 16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards will be simulcast live nationally on TNT and TBS on Saturday, Jan. 23, 2010 at 8 p.m. Et/Pt, 7 p.m. Ct, and 6 p.m. Mt from the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center. Recipients of the stunt ensemble honors will be announced from the SAG Awards red carpet during the TNT.TV and TBS.Com live pre-show webcasts.
If you want to predict the acting categories for the Oscars, look no further than the results of the Screen Actors Guild Awards. Voted by actors' peers, the SAG award has closely resembled the winners of the Oscars in the past few years.
For example, the SAG
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Moore Is Bulgari's Model Woman
15 December 2009 2:01 PM, PST
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Actress Julianne Moore has been unveiled as the new face of Bulgari jewellery.
The Hours star, 49, was chosen for the modelling job because her beauty, "timeless charisma" and "inescapable magnetism" was the perfect representation of the Bulgari woman, according to a brand spokesperson.
Moore will model the exclusive label's gems in its upcoming spring/summer 2010 campaign, which is expected to begin in February.
The announcement comes on the same day Moore learned she's among the Golden Globe nominees - the actress snagged a Best Supporting Actress nod for her role in A Single Man.
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Women who have played gay get nominated for Golden Globes
15 December 2009 9:00 AM, PST
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There's a common misconception that women, in order to win a prestigious acting award, must play ugly. My new theory is that you must play gay. Here's the proof, based on this morning's Golden Globe Award nominations.
Julianne Moore
Nominated for: Best Performance By An Actress In A Supporting Role In A Motion Picture, A Single Man
Played gay in: The Hours, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
Meryl Streep
Nominated for: Best Performance By An Actress In A Motion Picture – Comedy Or Musical , It's Complicated and Julie & Julia
Played gay in: Manhattan, The Hours
January Jones
Nominated for: Best Performance By An Actress In A Television Series – Drama, Mad Men
Played gay in: Anger Management
Chloë Sevigny
Nominated for: Best Performance By An Actress In A Supporting Role In A Series, Mini-Series Or Motion Picture Made For Television , Big Love
Played gay in: If These Walls Could Talk 2
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Review: A Single Man
11 December 2009 3:02 PM, PST
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A Single Man is based on a novel by Christopher Isherwood, which is written as the internal monologue of a man who has made up his mind to commit suicide. If you know this, the first few minutes of the movie are a bit unnerving. Colin Firth, playing the title character -- a handsome, low-key college professor named George -- narrates the opening scenes by essentially reading lengthy passages from the book: the laziest possible approach to a challenging adaptation. There's little that does more to try my patience than this sort of extended "literary" voiceover. Not to be melodramatic, but in its worst incarnations, it's an affront to cinema. At the very least it misses the point.
Within a few minutes, though, first-time director Tom Ford finds his groove. Ford is a fashion designer by trade, a fact to which early reviewers have done their darnedest to ascribe significance
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The ugly truth about Allen Ginsberg's biopic
11 December 2009 10:15 AM, PST
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With the best will in the world, is it ever possible for actors blessed with incomparable beauty to get under the skin of the homely characters they play?
I can really only go on supposition, but I do tend to assume that the life of the super-beautiful movie star contains less in the way of futility and failure as those of we shabby mortals. There is one thing the gilded screen god or goddess will never know, and that's what it's like to be ugly. In fact, scratch ugly – even the experience of being blandly average is intrinsically beyond them. Which, for even the most gifted actor, is going to be a hurdle in a biopic of someone demonstrably plain.
On this supposition is founded the misgivings I've always had about Howl, the study of poet Allen Ginsberg at the time of his obscenity trial in 1957 which will debut at next month's Sundance festival.
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Kidman Has An Eye For Interior Design
7 December 2009 8:06 AM, PST
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Actress Nicole Kidman has a secondary career to fall back on if she ever decides to quit Hollywood - she's a keen interior designer.
The Hours star admits her pals are always seeking her advice and tips on decorating and she would love to dedicate her time to home makeovers.
She tells People.com, "I'd love to be an interior designer. I just love walking into a room and redoing it. When my girlfriends are buying an apartment, they'll always ask me to come along because I'm going 'You can knock that wall down, just put a little bit of paint there.'"
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The Naughts: The Actress of the '00s
4 December 2009 10:17 AM, PST
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If time is an avenger, then the Naughts have had it both ways with Nicole Kidman. In the span of a decade, Kidman was transformed from arm candy into an artist -- the rare movie star who made genuinely interesting choices -- eclipsing her ex-husband, Tom Cruise, who filed for divorce in 2000, with an Oscar win and the embrace, finally, of her peers on her own terms.
However, as the '00s limp to a close, Kidman seems to be succumbing to a personal vendetta against time: by manipulating her face into a mask -- a waxworks ideal of "Nicole Kidman" -- rather than continuing to deploy it as a functional instrument, an artist's tool, Kidman is taking perhaps the most surprising risk of her career: she has chosen to age into glacial iconicity. In this, she exemplifies a decade that treated actresses with ambivalence, waving all the flags of
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Decade in Review: 2002 Top Ten
2 December 2009 7:58 PM, PST
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As with 2000 and 2001, I'm reprinting my original top ten lists and commentary. If I've got something new to say, it'll be in red below.
Please note: This list was based on NYC release dates in the year 2002. Some movies are listed as different years at the IMDb based on when they were produced or released in their home country or in La or whatnot.
Undervalued: Morvern Callar, Roger Dodger, About a Boy, White Oleander, Panic Room and Kissing Jessica Stein Top 10 Runners Up: Chicago, Monsoon Wedding, Punch Drunk Love and Spirited Away I still am glad I championed most of these movies though I am sad that some of them aren't in the top ten... particularly Morvern, Monsoon and the Miyazaki. The MMMs. Though I'm not sure I'd know what to remove to make room for them.
10. 8 Women (François Ozon)
Ever since I a French teacher took my friends and
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Birthday Suits, Well Directed
30 November 2009 6:05 AM, PST
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Lights. Cameras. Birthday Action (for this, the 30th of November). Only one month left to go and it's 2010. How crazy is that?
Ridley, Terrence (in the 70s) and Marc
1835 Mark Twain's books have been adapted into movies ever since the movies began. Most notably The Prince and the Pauper and any tale of Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer
1920 Virginia Mayo 40s and 50s star, frequent Danny Kaye foil
1926 Richard Crenna, character actor
1927 Robert Guillaume, "Benson"
1929 Dick Clark, seemingly immortal creature who may finally be destroyed by the rise of his spiritual offspring Ryan Seacrest. It's all very Cronos vs. Zeus, only without the thunderbolts
1937 Ridley Scott, manly director whose movies are usually way better when they're shot through with a strong female presence. Consider the three classics: Blade Runner, Thelma & Louise, Alien. The rest of the filmography surely has its moments but that's the trinity right there.
1943 Terence Malick,
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10 closest Oscar races in the past 20 years
23 November 2009 1:12 PM, PST
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One of the shrewdest Oscarologists on the planet is Tariq Khan of Fox News, who often generously shares his views of current and past derbies with Gold Derby readers. Here he takes a nostalgic look at the past two decades, offering his take on the most competitive derbies. Words below are Tariq's. Thanks, m'friend!
We’ve often discussed those Oscar races that seem just too close to call . . . where it’s clear (or at least seems clear) that the eventual winner will nab the Oscar with only a few more votes than his or her nearest competitor.
While we can never really know for sure (unless we get one of those top jobs at the accounting firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers,) we do have some idea of what may have been the closest races in Oscar history. Allow me to present what I believe were the 10 closest acting races over the course of the past 20 years.
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Their Best Role: Meryl Streep
18 November 2009 9:02 AM, PST
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Welcome to a new series here on Cinematical where we select an actor or actress and the role we think is their all time best.
Last August, "Meryl Streep" wrote an op-ed piece for The Onion called "Name One Masterpiece Of Cinema That I've Starred In." It was really written by the Onion staff, of course, but they (and Streep) made a good point. For a woman who is very possibly the finest living actor of any sex, she has made very few truly unforgettable films. Her resume doesn't contain anything quite like Rear Window, The Godfather, Chinatown or Pulp Fiction. Case in point: the article brings up Kramer vs. Kramer. "Streep" says "I'd watch it if it were on," but it isn't really a masterpiece. Also, it's more Dustin Hoffman's movie than Streep's movie, and if you look at it that way, it ranks pretty far down on Hoffman's list of classics.
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See Which New Films Receive the Prestigious Critics' Choice Seal!
17 November 2009 11:59 AM, PST
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The Critics' Choice seal is a recognition given to new movies receiving a high Critics' Choice Ratings score in the weekly voting by the Broadcast Film Critics Association which I'm a proud member, yay!
If you're an Oscar fan, you may want to pay attention to the films receiving the Critics' Choice seal. It's a great barometer of the Academy Awards.
The latest films to receive the Critics' Choice seal are:
"Precious: Based On The Novel 'Push' By Sapphire
Precious
Release Date November 5, 2009
MPAA Rating R
Directed By Lee Daniels
Starring Mo?Nique, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey, Sherri Shepherd, Lenny Kravitz, and introducing Gabourey Sidibe
Official Site http://www.weareallprecious.com/
Synopsis
Set in Harlem in 1987, it is the story of Claireece "Precious" Jones (Gabourey Sidibe), a sixteen-year-old African-American girl born into a life no one would want. She's pregnant for the second time by her absent father; at home,
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Ask the Flying Monkey! (November 16, 2009)
15 November 2009 9:20 PM, PST
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Have a question about gay male entertainment? Send it to aftereltonflyingmonkey@yahoo.com! (Please include your city and state and/or country.)
Q: I'm
curious about Project Runway's
Christopher Straub. The ring he wears suggests he has a husband / partner /
significant other. What details might you know on this? Every time Heidi had
him in tears, I found myself strongly torn between wanting to give him a
hug and going all Cher on him. – LgH, Houston,
TX, Usw, Earth
Christopher Straub
A: “I am married!” Straub tells the Flying Monkey. “Well, not legally, but
Ronnie and I had a commitment ceremony two-and-a-half years ago. We've been
together for over five years. He's a little scientist, and we really don't
understand what each other does for a living.”
I asked what the two of them do for fun. “We like to travel, watch TV – I
like reality shows and he
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Gwyneth Paltrow joins Nicole Kidman in "The Danish Girl"
9 November 2009 7:00 AM, PST
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Variety is reporting that Gwyneth Paltrow has signed on to star opposite Nicole Kidman in The Danish Girl.
The film is about the first ever post-operative transgender person, Einar Wegener, and her wife, Greta, who stood by her side as she made the transition. Kidman will play Einar, and Paltrow is now set to play Gerda.
As we told you before, Charlize Theron had originally been in talks for the role of Gerda, but had to drop out due to scheduling conflicts. I'm a fan of Gwyneth's work, for the most part — including Shakespeare in Love where she dressed convincingly in drag, and her most recent film, Two Lovers — so I think she'll be great in the role.
The Danish Girl is being directed by Thomas Alfredson, who was behind the amazingly dark and beautiful vampire film, Let the Right One In, and the script is from Lucinda Coxon, adapted
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Gwyneth Paltrow To Play Nicole Kidman's Wife In "The Danish Girl"
8 November 2009 10:17 PM, PST
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Gwyneth Paltrow is to play Nicole Kidman's wife. The "Iron Man" actress has signed on to replace Charlize Theron in "The Danish Girl," an adaptation of a novel about the first post-operative transsexual.
The film follows Danish artists Einar and Greta Wegener who found success after Einar stood in for a female model that Greta was set to paint. As their work gained popularity, Greta encouraged her husband to continue to adopt a female guise.
This eventually led to Einar undergoing a sex change operation in 1931, shocking the world and threatening their marriage.
Anand Turker is set to direct the film, which screenwriter Lucinda Coxon is adapting from David Ebershoff's novel of the same name.
Nicole previously won an Oscar for playing a lesbian in "The Hours," while Gwyneth saw her character in "Shakespeare In Love" disguise herself as a man in order to fulfill her acting dreams.
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Birthday Suit: Shapeshifters
6 November 2009 12:48 PM, PST
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Sing your favorite stars a happy birthday in the privacy of your own home.
Maybe not out loud.
Happy birthday to Ethan, Rebecca and Mike
11/06
Today's filmic / famous birthdays.
If it's your own birthday shout it out. It's your day, after all.
1882 Thomas H Ince actor who became a lifeguard then an actor again until he was a pioneering film director who became a studio mogul until he morphed into Cary Elwes having an affair with Kirsten Dunst ... and then died mysteriously.
1903 June Marlowe lovely brunette who became the Warner Bros proclaimed "Most Beautiful Girl On Screen" and eventually settled in as Our Miss Crabtree
1931 Mike Nichols Second City Improv founder who became a comedian then morphed into one of the most celebrated film directors of the second half of the 20th century. The filmography is kind of uneven, though, right?
poll by twiigs.com
1946 Sally Field a little Pasadena
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2010 Best Actress Contenders: is there anyone who actually deserves an Oscar this year?
16 October 2009 12:36 AM, PDT
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There have been some absolutely amazing years in the race for the Best Actress Oscar. Take 1988 when Jodie Foster's performance in "The Accused" edged out what may have been career turns by Glenn Close in "Dangerous Laisons" and Sigourney Weaver in "Gorillas in the Mist." And you can't overlook one of Meryl Streep's all-time top five with "A Cry in the Dark" that year either. Or, 2002 where Nicole Kidman won for "The Hours," but faced heavy competition from Julianne Moore in "Far From Heaven," Salma Hayek in "Frida," Diane Lane in "Unfaithful" and Renee Zellweger in "Chicago." You
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If money is power, these actresses are superheroes
14 October 2009 3:00 PM, PDT
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Forbes’ lists of powerful women usually are fairly predictable, topped (in every sense) by Angelina Jolie.
But last week, Forbes published its annual list that reveals another side to power: Roi. And the top 10 actresses who provide the best return on a film company’s investment may surprise you.
At No. 1 is Australian actress Naomi Watts.
Watts’ most recent movie, The International, was a suspenseful thriller, to be sure, but it was only a modest box office success. Watts, however, gets less than $5 million a film — and earned the studio about $44 for every $1 she was paid on her last three major movies.
Second is Jennifer Connelly.
Although He’s Just Not That Into You was fairly cliché, Imo, the studio convinced its stars to take a pay cut to be in the movie. It made $177 million. Average that with Connelly’s roles in Blood Diamond and The Day the Earth Stood Still
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