Tag Archives: Hollywood Life
Oscar Watch: Kate Winslet
In March 1998, a 22-year-old Kate Winslet told Movieline, “I am incredibly passionate about my life. I am absolutely unable to hide any emotion. If I wrote a book, I’d have to call it P is for Passion. I don’t go in for anything halfway. My feelings about things are instant, on the spot. And [...]
Oscar Watch: Viola Davis
Viola Davis has one scene in Doubt, but it’s the most memorable scene of the movie, which is based on John Patrick Shanley’s play (he also directed.) A little-known but respected actress who primarily works in theatre, she more than holds her own up against the Great One, Meryl Streep. Davis plays Mrs. Miller, the [...]
Oscar Watch: Melissa Leo
In Frozen River, Melissa Leo’s face is as broken and desperate as her bleak surroundings –the frigid confines of upstate New York. The actress, widely respected in indie circles, is the lone unknown in a category of A-List celebrities up for Best Actress. With such competitors as the favored Kate Winslet, acting’s goddess, Meryl Streep, [...]
Best Picture: Frost/Nixon
Based on a play by Peter Morgan, and featuring the same actor, Frank Langella, who portrayed Nixon on the stage, Frost/Nixon manages to turn two days of probing interviews between David Frost and Richard Nixon into a compelling mystery tale. By telling the true story of the build up to the interview and pulling back [...]
Partying at the Oscars: Women in Film
It was the toughest assignment the Hollywood Life Party Girl has ever had: Go to star-studded event with Oscar nominees Taraji P. Henson and Viola Davis honoring ladies in cinema at a Bel Air mansion owned by Peter and Tara Guber, and drink champagne whilst standing next to Anne Hathaway. I know. My job is [...]
Oscar Week: It’s a Wrap
It’s over. Eight events and one underwhelming awards show later, we are alive. Oscar week started with the Envelope’s Hollywood Museum bash last Wednesday and closed last night with the late-late-late secret Prince concert at Avalon. Yes, I got into the Prince party. And it’s OK to be jealous. SATURDAY After a very long day [...]
Penn vs. Rourke: “Acting” vs.”acting.”
have conflicted emotions about last night’s Best Actor win going to Sean Penn. Firstly, I’ve become a Mickey Rourke fanatic and was certain–after he nabbed a BAFTA, and Indie Spirit, and a Globe–that the juice was behind him. But also because when I first saw Sean Penn in Milk I was raving about it to [...]
Oscar Watch: Frank Langella