The other thing about Colman is (a) he was a very active listener, and (b) he had surprising emotional transparency that feels v contemporary. I love watching his directors discover that they can save a page and a half of dialogue by going to a closeup & just letting him think and feel on camera.

Once again stapling himself to the coattails of better men to borrow and steal honour and achievement he hasn't got and can't earn for himself. At least the placement will make it easy to remove quickly when the great day comes.

I'm a huge Ronald Colman girlie. One of the most beautiful speaking voices ever in the movies, and he understood immediately how to blend his silent film technique and his theatre skills to reinvent himself with barely a hiccup as a star in the new medium.

I don't know, but the physical SAG trophy is called The Actor ("The Actor goes to...") so it could be to make the ceremony title consistent with other award shows that are called by the name of the award itself (Oscar, Tony, Emmy, Grammy).

With so many people calling out their favorite quotes from Rob Reiner's films, thank you for the reminder that among his many other gifts he knew a good screenplay when he saw one!

To be clear, I love MMIL, it's one of the great movie musicals, Tootie is a wonderful character, and the Halloween sequence is brilliant. The coda to it just takes a weird turn for me as a contemporary viewer, partly because none of the adults points out what's a harmless prank & what's not.

*And* that same child also accuses the guy next door of having physically assaulted her, and when the family finds out she's making it up everyone falls about laughing because oh that Tootie is such a little minx, and then they give her ice cream. It's a very strange sequence.

I'm still working on their passing over any actual musicals (at least three in the mix) for the Best Musical/Comedy category while somehow including Blue Moon, which is neither a musical nor a comedy .

I saw a lovely production of it years ago by the short-lived BAM Theatre Company with a heavenly cast - Blythe Danner, Rene Auberjonois, Rosemary Harris, Stephen Collins, Denholm Elliott...What a shame the idea of a resident company there didn't take hold.

I guess they're thinking if Clooney could sell out that barn every night, why not Nathan Lane, but I'm not sure they're right about that. We shall see!

it's impossible not to be moved sometimes almost to tears by the grit and gallantry of the Jeanette's crew, who endured so much because of what was unknown so that we could know more.

In the Kingdom of Ice: the Grand and Terrible Voyage of the USS Jeanette by Hampton Sides, about a polar expedition in an era when above 80⁰N it was pretty much ice everywhere you went pretty much all the time... and thereby hangs the tale. Reads like a can't-put-it down adventure novel, and

As a CD (for theatre) thank you so much for recognizing the achievement of Getting It Right all the way down through the under-5s and extras. It's hard to do, & it doesn't often get recognized. The last thing I saw where the casting was as granularly excellent as this was Spotlight back in 2015.

Fascinating also to see (among other things) an early iteration of the toxic parasocial fan relationship,where a handshake or a polite casual exchange w/ the public figure gets fantasized into the promise of friendship or favor, and curdles into resentment and betrayal when those aren't forthcoming.

That's the wonderful Vondie Curtis-Hall, a veteran theatre actor who's also enjoyed a long career in film and television - over the years he's appeared in almost every major series you can name!

Rewatched recently for the first time since OG broadcast and totally agree. It's extremely rare to see it like this, the precise instant it happens- more usually it's a whole performance that does it.

I'm no fan of Dr Oz, but to his credit he did temporarily turn back into an actual doctor and jumped right in there.

If there's one thing the Irish are gonna do, it's break your heart with the beauty of language.

Later on when he and Jesse L. Martin were the detective partners they used to kill the time between camera setups singing their way through the golden age of Broadway together.