Julianne Moore Wins Something!

Four-time Oscar nominee (always a bridesmaid) Julianne Moore won the Emmy last night for Best Actress in a mini-series (Game Change). I actually predicted in early March that she would win over Nicole Kidman. Playing a real-life person whose just had a recent run of relevancy in mainstream and pop culture can make you the odds on favorite verses a real-life person who snogged Ernest Hemingway not quite a century ago. I was happy for Moore. (Felt sorry for the front-row-and-center Kidman that she even bothered showing up.  But, then, Kidman did beat Moore out for the 2002 Best Actress Oscar.)  Her speech was great. Big Hollywood took her to town for her remarking, "I feel so validated since Sarah Palin gave me a big thumb's down." The line was clever and fun, and I'd like to hope I would have come up with something similar had it been me. Like Palin, the BH Republicans need to grow thicker skin. Or, perhaps, they prefer playing the role of victim. If you've bothered with the film (which is okay, but the wound from having had to endure the real Palin, was a bit too fresh, in my opinion), you'd see that Moore gave her character an empathy and humanity that the real Palin may or may not have even deserved. It was a nuanced performance and actually made me like Palin, which made a nice bookend to Tina Fey's shrewd send-up of the woman. (Which begs the question, why, oh, why, did Emmy not go there last night?) Anyway, Moore was incredibly gracious and beaming throughout her speech. She looked beautiful, though her dress wasn't perfect (it appeared to be unflatteringly two-tone and I didn't like how it crumpled a little in the waist area). Loved the color, though. Also loved her being the presenter on stage when Homeland Security (or was is Modern Family) and Claire Danes/Julie Bowen (?) dressed in a similar color had to share the stage with her. Too rich.

Anyway, considering the dearth of quality projects available for women, Julianne Moore is going to have a busy next 365-ish days. (But, then, she has always been a bit of a workhorse, no?) About a year from now, The Seventh Son ($39.27) is scheduled for release. It's based on the children's novel The Spook's Apprentice and will star Jeff Bridges. Sergey Bodrov will direct her role as a witch. Playing a witch of a different kind, she'll reimagine Piper Laurie's Margaret White in the dreaded remake Carrie ($49.01) this Spring. (How does one open themselves up to a movie they're convinced they're going to hate?  Please leave comments.) While I love Moore, her histrionics can sometimes go way over-the-top (in a bad way). I hope she reels it in and keeps things creepy.  The details are sketchy, but she may be the title character in The English Teacher ($1.99).  She'll also play one of the divorcing parents in What Maisie Knew ($4.01), told from the child's perspective, based on the Henry James novel.  It just showed at TIFF and the reviews were mostly positive.   Of all people, beefed-up pipsqueak Joseph Gordon-Levitt directed her in Don Jon's Addiction ($19.38), as well as Scarlett Johansson and himself as a porn-addicted lothario.  She's also attached to fantasy film Nicholas North. 

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