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Showing posts with label Jacki Weaver. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jacki Weaver. Show all posts

Monday, February 11, 2013

Hathaway in the Final Stretch

Posted on 7:09 PM by Unknown
They say that the hardest part of running a marathon is the last 0.2 miles of the 26.2 mile length.  I can't really say.  It has been over a decade since I've run one.  I've completed marathons where the last 13.1 miles were hell and I had to pull my depleted body over the finish line.  I've run others where I sailed across the final marker like some kind of fucking pimp daddy who was out for an afternoon stroll.  It all depends on how well you train, mostly.  The race is kind of an afterthought.  Speaking of which, winning an Oscar for playing Fantine was kind of an afterthought when Anne Hathaway first heard about the film adaptation getting the green light.  We are at that place in the race where we found Grandma Smurf this past Sunday sitting at the end of her bed in pajamas at the Loews Hollywood Hotel behind the Dolby Theater with a fag dangling out of her mouth and channel surfing for the BAFTA's.  "Joshua, where the fuck are you?  I can't find any British stations."  The young sprite broke the bad news to her after informing her that England was eight hours ahead, the ceremony was over, and the results were accessible on the internet.  He then preemptively ducked out of the room before she started grabbing items from the Mini-bar and throwing them at the television.

You see, Ms. Princess Diaries III is about at the 26.0-mile mark.  When George Clooney uttered her royal syllables in London on Sunday, she played the role of shocked recipient so well, she gave Kelly Clarkson's actually genuine reaction to winning a Grammy that same night a run for her money.  Little Oscared Annie kissed her husband, received props from Sally Field and someone who looked like Helena Bonham Carter, while walking up to the podium in her admittedly cute Burberry dress.  Bitch almost forgot to cash in on a warm embrace from the hottest man on the planet before she gave her speech.  She tried to make jokes again, like threatening to sing and giving a shout out to costar Eddie Redmayne who apparently had it coming out of both ends somewhere in the city thanks to food poisoning (or just expressing himself about Anne's win).  She acknowledged [her] cast and crew, hair and makeup artist Paul Gooch who had to play therapist to her whiny ass while doing up her face, her director, leading man, the studios, and producer Deborah Hayward.  This time, she decided to acknowledge all of the people responsible for Les Misérables before it was a movie, like the team behind the musical and then Victor Hugo, of course, who wrote the novel.  She ended with, "Thank you so much honey, I love you."  I'm assuming she was talking about her husband and not Hugo.  Unless she's into 19th-century French skeletons.  Is she going method for a possible role in Mr. and Mrs. Comfort?
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Thursday, January 31, 2013

A Tale of Two Fantines

Posted on 11:02 PM by Unknown

Grandma Smurf is so full of ideas and optimism, that when she heard about the write-in vote idea floating around Hollywood to compensate for Ben Affleck’s Oscar snub for directing, her brainstorms took her to the edges of insanity (which, is really an average day for her).  Now, there hasn’t been any connection substantiated to her involvement in the recent viral sensation of Emma Fitzpatrick singing a new fangled rendition of Annie’s “I Dreamed a Dream” sequence from Les Misérables, but it wouldn’t be unlike Smurf to actually believe Fitzpatrick could still get qualified for the Best Supporting Actress award for a short internet clip that was released after December 31st.  The vote split would obviously tip the scales in Smurf's favor.  And no one has actually disproven crafty short-stuff being a silent financier of the rather highly produced and gorgeously filmed five minute scene (it only cost $100).  Pushing stories of a makeshift Dolby Theater stage, a bitchy-kind-of-hate for Katie Holmes, and now this pops up?  Draw your own conclusions …  

Hathaway has been playing defense lately.  Can she weather this latest blow?  
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Sunday, January 27, 2013

Anne Reigns It In

Posted on 9:51 PM by Unknown
You want humble?  That's what you're going to get
When Sexy Back in the Day finally rattles off the Best Supporting Actress in a Movie SAG nominees this evening, there's a collective eye-roll that overtakes the room like a group wave in the bleachers at a sporting event.  Says one seated across from the Les Misérables table, "That's what Anne's wearing?  It looks like the Rachel Weisz Golden Globe trainwreck from a few weeks ago."  Another: "It is.  Louis Vitton plucked out all the polka dots and told her she could use it as long as she called it a Giambattista Valli."  Meanwhile, Grandma Smurf elbows Harvey Weinstein, "I might as well be in a Pinto behind the Shrine Auditorium peeling an apple listening to the radio broadcast version of this bullshit."

As it has been on the agenda for tonight's event for quite some time, they call Anne's name and Ms. Hathaway conducts herself with all the restraint she practiced with her Oscar Speech therapist.  She kisses leading man Hugh and hugs arch nemesis/ inspiration Sally ("I hate you, I really, really hate you").  Anne's internal monologue begins to play as she goes through the motions.  Okay don't blow this, Annie.  Don't say blurg.  Act humble and relate to the audience by making that dental joke just like they said ... Oh, good they laughed.  *deep breath*  Now tell a short personal story about how you got your SAG card.  Acknowledge the room, but more humble, more humble.  Shake your head like you earned it, but not in an entitled manner.  Make a reference to Fantine Sr.  Let's try another crack.  Oh, that didn't hit.  Shouldn't have been such a bitch.  Getting too confident again.  Moving on.  Thanks Dad for putting up with my crazy ass, as well as your wife's.  And, oh, yes, everyone, like Jennifer Lawrence, I have brothers (but, remember that one of them is gay), but I guess they should have picked on me more because look how cool and grounded she turned out to be she is nominated in the lead category and I'm in supporting.  Okay, now mention your reps.  Oh, fuck, I don't know any of them by name.  Mayday, mayday.  Quick, make another bitchy, but overly sweet joke.  Yes!  That one worked.  I should wing it more often, I'm so good at this.  Okay, gotta thank manager Susan because, thanks to me, we're greater than The Beatles!  Remind everyone that I was Catwoman.  Thank you director, studios, and, finally, hubby.  I'm told that no one wants to hear our wedding vows, so they can just suck on some sexual innuendo.  Kisses.  

Anne embraces her Oscar Speech coach waiting behind the stage.  "That was good.  Four more weeks.  Just keep your coochie covered at all times, and it's yours."  Sitting at the Silver Linings table that is adorned in a dull grey tablecloth with no discernible flashy, glittery, or positive edges, Grandma Smurf is none to pleased.  "How shit-faced am I going to get if we don't win ensemble?"  Jennifer Garner leans over and whispers, "You better get started now."
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Friday, January 25, 2013

Grandma Smurf Strikes Again

Posted on 2:17 PM by Unknown
After she made the mistake of sending one of her less abled sons to throw a firebomb at Ms. Hathaway's Oscar Dream, Grandma Smurf does NOT let up.  "Damn me if Jennifer and Robert get Oscars and NOT ME.  This may be my last chance.  Some are even giving Bradley Cooper dark horse status.  BRADLEY-FUCKING-COOPER.  He hosts travel shows naked!  This is unacceptable."  Deciding she can handle her campaign better than Harvey Weinstein thankyouverymuch, she enlists another one of her boys to rely less on rumor and more on evidence.  Unable to break into her NYC apartment to take pictures of Hathaway's temporary Academy Award stage (that will be converted to a humidity-controlled Oscar display room at the end of February), she sends Darren instead of Craig to the 30 Rockefeller Plaza archive room to view old SNL episodes and dig up something good.  And, low and behold, right from underneath everyone with short memories and poor cognitive skills, he only had to watch Anne's last two times hosting to discover that she has done not one, but two impressions of Dawson's Crack star Katie Holmes.  "Bloody Hell," thought Darren.  "It couldn't be just a coincidence."  He plays Anne's last stint from late 2012 to the very end of the episode and watches her apologize to Claire Danes for her grown-up Angela Chase impersonation at curtain, but says nothing concerning the former  Scientology beard, not even a derisive side-eye. "Eureka!"

Darren eagerly flies back to Grandma Smurf's L.A. headquarters behind the Dolby Theater to share the wonderful information.  "I've got good news, Mum."  Jacki's smile curls ever so slightly at the ends in anticipation of what's next.  "She's a bitch, a grade-A cunt and I've got the proof."  He explains and Ms. Weaver doesn't get too excited: "It's not a whole lot, son,  But, it's a start, love, it's a start."  Realizing Star Magazine would recognize her voice from the other day, she picks up the phone and calls the Enquirer instead and uses the Oklahoman accent she had been learning for August: Osage County.  (Damn that asshole Harvey for telling me I'd be his next Judi Dench, she thinks as she puts her newly acquired skill to some use)  "Hello, tabloid people.  My name is Katie Holmes."  She begins sobbing.  "And, Annie Hathaway hates my guts!"  Darren interrupts her and whispers, "Katie's from Ohio, not Oklahoma."  Jacki hangs up the phone, smirks, and pulls into her computer to check Celebitchy.  Looking at the post at the very tops, she says, "Looks like it doesn't matter, son.  We may have found our positive spin.  Annie's dream is going to turn into a nightmare, yet, just you wait."
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Thursday, January 24, 2013

Grandma Smurf Puts a Hit Out on Anne's Oscar Chances?

Posted on 11:31 PM by Unknown
"Randall ... we do what we have to do, we do what we must."
Since this is Anne-related, I feel compelled to blog about a "story" from Star Magazine (the print version, I guess) that perpetuated the rumor that Ms. Hathaway hired a team of writers and built a temporary stage in her NYC apartment to practice her Oscar speech.  Several blogs including Rumor Fix (never mind that they don't even have their facts straight on Anne's Oscar history) and Celebitchy picked it up, and reported additionally that her rep squashed the rumors, starting with the fact that she hasn't been in New York for weeks, nor will be there before the Oscar ceremony.  While I don't believe most of this is true (I could see her hiring a writer to help her, though), I find the fabrication hilarious.  Everyone expects Anne to win.  She has made it clear we should expect it since cameras started rolling that she's even more can't-lose than Daniel Day-Lewis (although that may be up for debate).  It has gotten to a point on the internet where it has turned into kind of a joke.  Her people may have wanted to reign her back a little, although I'm not sure exactly how that could have been done while communicating the sacrifices she made for the role.  (Although, it should be said that many people were floored enough by her performance that she might have considered allowing her work to speak for itself.)  Her Golden Globes speech, which was her first time in front of a national audience, did not go over well at all.  Jessica Chastain talked about how gratifying it was to be validated after years and years of hard work and rejection.  Jennifer Lawrence haphazardly tried to make a 1990s reference, though I applaud her nonetheless for her impressive trove of movie trivia.  Adele made some comment about the friend she traveled with and the airplane ride over the pond (I don't remember).  But, Anne.  No, Anne basically said, "I am in a room full of great people and thank you for telling me I am great too.  I will never ever again think I'm not great.  Shedding my child star persona was so hard.  Wah."  Anne's kind of setting herself up to fail.  But, she doesn't have a history of failing, so I don't foresee her falling on her face like Joaquin Phoenix (who went the complete opposite direction).

How does something like this get started?  Well, one must ask who stands to gain, right?  Namely Sally Field, Helen Hunt, Amy Adams, Jacki Weaver, and the studios who back their film.  So, how does this work?  The PR team (or whatever they're called) behind Lincoln or Jacki Weaver (who got nominated for playing the mob matriarch in 2010's Animal Kingdom), for example, are talking and trying to think of ways to add more Academy Awards to their chest on Oscar night.  So, somebody gets ballsy and thinks that maybe they can take down Fantine.  She has become a source of ridicule and appears to be a vulnerable target out of her own volition.  And once a fire starts, all it needs are the right conditions to spread, right?  So, they call up Star Magazine and tell this ridiculous story to see if they can get it to stick.  Anne's reps immediately nip it in the bud, but it doesn't hurt to try, right?  Really.  I have zero idea how this works, but find it all very fascinating.
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