Faulkner

No Lanthimos, Coogler, or Jenkins.

I don’t remember, but outside of select Slams and North American Masters, Sloane still DGAF. This made me laugh:

Girl... if you’re not going to play, don’t enter the tournament. Give the spot to someone eager.

JPS is still handsome (If painfully thin), but hot damn:

Ugh, Twitter embeds are having issues for me atm. WGA nominations ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Eighth Grade Written by Bo Burnham; A24 Green Book Written by Nick Vallelonga & Brian Currie & Peter Farrelly; Universal Pictures A Quiet Place Screenplay by Bryan Woods & Scott Beck and John Krasinski, Story by Bryan Woods & Scott Beck; Paramount Pictures Roma Written by Alfonso Cuarón; Netflix Vice Written by Adam McKay; Annapurna Pictures ADAPTED SCREENPLAY BlackKklansman Written by Charlie Wachtel & David Rabinowitz and Kevin Willmott & Spike Lee, Based on the book by Ron Stallworth; Focus Features Black Panther Written by Ryan Coogler & Joe Robert Cole, Based on the Marvel Comics by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby; Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Can You Ever Forgive Me? Screenplay by Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty, Based on the book by Lee Israel; Fox Searchlight If Beale Street Could Talk Screenplay by Barry Jenkins, Based on the novel by James Baldwin; Annapurna Pictures A Star is Born Screenplay by Eric Roth and Bradley Cooper & Will Fetters, Based on the 1954 screenplay by Moss Hart and the 1976 screenplay by John Gregory Dunne & Joan Didion and Frank Pierson, Based on a story by William Wellman and Robert Carson; Warner Bros. NOTE: The Favourite was ineligible but is still in contention for screenplay Oscars.

Coco Vandeweghe out of Australia. Her woes continue.

I was a little weirded out by how rough PAS got with Laura and Lisa when Casey was jerking his body away when Ally and Ava tried to comfort him after his father’s death. I’m sure it was all fine, and PAS is a professional by all accounts, but it made me super uncomfortable for some reason, especially as soaps have peddled violence against women as super sexy. He was one hell of an actor, though. So many soaps have attempted the Brando/James Dean-like misunderstood boy who’s rough on the outside but really a bit soft and prone to tears, but PAS sells it much better than the Pelphreys and the Howarths of the world. And we were talking about gay men who are completely convincing as straight, and PAS absolutely is. He’s just the real deal. One of the best performers the genre has *ever* seen IMO.

Hmmm.

Close and Gaga were both in Actress - Drama, even though A Star is Born could have conceivably campaigned in the Comedy/Musical categories. Close gave a great speech and got a passionate reaction, plus the “due” factor, so it’s hard to not see her as the favorite. Ironically, Olivia Colman (for “The Favourite”) is the second favorite, but she competed in the comedy categories at the Globes.

CBS gets its first female news head.

LOL. Are Bohemian Rhapsody and Green Book the worst-reviewed movies to ever win top awards?

I was watching a playlist of Casey/Ally this weekend (this was a soap binge weekend for me, for some reason), but man, were they incredible together. I’d forgotten what it was like to be invested in a soap romance, and they pulled me in immediately. (Sorry for digging up this post from a decade ago.) Loving had such a strong young cast in the early ‘90s.

One thing that’s striking about dialogue for all soaps from the late ‘70s is how thoughtful the characters are about their lives. They speak more openly about what they want or like (in a partner, in a job, in a family) in more specific but also more all-encompassing ways. Like some of Diane Ballard’s 1979 dialogue is very interesting and reflective, like that of a Shakespearean villain. I contrast this with something like modern-day DAYS where sometimes it just feels like dialogue is either zinger-focused, bland platitudes about “love,” or a battering ram to move plot forward.

I’m thrilled for Kei!

Someone noted that Serena’s husband and two of her exes (Grigor and Patrick) are all here:

Lisa Brown’s son James “Buddy” Nielsen played the original J Chamberlain on GL as a baby back in the mid-‘80s. He’s all grown up and fronting the band Senses Fail, and they have a new video out:

Yeah, he appears sporadically in the 1979 episodes I’ve been watching. In the August 22 episode, Peter proposes marriage to Holly. More info on the character here: http://soapcentral.com/gl/whoswho/peter.php

I don’t we mentioned Curt Dawson (Peter Chapman, GL), who was an ex-lover of Ian McKellen and Armistead Maupin. He died from AIDS in 1985 at 43. McKellen writes about him here: http://www.mckellen.com/writings/92dawson.htm

It’s certainly well-earned. Lots of moving pieces had to be juggled at a fast pace. Definitely similar in tone to what I loved about early ‘90s GL.

Interesting thread

See I thought the beard on Bernau brought out a kind of dirty, primal masculinity that you didn’t always see with him. The beard did a similar thing for Roger Moore when he was a bit older. Bernau was handsome regardless, though (I love this sweater/jacket combo):

My bet is that all the dangerous players will be stacked in Novak’s section. A late Christmas present from Craig Tiley to his bestie Rog.

I’m watching 1979, and he was stunning with a beard. I’ve always heard his death was from AIDS complications.