A Movie Scene Quiz

Cabaret's the first movie I remember seeing Michael York in, too, bree. I loved him in that movie.

Happy 58th Birthday to:




Two of my favorite movies:

[Helen is late for rehearsal]
Helen Sinclair: Please forgive me. My pedicurist had a stroke. She fell forward onto the orange stick and plunged it into my toe. It required bandaging.

Helen Sinclair: Two martinis please, very dry.
David Shayne: How'd you know what I drank?
Helen Sinclair: Oh, you want one too? Three.



Holly: Don't you just love songs about extra-terrestrial life?
Mickey: Not when they're sung by extra-terrestrial life.

I love Bullets over Broadway, too. My favorite quote from it is:

David Shayne: Your taste is exquisite.
Helen Sinclair: [correcting] My taste is superb. My eyes are exquisite.

Yep, Dianne Wiest can do no wrong.

I saw Zefferelli's Romeo & Juliet at the tender age of 14. ('73 or '74.) It made a big impression! But I've also worked on a couple of productions of the play, so that helps too.

Speaking of Dianne Wiest (who was in Wendy Wasserstein's last play, "Third", at Lincoln Center last fall) -- does anyone have any guesses as to what might win the Pulitzer Prize for drama this year?

The announcements will be made on April 17, and I've been racking my brain to try to think of a new American work that might win this year. It would be a nice gesture if Wendy Wasserstein won a posthumous Pulitzer, but, frankly, I didn't think "Third" was one of her best.

Of course, Arthur Miller also has a posthumous work. (i think bree saw it when she was in england.)


whoops, i thought i was responding to raggedy!

You're right about Arthur Miller having a posthumous work, wandeljw. Leaving aside the question of the play's merits (about which I have serious reservations), that raises the interesting question of whether a play has to be produced in the U.S. to be eligible for Pulitzer consideration.

I know that a play doesn't have to be produced on Broadway to be eligible, because Nilo Cruz's "Ana in the Tropics" won the Pulitzer based on a production in (I think) California, before it was brought to Broadway, but I can't think of any play that's won a Pulitzer without having been produced somewhere in the U.S.

I just saw an internet blurb that "Resurrection Blues" previewed in Minneapolis in 2002.

Arthur Miller's "Finishing the Picture" previewed in Chicago in 2005.

Interesting. I think I read that Miller was still working on "Resurrection Blues" up until he died, so the production I saw may have been slightly different from the one in Minneapolis.

I think the fact that there was a 2002 production of "Resurrection Blues" would make it ineligible for this year's Pulitzer -- but "Finishing the Picture" could be in the running.

Here's all I could find on the Pulitzer Prize website about the eligibility requirements for plays:

Unlike the other awards which are made for works in the calendar year, eligibility in drama extends from March 2 to March 1, and in music from January 16 to January 15. The drama jury of four critics and one academic attend plays both in New York and the regional theaters. The award in drama goes to a playwright but production of the play as well as script are taken into account.

Well, that's fairly clear. If the jury doesn't view the play, it can't win.

I wonder how they decide which theaters to visit. I suppose there's a nomination process.

Sorry I can't contribute anything here. The last (non-musical) play I saw was Barefoot in the Park with Myrna Loy in the role of the mother-in-law. (In the sixties, maybe )

And a Happy 49th Birthday to:

Monsieur Lambert is very nice to look at, but he's one of those actors whose voices make me cringe. And it's not the accent - I love the accent.

Ah well, I'll just admire the pics...

The French accent or the Scottish accent?

His Scottish was mighty French!

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I didnt mind the accent, I love the film especially Clancy Brown as the Kurgen.

Lambert was great in Greystoke too.

I cant believe he is 49!!

How old is Gary Oldman?He must be around the same age by now.

I never really thought too much about his voice except that he was difficult to understand at times, a slight case of mumbling. But he was so sweet in Highlander. In Greystoke, all I can remember him saying was "grrrrr".

Hi Material Girl. Gary Oldman celebrated a birthday last week. He was born on March 21, 1958

I couldn't have said it better myself. This is from today's Wall Street Journal:

How could it fail? At the historic Old Vic, artistic director Kevin Spacey decides to produce Arthur Miller's last play, "Resurrection Blues," he gets Robert Altman to direct, and the combination of all these attracts a movie-star cast including Maximilian Schell, James Fox, Neve Campbell, Jane Adams and Matthew Modine.

Miller invented a bad-taste comic plot worthy of Mel Brooks. In a lawless Andean country a dictator seeks to restore his country's finances by crucifying a revolutionary and taking $75 million from commercial advertisers to televise it in real time.

Though this scant two-hour comedy has its charms, it seems obvious the play is unfinished. The repeated line-fluffing by actors of this caliber points to a lack either of rehearsal time or of conviction. What Mr. Spacey's Old Vic needs is not more help from Hollywood, but someone to say "no" at an early stage.

---- Paul Levy

The critic may be correct in his opinion of the play's merits. However, I saw another critic state that "Resurrection Blues" is Miller's penultimate play. Miller's last play may actually be "Finishing the Picture".