I caught a piece of an NPR bit this evening talking about her diplomatic career and how she really had to work hard to be taken seriously as an ambassador after her Hollywood career, & all i could picture was her walking into the prime minister's office stomping her little foot, shaking her curls and saying, "Now see here! I work a 17-hour day, and I'm personally responsible for 108 staff members in the embassy. Humph!" and then breaking into a song & dance number.
Named for Katie-Bar-The-Door, the Katies are "alternate Oscars"—who should have been nominated, who should have won—but really they're just an excuse to write a history of the movies from the Silent Era to the present day.
To see a list of nominees and winners by decade, as well as links to my essays about them, click the highlighted links:
Remember: There are no wrong answers, only movies you haven't seen yet.
The Silent Oscars
And don't forget to check out the Silent Oscars—my year-by-year choices for best picture, director and all four acting categories for the pre-Oscar years, 1902-1927.
Look at me—Joe College, with a touch of arthritis. Are my eyes really brown? Uh, no, they're green. Would we have the nerve to dive into the icy water and save a person from drowning? That's a key question. I, of course, can't swim, so I never have to face it. Say, haven't you anything better to do than to keep popping in here early every morning and asking a lot of fool questions?
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I caught a piece of an NPR bit this evening talking about her diplomatic career and how she really had to work hard to be taken seriously as an ambassador after her Hollywood career, & all i could picture was her walking into the prime minister's office stomping her little foot, shaking her curls and saying, "Now see here! I work a 17-hour day, and I'm personally responsible for 108 staff members in the embassy. Humph!" and then breaking into a song & dance number.
That's a movie I'd pay to see!
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