Posted on 02/26/2017 8:40:16 PM PST by Sontagged
Edited on 02/26/2017 9:02:18 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Paddy Chayefsky presents the Oscars for Writing (Original Story and Screenplay) to Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman for Annie Hall and for Writing (Screenplay Adapted from Other Material) to Alvin Sargent for Julia, at the 50th Academy Awards. Hosted by Bob Hope.
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Paddy had won the year before for NETWORK and previously for MARTY and also wrote the Debbie Reynolds Bette Davis Ernest Borgnine play THE CATERED AFFAIR and also THE AMERICANIZATION OF EMILY.
Vanessa Redgrave had won Best Supporting Actress for the fictitious part of "Julia" in Fred Zinnemann's adaptation of Lillian Hellman's short story.
See video here of Redgrave's speech here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAcOsK9gRLk&list=PLJ8RjvesnvDMp7xxPWLxJpWNxhyeSTriD&index=2
Oddly, it was one of Meryl Streep's first onscreen roles in the small part of "Ann Marie" in the same film Redgrave won for.
(I love this film, btw, and only later found out that weirdo pre and post-1956 commie Lilian Hellman made up the whole character of Julia in that story. She waited until everyone who could call her on the lie had died.)
Weaponized media? “Click”....the sound of the channel changer.
No longer listen to or read the enemies of the American People.
BTW, managed to avoid looking at the Oscars at all. Supercilious Libtards.
Remember when Marlon Brando didn’t show at the ceremony, and Elizabeth Warren stepped in to take it for him?
“Network” is even more relevant today than it was when it came out.
Vanessa Redgrave was immersed into radical political activism back then, so different than her sister Lynn Redgrave (Georgie Girl). Vanessa was the Jane Fonda of Great Britain back then. Now, she still acts, but as is to be expected, one is less in demand at her age 80. Vanessa was tall and elegant during her younger years, but took on a somewhat haggard appearance over time. I suspect her politics has not changed at all.
Lol!
Ah! There’s a zinger!
That movie “Julia” represents one of the low points (among so many) of US popular culture and propaganda. Lillian Hellman created propaganda lies to put herself at the heart of anti-Nazi resistance when in fact there is zero evidence that she did anything, and she appropriated the real story of “Julia” (actually another woman named Muriel Gardiner who actually did do some of the kinds of resistance activites which Lillian Hellman fantasized about doing.
So Jane Fonda and Vanessa Redgrave produced agitprop for Lillian Hellman to whitewash her actual Stalinist past and present herself as a heroine of the anti-Nazi movement.
Funny.
But not without controversy. “Julia,” the movie that won scriptwriting Oscar that year was based on a chapter in Lillian Hellman’s book, Pentimento. I enjoyed both the book and the movie. HOWEVER, Hellman was an avowed communist.
Hollywood never changes.
Redgrave’s haggard look might stem from death of her gorgeous daughter, Natasha Richardson, in a ski accident. Tough for any mother to handle.
Natasha starred in a movie on my all-time-favorites list: The White Countess.
I’ve always heard that caring parent never fully recovers from the death of a child. Especially a child who made it all the way to the age of 46. I think Liam Neeson was her husband. Everything about the tragedy was very high profile.
The Redgraves were theater royalty in England then, similar to our Barrymores.
Yes, the rich and famous always seem to love communism for anyone but themselves.
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