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Oh, and I liked 40 Year Old Virgin, though it was a little too human with the pain sometimes
The scene with him riding on his bike and berating himself for being so stupid in front of the guys and saying stupid stuff? I had to laugh in order not to cry, because I've done/I do the same sort of self-berating. Not, of course, for exactly the same reasons, but you know what I mean.
I also liked 40-Year-Old Virgin a lot.
Me too. Big Apatow fan.
Haven't seen 40YOV yet, but I love Steve Carrell. It looks funny as all get out.
She usually annoys me, but Stephanie Zacharach's review of The New World over at Salon (day pass required) is cracking me up.
And in classic movie news, I watched It Happened One Night, with Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert (HUH. BUH.), last night. Very enjoyable. I say it well deserved to walk away with all five major Oscars that year (movie, director, screenplay, actor, actress), but I have no idea what it was up against, so that wouldn't be an honest assessment. Still, it's a very funny movie, with very pretty, and talented, people in it.
It Happened One Night
I watched that about a month ago. I love it. Colbert and Gable play so well off each other. And talk about the snark? Wonderful!
The scene where the detectives show up at their cabin and Colbert just dives right in to the fake conversation Gable whips up, with only a second's warning, is pure genius.
One of my favorites. Have not seen "Virgin" yet...kind of debating about it.
I had to go check and see what It Happened One Night beat in the Oscars.
Leading Actor -- William Powell (The Thin Man) and Frank Morgan (The Affairs of Cellini)
Leading Actress --- Grace Moore (One Night of Love), Norma Shearer (The Barretts of Whimpole Streeet), and Bette Davis as a write in candidate for Of Human Bondage
Directing -- WS Van Dyke (The Thin Man) and Victor Shertzinger (One NIght of Love)
Outstanding Production -- The Barretts of Whimpole Street, Cleopatra, Flirtation Walk, The Gay Divorcee, Here Comes the Navy, The House of Rothschild, Imitation of Life, One Night of Love, The Thin Man, Viva Villa!, and The White Parade. The studios were listed by each movie title so I guess the award went to the studio.
Writing (adaptation)--- Farnces Goodrich and Albert Hackett (Thin Man), Ben Becht ( Viva Villa!)
The nominations were clearly a bit of a different creature back then, but there's some stiff competition there, at least in the acting categories. I haven't seen enough of the other picture noms (and boy, were there a LOT) to judge that.
I think I'd be hard pressed to pick between William Powell in Thin Man and Gable in Happened One Night. I was thinking as I was watching how Gable's performance was as enoyable as one of Powell's, little did I know....
I haven't seen the other Best Actress noms, but Colbert could have been nominated 3 times -- her performances in Cleopatra and Imitation of Life are also excellent.