Wife. Partner in crime is his co-star in the movie, Felicity Jones.
Another gimp! Oh… they are who they are.
Ah, I love Julianne Moore.
She should win for that bad makeup they made her wear in that Catching Fire movie.
Glad to see Julianne Moore win, even though I don’t think it was a big surprise.
Saw the special costume display at the museum in Phoenix. They definitely look different, and better, close up.
Nice shot of Glen Campbell’s family after Moore’s speech.
They played a drumroll before Sean Penn announced? At the Oscars?
OK, it’s over.
This was fun, CC! Let’s do it again next year.
Who won? I just switched over to Downton
Birdman.
Birdman
I’m happy with the results even if the show was disappointing.
Is Billy Crystal’s phone number unlisted?
I love NPH, but that was a pretty weak show. The “In Memoriam” section was particularly disappointing.
Another gimp!
Well, Eddie Redmayne’s next movie is apparently going to be another highly popular kind of “Oscar bait” role: I understand that he’ll be playing Lili Elbe, the first trans woman to undergo a surgical procedure resembling modern gender reassignment surgery, in Denmark in the 1930s. (SPOILER: there’s a reason she didn’t become as famous as Christine Jorgensen 20 years later.) The sort of role which, if it’s any good, is almost a guarantee of one of the acting awards, or at least a nomination. Just as it was for Jeffrey Tambor (Transparent), Jared Leto (Dallas Buyer’s Club), Felicity Huffman (Transamerica), Hilary Swank (Boys Don’t Cry), Jaye Davidson (The Crying Game), Chris Sarandon (Dog Day Afternoon), John Lithgow (The World According to Garp), Tom Wilkinson (Normal), Cillian Murphy (Breakfast on Pluto), Vanessa Redgrave (Second Serve), Lee Pace (Soldier’s Girl), Terence Stamp (Priscilla Queen of the Desert), and John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch).
If only Redmayne could play a disabled trans woman, the chances would be even better. (I’m afraid I’m highly cynical about such things, and somewhat bitter about the underlying implication that trans people are such foreign, exotic, and alien creatures that pretending to be one of them in any remotely convincing way is so incredibly difficult that it’s inherently an amazing – and, of course, brave! – achievement.)
PS: I can’t really comment otherwise, because I didn’t watch one minute of the Oscars this year. Because I saw hardly any of the nominated movies. Instead, I watched The Walking Dead!
Hi Donna – I remember you from when I first came on this site and have missed you since I’ve become an avid poster. Your comments are interesting. I’m glad you’re back. I was actually wondering what you thought about Transparent, which, to me, seems like a pretty sensitive and (maybe?) accurate portrayal of what it might be like for a late-in-life transition. Putting aside the crazy narcissism of the kids, what do you think of the show? And what do you think of Jeffrey Tambor’s performance? Even though there is still arguably a whiff of exoticism which must be a little disheartening, i wonder if you don’t see it as a positive that there are more and more trans characters in mainstream shows? (Please forgive any mistakes in terminology in this post).
Perhaps this isn’t the place for such a discussion, but I haven’t watched Transparent at all, and have no great desire to. Not that I’m really obligated to explain why I don’t want to watch it – any more than I’m obligated to answer people’s questions about Bruce Jenner! – but I guess I can say (leaving aside my philosophical issues with the casting choice) that I already transitioned beginning 15 years ago, and lived through the process once. I don’t need to watch another transition story or relive the experience vicariously (even though I was 25 years younger when I began transitioning than Tambor’s character “Maura” is supposed to be at the start of the series, so I wasn’t exactly in the same situation). Plus, I am and always have been severely afflicted with fremdschämen under any circumstances, even when the subject is not related to my own life, so when the subject is related to my own experiences, the vicarious embarrassment is all the stronger! Besides, in addition to being reminded of things about which I’d rather not be reminded, I suspect I’d also be annoyed by the inaccuracies I’ve heard about.
Furthermore, I’ve read that the show is really less about Maura than about her three children. My problem is not that the show spends a lot of time on her children; it’s that the three children, from what I understand, are all pretty much completely screwed-up and selfish. I know they want to create dramatic and comedic situations, but I wonder if there’s a subtext – presumably unintentional – that trans people screw up their children, and/or are disengaged from their children (and/or their children are disengaged from them), and if viewers may draw that conclusion regardless of whether it was intended.
Which makes me extremely uncomfortable, given that my son – even though he was only 14 when I told him about my transition plans (although he told me he had already figured out on his own that I was trans, a couple of years earlier!) – isn’t like that at all; he’s the opposite of selfish or narcissistic, and we’ve never been disengaged from each other. Not that I take credit for the way he is, or the fact that he was (and has continued to be) so loving and accepting – that’s all to his credit – but there’s nothing inherent in being a trans parent that leads to screwed-up kids.
Thanks for the response! Didn’t mean to derail the thread!
Not derailed at all and thank you for sharing your perspective.