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Shakespeare in Love over Saving Private Ryan
There was another nominated WW II film passed over by Shakespeare in Love that year.
The Thin Red Line.
I was much, much younger then, but figured the Academy voters were pretentious, Hollywood or Manhattan elitists types thumbing their nose at war films (Daddy was a Civil Engineering prof. at A&M. Dinner table discussions were always fun... [sigh]).
But these were actually well scripted, haunting ANTI-WAR films portraying the horrors and sacrifices that men (boys really) endured to defeat evil for America.
Ahhh, but now we know the blame lands on celbrity sex addict Harvey Weinstein who launched a notoriously aggressive, threatening, bullying Oscar campaign that secured the best picture award for his studio.
All of it for that insipid, flat, semi-interesting, lackluster, dull, fairly drab, boring, dry, humdrum, ho-hum, tedious, uneventful, run-of-the-mill, commonplace, pedestrian, stale, lame, wishy-washy, anemic movie
Shakespeare in Love.
Oh yeah, and then Weinstein was in his bathrobe and tried to sexually assault Gwyneth Paltrow in his hotel room after asking her to give him a massage. (Ewwwwwh!)
And Paltrow was still engaged to Brad Pitt at the time.
She told
Vanity Fair last May,
Quote:
"I told [Pitt] right away and I was very shaken by the whole thing," she said of the incident. Later, Pitt decided to confront Weinstein when all three were attending the opening of Hamlet on Broadway. "It was like the equivalent of throwing him against the wall, energetically," Paltrow recalled.
"It was so fantastic. He leveraged his fame and power to protect me at a time when I didn't have fame or power yet. He said, 'If you ever make her feel uncomfortable again, I'll kill you,' or something like that."
** Full article from
Vanity Fair [Link]
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/05/gwyneth-paltrow-brad-pitt-harvey-weinstein/amp[/Link]
So maybe the fact poor Harvey will have a few years in jail and some new intimate friends to receive massages from will ease your pain over the slighting these two emotionally powerful movies received on their Oscar night.
Gig'em
Racing is life. Anything before or after is just waiting.
Steve McQueen
