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[singdaw]

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[John G.]

TOD:

So many choices. My top five right now:

Falling in Love with Love
This Can’t Be Love
Sing for Your Supper
Isn’t It Romantic?
Blue Moon

[elmore3003]

I've always considered Lorenz Hart the poet laureate of the broken heart. Sondheim continually kicked Hart's lyrics around, but it's his opinion, not mine, and I'd be happy to tell my old pal Steve where I think he's written a dud or three. Still, it seems pretty apparent that Steve's original lyrics for "We're Gonmna Be All Right" were modeled on Hart's "He and She."

So, Rodgers & Hart remain my favorite songwriting team. Unlike his glorious work with Hammerstein, Rodgers' wonderful tunes really swing to Hart's lyrics, and, when intended, Hart's lyrics break my heart more often than Hammerstein's do.

Do I have favorites? Perhaps, but they change daily with my moods. I'm very, very fond of the wonderful "Every Sunday Afternoon" from the late (1940?)  Higher and Higher (Wash the dishes, dry your hands; Change your wishes to commands) and the heart-breaking "Bye and Bye" from the 1925 Dearest Enemy (Every cloud just flies on, Love is on the far horizon; You'll be my sweetheart bye and bye); I also love the silliness of "I'd go to hell fa ya, Or Philadelphia."

[elmore3003]

I have read that youngsters today cannot read cursive writing.

There's a similar trend about reading hand-written music.

[elmore3003]

DR Elmore, I'm always fascinated with your mentions of Appalachia.

Our backgrounds are similar, in that I was born and grew up in Columbus, with Appalachian roots on my mother's side, but yours was Kentucky and ours was the West Virginia Appalachia. But when my dad remarried some years after my mom died, his second wife had strong Kentucky Appalachian roots. I would have liked it if they had driven me down into and around her hometown territory which was somewhere directly south of Cincinnati, maybe 90 minutes away, but the timing for that never worked out.

My grandmothers farm outside Louis, Kentucky, was not far from the West Virginia border.

[singdaw]

Interesting...

[singdaw]

The parodies in today's Notes were top drawer. Simply top drawer.

[elmore3003]

DR elmore3003, have you heard about this?   [click to embiggen]

Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I did not know about it.

[ChasSmith]

DR Elmore, I'm always fascinated with your mentions of Appalachia.

Our backgrounds are similar, in that I was born and grew up in Columbus, with Appalachian roots on my mother's side, but yours was Kentucky and ours was the West Virginia Appalachia. But when my dad remarried some years after my mom died, his second wife had strong Kentucky Appalachian roots. I would have liked it if they had driven me down into and around her hometown territory which was somewhere directly south of Cincinnati, maybe 90 minutes away, but the timing for that never worked out.

My grandmothers farm outside Louis, Kentucky, was not far from the West Virginia border.

My mom's family were centered in the Morgantown WV region, and I've gotten to know that area fairly well. There was a branch of that family in Charleston that I have a vague memory of visiting, but I never knew them like the others.

She and her parents moved to Columbus in the mid-late 1940s because they knew there was better employment to be found there after the war. That's how she ended up meeting my dad, who had grown up in Columbus and had returned from the war and was going to the same church.

Ah, family history stories...

[Jrand74]

The AA nominations:

https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/oscars-2025-full-list-of-nominations/story?id=117974441

[Freddie]

Should we list the  nominations here to add to the page count, er, make discussion easier?

[Freddie]

Best Picture
Anora (Alex Coco, Samantha Quan and Sean Baker, Producers)
The Brutalist (Nominees to be determined)
A Complete Unknown (Fred Berger, James Mangold and Alex Heineman, Producers)
Conclave (Tessa Ross, Juliette Howell and Michael A. Jackman, Producers)
Dune: Part Two (Mary Parent, Cale Boyter, Tanya Lapointe and Denis Villeneuve, Producers)
Emilia Pérez (Nominees to be determined)
I’m Still Here (Nominees to be determined)
Nickel Boys (Nominees to be determined)
The Substance (Nominees to be determined)
Wicked (Marc Platt, Producer)

Directing
Jacques Audiard, Emilia Pérez
Sean Baker, Anora
Brady Corbet, The Brutalist
Coralie Fargeat, The Substance
James Mangold, A Complete Unknown

[Freddie]

Actor in a Leading Role
Adrien Brody, The Brutalist
Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown
Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
Ralph Fiennes, Conclave
Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice

Actress in a Leading Role
Cynthia Erivo, Wicked
Karla Sofía Gascón, Emilia Pérez
Mikey Madison, Anora
Demi Moore, The Substance
Fernanda Torres, I’m Still Here

[Freddie]

Actor in a Supporting Role
Yura Borisov, Anora
Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
Edward Norton, A Complete Unknown
Guy Pearce, The Brutalist
Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice

Actress in a Supporting Role
Monica Barbaro, A Complete Unknown
Ariana Grande, Wicked
Felicity Jones, The Brutalist
Isabella Rossellini, Conclave
Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez

[Freddie]

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Emilia Pérez
Nickel Boys
Sing Sing

[Freddie]

Writing (Original Screenplay)
Anora
The Brutalist
A Real Pain
September 5
The Substance

[Freddie]

Animated Feature Film
Flow
Inside Out 2
Memoir of a Snail
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
The Wild Robot

Animated Short Film
Beautiful Men
In the Shadow of the Cypress
Magic Candies
Wander to Wonder
Yuck!

[Freddie]

Cinematography
The Brutalist
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
Maria
Nosferatu

Costume Design
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Gladiator II
Nosferatu
Wicked

Film Editing
Anora
The Brutalist
Conclave
Emilia Pérez
Wicked

Makeup and Hairstyling
A Different Man
Emilia Pérez
Nosferatu
The Substance
Wicked

[Freddie]

Live-Action Short Film
A Lien (Sam Cutler-Kreutz and David Cutler-Kreutz)
Anuja (Adam J. Graves and Suchitra Mattai)
I’m Not a Robot (Victoria Warmerdam and Trent)
The Last Ranger (Cindy Lee and Darwin Shaw)
The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent (Nebojša Slijepčević and Danijel Pek)

[Freddie]

Music (Original Score)
The Brutalist
Conclave
Emilia Pérez
Wicked
The Wild Robot

Music (Original Song)
“Never Too Late” from Elton John: Never Too Late
“El Mal” from Emilia Pérez
“Mi Camino” from Emilia Pérez
“Like A Bird” from Sing Sing
“The Journey” from The Six Triple Eight

[Freddie]

Documentary Feature Film
Black Box Diaries
No Other Land
Porcelain War
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
Sugarcane

Documentary Short Film
Death by Numbers
I Am Ready, Warden
Incident
Instruments of a Beating Heart
The Only Girl in the Orchestra

[Freddie]

International Feature Film
Brazil, I’m Still Here
Denmark, The Girl With the Needle
France, Emilia Pérez
Germany, The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Latvia, Flow

[Jrand74]

And my big moment on the big screen was captured by a friend at the premiere last night.

[Jrand74]

I am obviously playing someone much older than myself.

[elmore3003]

And my big moment on the big screen was captured by a friend at the premiere last night.

Bravo!

[Rodzinski]

Look at the audience in rapt attention!

[Freddie]

And my big moment on the big screen was captured by a friend at the premiere last night.

Fabulous!!!

[Jrand74]

I guess it came a bit late for an AA nomination....maybe next year.

[Jrand74]

Petey the PT Cruiser and Dennis the Smart Car both started up - so I guess I shall go to the getting place tomorrow morning.

There are a few flakes of snow falling but they won't amount to much.

[DR Iris]

TOD:

All above mentioned, and adding this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rd8poMGs_ig&list=OLAK5uy_lERrep1HYIQDKEMjLpZcw3pk7XgzYW5aM&index=15&pp=8AUB