https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOCohXRrdkghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQKuNHhX8Js Apropos of yesterday’s post, I was going to post the highly controversial Vanessa Redgrave Oscar acceptance speech from 1978 in which she criticizes Israel in a virulent and stinging speech that provoked boos and a scolding from Paddy Chayefsky. But you know what? The hell with it. Let’s end
Continuing our story of ‘Annie Hall’ and its Oscars moment, above is a short section from a doc about Woody (don’t know which one) which tells the oft-repeated tale of how he blew off the ceremony and didn’t even know the movie had won the major Oscars of that year
Yesterday we watched Woody Allen not pick up his Best Director Oscar for ‘Annie Hall’ in 1978 due to his being in New York playing the clarinet with a band in midtown. However his producers, Jack Rollins and Charles Joffe, chose to make the trip and were rewarded with picking
Last week I posted William Friedkin’s Oscar win for ‘The French Connection’ in 1972. The award was nicely presented by Natalie Wood, who was paired with legendary director Frank Capra. In 1978 the Academy had the good taste (believe it or not) to repeat this actress/legendary director bit again, this