Earlier tonight, during the annual "death parade" montage, there were SEVERAL glaring omissions. I'd like to correct that with my personal tribute to The Deaths That Oscar® Forgot...cue the James Taylor soundtrack...
Farrah Fawcett (LOGAN'S RUN, SATURN 3, EXTREMITIES)
Beatrice Arthur (MAME, LOVERS & OTHER STRANGERS, HISTORY OF THE WORLD, PART 1)
Virginia Davis (The ALICE Comedies, THE HARVEY GIRLS)
Zelda Rubinstein (POLTERGEIST, UNDER THE RAINBOW, SOUTHLAND TALES)
James Mitchell (THE BAND WAGON, THE TURNING POINT, OKLAHOMA!)
Harve Presnell (THE UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN, FARGO, SAVING PRIVATE RYAN)
Paul Burke (VALLEY OF THE DOLLS, THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR, FRANCIS GOES TO WEST POINT)
Henry Gibson (NASHVILLE, WEDDING CRASHERS, MAGNOLIA)
13 comments:
Karl Malden was there. I think he was the last one they showed. If not, definitely one of the last.
Karl was the very last one shown. But, some of the others were inexcusably absent.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0NNe-dM6GA&fmt=18
Yeah, Karl was the last one. I'm very surprised at the ones missed. How is that possible?!
I am always amazed at who the include and who they miss. It is like they are aiming for the TV audience, not the movie industry.
Some of the omissions are understandable however . . .
Zelda Rubinstein & James Mitchell - died in 2010
But all the others were not only in 2009, but well before the "production deadline" that they said kept out DeForest Kelly in 2000.
Thanks Ed. Like I said, I must has missed Karl because I was in a tizzy about the others.
I said this on another blog, but it bears repeating:
Turner Classic Movies does so much better at the Memorials than the damned Academy does.
Cut out the stupid dance numbers and the five people telling the nominees how wonderful they are and spend those extra minutes honoring the people who made the industry!
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Barbara
http://ifididnthaveasenseofhumor.blogspot.com
listing Southland Tales on Zelda's is a discredit to the very argument of worthiness. she's great but wow. that movie sucked.
Aren't Bea & Farrah more suited for an Emmy tribute than an Oscar tribute? Their greatest contributions were in television
I missed the beginning of the presentation and had no idea that there were some glaring omissions.
What about Dan O'Bannon - wrote ALIEN, TOTAL RECALL, etc????
@willam - Farrah & Bea made more movies than Michael Jackson. So if he was included, so should they have been.
VERY VERY glaring omissions. How could you forget Bea!?!
I waited all year to see Bea in that montage. WHERE'S MY CLOSURE?
Doug, this helps a little.
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