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Showing posts with label Oscar-winning Gentleman Agreement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oscar-winning Gentleman Agreement. Show all posts
Queen Latifah hosted a fete filled with awkward moments (Why did Adam Sandler have that black eye? What was up with Zac Efron's Eminem-like swagger? Why didn't Jane Lynch notice the Gleeks behind her?) and plenty of surprise wins.
But the awards season's inaugural ceremony brought out some of the movie, TV and music industry's brightest stars, and if the night was any indication, the 2011 awards season is going to be one hell of a ride.
Over the past month, the members of the Online Film Critics Society have been guessing who will be nominated in a handful of major Academy Award categories. With the actual nominees to be announced on February 2, we’re down to our last speculations: Best Director. Here’s who we picked (in alphabetical order; links go to my reviews):
Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker James Cameron, Avatar Lee Daniels, Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire Jason Reitman, Up in the Air Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds
Your turn: Do you agree with the OFCS critics? Did we miss a filmmaker who’s certain to be nominated? Did we predict a nomination that’s ridiculous? Who will the Best Director nominees be?
Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman, whose gin-fueled, showgirl-adorned exploits are the stuff of political legend, announced today that he won’t run for Nevada governor. He’d been toying with the idea for years and, facing term limits in 2011, had even consulted with former Minnesota Gov. Jesse “The Body” Ventura about campaigning as an independent.
Oscar being Oscar, he dragged out the decision-making process for nearly as long as possible – even (unofficially) inviting reporters to watch him change his voter registration from Democrat to nonpartisan. But today, with the Feb. 4 deadline looming for filing signatures to run as an independent, Goodman told reporters he didn’t want to be away from his family in wintry Carson City.
“I feel like there’s a weight off my back, because I did not want to wake up without my wife next to me,” he said. “How could I start my day without her being there? … She applauds me every morning.”
Funny thing is, he could conceivably have won, making Western Governors Assn. meetings -- and every other official event -- way more entertaining.
Instead, Oscar made Clark County Commissioner Rory Reid’s life somewhat easier. Oscar’s bid would probably have siphoned votes from the presumptive Democratic gubernatorial nominee, whose impressive fundraising and awful polling resembles that of his father, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
It’s also rumored that, once Oscar’s third term ends, he might have another mayoral candidate to stump for: his wife, Carolyn.
Remember when Conan O’Brien said he would like actress Tilda Swinton to play him in a movie about the NBC fiasco? Of course you do. Well, it looks like the cheeky actress is all for it. Yesterday, during an interview with Movieline, Swinton was asked if she would be willing to take on the challenge. She responded: “I would just be only too happy…Yes, yes, yes, absolutely.”
Sure, she may have been joking, but regardless, let’s just consider the awesomeness of a Swinton-as-O’Brien movie. (Even if I’m a little surprised O’Brien went with Swinton, and not Finland prez Tarja Halonen.) Do I smell Oscar? After all, not only does she look like the former Tonight Show host, but this dress would also look damn good accessorized with an “In the Year 2000″ collar.
But who else would you cast in a movie inspired by the NBC late-night fiasco? (And let’s think outside the box here — let’s not cast with The Late Shift alums.) Who would play Jay Leno? David Letterman? Jimmy Kimmel? And Jeff Zucker? (I vote Eric Stonestreet, Keith Carradine, Patton Oswalt, and Stephen Tobolowsky.)
It was the subject no Hollywood studio would touch.
It was the movie powerful moguls tried to stop.
Now, more than six decades later, "Gentleman's Agreement" gets a rare theatrical screening at TCC Roper Performing Arts Center. Although it must be seen in the context of its time (released in 1947), it retains a good deal of the controversy that threatened to blow the lid off Hollywood's hypocrisy and put the subject of anti-Semitism into popular culture.
The movie earned eight Academy Award nominations and won for best picture, best director (Elia Kazan) and best supporting actress (Celeste Holm). The film, a love story and a social commentary, starred Gregory Peck as a journalist who claimed to be Jewish to help him write a story about anti-Semitism. His fiancee, an upper-crust society type played by Dorothy McGuire, thought the masquerade would have no effect but soon found her family and friends pressuring her to end the affair.
It was the biggest box office hit of the year for its studio. It is very much a Hollywood product made to entertain, yet it socked across a message that was new to many Americans.
After World War II brought about the defeat of fascism, people hoped the unity that won the war would be remembered.
Anti-Semitism was largely written off as an evil European blight, while Americans had a hardly whispered "gentleman's agreement" that fostered restricted clubs and property sales.
Even though Laura Z. Hobson's novel was a best-seller, Hollywood studios avoided any efforts to make a movie of "Gentleman's Agreement" until Darryl F. Zanuck, the head of 20th Century Fox, stubbornly insisted on putting it into production.
Ironically, Zanuck was one of the few Hollywood moguls who was not Jewish. A Protestant from Nebraska, he had Dutch origins. He was once barred from a hotel, though, because of his suspiciously "foreign" name. It rankled him.
He faced opposition from Jewish studio heads, who urged him "not to rock the boat." They had a point. The House Un-American Activities Committee eventually called many of the people involved in the film to testify in its hearings about communism in the United States.
John Garfield was a big star, but he took a supporting role in "Gentleman's Agreement" expressly to "out" his Jewishness and to support the film's message. He was called before the committee and refused to name names. Hounded by the FBI, he died of a heart attack, at age 39, the night before he was to testify before the committee again.
Other cast members called before the committee were June Havoc and Anne Revere, an Oscar winner two years before for "National Velvet," who refused to name names and was blocked from movie work for 20 years.
Director Kazan, on the other hand, named names and, consequently, faced hatred and controversy for the rest of his life while his career flourished. His honorary Oscar, decades later, provided one of the Oscars' most controversial nights.
I'll introduce and host the film, rarely shown in theaters. The showing is part of the Virginia Festival of Jewish Film, which continues through Sunday. There will be one showing only.
Mal Vincent, (757) 446-2347, mal.vincent@pilotonline.com
