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Movie Reviews By Bil Antoniou

Barkhad Abdi

Born: April 10, 1985, Mogadishu, Somalia.

2013: Captain Phillips (Oscar Nomination: Best Supporting Actor)

2015: Eye In The Sky

2016: Grimsby

2017: Extortion, Dabka, Good Time, Blade Runner 2049

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"I would never discriminate against someone's talent because they showed the poor taste to like me." - Bob Fosse, born June 23, 1927. #BobFosse

"With most people when there's a pain in their life there's mental scar tissue that forms over the pain and helps you go on living. An actor's scar tissue really never covers over things the same way, not if you're going to be sensitive. With good technique, an actor can do that and walk through life without going insane." - Frances McDormand, born June 23, 1957. #FrancesMcDormand

Today's review on MyOldAddiction.com, Beethoven by #BrianLevant starring #CharlesGrodin and #BonnieHunt, "a sweet animal movie that suffers only from overzealous Hollywood screenwriters feeling the need to up the stakes with too many conflicts"

BEST ACTRESS 1965: Julie Andrews was back on the roster for a second year in a row, this time for taking care of another set of children while having to climb that Alp without the help of a magical umbrella in The Sound of Music, but it was another Julie who would take home the gold, and in a gold dress to (go-go) boot: as the fashion model in John Schlesinger's DARLING who schemes and sleeps her way to the top only to realize it's all pointless, JULIE CHRISTIE became the very image of the sixties British New Wave, perfectly glamorous but with a slightly jaded air that always made her seem intelligent but never bitter. Born on a tea plantation in India, she made her breakthrough in Schlesinger's Billy Liar a few years earlier, swinging her purse through London in a walking montage that changed the image of rebellious youth in movies forever, then her appearing in the hit romantic drama Doctor Zhivago the same year as Darling solidified her chances of winning (and is also the reason there are so many girls named Lara). She was up against the acclaimed performance by Samantha Eggar in William Wyler's brilliant (and terrifying The Collector) as Terence Stamp's kidnap victim, a performance that won her Best Actress at Cannes but wasn't as widely seen by Oscar voters (Eggar's success in the part got her hired on Doctor Dolittle that year, which promptly destroyed her career); fellow nominees Elizabeth Hartman (in the interracial love story A Patch Of Blue) and former winner Simone Signoret (in Stanley Kramer's Ship of Fools) didn't stand a chance. Christie fits into Darling beautifully but it's actually Schlesinger's combining La Dolce Vita with British kitchen sink melodrama that is doing all the maneuvering, the subtlety that she would have on screen would ripen in the years to follow and her strength as an actor only increase as her physical beauty refused to fade.

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