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Movie Reviews By Bil Antoniou

Peggy Lee

Born: May 26, 1920, Jamestown, North Dakota.

1943: The Powers Girl, Stage Door Canteen

1950: Mr. Music

1952: The Jazz Singer

1955: Lady and the Tramp, Pete Kelly’s Blues (Oscar Nomination: Best Supporting Actress)

Died: January 21, 2002, Bel Air, California.

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BEST MUSIC 1991: Disney followed the mammoth success of The Little Mermaid with a film that hit even higher heights when BEAUTY AND THE BEAST not only stormed the box office but also scored with reviewers, the best critically rated film of the year that then became the first animated film to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar. It featured, among its many assets, a career best score by ALAN MENKEN and HOWARD ASHMAN, the latter of whom passed away months before the film was even released and before the two of them won Best Original Score and Best Original Song (for the title song) at the 1992 ceremony (plus accomplished getting three songs from one film into that category for the first time ever). Ashman’s partner Bill Lauch accepted the award on his behalf, who informed the audience that it was the first Oscar to be given to someone we had already lost to AIDS; Ashman’s headstone reads "O that he would have but one more song to sing", and "Last Dance" winner Paul Jabara would die of the disease later that year. Menken and Ashman also won for "Under The Sea" (The Little Mermaid, 1989) and were nominated together for "Mean Green Mother From Outer Space" (Little Shop of Horrors, 1986), "Kiss The Girl" (The Little Mermaid"), "Be Our Guest" and "Belle" (both Beauty and the Beast, 1991) and "Friend Like Me" (Aladdin, 1992). Menken also won for The Little Mermaid (score, 1989), Aladdin (score and song, 1992) and Pocahontas (score and song, 1995) and was nominated for The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), "Go The Distance" (Hercules, 1997), "Happy Working Song", "So Close", "That's How You Know" (all Enchanted, 2007) and "I See The Light" (Tangled, 2010). MyOldAddiction.com #AcademyAwards #Oscars #Music #Scoring #Musical

"I like to be directed, it's true. If I didn't like that, I'd do something else. Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else." - Catherine Deneuve, born October 22, 1943. #CatherineDeneuve

"If you keep marrying as I do, you learn everybody's hobby." - Joan Fontaine, born October 22, 1917. #JoanFontaine

Today's review on MyOldAddiction.com, First Love (Hatsukoi) by #TakashiMiike, "puts across such graphic action with so lightweight a sense of fun"

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"I like to be directed, it's true. If I didn't like that, I'd do something else. Being an actor means being an inst… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 15 hours ago
"If you keep marrying as I do, you learn everybody's hobby." - Joan Fontaine, born October 22, 1917. #JoanFontaine https://t.co/7ku9iZYW3Y 15 hours ago
Day 40 - First Love (Takashi Miike, 2019). Nothing like a gang war to really help a guy fall in love with you. youtu.be/dENx6TktpiM 15 hours ago
RT @ryanghinds: She loves an #elxn43 moment! https://t.co/uxnoeSMz1N 1 day ago
"Don't slide through life. Savor it. Slow down. Be kind. Pay attention. Because this isn't going to happen again."… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 day ago
"You can't find true affection in Hollywood because everyone does the fake affection so well." – Carrie Fisher, bo… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 day ago
"There’s no room for demons when you’re self-possessed." – Carrie Fisher, born October 21, 1956. #CarrieFisher https://t.co/5lO3ZDuvKW 1 day ago
Day 39 - Song of the South (Harve Foster, Wilfred Jackson) - So excited that I managed to see this before Karina L… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 day ago
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