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February 6, 2018September 16, 2019

The Post (2017)

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Titus (1999)

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"If you live in France and you have written one good book, or painted one good picture, or directed one outstanding film, 50 years ago, and nothing ever since, you are still recognized as an artist and honored accordingly. In Hollywood, you're as good as your last picture." - Erich von Stroheim, born September 22, 1885. #ErichvonStroheim

"I'm too old to say yes to everything, and also, I've done too many good things to go do whatever now." - Anna Karina, born September 22, 1940. #AnnaKarina

"My mother gets told, 'Oh, you're so lucky that your daughters are doing so well.' She never corrects anybody when they assume Helen (Hunt) is her daughter." - Bonnie Hunt, born September 22, 1961. #BonnieHunt

BEST MUSIC 1961: Much like Over The Rainbow almost being cut out of The Wizard of Oz in 1939, studio bosses at Paramount watched an early cut of Blake Edwards' adaptation of Truman Capote's BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S and declared that the one change they'd like to see was to get rid of the scene of her singing "MOON RIVER", a song written for the film by JOHNNY MERCER and future legend HENRY MANCINI. "Over my dead body!" was Audrey Hepburn's response, a surprisingly vehement declaration for a woman famous for her quiet graciousness. To give the devil his due, I can sort of see why they wanted the song gone: Hepburn is wonderful in that film, but it's hard to believe that her New York party girl in Givenchy dresses is a front for her supposedly trashy dusty southern town origins. The song is there to telegraph aspects of the character that the very European and refined Hepburn could not, and as such feels like it comes out of a different movie, but try and imagine popular culture without it since, it's been covered by every singer, featured on Sex and the City and even an Almodovar film and, for some reason, is one of the most popular songs at funerals. It's safe to say that the Academy chose wisely when they anointed it the Best Song of the year and gave Mancini a second award for Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture. Mercer also won for "On The Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" (The Harvey Girls, 1946), "In The Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening" (Here Comes The Groom, 1951) and "Days of Wine and Roses" (Days of Wine and Roses, 1962) and was nominated for "Jeepers Creepers" (Going Places, 1938), "I'd Know You Anywhere" (You'll Find Out), "Love of My Life" (Second Chorus, both 1940), "Blues In The Night" (Blues In The Night, 1941), "Dearly Beloved" (You Were Never Lovelier, 1942), "My Shining Hour" (The Sky's The Limit), "That Old Black Magic" (Star Spangled Rhythm, both 1943), "Accentuate The Positive" (Here Come the Waves, 1945), "Something's Gotta Give" (Daddy Long Legs, 1955), "The Facts of Life" (The Facts of Life, 1960), "Charade" (Charade, 1963), "The Sweetheart Tree" (The Great Race, 1965), Best Score and Song ("Whistling Away The Dark"),

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