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I think this is a great time to feature some of our most handsome winners of the Academy Award. It’s not a complete collection, of course, and these are some obvious suspects!
You have to lead with the late, great Robert Redford because, well, look at him! He was as fine a looking man has ever graced our movie screens in such films as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting, The Way We Were, All the Presidents Men and The Natural. But his competitive Oscar was for his behind the scenes work as the director of 1980’s Ordinary People. He later received an honorary Academy Award as well.
Also featured in this post: 10-time nominee and two-time winner Denzel Washington (Best Actor for Training Day (2001), Best Supporting Actor for Glory (1989); two-time winner Brad Pitt (Best Supporting Actor for Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (2020) and Best Picture as a producer for 12 Years a Slave (2014); Six-time Best Actor nominee Daniel Day-Lewis. His wins were for My Left Foot (1989), There Will Be Blood (2007), and Lincoln (2012); Warren Beatty who won for Best Director for Reds (1981) and has been nominated for 15 Academy Awards, including acting, directing, producing, and writing nominations for films like Bonnie and Clyde, Heaven Can Wait, and Bugsy. He was also honored with the prestigious Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1999; Maximilian Schell won for Best Actor in 1961 for playing a lawyer in the legal drama Judgment at Nuremberg and was nominated twice more for acting; Sidney Poitier made history as the first Black man to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, receiving the honor at the 36th Academy Awards on April 13, 1964, for his role as Homer Smith in Lilies of the Field (1963). He was a trailblazing actor and later received an Honorary Oscar in 2001.
The truly great Liza Minnelli turned 80 a few days ago. I’ve already celebrated the milestone with my post Eighty Things I Love About the Legendary Liza Minnelli but lazily did not include any videos in it. So, here are a handful of some of my favorite Liza performances. While she’s great as a film actress (Cabaret, The Sterile Cuckoo, Arthur), on TV (Arrested Development), on Broadway (The Act, The Rink, Flora the Red Menace), and on records (Results), it seems the place she shines the brightest is as herself on a stage performing in front of a live audience.
Enjoy some songs from Oscar-winning Liza on this Oscars Sunday!
Colman Domingo takes on the wings of death and discusses the thin line between heroism and villainy, his favorite fragrances, and where to get the best cheesesteak in Philly. The actor, playwright ,and director is coming off back-to-back Academy Award nominations for Best Actor. He can be seen in the final season of Euphoria, which premieres on HBO April 12th and returns in The Four Seasons on Netflix on May 28th. He’s also in the Steven Spielberg–directed sci-fi film Disclosure Day, in theaters June 12th; and, finally, as the Jackson family patriarch in the long-awaited biopic, Michael, which is set to hit theaters on April 24th. \
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The one and only Liza Minnelli turns 80 today and is marking the occasion with the publication of her autobiography Kids Wait Till You Hear This! as told to best pal Michael Feinstein. I plan to give it a read as soon as I can!
I’m leading this post with a photo I took of Liza at the TCM Classics Film Festival well more than a decade ago. She’s smiling because I randomly complimented her on a wacky and fun guest appearance she had made on a Paula Deen cooking show in 2012. This was an odd and hilarious duo!
I’ve been watching some of the interviews Liza has been doing to promote the book and while she has had many personal ups and downs, she has emerged one of the ultimate showbiz survivors and seems to be enjoying her life.
There are so many reasons why we love this Oscar winner, Emmy winner, four-time Tony winner and recipient of the Grammy Living Legend Award.
In fact, here are 80 reasons:
1. Those wide eyes.
2. The eyelashes.
3. That voice.
4. The rarely-changing pixie hairstyle.
5. Terrific sense of humor.
6. Those purebred showbiz genes: ‘I got my drive from my mother and my dreams from my father.’
7. Being the proud daughter of the late, great Judy Garland – the original gay icon for all time.
8. Liza is as big a gay icon as her mother!
9. She has been an inspiration to generations of drag performers who have mastered her look and sound.
10. Liza’s the proud daughter of the great film director Vincente Minnelli who directed Meet Me in St. Louis, Gigi, and An American in Paris.
11. Cabaret and her unforgettable Oscar winning portrayal of Sally Bowles.
12. Her unforgettable rendition of the anthem New York, New York from her 1977 film of the same name which also starred Robert DeNiro.
13. The 1972 Emmy Award-winning TV special Liza with a Z which was directed by Bob Fosse. 14. Liza’s delicious recurring role of Lucille Austero with a chronic case of vertigo on TV’s acclaimed comedy Arrested Development.
15. Her breakout film role as Pookie in 1969’s The Sterile Cuckoo which earned her an Academy Award nomination for best actress.
16. Liza’s completely charming and funny performance as Linda Morolla who steals Dudley Moore’s heart in the smash 1981 comedy Arthur.
17. 1989’s Results, the electronic dance-style album produced by Pet Shop Boys and Julian Mendelsohn which had great success in the UK.
18. She held her own, at the age of 18, while performing with her legendary mother concert at the London Palladium in 1965.
19. Becoming the toast of Broadway at age 19 when she won the Tony Award for best actress in a musical for Flora the Red Menace
20. Her openness about the decades-long struggle to maintain her sobriety.
21. Liza’s way over-the-top 2002 wedding to producer David Gest with Michael Jackson as best man and Elizabeth Taylor matron of honor.
22. Liza kept her dignity and her silence when the marriage to Gest ended and he alleged on television that she had beaten him during drunken rages.
23. Her first husband was Peter Allen whose life inspired the musical The Boy from Oz starring Hugh Jackman
24. Liza was once engaged to Desi Arnaz Jr., the 1970s heartthrob whose mother was Lucille Ball.
25. Liza’s second husband was Jack Haley Jr. whose father played Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz starring Judy Garland.
26. Liza’s courageous recovery in 2000 from viral encephalitis during which doctors predicted that she would spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair and perhaps not even be able to speak again. She proved them wrong.
27. When she returned to the stage in 2001 and memorably performed You Are Not Alone at the televised Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Special concert.
28. Liza’s 1978 Broadway triumph in The Act for which she won another Tony Award.
29. In 1988, Liza came to the rescue of Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. when she replaced Dean Martin on their The Ultimate Event tour.
30. The 2009 Broadway triumph Liza’s at The Palace for which she won her fourth Tony Award.
31. Liza had the guts in 1997 to replace Julie Andrews on Broadway in Victor/Victoria.
32. She had the guts in 1975 to replace another Broadway legend in an iconic role when she replaced Gwen Verdon in Chicago.
33. The terrifically fun and energetic 1980 TV special Goldie and Liza Together co-starring fellow Oscar winner Goldie Hawn.
34. Liza performed We Are the Champions with the surviving members of Queen at Wembley Stadium in London at a 1992 tribute concert to her friend Freddie Mercury.
35. Liza’s cover of Beyoncé’s hit Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) during the gay wedding scene in 2012’s Sex and the City 2.
36. Her 1996 studio album titled Gently which was a recording of jazz standards and a nice change of pace.
37. The hilarious 2012 Snickers candy bar commercial with Aretha Franklin and Betty White.
38. Liza’s 1999-2000 Broadway tribute to the music of her father’s movies called: Minnelli on Minnelli: Live at the Palace
39. A largely overlooked film, 1991’s musical dramedy Stepping Out in which Liza was still at the peak of her powers.
40. She starred opposite fellow Broadway legend Chita Rivera in the 1984 musical The Rink.
41. Liza paid tribute to her mom’s most famous movie role when she voiced the role of Dorothy in the 1974 animated film Journey Back to Oz.
42. Mein Herr(From Cabaret)
43. The glorious 1992 TV special Liza Live from Radio City Music Hall.
44. Liza’s 2010 album Confessions, a memorable collections of American standards recorded in an unplugged style.
45. Her famous godparents were godparents were actress-author Kay Thompson and composer Ira Gershwin.
46. Kay Thompson’s popular series of Eloise children’s books are said to be partly inspired by the antics of her goddaughter.
47. She was a regular at NYC’s Studio 54 during its late-70s and early 80s heyday with the likes of Andy Warhol.
48. She narrated the 1974 film That’s Entertainment! which celebrated the MGM musicals – many of which her mother appeared.
49. The wonderfully fun song about her name called Liza With a Z.
50. Even though she turned downed the role of Mama Rose in a 1988 revival of Gypsy, Liza does a terrific version of Some People.
51. Liza is an EGOT!
52. Was deserving recipient of GLAAD’s Vanguard Award in 2005 for ‘her contributions to increased visibility and understanding of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.’
53. Was presented with PFLAG’s Straight for Equality in Entertainment Award in 2010 for ‘her lifelong support of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people’
54. Her dramatic turn in the 1985 television film A Time to Live which won her a Golden Globe Award.
55. Her continued determination to overcome various physical ailments (hip, knees, back) and return to the stage.
56. Her performance of Life is a Cabaret
57. Her lovely dancing in the 1980 TV special Baryshnikov on Broadway.
58. Her acting tour de force in the 1988 TV special Liza Minnelli: Sam Found Out.
59. She recorded the Kander & Ebb tune The Day After That in 1994 and donated the proceeds to AIDS research. Liza also.performed the song in front of thousands in New York’s Central Park at the 25th anniversary of the Stonewall riots.
60. Her sublime version of the ballad Maybe This Time from Cabaret.
61. Her parents named her after Ira Gershwin’s song Liza (All the Clouds’ll Roll Away).
62. She and her mother,Judy Garland, were the first Oscar-nominated mother and daughter.
63. Liza was childhood friends with Mia Farrow and Candice Bergen.
64. Always polite and a good sport in interviews – no matter how many times she’s asked about her mother or her marriages.
65. Liza’s been a star for more than 60 years – uninterrupted.
66. Wore a fun blue streak in her hair while appearing at the 2014 Academy Awards with siblings Lorna Luft and Joe Luft.
67. Her quote about finding out first hubby Peter Allen was gay: ‘I’ll never surprise anybody coming home as long as I live. I call first!”
68. Stayed very close friends with Peter Allen until his death in 1992.
69. Even as her voice wobbled and had lost some of its power and range with age, in her later concerts Liza still tried to hit the big notes and give her fans 100 % each time out.
70. Liza’s humble opinion of her voice: ‘I’m not a very good singer. I just know how to present a song, and honey, I think I’ve been through enough to do it right.’
71. Her close friendship with Michael Feinstein with whom she performs concerts with occasionally.
72. Liza’s fabulous version of Losing My Mind, the lead single from the 1989 album Results.
73. Becoming one of the first four artists to receive the Grammy Legend Award in 1990 along with Andrew Lloyd Webber, Smokey Robinson, and Willie Nelson
74. She did a guest spot in 2006 on NBC’s Law & Order: Criminal Intent.
75. Liza’s early albums for Capitol Records: Liza! Liza! (1964), It Amazes Me (1965), and There Is a Time (1966).
76, Her participation in the recent documentary Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story which I highly recommend!
77. As she has become increasingly frail physically and confined to a wheelchair, Liza still has her spark and is engaged in life!
78. Liza’s solo albums The Singer (1973) and Tropical Nights (1977) recorded during the height of her film stardom.
79. Her glorious surprise appearance at this year’s GLAAD Media Awards in Los Angeles.
80. Her candid interviews in support of her new memoir Kids Wait Till You Hear This! and her dishing some dirt on Lady Gaga and Gene Hackman, among others.
The final trailer has just been released for The Devil Wears Prada 2 which brings us back to the world of fashion editor Miranda Priestley played by the great Meryl Streep. Oh year, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci also return but it’s the imperious Miranda I can’t wait to see. The movie opens in theaters on May 1.
I’m unreasonably excited about this sequel. Could it be because I know the first movie by heart and re-enact scenes from it with one of my best friends? Well, mostly the Miranda lines anyway.
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