The best and worst films for 2006
Before we get to the Oscar nominations the more important award
nominations
– the Razzies for the worst movies of the year. Michael Douglas
is one of the finest actors and producers in the world and now he
proves he is one of the smartest.
The best and worst films for 2006
Before we get to the Oscar nominations the more important award nominations – the Razzies for the worst movies of the year. Michael Douglas is one of the finest actors and producers in the world and now he proves he is one of the smartest.
He declined to star in the sequel “Basic Instinct 2” because he couldn’t stand acting with Sharon Stone. Remember a couple weeks ago when I wrote about my encounter with her on Hollywood Boulevard, well she rightfully is nominated for the worst actress of the year. Which proves just showing your nether region is not acting award material or Britney Spears would be up for best actress along with every porn star in your triple X collection. But wait till you read the special worst award they have for Sharon, which I reveal in my last paragraph. Don’t turn the page, my ploy to get you to read all of my column for a change.
Salma Hayek has never won a Golden Globe but she doesn’t have to as she has her own. She was this close to me on Hollywood Boulevard, she is even more beautiful in person if possible, and the inner beauty gave me somewhat the same reaction I got when I saw Sophia Loren. Ay chee waa waa. Salma was the perfect award announcer. Every home in Hollywood, including mine, had the television on at 5:30 in the morning last Tuesday.
The Oscars should kiss the Golden Globes golden globes as only the Golden Globes can make the Oscars seem classy and sophisticated. The nominations were perfection and unexpected, especially when “Dreamgirls” the overly hyped musical did not receive an Oscar nomination for best picture but Clint Eastwood’s “Letters from Iwo Jima” did and rightfully so.
“Letters from Iwo Jima” as I have been touting for months is one of the best films ever made but this year they have to give it to Martin Scorsese and quite frankly let us finally get it over with and give it to him so we don’t have to go through this again despite Eastwood’s “Iwo Jima” will become a classic in the vein of “All Quite on the Western Front” and “The Bridge On the River Kwai.”
And I’m still in shock that the most enjoyable film of the year “Little Miss Sunshine” also bested “Dreamgirls” with a nomination for best picture and Alan Arkin and the little miss sunshine Abigail Breslin in acting categories. This one is out on DVD. Rent it!
Babel” is the best dramatic film and I hope it encourages other directors to try and stretch their talents away from their penchant for grinding out the same type of films. Scorsese with his gangster films, Stallone with his “Rocky” films and Spielberg with his “Indiana Jones” films. Harrison Ford hasn’t had a hit in the last seven tries…so let’s make another “Indiana Jones” despite his being a little long in the nose hairs. His problem I think began when he started wearing that silly earring and when he bumped into me without saying “I’m sorry.” More on that encounter next week. Was it just because I’m of the Mexican persuasion that he spilled coffee on me? Where is the queen of LULAC when I need her? Second week in a row.
And who were those people from Hollister I spotted at the Ronald Reagan Library and then again on Hollywood Boulevard nearly running over Ben Affleck who should have been nominated for his role as George Reeves, television’s Superman, in one of the worst movies ever made – “Hollywoodland.” I promised I wouldn’t mention their names as they have their reputations to uphold in Hollister. Now that’s a laugh but if nothing else, I am a man of my word. But let me whisper their names to just you. Don’t tell anyone else. Gordon Machado, Joanne Machado, Manette Machado, and Ferlin Husky.
The Oscars are February 25, but don’t be like that couple in Hollister who told me 10 years ago that hey we’re going to Hollywood early in the morning the day of the Oscars in hopes of getting tickets. True Story. Now I really won’t mention their names. But I remember them from when I was a kid growing up in Hollister when we weren’t big enough to have a village idiot so we all took turns. They won. I came in third. I lost again, but I again I think it was the Mexican thing.
Hope you didn’t skip the rest of my column to read this from my first paragraph tease. Sharon Stone – I wrote about our encounter on Hollywood Boulevard a few months ago – was rightfully nominated as the worst actress when the Razzies were announces. But they also made a new category just for her: Worst screen couple. Yep for her teats. And I can attest she should win as they reminded me of my favorite Asian actor Wan Hung Lo. Aye chee waa waa!
