Friday, May 21, 2010

Kites and Whatever Happened to Busty Jane

Over at Towleroad I've reviewed the international Kites (2010) starring Bollywood giant Hrithik Roshan. Go there. I must say straight away that I feel totally gipped that Hrithik only danced once in a 130 minute movie. So here's a whole bunch of Hrithik shaking it (skip to 1.15 for his showy arrival).



♫ Work it. I need a glass of wataaahhh ♪

My double feature this week was weird / disorienting.

I also took in Jackie Beat's latest play Whatever Happened to Busty Jane? which is a totally offensive/hilarious riff on Whatever Happened to Baby Jane (1962) a movie y'all know I love. Bette Davis so shoulda won the Oscar that year. Oh wait... maybe not. I just remembered who actually did win. I'm good with that. So I reviewed Busty Jane, too.

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Nathaniel Trivia You Didn't Know: Jackie Beat was actually the first celebrity I ever interviewed way the hell back in 2000, one hundred years ago, just before The Film Experience launched. I sometimes think I imagined that weird life before The Film Experience. Did it really exist? Maybe I'll share that musty interview one day. We even talked Oscars.
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5 comments:

Robert Hamer said...

Thank goodness you retracted your Baby Jane statement. Sometimes I wonder about a lack of perspective about Oscar when they gripe about people who didn't win. This is a good example:

http://www.latinoreview.com/news/eastern-proimises-sequel-looks-very-promising-9571

2:21 AM
NATHANIEL R said...

robert -- i worry about that too. People always say IT'S INSANE SO AND SO DIDN'T GET NOMINATED. but which of the 5 that did can you remove? some times it's crazy to remove any of them for that particular so & so ;)

6:24 AM
Craig said...

Even though Anne Bancaroft won for The Miracle Worker that year, IMHO, Katharine Hepburn should have captured the Oscar for Long Day's Journey Into Night -- one of her two best performances (Summertime being the other). Remember, it was 1962, a year that ranks up there with 1939 as producing the most noteworthy Hollywood films.

8:20 AM
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12:58 PM
Michael Dequina said...

In case you didn't see what I posted last week on my favorite dances of Hrithik's now decade-old movie career:
http://blog.themoviereport.com/2010/05/decade-of-dance-with-hrithik.html

6:24 AM

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