Our Sally (star of The Sally Field Program!) is generating Oscar Buzz at SXSW!!!!!

Oh, please I could pass gass at the popcorn stand and generate more Oscar buzz at SXSW.

what film?

it's PROGRAMME, op.....we went over this time and time again.

Hello, My Name is Doris

is the name of the film. (not mine, sorry)

I may start cutting myself.

sorry r3...I knew that but got caught up in the excitement.

IMDB

Synopsis from R7 IMDB link:

"A self-help seminar inspires a sixty-something woman to romantically pursue her younger co-worker."

Who is she pursuing (as in what gender)?

Carpet Muncher Tyne Daly is in it!

Max Greenfield plays the love interest.

No, R3, the correct American spelling is "program."

Tyne Daly plays the love interest.

Should have been Patty Duke's role.

r11 is on the wrong website. Let the adults play honey.

Thanks R10. I was hoping it would be Natasha Lyonne or some other female. Would be nice to see an actress win an Oscar for playing a lesbian as Hanks has one for plaing a gay man. Will have to wait and see how good "Freeheld" is with Julianne Moore and Ellen Page.

My iPad just auto corrected "lesbian" to "Serbian"...

Fuck that Bitch!

R11, this is SO not your moment, Mary.

It has always, always, ALWAYS been referred to on this site as The Sally Field Programme. Do catch up.

[quote]Would be nice to see an actress win an Oscar for playing a lesbian as Hanks has one for plaing a gay man

And Sean Penn in MILK.

[quote]Will have to wait and see how good "Freeheld" is with Julianne Moore and Ellen Page.

Cate Blanchett also has CAROL this year, in which she plays a lesbian in love with a younger woman (Rooney Mara) that's getting Oscar buzz.

I wonder if the movies will cancel out one or the other? I don't think the Academy would go for TWO films about lesbians. Just like they only focus on one black adversity film per season.

fuck off, R11..."The Sally Field Programme" threads were a weekly DL goldmines. Learn your DL history and come back when you have a clue.

OP = Sally Field

I would love it if Sally got another nomination.

Meryl has Rikki and the flash where she plays a hard rock singer/guitar player. About as believable as Barbra in A Star is Born.

So yes, Sally could definitely take the veteran actress space this year.

[qoute] Cate Blanchett also has CAROL this year, in which she plays a lesbian in love with a younger woman (Rooney Mara) that's getting Oscar buzz.

I wonder if the movies will cancel out one or the other? I don't think the Academy would go for TWO films about lesbians. Just like they only focus on one black adversity film per season.

Julianne Moore's Oscar win this year could put her out of the running next year (as for winning but she still could be nominated) anyway. Has Meryl won two years in a row? Certainly been nominated in consecutive years.

However, Moore will have the "character with an illness" to her advantage. But then again she may have already played that card with her "Stll Alice" winning performance.

They might go for one actress nomination in the leading role (Moore or Blanchett) and Page/Mara for supporting depending on what's appropriate for the role. Or pick one from each film. Or ignore both as R18 suggested.

I still wanna knock that Hathaway bitch's teeth for stealing that Oscar that I deserved! I didn't didn't suck Spielberg's decrepit dick for nothing!

I've never been that impressed with Sally Field but I'll see anything with Tyne Daly. It's a great regret of mine that I've never seen her on the B'way stage.

of whom is r24 doing a parody?

R24 Tyne is on Bway in a new musical called It shoulda been you.

Her love interest is a younger male colleague, not female.

Calm down dears.

I'd love it if she got her 3rd Oscar just to piss off Dame Meryl.

Charlize won for Monster, there's your lesbian character win.

No it's not, r17. Some of us thought it was stupid and affected using the "me" on the end back when Brothers and Sisters was generating weekly updates. Not everyone buys every stupid DL meme,

[quote]I'd love it if she got her 3rd Oscar just to piss off Dame Meryl.

They'd be tied with three Oscars each.

Speaking of Meryl. Where are you Meryl loon?

R30 pssst, we all know a supporting win is just not the same.

Maybe it was her standing up and shouting as Patricia Arquette won her award or her being nominated AGAIN, but I am so tired of Meryl Streep. She needs to just go away already.

R33 it looks like she'll be nominated again this year. Possibly doubly. Best Actress for RICKI AND THE FLASh but definitely for Supporting Actress for SUFFRAGETTE in which she plays radical British feminist Emmeline Pankhurst. Pankhurst is an obvious Oscar bait, not only will be another accent role for Streep but Pankhurst was very outspoken and got herself arrested many times.

"Hello, My Name Is Doris" seriously? I give it an award for Most Lifetime TV Movie Title 2015. "Still Alice" won in 2014.

P.S. My director friend already made that "Suffragette" movie with Hilary Swank for HBO, including that Pankhurst character. Years ago? We really need to go there again? I give up.

So right now, we like her, we really, really like her?

R35 the Hilary Swank film, IRON JAWED ANGELS, was about the American suffrage movement. It starred Swank as Alice Paul and Anjelica Huston as Carrie Chapman Catt. Pankhurst was only mentioned in passing early on, when Paul and Lucy Burns returned from England and were inspired to become more radical in their approach.

Two different films but similar in theme.

I stand corrected, thanks, R37. I thought the Frances O'Connor character was Pankhurst somehow (maybe because the actress was British, right?)

The HBO movie was good, though, wasn't it. Maybe 10 years too early.

Charlize and Hillary have won oscars for playing lesbians - they're just not the glamourous roles you gals would like lesbians to be honored with.

Was Theron's character really a lesbian? In the film everyone is always telling Christina Ricchi that she really isn't and is just using her for shelter and stuff.

Swank wasn't really a lesbian either. She was transgender so...

Is Sally's film getting a proper release?

Even so, this looks a bit too "quirky" to go the way of Oscar, no? But if she delivers she could get critics darling type status.

Sally Field is responsible for the poisoning & disabling of thousands of people with Boniva. Boniva is crippling poison.

You fecalsexuals are shitting all over her just because her son is gay AND out.

Just accept what you're given, r40.

Oh please, swank was a lesbian in boys clothes (here we go again) . Was she taking testosterone? Was she shopping around for penises?

And that Million Dollar Baby pinged more than Christine Cagney.

History and the facts clearly tell us that Charlize's character was a lesbian.

Don't try to sugarcoat your way out of the fact that lesbians have been portrayed on Oscar-winning roles. It's just that they weren't Gina Gershon, which some of you would have preferred.

I was going to crack a Boniva joke, but r42 got too Debbie Downer about it.

From the director of They Came Together.

I can hardly wait!

[quote]Oh please, swank was a lesbian in boys clothes (here we go again) . Was she taking testosterone? Was she shopping around for penises?

Brandon Teena was transgender at a time when it was not understood (1993), let alone in a small redneck town in Nebraska. Brandon reversed his given name (Teena Brandon) and went by the pronoun "He." The movie showed him using fake penises, and in real life he spoke about eventually getting a sex change, but it must've seemed like a pipe dream to someone from a hick town with no prospects.

Just because he couldn't afford hormone treatments or probably didn't know where to start doesn't mean he wasn't transgender.

Aileen Wuornos wasn't a lesbian, she was just desperate to be loved, and finally found that with someone who happened to be a woman. Similar to a prison relationship. And yes, Hillary played a transgendered man, not a lesbian.

Poor Bette never did get an award for her "acting", did she?

No Emmy, Oscar, not even a Tony nomination for that play where she sat on the couch the whole time.

[quote]History and the facts clearly tell us that Charlize's character was a lesbian.

Aileen Wuornos could best be described as bi -- or "conveniently lesbian." She had had mainly relationships with males and was married to a man in the seventies. The woman Tyria ("Shelby" in the film) was her only female sexual/romantic partner. Wuornos later admitted that at that point she was just looking to be loved.

I would say Judi Dench's character in Notes on a Scandal was a lesbian. But she didn't win.

Sally is trending on Twitter!!!!

She got cheers!!!!!

R38 Frances O'Connor is Australian and she played American Lucy Burns.

I really liked IRON JAWED ANGELS film. It should've been a theatrical release. Perhaps punched up a little bit 'cause it plays like a TV movie, but the story behind it was very inspiring.

From what I've read, SUFFRAGETTE uses the British suffrage movement as a backdrop, but it's mainly fictional. Kind of like Jame Cameron's TITANIC uses a historical event but the main story and characters are fictional.

The Merylbots are getting nervous that Beloved Sally might win her third BEST ACTRESS award...

"Programme"? This ain't the fucking UK.

It's called the WORLD wide web. Get it?

Oh please, you all can document it any way you want to with all your compartmentalized labels that reek of homophobia, but those were people with vaginas who were banging other people with vaginas. Call them pagan pan sexual Rottweilers if you wish, but bottom line they were pussy-eating dykes.

no r56 it isn't. It's Datalounge, Jake.

Perhaps she would have a better career in her dotage if she changed her name to Fielde.

It's after 10 pm AnnE, Do you know where your husband is?

R60 or Fields, which half the world calls her anyway.

I wouldn't advise that, R62.

Sally plays a hoarder, and introvert who stalks people over the internet!!!

At is like the film was written especially for Datalounge!!!

Maybe she'll thank us on Oscar night!!!!

plus there is a big monologue!!!!!

A critic says:

"When Doris' ensuing outburst injects a deeply sad monologue into the movie's otherwise routine comedic atmosphere, it's as though Field has singlehandedly pierced through the limitations of the material."

I am happy for Sally if she bagged a decent role in a movie. Jessica Lange has failed to parlay AHS into a good film role.

This thread depresses me.

What happened to MY thread? I play yet another feisty old lady and you all said I was going to win!

THR doesn't agree. Hello, My Name Is Doris is awkward and unbelievable. Done in by a crap writer/director.

I can't stand Sally Field.

I didn't like her as Gidget, the Nun, the girl in the Burt Reynolds films, in Places in the Heart, Sybil, Steel Magnolias, Norma Rae, Absence of Malice, or the wretched Forrest Gump.

It's been impossible to not see her as she has appeared in films with others that I like (except for awful, awful, awful Forrest Gump).

She is completely unlikeable.

That she has 2 Oscars is bad enough.

That people think she deserves another ... Ugggg.

That awful voice of hers - like fingernails down a chalkboard, and that perky thing she does.

Most Awkward Star I ever met in my life -- and this wasn't out on the streets or whatever but at work in a Century City studio office. Looked like she would keel over if you whispered "boo". Weird.

Well, St. Meryl Loons have arrived!

Hello, R70 and R71!

Cate Blanchett won her first Oscar for playing a lesbian. Allegedly....

Nope, [R72].

I don't much like Streep either, but she is less annoying than Field.

Nobody is more annoying than Streep the Phony.

Who could love Rooney Mara?

She has an out gay son? Frightening...sorry but Datalounge is old school.

And what about Deep Web?

Sally was so smart to have boys. Girls are just one humiliation after another.

This is her best scene ever:

I used to think she had really great cheek implants but I saw her on TCM and they're starting to get a little scary. She should quit while she's ahead.

It should have Patty Duke's role.

"Why?! WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?!!!!"

Sally should have won the Oscar for THIS!

Nope not gonna happen.

Watch from 0:30-0:40.

ha, yes, "Soapdish" is the perfect way to use her. Lovvvve that movie.

(P.S. Here I go again but Herbert Ross was interested in directing since it was written by Harling, same guy as did "Steel Magnolias". So we had a table read of the script with Sally there -- very early draft, not what it ended up being. Do you know who read the daughter role, the one Elizabeth Shue ended up doing? Jennifer Grey. Still with her original nose.)

You worked for Herbert Ross? Was he unlikable?

Maggie Smith said she didn't like him on 60 Minutes.

Yeah, I scatter Herbert Ross stories all over DL. And I'm the one who hated Teri Garr when I met her, ha (at a Herbert Ross table read).

He was stodgy, for sure, but I liked him ultimately. He mellowed some once he got married to Lee Radziwell at the end (she was surprisingly nice too).

Hadn't heard the Maggie Smith story, thanks, will check it out. As I wrote elsewhere, he hated Raquel Welch and vice versa. And he was mean as shit to Julia Roberts and Dolly Parton too because one wasn't whom he wanted and the other was already attached so he had no say in it, ha.

Dolly was the best thing about STEEL MAGNOLIAS. And say what you will about Daryl Hannah, but I have a relative like Annelle, and she nailed it.

R89 what do you mean like Annelle?

It is a mystery how she won two Oscars. I only liked Norma Rae and Sybil? Her Mary Lincoln was miscast: forced and studied.

Someone who is, for lack of a better term, rather simple. Not in the sense of simple equaling stupid, just a bit too naive and trusting despite having experienced the world. As I said, Hannah nailed it.

Who was Sally's competition for Mary Todd Lincoln?

I think she was a great Mary Todd Lincoln.

R93 the other nominees were Helen Hunt for THE SESSIONS, Anne Hathaway for LES MISERABLES, Jacki Weaver for SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK, and Amy Adams for THE MASTER. Hathaway won.

Sally had the Lincoln part through an old contract? I think DDL was too in his own head in that part, technically great, but robotic.

Why did Mary Tood keep her maiden name when she married? It must've been very peculiar in those days. Heck, 130 years later, Hillary Rodham Clinton got flack for using hers, and this was the 1990s!

R97 it's a WASPy thing. Or a wanna be WASPy thing.

Just don't take me for granted, bitches. I haven't given up yet.

R97, Mary Todd came from a well-to-do Kentucky family. Her father, Robert Todd, was president of the Bank of Kentucky and served in the Kentucky General Assembly. The Lincolns, on the other hand, were migratory farmers and carpenters. Mary married down but wasn't about to give up the Todd name.

So did Mrs. Lincoln enjoy the play?

The play didn't go over well on the main floor.

But it KILLED in the balcony!

Let's make this the year of Sally!!!!

Let's post daily about Sally until she gets #3!!!!!!

We love you Sally!!! Call us!!!!!!

"Would be nice to see an actress win an Oscar for playing a lesbian as Hanks has one for plaing a gay man"

"And Sean Penn in MILK."

And William Hurt for Kiss of the Spider Woman.

And Philip Seymour Hoffman for Capote.

And Jared Leto for Dallas Buyers Club.

And Christopher Plummer for Beginners.

Sally! Day 2!!!

My Name is Doris wins audience at SXSW!!!

Day 2 in the year of Sally and wonderful things are happening!!!!

oops the link!!!!

You still like me! You still really like me!

Why doesn't OP write in English?

SXSW?

R110, The opposite of NXNE.

Day 3 of the year of Sally and damn!!!! My DVR cut off the last segment from TCM's showing of Now Voyager. What did our Sally say?

Damn, I would have loved to hear Our Sally talk about NV but missed it...

She much better than non-gay icon Drew.

I was reading about Our Sally's new movie and it said it was her best role since Not Without My Daughter. WTF???!,? I thought everyone hated that movie.

From Flying Nun to Norma Rae. Could Meryl pull that off?

R104 Leto in DALLAS BUYERS CLUB was trans, as I think Hurt in KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN also was. I know he's been passed off as en effeminate homosexual, but I think that's because transgenderism was not fully understood at the time, but in the film Molina makes several comments about wanting to dress like a woman and at one point he even confesses to Valentin that he wishes he could cut off his penis and that he found it ugly. A gay man would never say that.

Just watched Hello My Name is Doris on Netflix. Really enjoyed it.

This cocksucking thread is three years old.