Diane Ladd is PISSED off at category fraud and GREED!

Still mad cause I canned her ass I see

You tell 'em, Belle!

Didn't she also make a huge fuss when Valentina Cortese was the only co-nominee Ingrid Bergman mentioned in her 1975 oscar winning speech?

She came THIS close to saying "that cunt, Cate Blanchett" but thankfully she caught herself.

Love her but how can she be in the biz this long (and on the planet, for that matter) and STILL not know how to pronounce Cannes?! It's usually a giveaway as to an amateur in the business.

She says there are THREE leading roles masquerading in Supporting Actress, but I only count Alicia Vikander (THE DANISH GIRL) and Rooney Mara (CAROL). She may be referring to Jennifer Jason Leigh (THE HATEFUL EIGHT) because she's the only female with any significant screen time, but just because an actress has the most female screen time in a film doesn't make her a lead. Anne Hathaway had the most screen time of any female in Les Miz, but no one would consider her 15-20 minutes of screen time in a 2 1/2 hour film a lead character.

Maybe she's referring to Kate Winslet, who's probably the biggest "star" in the Supporting Actress category, though her role is genuinely Supporting for once.

She's right. Rooney Mara and Alicia Vikander are straight up category frauds in Supporting this year. The roles they were nominated for are LEAD roles, especially Vikander because she's the most prominent female in The Danish Girl. If either of them win, and one of them will, it'll be ridiculous because they are lead actresses beating out real supporting actress roles.

I personally hope for an upset and see Rachel McAdams win for Spotlight.

I remember as a child seeing her verbally attack WNBC's critic Pia Lindstrom on the local news. I was like 7 or so but I was already a show biz fan and future gay boy.

She blamed Pia for giving her a bad review and thereby closing her Broadway show. Pia said something like I didn't know I had that much power.

She then got mad about Ingrid Bergman beating her fot an Oscar. (Linstrom was Bergman's daughter.) I can't remember what she said and have never been able to find the clip.

As Bruce Dern would probably say BITCH BE CRAZY!

Mara actually has more screen time in Carol than Blanchett. She has a point about category fraud getting out of control, but she's totally delusional to think that if they were in the correct category she would have been nominated.

What did she win? (she says she is glad she got supporting)

She always thinks she deserves awards. No why know why Laura Dern is so neurotic.

AND Rooney Mara won Best Actress at Cannes BUT they don't give supporting awards there. Just a best actress regardless of the role size. (but she is right about Mara and Vikander being leads. Who is the third one she is talking about? Winslet?

She's talking about her past nominations in "Alice...", "Rambling Rose" and (the best) "Wild At Heart." I wrote her a note congratulating her on that last one and she wrote me back a handwritten note in response so that was kind of cool (but she's also known for cooking dinner for all the Hollywood Foreign Press too so she plays the game and well).

ME AND MY DAUGHTER!!!!!

Oh, Ms. Ladd. You will ALWAYS be my Lu Ann. Take THAT Deb Corley!.

I remember she wrote letters to every member of the academy as her campaign for Wild at Heart. It worked! I remember she was such a surprise nominee that the academy didn't have a photo ready to show on the screen when they read the nominations. They had to scramble to find one and I think they used a black and white head shot r something.

Shirley MacLaine must have been so mad. That was widely seen as her nomination.

Have to say this about Ladd she's made no bones about the fact that she's desperate for an Oscar win. If you look at her reaction to losing three times it's priceless. No fake smile for the camera.

and she never really stood a chance of winning r16. Delusional.

(at least the second two times, not sure about the first one. Did she have a chance there?)

R15 she also cooked Academy voters a spaghetti diner and mailed out VHS copies of WILD AT HEART. Here's the Entertainment Weekly article from March 1991 discussing her tactics.

From R18's article:

[quote]You pray to God they go see the movie before they vote,” says surprise Best Supporting Actress nominee Diane Ladd, who put on an ”exhausting” Oscar campaign for her no-holds-barred turn in David Lynch’s Wild at Heart. ”No one would take an ad in the trades for Diane Ladd. I had to do it myself.” Although the studios long ago stopped serving lavish meals when screening films for voters, Ladd herself cooked a spaghetti dinner for 20 Academy members, including Esther Williams, Abe Vigoda, and Shelley Winters, with Wild at Heart as dessert. She also wrote voters offering to lend them one of the 20 videocassettes she wheedled out of the film’s video distributor; she thinks 300 people saw her work this way.

R17 her best chance came for Alice in 75. I think Ladd deserved it for this but Bergman pulled it off I think because voters lacked enthusiasm for the other nominees. Bergman was good but really didn't need a third Oscar for murder on the Orient express .

Talk about GREEDY. What a cunt.

Ladd must have really been well liked by that crowd, because when you look at the list of alter-cockers she was courting to nominate her for Wild at Heart, you know they all hated that fucking film and were in utter Hell sitting through it.

R22 why do you say that?

Have you ever seen Wild at Heart? Old school Hollywood actors in their 70s would have zero patience for Lynch's self-indulgent crap. Hell, I was 20 when I saw it and I hated it (though I thought Dern should have won the Oscar that year and she wasn't even nominated).

Ladd didn't even win any of the critics awards or globe for Wild at Heart. She probably came in fifth that year in the voting. Plus it was in a Lynch film with its trademark weirdness. She must've known she had a huge uphill battle to win it. Cooking dinners for only a fraction of the voters only benefit was her being nominated that's it.

Oh I just remembered...She was mad at Ingrid Bergman because she not only won BUT she said in her speech that Valentina Cortese deserved it. (thereby pushing Ladd to third)

Oh and I may be wrong about the BW photo at the nomination announcement.

Another poster just reminded me what the BW thing was: I remember going thru the Hollywood trades at the local library. I didn't understand at the time that she took out her own ads. I did notice though that the other people had big glossy color ads and Ladd had these cheap BW things that looked like they were typed at Kinkos. (but she had a lot of them! and yes how on earth did stodgy academy members sit thru Wild At Heart. Gross movie, hammy performance.)

It's good to see she's fretting about the *really* big issues.

I'm pissed she was nominated because Shirley should have had her 2nd Oscar for Postcards. NO ONE gave a better supporting female performance that year.

R28 Shirley was great in Postcards I agree. Deserved it more than the hammy Ladd.

Shirley wouldn't ALLOW them to put her in Supporting, I seem to recall. She felt she was the second Lead, I'm pretty sure, and blew it as a result.

no. R30. She was campaigned as supporting.

Bergman was a purely sentimental win.

Valerie Perrine would have won Supporting that year had she been given the right spot. But despite winning a slew of supporting awards, they decided to place her in lead for Lenny.

you only see her for a split second after Ingrid's name is called, but she clearly isn't happy. She must have been fuming during the speech, because Ingrid really doesn't seem that care that much that she won. I wonder if Ingrid would have won for Autumn Sonata if this would not have been her third Oscar.

What about Diane Keaton in 1974. That is the most memorable supporting actress performance of that year. How the heck did Talia Shire get her nod? Was Diane put in lead?

Wild at Heart is a great movie, and she's great in the role because apparently she actually is nuts! I had no idea about her weirdo personality.

David Lynch is on Hollywood's shitlist for some reason. Maybe it's because his films aren't accessible, or maybe there's something more. Laura "Spawn of Diane" Dern should have been nominated easily for Inland Empire, Mulholland Drive for Best Picture (maybe it was? I know it was nominated for Best Original Screenplay and Lynch for Best Director), Naomi Watts for Best Actress, he should have multiple Best Director wins, and you could go on and on...

R34 Diane for what film? I think Talia was just riding in on Godfather 2 coattails. Valentina gave probably the strongest performance in that category that year. Ingrid was right. Enough voters probably didn't see Day For Night. Madeline was never gonna win for Blazing Saddles but it was a great comedic performance.

For Godfather R36

Yeah I think Keaton was more memorable than Shire in Godfather 2. When she tells Michael about the abortion she was perfect.

yes R38! And just her expressions alone when she is standing in the doorway and she thinks he is going to hug her and then he slams the door in her face. Priceless.

Ladd seems mad in this clip too, as does Bracco. Mcdonnell looks disappointed too. They must have known Whoopi would win. odd.

Whoopi took them all out to lunch some time afterwards after she won. Her treat. I remember Laura Dern saying this on The View.

Slightly mad here but I remember later in the show she presented with Laura Dern and made a remark about losing again.

R40 what about Anjelica Huston's stankface at 1:20?

R33...I've wondered that before, too. Ingrid was great in Orient Express...that single take scene is amazing. And she's one of the greatest stars ever. But, Autumn Sonata is amazing. So much better than Jane Fonda in Coming Home.

R40 Damn Anjelica Huston looked stunning in that reaction to Whoopi winning.

She wrote post cards to Actors Studio members - begging for their vote - saying maxed out her VISA for ads. This was in the 1990s.

Whoopi Goldberg winning over Annette Benning makes me sad. Anjelica Huston was not stunning in that clip, but she was once a great looking woman. Her performance in The Grifters is one of the best ever put on film. Diane Ladd is a desperate woman with a supremely talented daughter. I don't care much about who wins these things, but sometimes I care about who doesn't.

[quote]what about Anjelica Huston's stankface at 1:20?

Angelica has a history of weird reactions. Years ago when Faye Dunaway won you can see a shot of Angelica in the audience barely paying attention and looking mad.

R48 Yeah when Ellen Burstyn in 1975 won she doesn't even applaud. These were the years when Nicholson kept losing so she I'm sure he was pissed and made her pissed too.

R47 Bening should've been in Best Actress, then. She had no business being in Supporting. Whoopi won for an actual supporting performance.

R50 Been years since I've seen the Grifters but I don't remember Bening in it a lot compared to Huston. How much screen time did Bening have ?

I just realized that Shirley was not nominated for Postcards. That is a crime worth of a Jada-style boycott!

r51 Bening was in it quite a lot. She really was a co-lead.

[quote]Whoopi won for an actual supporting performance.

True in fact, but how or why? Affirmative action or because Whoopi was a sane liberal at the time. It was a dumb movie with a TV sketch performance by Goldberg. I am black but nobody gonna convince me that Whoopi Goldberg deserves an Oscar. She was good in the Long Walk Home and the Color Purple. She has never been better than good.

R53 yeah looking back now 25 years I think Whoopi was helped by the fact she lost for Color Purple and Ghost was a huge hit and loved by the Academy with its unexpected nomination for best pic and its screenplay win. She's been better and funnier in other films.

[quote]Bening was in it quite a lot. She really was a co-lead.

she's absent from the whole end of the film. I think she was supporting. Certainly more so than Mara and Vikander this year.

Benning was the tootsiest toots that ever tootsied. I love that movie. Her heart shaped face and cupie doll demeanor is only more determined when her darker side shows. Even when fucking the fat landlord for unpaid rent she wears a smile. Gloria Grahame in a great mood.

Diane probably thought it was in the bag for being in a David Russel film but his luck ran out. Besides she wasn't very good in a not very good role and she wouldn't have been nominated in everyone was in right category.

I remember liking Whoopi a lot in "Corina, Corina" and "Sarafina", two "ina" movies that nobody mentions much anymore. And great in "The Player", though her persona didn't change much by then. In any case, there was a time when she really was an actress and not a Hollywood Square or talk show host, though it's easy to forget that now. That "Ghost" Oscar was practically a career Oscar at that point.

Goldberg's first film, The Color Purple came out in 1985. Ghost was released in 1990. What career Oscar? She was an unfortunate choice.

If Ladd does ever win, will she pull the Melissa Leo faux surprise act or be a ball buster and talk about finally getting her due? I want to see it, regardless!

I actually liked Ladd in Joy. She'd have lost even if she'd been nominated though.

Too bad she didn't take some acting lessons from a truly GREAT actress

Mom!

Rooney Moore has the most screen time of any character in Carol... and is in Supporting. That is gross category fraud. Of course Harvey Weinstein is behind it. Glad that she's not winning this year.

Vikander is committing category fraud as well but it bothers me less because (a) she's brand new and totally unknown, and (b) she had a great supporting role in Ex Machina and I'm sure that she's getting votes for that. When she wins the Oscar it will be credit for both roles. If she were more famous they'd have put her in Lead, I'm sure.

Vikander was also terrific in Testament of Youth, one of the best films of the year that nevertheless got lost in the year-end shuffle. In a just world, Vikander would've been nominated for Lead in Testament of Youth and Supporting in Ex Machina; as good as she is in The Danish Girl (an otherwise terrible film), she's genuinely magnificent in the other two films.

[R33] - It was truly a sentimental win. I went backstage to get Bergman's autograph after a performance. I congratulated her on her nomination. She thanked me, but I could tell she didn't really think she deserved it. That said, she really is very good in the role.

Geena Davis benefited from this fraud as well. Jessica Lange and Jennifer Connelly too.

Jessica Lange was in no way Lead in TOOTSIE. She was the female with the most screen time in that movie, but it only amounted to 29 minutes and 35 seconds... in a two-hour movie! She was only in 1/4 of the movie! How is that lead?

You know, it is possible for a film to have just one protagonist, and in TOOTSIE that was Dustin Hoffman, who is in it from beginning to end. He was supported by Teri Garr (15 minutes, 17 seconds) as his first love interest, and then Lange as his co-star/crush, as well as by Bill Murray as his roommate, Dabney Coleman as the soap director, Charles Durning as Lange's father and Dorothy's secret admirer, Sydney Pollack as his agent, and a host of peripheral characters.

Sharon Stone should have been supporting actress in Casino...she would have won.

That Hazel episode shows just how limited and annoying her acting is. Every moment is filled with that Actors Studio crap. And besides that, she's ugly - although she is prettier than her daughter Frogface Dern.

Geena Davis was in no way a lead in The Accidental Tourist. She doesn't show up until midway through the movie and then disappears when Hurt gets back together with his wife. Just because her role was larger than Turner's doesn't mean it was a lead.

IMO, the only one of the five who even deserved a nomination that year was Bracco (though I'd have put Bening sixth, and her nomination doesn't bug me). Besides Bracco, there was Jennifer Jason Leigh in Last Exit to Brooklyn, Ruth Nelson in a very small, but wonderfully acted role as Robert DeNiro's mother in Awakenings. (Just the shot alone of her seeing her son come out of his aphasia after so many years and never having given up on him was beautifully done), Billie Whitelaw in The Krays, and- of course- the should-have-been-winner, Shirley Maclaine for Postcards.

I realize that two of those four performances were in tiny releases and had little chance, and the third one was almost a cameo, but I thought all four of those ladies did way better work than the sad lot that was chosen.

Siskel and Ebert disagree with you, r71. I remember a live broadcast after the ceremony in which they told a drunk Kathleen Turner that she was supporting and Geena was lead.

[quote] Siskel and Ebert disagree with you, [R71]. I remember a live broadcast after the ceremony in which they told a drunk Kathleen Turner that she was supporting and Geena was lead.

If those hacks disagree with me, I take it as a badge of honor.

R73 they were both supporting; Hurt was the only lead. It was his story.

I support no one.

Because a lot of Kathleen's work in that ended up on the editing room floor. See the Deleted Scenes on the DVD, it's kind of weird how much she lost. And she looks a bit lost in the matronly wife role too. Kael said she "looked like she was acting in a different movies and, after a while, you wished she was." (I paraphrase).

Amy Wright was a truly great Supporting Actress in that movie but I guess she got forgotten in the Davis campaign and left behind.

Even taking into consideration the time and genre, Ladd is horribly hammy on that HAZEL episode!

Lots to shit on Ladd's performances about, however she was absolutely terrific (and surprisingly well restrained) playing Laura's mom on Enlightened.

I'm still sad about Valentina Cortese losing that Oscar. I know she probably couldn't care less about these things but it would still be cool to see one of the greatest character actresses ever with a prestigious award like an Oscar.

Dreadful in that HAZEL episode. Must have been before Lee Strasberg unleashed her genius...

Veronica Cartwright should have been nominated for Witches of Eastwick.

That was 1987 R82. Nothing to do with Ladd's years.

"Love her but how can she be in the biz this long (and on the planet, for that matter) and STILL not know how to pronounce Cannes?! It's usually a giveaway as to an amateur in the business. —HRT and it's "Can" like "Can of peas", not "Khan" like Genghis, I lived there"

Undoubtedly you lived there among all the other rich clueless Americans who call it "Can" and think it's correct. The pronunciation is actually closer (though not exactly like) "Khan".

Remember Ladd is 80 cut her some slack. My mother is 80 and she often calls me my father and uncle's name...

Mother and daughter both gave award winning performances in Enlightened. Wish they would do a movie follow-up...

She is still mad!

Joy was such a crap film. Hopefully this is the end of DOR miscasting J-Law in roles that she seems too young for, but prob not.

Ladd thinks DOR is the hottest director in Hollywood? Hm...okaaaaaay. Well, can't say that I agree but whatev.

She said that she gets a residual every year from that part in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. I wonder how much that is? She said that it's the most money she gets all year. It has to be at least six figures.

Greed and corruption = Harvey Weinstein. In that Smiley interview she really goes after Weinstein's movie manipulations with Carol and Hateful Eight.

She's a bit self involved in the Smiley interview. She expected Joy to get 3 of the 5 Supporting actress slots? and her ex-husbnd Bruce Dern to get nominated?

After Laura Dern got a BS nom for her does-nothing role in Wild last year, I suppose she thought AMPAS was giving them out just for showing up.

R90 hear, hear! I too thought that Dern's nod for WILD was ridiculous and was crucified for it on the Movie Awards forum at IMDb. The previous year, they complained that Lupita Nyong'o wasn't in 12 YEARS A SLAVE enough to warrant a nomination, never mind a win, but they were okay with Dern's glorified cameo? She only had less than 10 minutes of screen time, which isn't bad for a supporting performance, except it consisted mainly of 10-15 second flashback montages interspersed throughout the film. In these montages, Dern doesn't say anything. In the three 2-minute scenes where she does actually do something, she just acts like Dern's own kooky self. If you've ever seen Dern in interviews or those Roundtable discussions, her WILD character isn't that much different from her own persona. At least Lupita had a couple defining scenes and she was acting against type.

While I agree with the category fraud assertion does Ladd really think Jennifer Lawrence would have gotten another nomination for Joy, (a film poorly received by critics), if Vikander and Mara were stuck in the same category this year. I mean, maybe she would because the academy loves her and even if not she probably wouldn't miss another nomination but still it seems kind of short sighted.

The sad part about Bergman's third win was that four years later she gave one of the best performances of her career in Autumn Sonata and won most of the big critics awards at the time. Had she not won four years before, she would have easily sailed to her third win and it would have been her most deserving one, not to mention that she had some great competition that year.

R90 since they nominated her ex-husband Bruce Dern in 2013, then her daughter Laura Dern in 2014, maybe she was hoping that the Academy would honor another family member (i.e. her) this year?

R93 and she would've been one of three to win three (or more) lead Oscars (Kate Hepburn and Daniel Day-Lewis being the other ones). Granted, she has three total, nevertheless, but one of them was for Supporting.

R95...True...but look at the people who have both lead and supporting: Bergman, Helen Hayes, Jack Lemmon, Jack Nicholson, Denzel Washington, Maggie Smith, Meryl Streep, Jessica Lange, Cate Blanchett. Not bad company to be in. That mix seems to be something the Academy reserves for its best.

It will be interesting to see if Winslet wins this year. She's had enough nominations, I could see them allowing her to be part of the club.

But totally agree that Bergman should have won for Autumn Sonata. I would have even given her a 4th instead of Jane Fonda in Coming Home.

Boy, she is still fired up about greed and corruption in that Tavis Smiley interview!

Bitch always was crazy.

I used to always watch the ending of Coming Home on TV as a kid. For some reason Bruce Dern's butt was the only butt back then that censors would allow on TV.

I turned down Coming Home to do Deer Hunter. (plus the part was slutty and undignified and required a bad perm)

M, you senile cow! You turned down Coming Home (the Vi Munson role) to do The Happy End off-Broadway. The part went to Penny Milford, who's had a long, illustrious career since then.

That's Penelope to you, G, and she'll always have "Heathers".

Forgot Robert DeNiro. He has both lead and supporting, too.

Meanwhile, all this Oscar stuff has got me thinking. I don't care about category fraud. I don't care about what race the nominees are. I don't care how many best picture nominees there can be. I don't care who the host is. But I care about the fact that there are no longer any fucking surprises. I'm a filmmaker. I grew up loving the Oscars and trying to see all the nominated movies. It's getting to where I don't really care anymore. It's so fucking boring. The movies are boring. The "who are you wearing" is boring. And the fact that we all know for certain who is going to win 3 out of 4 acting categories is boring. Why watch?

True R103, But there occasionally surprises. (like a few years ago when everyone was saying Viola would win for that maid movie but I swept in and won #3. I also beat G but it is not like she ever had a chance.)

[quote]M, you senile cow! You turned down Coming Home (the Vi Munson role) to do The Happy End off-Broadway. The part went to Penny Milford, who's had a long, illustrious career since then.

You may be right G. After so many wonderful roles you start to forget things. (as you know to a lesser extent)

I was thinking dear, would you be interested in taking a job as my archivist? (I know your career has slowed and your rich husband left because of all the cray cray stuff. I thought sorting thru my old things my help you fill your days and after all you have been on the sideline watching my work all this time. Call Mamie. She can set up an interview for you.

Diane Ladd may be slightly crazy (since when is that a crime for an actress?), but she's capable of giving a fine performance and her first two nominations, for "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" and "Rambling Rose" were more than justified (haven't seen "Wild at Heart" or "Joy", the one she's upset about not being nominated for). In fact, as the original Flo in "Alice", she stole the show and I really thought she was going to win that year. It was more deserving than Ingrid Bergman's performance, and Valentina Cortese , though superb, was probably not well enough known or able to pull enough votes in a foreign-language role.

I love you, "M, african", thanks for a much needed laugh.

[quote]M, you senile cow! You turned down Coming Home (the Vi Munson role) to do The Happy End off-Broadway. The part went to Penny Milford, who's had a long, illustrious career since then.

I think M made the right choice, since she ended up beating Munson for the Oscar.

R108...Maggie Smith won that year. Meryl won the next year for Kramer.

Maggie Smith won for a Herbert Ross film, of course, though I don't think they got along particularly well. All roads lead to Herbert Ross.

It sounds like I need to watch Autumn Sonata. Award selections are always a bit funny. I think Notorious might be Bergman's best work from her 1940's Hollywood era, and she was not even nominated for that role.

Why are we discussing that category fraud perpetrator, M, on MY thread??? This about ME and the injustice done to ME. Take it somewhere else, fellas!

R111...Notorious is great. Agree that's probably her best 40s work, though I do love her in Gaslight. Totally think she deserved a nomination in 1946. She had so much great work in the mid-40s. I would have nominated her for Casablanca over For Whom the Bell Tolls and Spellbound over Bells of St. Mary's. But that's just taste, I guess. But what a great few years she had!

And totally watch Autumn Sonata when you're in the mood.

She was nominated for Whom the Bell Tolls ,dear.

R114 , the post was saying she was nominated for For Whom the Bell Tolls, but the poster preferred her Casablanca performance. Casablanca was probably not her most challenging role, but she did a lot with it and is a reason why it is still remembered. I saw For Whom the Bell Tolls once, and I don't remember much about it -- I don't think it stood the test of time (the movie, not necessarily her performance),. If I remember correctly it was kind of drawn out and not that compelling.

Rooney Moore--I like it.

Internalize this anger, Diane. Save it. Use it for the stage. Then you won't have to act angry - you can BE angry. There's quite a difference.

Wonderful.....

[quote] Geena Davis was in no way a lead in The Accidental Tourist. She doesn't show up until midway through the movie and then disappears when Hurt gets back together with his wife. Just because her role was larger than Turner's doesn't mean it was a lead.

She disappears when Kathleen Turner comes back but then returns (quite memorably) for the final act of the film. And she also has a truly wonderful final scene which is also the last scene of the film.

I love that Davis beat the expected Sigourney Weaver that year. It's a great performance.

[quote] Lots to shit on Ladd's performances about, however she was absolutely terrific (and surprisingly well restrained) playing Laura's mom on Enlightened.

Agreed, R79. Ladd should have won an Emmy for her performance in the episode titled "Consider Helen." She was also wonderful in her last scene in the series finale where she finally tells her daughter (Laura Dern) that no matter how noble she supposedly thinks she is, she's selfish and needs to move the fuck out of her house.

That's funny I don't remember that scene at all in Enlightened . I remember Ladd watching Dern on TV and looking like she was proud of her.

R119 Ladd wasn't nominated for ENLIGHTENED., so she couldn't have won, anyway.

So who did this gem vote for in this category, I wonder? Leigh?

I bet she voted for Winslet.

They really haven't given her much to do in "The People vs OJ Simpson."

How did I miss this? Love that crazy ol' lesbian Diane.

I don't think she is in the OJ show...

What is your fucking point, R121? I said that her performance was basically worthy of an Emmy (nominated or not) and you post...that? Completely useless post.

Come back and join us if you have anything of substance to contribute to this thread.

I see Diane has found this thread.

She was like me only not good

^ Stow it!

I was doing some research on Broadway shows and came across this gem. Diane Ladd seems like an enormous pain in the ass! I love that she tried to dissuade the producer of the show from selling the screen rights unless Ladd was guaranteed of recreating her role onscreen!

Diane Ladd didn't deserve the nomination for Wild at Heart. It was embarrassing. The smearing her face with red lipstick was cringey.

I like Diane, but did she really think she would get an Oscar nomination for Joy? Just because the AARP gave her an award? That's hilarious.

I've never been able to sit through Ramblin' Rose, so I don't know if she deserved that one or not.