Let's discuss Amy Irving.

Such a weirdly affected actress. Surprised she had as much of a career as she did. Was she a bitch to Spielberg before or after Kate Capshaw came along?

It took HOURS to straighten her hair, HOURS!

before r1.

she supposedly was really dismissive of him as a geek even while they were dating. People felt she was only with him to better her career. She must have been so annoyed when he cast Karen Allen in Raiders. She was sort of the same type.

"I met a real heartbreaker last night."

She's the one who'd insisted Tommy take Carrie to the dance.

She was really good in Crossing Delancey.

I seem to recall that she broke up with Spielberg frequently in the years they dated before they were married.

She got a $100 million divorce settlement. She's fine. A thread started by an internet troll farm is probably not going to affect her. You minions must be getting desperate if you're resorting to an Amy Irving thread.

oops...effect

r8 is triggered!

Maybe you should leave the site if it is so beneath you r8.

she was great in Yentl. A luminous beauty in her day.

Amy Irving MUST go down. That bitch has it coming.

I don't know her

“Irving, Amy. Divorced from Steven Spielberg; cheated on him with Willie Nelson.”

Love her in DePalma's Carrie and she was even better his similarly-themed The Fury.

She deserved every penny she got, all things considered.

She actually was quite good in Traffic.

There! I said it.

It was one long "Taffeta, Darling", R7.

Wasn't the legend that Amy and Spielberg had become estranged and then when Barbra asked him to watch Yentl he supposedly fell in love with her again and they got married?

'Effecting Amy' the new thread in which we bring down the uber important Ms Irving.

I just happened to watch Traffic and Amy's part was really small.

Did all copies of Micki and Maude get burnt in a studio fire? I remember seeing it once on cable (which was plenty) after it came out and then never again.

The only actress to receive an Oscar nomination AND a Razzie nod for the same performance.

Amy was a great actress.

Micki and Maude had that memorable scene with nude gun guys.

Is R8 Candy Hohen?

You go to hell!

...AND I THINK YOU'RE UNDERREACTING, MRS. CHADWICK!!

omg...an Amy Irving thread! This will change how I think and feel about her past and future performances and start a new path in my life.

Her mother was a much better actress.

R22 you're just looking for a reason to talk about Ann Reinking and how she "ruined" that Oscar show.

How many threads do we have on that already?

Amy Irving is a fine actress; regrettabley she hasn’t done much work. She’s a far better actress and much more good looking than Karen Allen. Amy’s mother, Priscilla Pointer is a wonderful character actress. She was marvelous in “Carrie” and “Mommie Dearest”.

Morgan and Victoria were much prettier.

I never liked her until I saw her on an episode of Dinner for Five with Jon Favreau. I think Alan Cumming and Issac Mizrahi were also on the episode. She came off very well. Cool chica.

I couldn’t enjoy Crossing Delaney because I found Peter Riegert to be so unattractive. I did like Amy in it, and I thought she was great in Yentl.

She got Ron Silver fired from an Arthur Miller play called Broken Glass back in the 90’s because he was such an asshole (though she’s no prize either).

I love R4 for quoting Julia Phillips.

Oh god I loved her back in the day as Sue Snell. She was so perfectly earthy and really reminded me of some of the high school girls who babysat me back in the 70s.

I also love The Fury. It's tonally all over the place and kind of off its rocker, but it's so brilliantly done with some sublime set pieces. And Irving is fab in it. Her glowy blue telekinetic eyes as she makes Childress explode!

Hey, Irving hater!! Go SUKKIT!!!! Then FUKKIT!!!

Brian De Palma's "The Fury" -1978

Amy was awful; Kirk was 'hammy'; Andrew Stevens (who?); and John Cassavetes was a 'dreamy-meanie.'

She gets down and dirty in Kleptomania as a bulimic shoplifting socialite.

Milk or lemon?

I loved The Competition. I know it was cheesy, but.... loved it anyway.

She blamed her divorce from Spielberg for the demise of her career. Not necessarily him, just that it seemed Hollywood felt the need to take sides, so of course she lost.

Pauline Kael wrote a hilarious review of The Competition, saying that Amy and Richard Dreyfuss were in another kind of competition over their bad acting mannerisms.

Is that you, BT?

R28 Perfect

R44 Lee Remick had some bad ass monologue in that movie. Pretty campily great.

I remember being quite impressed with her when she did Amadeus on Broadway.I was just a kid but I thought she was pretty good. I think I'd seen her in some movies (probably Carrie and The Fury) and thought she was kind of spacey so I was impressed that she did a serious play like that. (but then again I was like 10 so what did I know.)

She didn't get the movie and was quite bummed about it. (saw some interview online)

That was odd casting. First they hired Meg Tilly who probably would have been good and then she got injured and they replaced her with some actress who just didn't fit the film. She seemed so modern. Elizabeth McGovern is scene on the dvd extra's auditioning for the film. I wonder why Foreman didn't hire her. She'd done well for him with Ragtime. Or at least hire Irving instead of the woman he did . (Elizabeth Berridge whom I don't think acts much anymore.)

Fun Fact: (for those who don;t know).... Crossing Delancey was originally a play done off-Broadway on 14th Street in the Jewish District. I saw the original production. It starred Melanie Mayron. (I always wondered what she thought of the movie).

I remember seeing Mayron interviewed somewhere joking about her three big disappointments in show biz. One was that she didn't get the film of Crossing Delancey.

The second was that on "Playing for Time" she shaved her head and got all these great reviews and then Jane Alexander and Shirley Knight had it in their contracts that they'd get big Emmy advertising pushes and she didn't. Alexander and Knight both got Emmy nods and she didn't (Alexander even won) when it is obvious if you see the film that Mayron was the most deserving.

The third was some pilot she developed post thirtysomething that the studio bought but insisted somebody other than her play the lead.

I totally agree! But don't tell Faye Dunaway I said that. She'll KILL me! Priscilla did try to upstage her in her one scene in Mommie Dearest.

OH NO! Here she comes!

That was for r30 folks! All this plastic surgery is making me dizzy!

[quote]A luminous beauty in her day.

[bold]?!?!?!?!?!?![/bold]

Mayron would have been better in "Crossing Delancey". Irving is one of those people who was in everything and then vanished. If got $100M from Spielberg, she probably doesn't need to work.As thread material, she seems pretty dull--at least the once omnipresent Joyce Bulifant had a lot of husbands and some nasty rumors about her her behavior.

I thought she was great in Carrie, but nothing else. Don't really know what Spielberg saw in her, though.

Two sons. Max Spielberg on the left.

All her slights, however grave they may be, must be forgiven for her performance here.

He blacklisted her. She had just gain an Oscar nomination. He stopped her potential.

Speilberg didn't want an intellectual, cultured, classically-trained actress with an NYC theater-and-cultcha pedigree who herself commanded and demanded lots of regard, as a life partner. He wanted a starlet who would give up her "acting career" to be his wifey-poo/momsy-poo and give HIM the adoring regard . . . from the sidelines.

Agreed, r59!

I always liked her. Sue Snell is such a tricky role. I don't think she gets enough credit for that. I even liked her when she brought the character back in the sequel.

I saw her in a production of A Little Night Music a few years back as Desiree and she was surprisingly terrific. Very warm and funny and her "Send in the Clowns" was heartbreaking.

I had always thought she was very pretty on screen but not particularly special. Then I met her in person. She WAS beautiful. One of these people who just had this movie star glow.

co-starring with Michael Ontkean in the movie Voices

I don’t think Spielberg blacklisted her. She just got older so naturally the roles dried up.

R64 She discussed it in an interview. Spielberg didn't blacklist her. After all, he was the one who left her for another woman and that was well known, (although I think they both admited their marriage was probably over).

It's just that Spielberg was considered one of the kings in Hollywood, and she thinks major directors felt uncomfortable having to work with her, and the fact she had reached the age where actresses have a difficult time finding roles didn't help.

But she then hooked up with Independent director, Bruno Baretto, and still managed to eke out a respectable list of credits.

She knows where the bodies are buried

Remember the whole Twilight Zone accident that killed Vic Morrow and those two girls? Spielberg flew to the UK to avoid any legal problems. Amy knows it all, including the other stuff.

[quote] Spielberg flew to the UK to avoid any legal problems

How long did he stay? Didn't the trial go on for a long time?

John Landis acted like such a dick during that whole thing. The jury was supposedly in awe of the Hollywood big shot and let him off. ' I remember him giggling and smiling when he was acquitted. No respect for the people who died.

Yeah, she's not with Bruno Barretto any more. She is on her third husband, a documentary guy named Kenneth Bowser. There's an interview out there where Bruno Barretto references how "losing her was very hard for me" or something like that. But where is the DISH???? Photos of Bowser from about 2008 are very good-looking. But in recent photos he looks unwell ... . or un-something.

Ew. Max Spielberg is dumps ugs. He’s vulgar looking

Thanks for starting this thread.... HUGE Amy Irving fan here... Loved her in Carrie, The Fury and Voices...

The Competition is my favorite Amy Irving movie... Yes it is a bit campy, but in addition to Amy it had the divine Lee Remick and the final competition scenes still give me goosebumps 36 years later.

[quote]How long did he stay?

He shot Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom which was filmed in the UK (studios) and India as location.

As an actress, she has the emotional range of a turnip, yet none of the charm.

[quote] She got Ron Silver fired from an Arthur Miller play called Broken Glass back in the 90’s because he was such an asshole (though she’s no prize either).

I'm not sure Silver was fired from the play. I think he quit. And Amy herself was a last minute replacement for Dianne Wiest. The pre-Broadway production was a disaster. I don't think the producers knew what they wanted,

The book Easy Riders, Raging Bulls details a little bit of their relationship. I read it years ago, but from what I remember Irving was made out to be a bit of a nightmare and was not well-liked by most of Spielberg's friends. I don't remember if she was mean to him for being a geek, but I do recall the book saying he was essentially a huge nerd and much more straight-laced than the other directors he came of age with in the 70s.

R72= Kate Capshaw

"I'm not sure Silver was fired from the play. I think he quit."

Hmm. The scuttlebutt at the time was that Irving disliked him intensely and told the producers and Miller something along the lines of "I can't work with him - he goes or I do". They chose her. Silver is known for being a major league jerk.

As for Irving, she was not a last-minute replacement. She came into the show during the premiere run at the Long Wharf Theater before it came to Broadway. Silver left during that run and David Dukes took over and then followed the show to Broadway for it's brief run.

I saw Irving in the Lincoln Center production of Stoppard's COAST OF UTOPIA and thought she was very good in it.

I saw Broken Glass and it was a snooze-fest that could have done with Ron Silver. David Dukes may have been more accommodating but he didn't have Ron's range.

Sometimes at home alone I reenact her big finale in The Fury.

Sometimes I sing and dance around the house in my underwear. Doesn't make me Madonna. Never will.

R78 -

Do you do this while watching Trump on the news?

I've read about Spielberg's complicated relationships with Amy Irving and Kate Capshaw. I think Capshaw is the love of his life. For some reason, they couldn't ever seem to work it out in the 1980s. I think if I remember correctly, Capshaw broke up with him more than the other way around. During one of their off periods, he met Irving again after their last break-up and reconnected. I think Irving got pregnant and they decided to get married.

Irving doesn't seem to have any bitterness whatsoever about Spielberg and Capshaw. I think Irving and Spielberg realized they got married for the wrong reasons. Rumor is Spielberg started hooking up with Capshaw again when he knew his marriage was failing and he and Irving finally agreed on a divorce. Irving got a huge sum ($100 million) and never had to work again.

I just loved her and Ann Reinking in that MICKI & MAUDE Movie. It was hilarious.

R82 given DL you might be joking, but I saw it when I was 8 I think and I thought it was hi-larious. I assumed it wouldn't hold up when I saw it many years later and it's not a classic but I still really liked it. Dudley Moore was quite good - I don't think he made a decent movie after that.

I saw her years in a Broadway production of Shaw's "Heartbreak House", and she was excellent, more than holding her own with such theater luminaries as Rex Harrison, Rosemary Harris, Dana Ivey and Philip Bosco.

R83, not kidding AT ALL!!! I was ten when I saw it and i loved it. Agreed, its no classic, but I still enjoy it. Just thinking about Nurse Verbeck makes me chuckle.

R15 I saw Honeysuckle Rose when it came out and she obviously had a black eye in some of the scenes.

Used to get her mixed up with Karen Allen, bet Speilberg fucked her too

Karen Allen was terrific in "Raiders" and also in "Starman". She should have had a bigger career. Spielberg was wrong to replace her with wife Capshaw in the 2nd Indiana Jones movie.

Wasn't the rumor that her marriage to Spielberg (which was before his marriage to Capshaw) ended when Irving had an affair with Ben Cross? And that the affair is what ruined Ben Cross's career.

Not saying any of this is true, only that I recall hearing it at the time.

I absolutely love that gorgeous shot in Carrie of Amy/Sue Snell at the prom where her entire face FILLS the screen as she realizes what's abut to go down. That one shot says so much and is so beautifully done. She didn't know; that's the big twist.

LOVED Amy Irving. That's all I got.

Amy was the singing voice of Jessica Rabbit; it's kinda funny how she sounds nothing like Kathleen Turner.

"Let's discuss Amy Irving."

Smart chick. When SS proposed marriage to her in a bar, she'd coyly asked him to write up and sign a Pre-nup on a cocktail napkin. During their divorce proceedings, the judge overseeing their divorce proceedings had ruled in favor of Amy per said agreement.

"Let's discuss Amy Irving."

Smart chick. When SS proposed marriage to her in a bar, she'd coyly asked him to write up and sign a pre-nup on a cocktail napkin. During their divorce proceedings, the judge overseeing their divorce proceedings had ruled in favor of Amy per said agreement.

She got $100 million to keep her mouth shut cause she knew steven liked penis . read up on how he got his ex lover , who was a twin , who was going to rape him, put away for 25yrs. that shut himm up

There was a Bob Costas interview on youtube where she discusses how she felt divorcing Speilberg hurt her career. People were afraid to hire her apparently.

She's done well on Broadway theater in recent years. She was in that epic The Coast of Utopia.

She also appeared full-frontal nude with Dennis Hopper in "Carried Away". Both of them. Plus she was in some films with her Brazilian film director husband.

How can she be ok with him if he’s a pervert?

Crossing Delancey was on today.

Underrated movie.

As a young gayling, I kinda had a crush on her. I was still a bit confused (whether I liked boys or girls better). The whole Yentyl things really did a number on my mind.

I've talked to her on the phone at work. She was very nice. She also treated my staff really nice and with respect.

The Troll Takedown Trifecta is now complete: Tilda Swinton, Linda Blair and now Amy fucking Irving.

A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC AT THE OPERA THEATRE OF ST. LOUIS

That annoying little bitch actually began to think she was the real Anastasia.

A great beauty.

$99 million was great 'fuck you" money. but she wanted to keep acting, and Hollywood wouldn't let her do it.

R8, you minion, you had it right the first time. “Affect”

She was pretty and could act, but something about her has always bugged me. A certain smugness or reserve...I dunno. Just could never warm to her.

I can’t accept her as a blonde.

She has always been striking looking—her eyes, cheekbones, hair. She's always been beautiful. She still looks fantastic, even in her late sixties. I also think she is a very good actress, and I loved her in "Carrie" and "The Fury." I can see where R107 is coming from though in terms of her coming off as smug—I've seen interviews with her where she does seem very pleased with herself. Not sure if this is actually the case, but I also detect a bit of arrogance. Part of it could just have something to do with the way she speaks, because she has an extremely measured cadence.

I just saw her in the Soderbergh film Unsane. She had a small role.

[quote] A thread started by an internet troll farm is probably not going to affect her.

Yes, the Russian government will stop at nothing in its ruthless quest to damage Amy Irving’s romantic life.

It's been mentioned upthread, but just barely....

If (as speculated), neither Amy nor Spielberg were faithful to one another during their 4-year marriage, why exactly did she walk away with $100 million? She did bear him a son during that time, but still...

Amy knows... a lot. She knows things about SS that she will never, ever tell. My guess is she'd never compromise SS anyway, for the sake of their son. But the $100 million settlement (and it's a settlement, not court-awarded) guarantees her silence.

I do think someone else is gonna bring him down, though. Or die trying.