Glenn Close is winning the Oscar for THE WIFE

This is going to backfire. Having Glenn shoved down people's throats is going to remind them just how lukewarm they are about her in the first place.

She’s not going to be IGNORED, R1.

It's too bad they don't have the Special Oscars, like the Special Olympics.

Pipe down, M, and keep sucking on my clit.

When Glenn is not nominated, perhaps they will throw her a bone by allowing her to be a presenter.

Best Song, or something.

Just give her a bloody Oscar and get it over with. That award is seldom based on actual talent or worthiness

Glenn is winning the Oscar or I will walk on stage myself and tear it down!

MURIEL!

I do not spend my hard earned 99 cents a month (or whatever it is) to have Glenn's pathetic PR flacks CLOG this board with their endless FLOGGING.

Please restrict them to ONE thread.

[quote]This is going to backfire. Having Glenn shoved down people's throats is going to remind them just how lukewarm they are about her in the first place.

Couldn't agree more r1

"Glenn Close is winning the Oscar for THE WIFE"

No, she isn't -

Yes, yes, OP, and Lange will be raking up all the awards for Feud.

Y'all have lost your damn minds.

Someone should set fire to the Dolby if Glenn Close loses to Lady Gaga.

The Glenn hate on here is so disheartening. :(

How could you bastards.

I've loved Glenn ever since I was a teenager. She used to come into a bookstore I worked in. At first I was so intimidated by her and had trouble making eye contact with her. She was always so pleasant and welcoming in her gaze. It sort of drew me out of my shell and I knew I could talk to her. After a while I'd even chat with her about movies she was in and books she should read and make into movies. She was a very nice person.

R13 = Annette Bening, losing to film novice Hilary Swank -

Aww! I love that, R15. You're a cutie Glenn stan, aren't you? All are welcomed here!

I'm fine!

Nettie will have her turn soon enough. IF close had to wait until 71 to win...

I hope she wins! I loved Glenn in “Mask”. The mother child chemistry between her and Cher in he movie is heartwarming.

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You bitches are terrible, lol. R20 / R21

r15 - that a lovely story. You deserve some recognition !!

If I wasn’t in the emergency room at the moment I would be more vociferous in my praise, but thank you, OP. If I make it through, somehow, I’ll thank you come March.

Doesn't Glenn's family have enough money to BUY her the award?

Can't we just skip all this baloney, if they're dead set on it?

Gaga won’t win for that.

Close is worth 50 million. That should be enough ...

Well, we'll see what kind of box office The Wife does. It just opened in my city's lone art house so the movie's not getting a big push.

Glenn's a good actress and it's nice to read she's a nice, LITERATE person as well (thanks R15).

[quote]r28 Well, we'll see what kind of box office The Wife does.

(whistling in the dark)

She'll win an Oscar and act like Al Pacino did when he won for the blind potty mouth movie. Or Scorsese for 'The Departed'. The tedious 'long overdue' vibe. God I'm groaning already

The Wife was surprisingly good. Close was incandescent.

Hollywood wants Gaga to win. The critics are thrilled with Gaga and they see Glenn's attempt at an old lady Oscar as pathetic. Glenn Close does not bring people into the cinemas - Gaga will.

R32 And Gaga will win. In the Best Song category, for which she already has her own little overdue narrative, having been nominated and lost before in this.

Gaga is out of her league in the Best Actress category and she will be lucky if she even gets nominated there.

R16 Hilary's dress is very nice. I wonder who was the designer.

if Judy and Barbra could not get Oscars with "A Star is Born," neither will Gaga.

I felt that too. I identify with Judy and whoever that Barbara is.

We singers are not taken seriously enough even those of us previously garlanded for our acting.

Hang in there LG!

R33 when she changed one sentence of a song and got called out by Linda Perry?

Nobody gives a flying fuck about Glennie Close. She's a bore. Gaga has youth, beauty and a large talent. She can act, sing, play an instrument and she is going to be a huge film star.Glenn Close needs to be put in the Actors Home.

Mamie at R38.

She’s still a tad young for a pity Oscar, no?

...Not that she couldn't pass for older...

I didnt buy Glenn as a push-over submissive to her husband. Shes too butch.

Whereas Cher recently played my mother I might add. She was convincing.

I'd love for M and G to team up as sisters. With Cher as their mother.

R38 Gaga has none of those things

She's "an act", alright, R38.

Haven’t seen the movie but generally speaking, I hope she wins.

I saw it today. If it weren’t for Glenn’s sob story about being overdue nobody would be talking about an Oscar nomination for this trite, tedious women’s picture. The screenplay is truly abominable.

R48 And her performance?

R49, it’s honestly nothing special. She doesn’t rise above the bad material. And I adored her in Dangerous Liaisons. That’s the sort of performance she should have won for. If she wins for this it will definitely be a Scent of a Woman type of lifetime win.

If it were mind-blowing, they'd mention it.

Since the poster calls the movie "trite and tedious", that would appear to be all-encompassing.

^^ sorry, was for r49

R48 That's fair. I'm not going to review your review. I saw it last night and absolutely loved her in it. A few moments still haunt:

Her exchange with Slater's character.

Her moment in the spotlight, her face contorting involuntarily as she barely holds back the tears.

The moment in the limo after her husband receives the Nobel Prize and they leave in a flurry.

The fight after in the hotel room.

Finally, her defeated reaction of pain and morning as she stares at her husband lying helpless and limp in bed.

She was exquisite.

If you think of some of the performances that have won: Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side, Julia Roberts in Erin Brockovich, Jennifer Lawrence in Silver Linings Playbook. Even Julianne Moore, whom I adore, in Still Alice. She's better than all of them.

Meryl, my second favorite actress, got nominated for The Post for godssake.

Glenn deserves every bit of the Oscar that's already been engraved for her this year.

I love Meg Wolitzer’s novel The Interestings, but The Wife felt cliche.

[quote]r53 If you think of some of the performances that have won: Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side, Julia Roberts in Erin Brockovich, Jennifer Lawrence in Silver Linings Playbook. Even Julianne Moore, whom I adore, in Still Alice. She's better than all of them.

Five wrongs don't make a right.

Glenn needs to just keep working at her craft and improving herself.

She'll be nominated again some day.

R55 But she's actually worthy here, unlike those I listed.

lol @ R56.

I don't get why people are so mean to the legends. Lange and Streep are my favorite girls. I've come to really hold Close up there with those to, especially during the last few months of reviewing her work. I'm rooting for her.

She's not glamorous or versatile enough for a gay fan base. She's a good actress, but there are many good actresses.

Most of her film roles are borderline drab. And she has a very blank offscreen persona that doesn't add any spice to the mix.

Glenn is extremely versatile, from Garp to the Big Chill to Fatal Attraction to Sunset Blvd to 101 Dalmatians to Damages to Albert Nobbs, she's shown sublime range.

Her character is supposed to be in her mid 50’s (it’s set in 1992 and flashes back to 1958 when she was an undergraduate), but she looks and acts 10 years older.

r59 You seem to have trouble hearing. NO ONE CARES.

Tell your client her money would be better spent shilling for a nomination at other sites.

Mommie & Me groups might like her. Try that.

R60 G looks AMAZING for 71. I was shocked by how good she looks.

oh god

R62, but this is yet another case of her being too old for the role. Remember South Pacific?

Now that'd get her an Oscar.

She could play George AND Martha Washington!

Now that would be hard to ignore.

I would love it if Close were shut out, and by some crazy error/fluke Streep suddenly made it in the Best Actress catagory for [italic]Mama Mia 2.

R67 they have the technology to do this now.

M has got wind of this. She wants to know if G would play George to her Martha,

Meryl Streep IS Martha Washington / Glenn Close IS George Washington

Together they are

MARTHA & GEORGE: A WASHINGTON LOVE STORY

I'd love to see that ^

Being overdue isn't a 'sob story'.

A sob story is something like 'my partner died' (Katherine Hepburn), 'I'm unlucky this year but deserve it anyway' (Jessica Lange), 'I lost because of racism' (Viola Davis), 'my mother did this role' (Anne Hathaway).

Close isn't boo-hooing. Her lengthy career is being considered and most people feel she's overdue one.

Glenn was a beautiful woman in the 80s/90s. If only she were nominated in a weaker year such as 2012, that horrid Jennifer Lawrence win still makes a mockery of the award.

Jennifer Lawrence still would have beaten her. The Sandra Bullock year might've been better.

I agree, she was too popular that year not to win. The real winner should have been Emmanuelle Riva, she was head and shoulders above the rest and it's a joke that she could have been beaten by that performance that, had it been a less popular actress in a less successful movie, would not have even been nominated!

The Sandra Bullock year was one of the weakest in the last 30 years, so good call!

R73 Had to mention Lange, didn't you, you rancid cunt.

Lange's wasn't a sob story because she didn't campaign under that pretense. In fact, she barely campaigned at all in 1982.

The critics circles started the ball rolling by awarding her their awards for Tootsie. Then the Globes, then AMPAS.

Sorry that Lange's successes make you seethe.

Glenn is winning!

Jennifer Lawrence's win is a travesty.

I loved her in mother! but am underwhelmed by her other work.

She was also fun and risqué in Red Sparrow.

R28 The Wife has already outgrossed Albert Nobbs, which she got a nom for, and it still has a couple million to go.

Really r79? All JL did was run around and say to people "What are you doing? Don't do that" with teary eyes.

Glenn was best in, "Dangerous Liaisons".

R81 I probably love the film more than her performance, if I'm honest.

You think you've got it, Glennie, and then some mannish little thing comes along and STEALS YOUR FUCKING DREAMS!!!

R83 lmao. Is this Snatch?

That lantern jawed whore SNATCHED my award.

TWICE! Who does that TWICE???

[quote]Had to mention Lange, didn't you, you rancid cunt.

A nerve has been hit.

[quote]Lange's wasn't a sob story because she didn't campaign under that pretense.

She did.

[quote]In fact, she barely campaigned at all in 1982.

Untrue.

[quote]The critics circles started the ball rolling by awarding her their awards for Tootsie.

No, they awarded her for FRANCES they just gave it to her for TOOTSIE.

[quote]Sorry that Lange's successes make you seethe.

Oh, there are bigger name.

But I'm not the one seething.

Anyway, I'm sure unlike Lange and some other names, that Close will run a respectable campaign.

I haven't seen it -- yet! -- but it wouldn't surprise me if she is the best of the year, and the AMPAS lineup. There's no reason why we couldn't say her win will be down to the performance's independent merit. She has deserved it that way before -- but for some reason just always seemed to be unlucky.

Unlike, speaking of her, Lange who could lucky in a very weak (and controversial) lineup for 94. FATAL ATTRACTION and DANGEROUS LIAISONS both would've been more than worthy winners for her but the latter in particular was in one of the best years ever.

Oh, well. Always for bridesmaid... maybe.

What I do hope is that it does lead in a career boost for her. She's always done good work and never had a drought, but even just one post-win juicy role would be nice.

R86 Sure, Janbot. You've already been disqualified for your stupidity or dishonesty re: the critics awards. Wiki is your friend.

I always thought Glenn would have been a perfect Catherine Trammell in Basic Instinct.

She and Michael had great chemistry, she's a fearless actress and can do icy, sexy intellectual like no other. I wonder if she was offered the role but it was too graphic for her?

That would've been another amazing pairing of the two, R89. But too close to "Fatal Attraction".

Maybe. Everyone and their mother was offered the role.

I guess it was too close to their pervious work. I also thought she would have been very good in The War of the Roses. She was the right age and was a big star in the late 80s

G!

M did you turn down War of the Roses? That was the same year you first tried your hand at comedy. With this..

Saw it today and the script is second-rate, very cliched. Glenn's good although as one poster suggested, she projects far too much strength and character to have played a submissive second-fiddle during the marriage. Jonathan Pryce is excellent.

"War of the Roses" needed Turner: she and Douglas have great bad chemistry, and she has a believable kick-ass quality that Streep lacks. Sigourney Weaver could have done it.

I love how these Lady Gaga loons actually think she is going to be nominated much less win. You all talk now like it is inevitable because that is what he cult does. She is a shit actress and will not be nominated much less win. The early hype is 100% payola. She is being laughed at by everyone else. No one thinks the hype is real except her stupid loon fan base.

Remember when her last 3 albums were going to change the game, were revolutionary, the album of the century and so on? Yeah, never happened. They landed like thuds. But that is how her PR operates. They overhype everything. She hasn't been popular for 8 fucking years.

R97 Don't be so harsh. I mean, I agree with some of your points, but she did a great job here.

Still, she should not and will not win.

I want Close or Colman.

r98 No she didn't. All the inside stories were how bad she is and the movie is. Now, they are doing what the Dump's of the world do and that is hype, change the narrative, try to put lipstick on a pig. She will not even be nominated for any major award. She is a shit actress and everyone is sick of her hype. She always hypes to absurd degrees

R89 Oh, God, no. I loved Gwen in Fatal Attraction, but she is not sexy. Only Sharon could have done that role.

R53 The Academy nominates Streep for almost everything she does. If she farted in bed they'd nominate her.

Anyway, Close has given a number of Oscar worthy performances over the years and though The Wife isn't one of them I have no problem with a win - the Oscars are littered with actors winning for 'make-up' awards.

I do like Gwen but that wife movie sounds dreary

If Close is nominated, maybe she and Gaga will cancel each other out by splitting the vote, and a dark horse will take the lead by default.

I can't quite put my finger on why I don't want Close to win. Maybe it's her sense of entitlement. The Oscars are basically a popularity contest, and I just don't care for her that much, as a person. Her speech would be soooooo very heavy and painful to listen to.

r103 Bwhahahahahahahahaha Gaga will not be nominated because it is all hype She is a shit actress. If you buy this hype, her MO to the extreme, you are a deluded idiot.

The tears from her monsters when everyone realizes the movie and she are shit and all the hype dies out like all her projects, I will laugh hysterically.

If Glenn had done Basic Instinct you can bet she wouldn't have flashed her cooter. She's a lady!

In a few more years she will receive a consolation lifetime achievement statuette, which I will present personally and Ryan Murphy will then turn into a moderately viewed limited run television series. It's all arranged.

R106 Be warned that if some hag plays me again, you'll hear from my lawyers.

I thought she was excellent but the film was a total bore. I don’t think she’ll win for that role.

[quote]r105 If Glenn had done Basic Instinct you can bet she wouldn't have flashed her cooter. She's a lady!

They'd have needed an animal wrangler on set, because bats would have flown out.

Olivia, darling, I thought you'd be perfect to play Glenn. Production starts in 2027. Granted, you'll photograph a bit young for her, but lets throw her a bone.

It has already been decreed by the Powers that Be that Lady Gaga will Oscar for A Star is Born. It is a legendary performance that will be talked about until the end of time when Lady Gaga and her performance will belong to history. Namaste.

Sounds like more fun than Granny Close, anyway.

r111 That is what her loons are trying to say. I've never seen a fan base more insane for little reason. She has not been successful or popular in at least 8 years. No one cares. Lets say, and this is side splitting funny, she is even nominated for acting. No one cares. She has tried everything in the book to hype herself and no one cares. And it is starting to backfire. People are getting sick and tired of her constant, insane hype.

Close but no cigar. Again.

[quote] Saw it today and the script is second-rate, very cliched. Glenn's good although as one poster suggested, she projects far too much strength and character to have played a submissive second-fiddle during the marriage. Jonathan Pryce is excellent.

Watch Pryce get a nom while Glennie is bridesmaid.

Again.

[quote] If Glenn had done Basic Instinct you can bet she wouldn't have flashed her cooter. She's a lady!

Her flower is not for everyone to see!

Anybody still using the phrase "dropping the mic" needs to be taken out to a forest, get shat on by wild bears and then torn to pieces by a pack of wolves.

R117 = M

Again....Glenn is a fine actress and well all admire her very much. But she needs to know her place.

She's a backup star who's hired when bigger stars pass. That's her place in the Hollywood hierarchy, and why she's found her greatest success on the small screen.

Now, that's the truth, to face and deal with,[italic] if you want to survive. [/italic]

M at R119.

Diane Keaton would have been more right for the role. Or Dianne Wiest.

I'm sure they turned it down. That's how scripts end up with G.

Glenn Close is amazing in this. And might I add, she looks stunning for 71.

Oh Viola that's amazingly kind of you.

Yes, but Viola will probably walk back her statement in a year or two. That's your MO these days, ain't it, Vi, dear?

[R15] Do you work at Book Culture on Columbus? I often used to see Glenn in Central Park by the Beresford on dog walks with my Italian greyhound. She always had a nice smile for him.

The Wife lost 73 screens this weekend after jumping to a count of 541 just last week. Expect this one to die a swift death unless it starts winning a lot of pre-Oscar awards.

I told Glenn she needed to do some tasteful nudity if she wanted to get good ox office and critical attention.

The movie is sort of Lifetime TV movie-level, and her performance is understated to a fault (her Botoxed face makes human emotion difficult) with a couple angry outbursts that make you giggle because it recalls Alex North getting cray-cray in "Fatal Attraction".

With all the press I expected a tour-de-force. But I only paid $5.29 for the matinee show, so...

This GIF is so awful ... why??

The wife is tanking at the box office - no one has seen it.

Actually Viola’s MO is to disrobe her unattractive body to force us to acknowledge that she is a sexual, middle-aged black woman. In the real world none of her onscreen bed partners would look twice at her. And that’s cool. Most of us aren’t sex symbols so why she insists on comporting herself as one t’is a puzzlement.

Because Viola knows actors are the only ones who understand and celebrate what it is to live a life! Even if that means showing your unattractive jiggly bits to the masses. Didn't you know that people are asking her all the time "What sort of stories do you want to tell, Viola?". In McDonalds, at the car wash, when she's livin' it up at Chucky Cheese with her beautiful Genesis! Viola always has the same response..

[quote] Didn't you know that people are asking her all the time "What sort of stories do you want to tell, Viola?"

Well, I hope they are.

We'd get less snoozefest crap like THE WIFE.

[quote]I didnt buy Glenn as a push-over submissive to her husband

I would agree with this, Glenn has such strength to her presence that it was hard to buy her as this long suffering wife who hid in the shadows of her husband

[quote]Her character is supposed to be in her mid 50’s (it’s set in 1992 and flashes back to 1958 when she was an undergraduate), but she looks and acts 10 years older.

I also had the same thought. Her character was obviously meant to be much younger than she is, I was caught off guard when I realized Jonathan Pryce was her professor and had a wife and kid before her. They look the same age, because of course in real life they are the same age.

That sad it was a powerful performance that I thought she played excellently, it was restrained so much said in the subtle moments. I feel people are usually more impressed by this larger than life showy roles, and god knows Glenn has done those, but I thought this was a sophisticated character study.

The movie around her was pretty cliche, beat by beat you know what to expect.

OOPS!

Karma's a bitch to smug, presumptuous OPs. Has OP ever heard the expression, "Fools Rush In?"

OP will never be back to claim his major FAIL.

This didn't age well.

Oops.

R97 = Madonna

TRAVESTY

WOMP-WOMP!

Of course the Aspie Copycat would follow me here @ r144. I think it's time to give you the Ignore you deserve.