The Wild Story of How Mary Steenburgen Wrote the Best Original Movie Song of the Year
[quote]Oscar-winning actress Mary Steenburgen went under the knife for a routine arm surgery in 2009. Hours later, she woke up as a different person — and became a great songwriter.
[quote]“I felt strange as soon as the anesthesia started to wear off,” Steenburgen said. “The best way I can describe it is that it just felt like my brain was only music, and that everything anybody said to me became musical. All of my thoughts became musical. Every street sign became musical. I couldn’t get my mind into any other mode.”
Crazy shit. Has she talked about this before?
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | November 14, 2019 11:24 PM
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Mary Steenburgen won an Oscar? The woman who was married to Malcolm McDowell?
Weird.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | November 14, 2019 8:06 PM
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And has been married to Ted Danson for years and is still active as a character actor on TV.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | November 14, 2019 8:08 PM
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I love how r1's only reference point when it comes to Mary Steenburgen is her ten-year marriage to Malcolm McDowell, which ended in 1990. Only on DL...
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | November 14, 2019 8:11 PM
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She won her Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for Melvin & Howard (1980). Odd choice, but she was great. The article says the song she ended up writing could be the Oscar-winner next year for Best Original Song.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | November 14, 2019 8:54 PM
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Crazy. But then there are reports where straight people are suddenly gay after some brain injury, other times amnesia or speaking a totally different language.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | November 14, 2019 9:10 PM
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She was a finalist for the Best Song Oscar a couple of years back for a song she wrote with Melissa Manchester for the movie Dirty Girl.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | November 14, 2019 9:39 PM
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r5 Just to clarify, here is Steenburgen with her husband. The woman in the main preview image is Jessie Buckley, probably most known to DL for her role in the recent Judy biopic. But I agree, Buckley's pretty.
r8 Her speaking voice sure is something special, yes.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | November 14, 2019 10:30 PM
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As long as someone beats Taylor Swift, I don't care who.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | November 14, 2019 10:33 PM
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The ad for that film played over and over and over and over on the channel here that plays British soaps. I love Mary Steenbergen but that fucking song and the actress’ god damn caterwauling.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | November 14, 2019 10:40 PM
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She’s plays quirky interesting characters who tend to be nice people. She’s very pretty.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | November 14, 2019 11:24 PM
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