So we've finally made to Oscar night, not that I've had all that much interest in this year's Oscars. I haven't seen any of the movies since I don't know how many of them make it to my local theater and I haven't even been in the theater since before the covid nonsense when I watched 1917 in January 2020. That was a ~10:30 showing on a Monday I had off from work; since the lockdowns ended the local sixtyplex has gone away from early showing with the earliest matinees on a weekday being about 1:15. And a quick check also shows none of the Oscar-nominated stuff getting a second showing here. But I think I've discussed all this stuff before
As for the Oscars themselves, I know about the kerfuffle around Emilia Perez. I think I actually came across the movie when I was watching the Tagesschau app (there's a version for the Roku box which is how I watch it) since I like to practice my German. Their review of the movie frankly didn't fill me with much promise that it might be anything I'd want to see. Having said that, it's also interesting to see the disconnect -- yet again, and this seems to be an increasingly common phenomenon -- between the professional critic types and more normal moviegoers. Will Academy members vote for Emilia Perez with the thought that they're sticking it to normies, or will they vote for something else?
Although the Oscars are today, there's still going to be one more day of 31 Days of Oscar on TCM tomorrow. That brings us another airing of The Pride of the Yankees (8:00 PM March 3) before we get to more pedestrian fare on Tuesday, including stuff like Flowing Gold, which has expired on my YouTube TV cloud DVR but still shows up as an upcoming recording because of the way their library works. Apparently, even though a program expires, you have to go in and manually remove it from the library if you don't want to be notified of upcoming showings. No biggie, of course.
I'm not certain if FXM is updating its rotation, since to be honest I haven't been paying such close attention to what they're showing as I've blogged about almost everything in the current rotation. A couple of noirs: Somewhere in the Night (Mar. 3, 7:10 AM) and Kiss of Death (Mar. 3, 10:10 AM and Mar. 4, 3:00 AM) are on the schedule, and I don't think I've seen them show up for a while. I'm even more confident that I haven't seen the Monty Woolley film As Young as You Feel (Mar. 4, 4:40 AM) in the rotation for a while. I don't know how much there is left that FXM wouldn't have to restore or at least digitize to be able to show on the channel and that I haven't blogged about. It may be time to break out the Will Rogers box set I've only done half of for some more vintage Fox.
Other than the death of Gene Hackman, the date of which I think has now been legally established as several days before the bodies of him and his wife were found, there hasn't been anything that would be considered a Really Big Deal, but several lesser or more recent names worth mentioning. First up would be Pilar Del Rey, who played the Mexican-American mother of the Sal Mineo character in Giant as well as appearing in other movies of the 50s. She was 95.
Joseph Wambaugh was a cop-turned-author who wrote true-crime novels that often were turned into films. Most notable among these would probably be The Onion Field, for which Wambaugh wrote the screenplay. Wambaugh died on Friday aged 88.
I didn't recognize the name of David Johansen, who also died on Friday at the age of 75. He played the Ghost of Christmas Past in Scrooged, but for 80s kids might be better remembered under the stage name Buster Poindexter, singing the song "Hot Hot Hot".
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