What’s in a name?
I was just watching Jennifer Lopez on Inside the Actors Studio and found out that the role of Grace McKenna in Oliver Stone’s 1997 film U-Turn was first offered to Sharon Stone. In 1995’s Casino, Sharon Stone played drug-addicted call girl Ginger McKenna, for which she earned her first and only Oscar nomination.
That was your useless movie factoid of the day.
(Drum roll)
V.O.
Ladies and Gentlemen.
Please welcome your hosts for this evening…
James Franco and Anne Hathaway
(Music and applause)
(James and Anne walk out looking absolutely perfect)
JF
Hello and welcome to The 83rd Academy Awards,
Live from Los Angeles.
AH
That’s foreign for City of Angels.
And this room is certainly filled will those angels.
(Applause)
JF
Thank you. I’m James Franco.
AH
…and I’m Anne Hathaway.
JF
You probably know me from 127 Hours where I play a man trapped in an enclosed space who decides he would rather cut his own arm off than stay where he was. Now that sounds “way out” but wait till half way through this fucking ceremony and you’ll start to identify with him.
James Franco and Anne Hathaway’s rigorous Oscar preparations.
The AMPAS website is counting down to the 83rd Annual Academy Awards by recounting each ceremony from the very beginning.
Did you know the very first Oscar ceremonies in 1929 were held a full three months after the winners had already been announced?
