1982's Best Actor Oscar Nominees

yeah nobody's fool was specifically what i was thinking of, kinda a fan of twilight also though i haven't seen it since it was out (i may have just been in a sentimental mood to see all those old fuckers in a movie). the thirty years of courtroom dramas since the verdict has hurt it considerably, i'd imagine it played considerably more sophisticated at the time w/ an audience of ppl weaned on perry mason reruns.

I had no idea Willis is in The Verdict, which means i last saw it in '82

love it when a dude who devotes a considerable amount of his last days on earth going to baseball nerd conventions and reading and submitting spec contributions to movie blogs tries to pull a holier than thou move about priorities.

It gets the look of northern bars in the middle of the morning and the kind of Frank Galvins who hang out there, and Mason does his snakeoil salesman routine with the expected skill, but, boy, wtf is Charlotte Rampling doing here

i love you xp

come to the next 'baseball nerd convention' (4 days a year) and i'll kick yr ass

yeah willis is an extra in it, he sits behind newman in the courtroom scenes w/ this smirk on his face (shocker).

SPEC CONTRIBUTIONS!? No fucking pay or hope of any ever for that shit and it's coming to an end in 3 weeks, then I will indeed concentrate on my incurable illness.

I've seen The Verdict probably 10 times and didn't know about Bruce Willis.

A friend and I used to imitate Newman's speech when Milo O'Shea calls everyone into chambers: "You were a bag man for the boys downtown, and you still are--I know about you."

yeah you can see him here in the second row, sitting next to tobin bell

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love that bit in The Verdict where Newman and Mason *finally* get a scene alone together and Mason goes to say something, changes his mind, says nothing, sighs and walks out the door. amazing!

I don't remember if Lumet mentioned the scene in his DVD commentary track. I hope the two actors improvised it.

yeah i wouldn't mind betting they did!

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I'm goin' to the Board of Bar Overseers about you people.

Good day, Dr. clemenza.

I said good day sir!

The top 3 rankings, and the distance between each of them, rather nicely reflect my level of enthusiasm towards these performances (I haven't seen Gandhi or Missing).

Alfred: George Gaynes had a pretty big part in Washington Behind Closed Doors, which I just finished the other day. He played Brewster Perry, one of Richard Monckton's (Nixon's) money guys. I kept waiting for him to look helplessly at someone and say, "Does Monckton know?"

O'Toole is entirely in Hoffman's league, I probably voted for him.

O'Toole is in Hoffman's league, but My Favorite Year is nowhere near Tootsie's league.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOUWQBDbtso

You're such a tickly-wiggly!

Next time I'm at a supper club, I'm getting a Dubonnet with a twist.

"I missed you!"

I ordered a Dubonnet w/a twist b/c of Tootsie ten years ago. Gross.

However, on a trip to NYC in 2006 I hit the Russian Tea Room. It's smaller than I thought! I did order a double vodka, I think.

The Russian Tea Room closed at the location you see in Tootsie, then reopened some years later at the new place.

no, my error. It was closed for four years, but it's the same location.