One of the best performances ever. Kim Stanles (The Goddess), Vivien Leigh ("Gone with the Wind" and "A Streetcar Named Desire"), Elizabeth Taylor (" Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf) and Marilyn Monroe ("Bud Stop", "The Misfits" and "Niagra") level.
The haters just can't stand that she broke Meryl's record with her win.
The only a actress that comes close in '94 is Crissy Rock in "Ladybird, Ladybird".
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 257 | January 2, 2020 5:14 PM |
You also said Bud Stop instead of Bus Stop.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | December 23, 2016 12:22 AM |
R2 That's aropos, though.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | December 23, 2016 12:38 AM |
Broke what record, dear? Are you drunk?
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | December 23, 2016 12:55 AM |
Oh, honey. You were the first Best Supporting Actress winner to win Best Actress at the Oscars.
I think you're the one that's drunk, "dear".
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | December 23, 2016 12:59 AM |
Linda Fiorentino in 'The Last Seduction' was better.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | December 23, 2016 5:55 AM |
R9 No she wasn't. Besides, Lange did a variation on that role - in her mid-60's to boot - in AHS: Coven.
And she was better.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | December 23, 2016 11:53 AM |
R8 Such an amazing breakdown scene.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | December 23, 2016 3:43 PM |
The only reason Lange won was they had no one else to give it to. Perhaps that's what you meant by her breaking records. She won two undeserved Academy Awards, a record not matched until Hilary Swank.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | December 23, 2016 7:04 PM |
I love her and love that movie. It was well cast with very good performances, Jessica's especially.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | December 23, 2016 7:10 PM |
R13 Please, honey. She's revered by EVERYONE, including Streep. The fact that you dislike her Oscar wins is truly irrelevant.
As for '94, they had plenty of choices but they obviously wanted to give it to Lange.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 15 | December 23, 2016 7:12 PM |
R13 - Nettie Bening, drunk at 11 am.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | December 23, 2016 7:15 PM |
Blue Sky was a great movie and Jessica Lange was outstanding as the lead. She is the best actress today and deserves all the accolades given to her.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | December 23, 2016 7:38 PM |
R17 Meryl agrees with you.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 18 | December 23, 2016 7:42 PM |
R18 You have no idea, sweetie.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 19 | December 23, 2016 7:44 PM |
R15- Jabba, trying desperately to glom onto someone else now that her idol has failed yet again.
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | December 23, 2016 8:31 PM |
There was some controversy at the time because the movie had actually been filmed several year before, then shelved.
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | December 23, 2016 8:32 PM |
There was some controversy because it was a shit performance.
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | December 23, 2016 8:33 PM |
R21 It was filmed in 91-92.
Only Mama Lange can win against such odds.
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | December 23, 2016 8:34 PM |
R22 Oh M, you're so envious.
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | December 23, 2016 8:36 PM |
R20, please take your obsession and fall directly into the nearest grease fire. We are profoundly uninterested in your shit here.
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | December 23, 2016 8:59 PM |
Irony is that if Linda Fiorentino had been nominated for The Last Seduction, Linda would have won the Oscar. But she was disqualified because the movie ran on cable before it had its theatrical release.
| by Anonymous | reply 27 | December 23, 2016 9:41 PM |
R27 lol. What an adorable delusion.
If Linda had qualified, she would've *maybe* reached 5th place.
This was Lange's as soon as it was announced that Orion in all of its bankruptcy laden glory would be releasing "Blue Sky" and pushing Lange for the win.
Besides, Fiorentino is great but not amazing like Lange. Lange had to cover every emotional facet from flirting to raging as Carly Marshall. Fiorentino just had to wear black and be seductively snarky, lol.
If anyone has to win over Lange, I would've chosen Crissy Rock or Sigourney Weaver in "Death and the Maiden". Still, neither held a candle to Lange.
The LA Critics, renowned for being selective and for their foreign picks, awarded Lange. She came in 2nd for NY and a most others. But the Globes cemented her win. That reception once she's announced.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 28 | December 23, 2016 10:07 PM |
EXCUSE ME but Linda won New York Film Critics Circle Awards that year and was nominated for the BAFTA best Actress that year as well.
She was the talk of Hollywood about getting nominated, but then got disqualified.
From Wiki
Fiorentino's performance generated talk of an Oscar nomination, but she was ineligible because the film was shown on HBO before it was released to theatres. October Films and ITC Entertainment sued the Academy, but were unable to make Fiorentino eligible for a nomination.[2]
| by Anonymous | reply 29 | December 23, 2016 10:19 PM |
EXCUSE ME but Linda sucks like a whore in a hurry
| by Anonymous | reply 30 | December 23, 2016 10:26 PM |
The best Best Actress win ever.
| by Anonymous | reply 32 | December 23, 2016 11:25 PM |
I knew Lange would win the Oscar too. Foster won the first SAG award. I personally think Foster was phenomenal in Nell but it was too soon to give her a third and Nell received VERY mixed reviews. Rock should've been nominated no doubt. Sarandon and Ryder were filler nominations but Miranda Richardsons was totally deserved. Plus Langes body of work in the 80s I think helped cement her win.
| by Anonymous | reply 33 | December 23, 2016 11:38 PM |
I've heard that Linda was an absolute terror to work, that she was hated by casts and crews and that her career tanked as a result. She literally disappeared without a trace.
Even if she'd been nominated she wouldn't have won. She would have had no support from voters.
| by Anonymous | reply 34 | December 23, 2016 11:40 PM |
Chicka, chicka, chickabee.
T'ee an me an t'ee an me.
Ressa, ressa, ressa me,
Chicka, chicka, chickabee.
| by Anonymous | reply 35 | December 23, 2016 11:41 PM |
God, those two were exquisitely beautiful R19.
| by Anonymous | reply 36 | December 23, 2016 11:44 PM |
I never really understood the overwhelming praise for Linda Fiorentino's performance in The Last Seduction. I enjoyed the movie and her performance, but she was a snarky ennuyée and unmitigated bitch throughout, which, it turns out was no real stretch for her. It was fascinating watching her make mincemeat of the dumb men that surrounded her, but there was no real character evolution. Just a sociopath doing dirty deeds to get from point A to point B. Lange, at least, was brimming with female rage underneath the beauty queen exterior, went off the rails, and came back again, which required real acting chops. The movie, however, was mediocre fare.
| by Anonymous | reply 37 | December 24, 2016 5:43 AM |
[quote]EXCUSE ME but Linda sucks like a whore in a hurry
No offense to Linda Fiorentino; take her out of it. But that is a funny expression. Never heard it before.
| by Anonymous | reply 38 | December 24, 2016 8:55 AM |
Thank God they took her out of that shitstorm American Horror Story. Rather she should thank herself for leaving. Now she can be taken seriously again.
| by Anonymous | reply 39 | December 24, 2016 8:58 AM |
R36 Weren't they? They were beyond. Still are.
| by Anonymous | reply 40 | December 24, 2016 9:36 AM |
R39 She just won a Tony and nearly every major theatre award this summer.
| by Anonymous | reply 41 | December 24, 2016 9:38 AM |
I'm watching this for Christmas. Every holiday needs a good breakdown.
| by Anonymous | reply 42 | December 24, 2016 2:58 PM |
I'm a huge Jessica Lange fan, but Blue Sky was a disappointment for me. I think her performance in Music Box was much better.
| by Anonymous | reply 43 | December 24, 2016 10:22 PM |
She's amazing Music Box. Two of her best performances.
| by Anonymous | reply 44 | December 25, 2016 12:22 AM |
In literally any other year she would have won for Frances.
| by Anonymous | reply 45 | December 25, 2016 12:53 AM |
R45 The only reason Meryl won is because they knew they could give it to Lange for a critically acclaimed, box office smash whilst still awarding Streep.
Had Footsie not been released that year, Lange would've easily won.
| by Anonymous | reply 46 | December 25, 2016 1:47 AM |
Stop using "apropos" when you mean "appropriate". It makes my head hurt.
| by Anonymous | reply 48 | December 25, 2016 2:58 AM |
Would she still have won had Orion not gone bankrupt and it had been released in 1991 when Jodie Foster won for [italic]Silence of the Lambs[/italic], which was released right before the bankruptcy filing? I was thinking about that the other day.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 50 | December 25, 2016 3:36 PM |
Foster wasn't losing that year. And Orion released both movies, so they probably would have only really campaigned for Foster. Lange probably would have edged out either Midler or Dern for a nomination, but she wouldn't have won that year (or, to be honest, any other year).
| by Anonymous | reply 51 | December 25, 2016 4:13 PM |
The only reason Orion released Blue Sky in the midst of bankruptcy proceedings was because they knew they had an Academy Award-winning performance from Jessica Lange. It was also the last film from British helmer Tony Richardson who had died of AIDS in post-production. Carly Marshall was a Tennessee Williams heroine trapped in a subpar script by William Inge.
| by Anonymous | reply 52 | December 25, 2016 7:17 PM |
Linda Fuorentino would've been a contender on Oscar night.
| by Anonymous | reply 53 | December 25, 2016 7:18 PM |
It's funny how Orion went bankrupt and MGM was almost destroyed by Giancarlo Paretti around the same time, and now MGM owns Orion!
| by Anonymous | reply 54 | December 25, 2016 7:21 PM |
R51 Lange DID win in 1995 and Blue Sky never had a theatrical release in 1991.
| by Anonymous | reply 56 | December 26, 2016 5:52 PM |
Thank you for stating the obvious, R56, but since I was speculating on what might have happened and answering a hypothetical question from the previous post, I'm not sure what your point is.
Do you just not understand what the phrase "probably would have" means?
| by Anonymous | reply 57 | December 26, 2016 6:06 PM |
R57 you're the one who said Lange wouldn't of won in 1991 or any other year. YOUR WORDS. Agreed she couldn't of toppled Foster in 1991. The only reason I believe Blue Sky had a theatrical release in 1994 was the great performance by Lange was the only good thing the film had going for it. This, coupled with Langes body of work for over a decade, helped her cinch the Oscar. If it wasn't believed that Lange had a decent chance at winning it would've been released straight to video.
| by Anonymous | reply 58 | December 26, 2016 6:17 PM |
In any other year but the one in which she did win, R58. I think most people here would not have needed me to add that to understand what I wrote.
I think most people here would also know that it's 'would not have,' not 'wouldn't of.'
| by Anonymous | reply 59 | December 26, 2016 6:32 PM |
[quote]Had Tootsie not been released that year, Lange would've easily won.
You're out of your mind. I realize that it's "the thing" to be a Meryl hater on DL, but the Oscar was Meryl's that year regardless of the competition. She would have beaten anyone in any year.
| by Anonymous | reply 60 | December 26, 2016 6:35 PM |
"Love Field" was another Orion film that sat on the shelf for a couple years before being released, and it got an Oscar nomination for Michelle Pfeiffer. As much as I love Emma Thompson, the winner for "Howard's End", I thought LF offered one of Pfeiffer's very best performances and I remember hoping she would win. (I also think that Thompson gave a much better performance the following year in another Merchant Ivory film, "The Remains of the Day.")
| by Anonymous | reply 61 | December 26, 2016 6:42 PM |
R59 and most people except for a Lange hater like yourself apparently wouldn't agree you could stick Lange in ANY best actress line up from any year and she would lose. Plus get your facts straight about Orion and the release of the film while trying to speculate about what would've happened. I'm using spell speak unsure what your excuse is.
| by Anonymous | reply 62 | December 26, 2016 7:09 PM |
Lange is fine in this but it's a fairly routine - and forgettable - B movie.
| by Anonymous | reply 63 | December 26, 2016 7:25 PM |
R60 She would've lost to Lange. Easily.
| by Anonymous | reply 65 | December 27, 2016 1:00 PM |
Keep telling yourself that, R65.
| by Anonymous | reply 66 | December 27, 2016 6:49 PM |
R66 I bet Meryl would agree, considering how much she reveres Lange. (see upthread)
| by Anonymous | reply 67 | December 27, 2016 7:02 PM |
And she still looked human and not Jocelyn Wildenstein-lite, which is always a plus
| by Anonymous | reply 70 | January 5, 2017 6:40 PM |
R70 Honey, she looks better than your fave all day, any day.
| by Anonymous | reply 71 | January 5, 2017 6:42 PM |
Who is my fave, R71?? It's my first post in this thread, simma down now.
| by Anonymous | reply 72 | January 5, 2017 6:48 PM |
Christ, Jabba is as insufferable in this thread as it is worshipping Flopnet.
| by Anonymous | reply 74 | January 6, 2017 7:49 PM |
One of the best winners ever.
A remarkable performance.
| by Anonymous | reply 80 | January 7, 2017 10:21 PM |
What mental illness did Lange's character in Blue Sky suffer from?
| by Anonymous | reply 81 | January 7, 2017 10:37 PM |
R81 Narcissism, nymphomania, PTSD all bowtied with Bi-Polar Disorder.
| by Anonymous | reply 82 | January 7, 2017 10:46 PM |
Such a vital and necessary performance
| by Anonymous | reply 84 | February 4, 2018 6:34 AM |
amazing but please......AGAIN???
| by Anonymous | reply 85 | February 4, 2018 7:14 AM |
Loved her in this...sexy, promiscuous, mentally unstable, knowledgeable about films...the ultimate fag hag.
| by Anonymous | reply 88 | February 4, 2018 4:11 PM |
She’s adequate and the movie is a bore
| by Anonymous | reply 90 | February 5, 2018 4:29 PM |
R90 You're describing you, dear.
| by Anonymous | reply 91 | February 5, 2018 4:31 PM |
No, I am describing the film. Boring and forgettable
| by Anonymous | reply 92 | February 5, 2018 4:36 PM |
It's my fave movie of hers. She looked beautiful in it too. Though I couldn't handle her Elizabeth Taylor wig at the end.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 93 | February 5, 2018 4:38 PM |
Terrible movie. Her performance was like a bad dress rehearsal for when she'd be playing Blanche DuBois.
| by Anonymous | reply 95 | February 5, 2018 5:25 PM |
I (kind of) like the movie and I love Jessica Lange (Tootsie is on right now) but '94 was not the strongest year. I'm glad Lange won, but Jodie Foster in Nell is just as deserving.
I can't stand The Goddess. Stanley does not fit the mold of 50's movie star and all she does is cry and break down for half the movie. Paddy Chayefsky's worst movie, that I've seen anyway. Stanley was a tragic soul. The method really messed a lot of already damaged people up. She had to live the performance and it drove her crazy. She often missed performances and was a mess. When the work dried up after her initial (positive) debut she would drink herself into a stupor and act to walls in her rundown NYC apartment. Not being dramatic.
Have you seen the version of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" with Lange, Tommy Lee Jones, Rip Torn and Kim Stanley? It's very good. I think it's still available on youtube. It ran on showtime in the 80's.
Maybe I'm missing something, Lange often says she puts on "The Goddess" while preparing for a role. Calls it perfect screen acting. I still don't get it.
| by Anonymous | reply 96 | February 5, 2018 5:49 PM |
With the exception of Tootsie and All That Jazz, Jessica’s entire film canon is junk. She never caught on with audiences, for understandable reasons
| by Anonymous | reply 97 | February 5, 2018 6:19 PM |
R97 Lange has done fine. Once she hit her stride in the early 80's she did very well for about 12 years. She even says that until Grey Gardens for HBO and her big tv revivial her work wasn't very good.
| by Anonymous | reply 98 | February 5, 2018 7:05 PM |
I think that if Fiorentino had been nominated she definitely would've made it a more competitive category but Lange still would've won. The whole point of releasing Blue Sky was because it was well known that Orion had an Oscar-winning performance from Jessica Lange sitting on the shelf for two years because of their bankruptcy problems. There was never any question that if they could get Blue Sky released, Lange would win the Oscar.
Imagine how she must've felt, knowing she had this career best work that might never be seen.
| by Anonymous | reply 99 | February 5, 2018 10:48 PM |
There never was any guarantee Lange would have won for Blue Sky. The year she won was one of the weakest best actress fields in modern history. Had her movie been released in 1995, she probably would have lost. I never liked her in movies. Camp TV horror suits her the best
| by Anonymous | reply 100 | February 5, 2018 11:12 PM |
The haters are so sad. It not only bothers them that Lange is better than their tepid faves, it infuriates them. Tough titty, we say.
| by Anonymous | reply 101 | February 6, 2018 4:44 AM |
Jesus, the Lange loon is even more unhinged than usual. Blue Sky is a Lifetime movie at best. And theres a reason Lange works in TV, dear. Figure it out.
| by Anonymous | reply 102 | February 6, 2018 5:46 AM |
R102 Figure yourself out, Matthew.
| by Anonymous | reply 103 | February 6, 2018 6:10 AM |
I agree, r88. I always describe her as a gay man trapped in a woman's body.
| by Anonymous | reply 104 | February 6, 2018 6:15 AM |
I saw “The Goddess” for the first time last year, and I thought it was dreadful, including Kim Stanley. Take her out of your list, OP!
| by Anonymous | reply 105 | February 6, 2018 6:18 AM |
[quote]And theres a reason Lange works in TV, dear.
There certainly is! It’s where the best stuff is being done now. Just ask Streep and Streisand, who have eagerly signed up to be TV stars!
| by Anonymous | reply 106 | February 6, 2018 6:20 AM |
The Goddess isn't even Kim Stanley's best film. Séance on a Wet Afternoon was better.
| by Anonymous | reply 107 | February 6, 2018 6:22 AM |
[quote]think that if Fiorentino had been nominated she definitely would've made it a more competitive category
Fiorentino was AWFUL in that wretched movie. I saw it opening night and the entire audience walked out at the end cursing the SF Chronicle critic who had given it a rave.
| by Anonymous | reply 108 | February 6, 2018 6:22 AM |
Jessica is sometimes great but often campy. She usually does the same character (horny crazy broad) over and over again. Audiences did not dig her in movies, and she was phased out in the 90’s after a string of flops. RyanMurphy did her a giant solid by putting her in AHS and that play that he produced for her. I continually hear that CAA has had trouble finding her projects. She is going to do the final season of AHS but with a million other actors.
| by Anonymous | reply 109 | February 6, 2018 6:25 AM |
Get real. Streep taking a guest role in a multi-award winning show like Big Little Lies is miles above Lange playing yet another Gorgon in a Ryan Murphy production.
| by Anonymous | reply 110 | February 6, 2018 6:26 AM |
Lange played Fiorentino's beautifully in Coven and won an Emmy for it, too.
None of the actresses that year, on or off the line up hold a candle to Lange. Her work so raw and grand. No actress, especially in their mid forties, could do what Lange does in Blue Sky.
| by Anonymous | reply 111 | February 6, 2018 6:30 AM |
R109. You seem more up Lange's ass than the Lange troll.
You're sad, bitter, pathetic and utterly transparent.
| by Anonymous | reply 112 | February 6, 2018 6:32 AM |
We know who you are, r112, now shut up.
| by Anonymous | reply 114 | February 7, 2018 5:48 AM |
R114 suck my big fat pussy, Colonel
| by Anonymous | reply 115 | February 7, 2018 3:48 PM |
Feud was the nadir of Lange's career. She didn't even bother to show up to any awards this season, she's ashamed of her work in that piece of trash. At last Sarandon had the gall to show face. Lange's Crawford was a disaster, a hambone of epic proportions. She's just a lousy and repetitive actress and always will be.
| by Anonymous | reply 116 | February 7, 2018 6:16 PM |
R116 No, you're the lousy,repetitive cunt. Lange was nominated for every single award. unlike Sarandon and Kidman. She didn't show up because that's how she rolls, bitch. A legend being a legend.
Even Meryl bows down to her.
Now, kneel, bitch.
| by Anonymous | reply 117 | February 8, 2018 2:42 AM |
[quote] Lange was nominated for every single award. unlike Sarandon and Kidman. She didn't show up because that's how she rolls, bitch. A legend being a legend.
Actually, Sarandon and Kidman WERE nominated for every single award, you dumb fuck. Kidman WON them all. And Jessica shows up drunk to the opening of an envelope. She knew she was awful and would lose everything, so she stayed home. She was probably still working on her Joan Crawford, hoping to finally get it right.
| by Anonymous | reply 118 | February 8, 2018 2:46 AM |
Bullshit R56. I saw Blue Sky at the old Galaxy theatre on Hollywood Blvd. it got a theatrical release. And this began her long string of breathy horny old woman screaming and stomping on ALL the scenery performances she does in everything to this day on her television resume. The late great Gene Siskel really pushed for Winona Ryder who was as refreshing, spirited and thoughtful of a Joe as had ever been filmed without sinking into dykey and boyish emulation that Hepburn and June Allison both espoused. I liked Linda Florentino also and think she woulda had a shot had she qualified. Ryder was not a fill in spot. She probably placed either 2nd or third in the final tally. One of her finest work. Music Box was Lange's last truly great screen performance.
| by Anonymous | reply 119 | February 8, 2018 2:57 AM |
Apologies R56. Misread and missed the 1991 part of you statement. You're right about that. But not the performance.
| by Anonymous | reply 120 | February 8, 2018 2:59 AM |
R118, Susan Sarandon was not nominated for a SAG, Jessica was.
| by Anonymous | reply 121 | February 8, 2018 3:20 AM |
Yeah R121 bu Lange didn't show her ruined face there either. She knew she was just filling and that the Kidman Juggernaut would run over her again. She stayed home, drunk and unhappy, as usual.
| by Anonymous | reply 122 | February 8, 2018 3:28 AM |
This turd is truly something else.
Honey no amount of your delusion vitriol will change the fact that Lange is A's legend beloved by legends before her, her peers and fans alike. She's also won every acting award in existence,usually twice over.
Twitch and babble all you want, pretending with your little pea brain that you actually know what Lange thinks and that anybody cares what you think about her. It still won't change a thing. And that infuriates you.
| by Anonymous | reply 123 | February 8, 2018 4:16 PM |
Jessica Lange is a big fat flop, and so is Janet Jackson.
| by Anonymous | reply 124 | February 9, 2018 4:32 AM |
Jessica Lange has nothing left to prove. She has achieved the prestigious Triple Crown of Acting (Oscar, Emmy, Tony).
Lange has won 6 total of those awards (2 Oscars, 3 Emmys, 1 Tony). Only Maggie Smith has won more (7).
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 125 | February 9, 2018 6:02 AM |
Is she a horse? If she is so great how come she can’t get a job. Even Frances the talking mule will surpass her in March. It’s hard for you to face no one is into her except her sick pimp Ryan Murphy
| by Anonymous | reply 127 | February 9, 2018 6:49 AM |
Funny thread. A bunch of queens squabbling over a bunch of queens.
| by Anonymous | reply 130 | February 9, 2018 8:22 AM |
Still no job prospects? What is wrong with her?
| by Anonymous | reply 131 | February 9, 2018 4:14 PM |
Jessica LAnge, former actress.
| by Anonymous | reply 132 | February 9, 2018 4:38 PM |
I think I've heard of her. She does that modern day version of the Love Boat on FX, right? Where has beens go to die?
| by Anonymous | reply 133 | February 9, 2018 4:40 PM |
Her two Oscars are undeserved. And her Tony was bought. Ryan Murphy paid top dollar for it.
| by Anonymous | reply 134 | February 9, 2018 5:11 PM |
I don't think it was bought. The Tonys LOVE when movie people go "slumming" to Broadway and usually bend over backwards to nominate them so they come to the ceremony, and they usually give them the award so it culminates in even more press the day after. This is the ONLY explanation for wins like this, and especially Scarlett Johanssen getting one about 7 years ago.
| by Anonymous | reply 135 | February 9, 2018 5:14 PM |
Lange is wonderful. A legend beloved by the industry and fans alike.
Detractors of Lange are strange.
| by Anonymous | reply 136 | February 9, 2018 5:35 PM |
R136 If the indusrtry loves her so much, why don't they hire her anymore?
| by Anonymous | reply 137 | February 9, 2018 5:40 PM |
[quote] [R136] If the indusrtry loves her so much, why don't they hire her anymore?
Between the bad plastic surgery and being drunk on set all the time.... hmmm. It IS a mystery.
| by Anonymous | reply 138 | February 9, 2018 5:51 PM |
Because you know what she's turned down and or signed up for, right R137, aka The Turd?
Nevermind that she's lined up to do "The Lonely Doll" with Naomi Watts for Gia Coppola, or that she's been in a half dozen or more films, a web series and a play in the last 5 years. Because your retarded ass insists it, she simply must be out of work. She isn't allowed to take a break after working non stop for the last 5-10 years (since Grey Gardens in 2009) and winning a Tony, 3 Emmys, a Globe, a SAG and a dozen other critics awards in the process. No because you say so, she's unemployed. LMAO!
I'll repeat: you're sad, pathetic, tragic and retarded, Matthew.
| by Anonymous | reply 139 | February 9, 2018 5:53 PM |
One of the worst performances to win Best Actress ever. So unbearably hammy -- is as every performance she's ever given post-KING KONG.
| by Anonymous | reply 140 | February 9, 2018 5:55 PM |
Not nearly as bad as the performance you're giving here, Matty R140.
| by Anonymous | reply 141 | February 9, 2018 5:57 PM |
Oh, no, that's not me. I've only just seen this thread and posted on it, R141. I haven't even read it. I'm just, I presume, another Lange critic.
| by Anonymous | reply 142 | February 9, 2018 6:00 PM |
R143 Ordinarily, Sarandon would've won.. She was nominated for a box office hit after starring in a string of them and she was Oscarless.
The Academy made the right choice which was also an iconoclastic one, too.
| by Anonymous | reply 144 | February 9, 2018 6:25 PM |
After her embarrasing Crawford, it's not news to anyone that Lange's career is over.
| by Anonymous | reply 145 | February 9, 2018 6:48 PM |
R141 can't process that anyone but a loon would think Lange is massively overrated.
And no, Sarandon was never going to win for The Client. The only reason she was nominated was the weak category that year (though there were some excellent performances to pull from if the Academy hadn't been so fucking lazy- Fiorentino, as mentioned (it was a bullshit rule and if it had been a more Academy friendly actress or a major studio, she'd have gotten in), Jennifer Jason Leigh for Mrs. Parker, Kathleen Turner for Serial Mom and Judy Davis for The Ref were all miles above Lange and pretty much everyone else who was nominated, which were Jodie Foster's execrable performance in Nell, Sarandon doing nothing in The Client, Miranda Richardson filling another space for Tom & Viv and Winona Ryder... well, call it the Pretty Woman nomination. All five were undeserving.
| by Anonymous | reply 146 | February 9, 2018 6:49 PM |
Lange is so over the top in Blue Sky. It's an unconvincing performance. They gave it to her because they knew her career was pretty much over.
| by Anonymous | reply 147 | February 9, 2018 6:53 PM |
All kidding aside, it's one of the worst performances to ever win an Oscar. Not quite Jennifer Hudson awful (no one could ever touch that) but it's up there with Chuck Heston for Ben Hur.
| by Anonymous | reply 148 | February 9, 2018 7:00 PM |
Such a perfect Oscar winner
| by Anonymous | reply 149 | February 9, 2018 7:02 PM |
Poor Jessica gets kicked around like a beanbag. I do find it interesting that she has not been a movie star for 25 years. This performance is so much like an AHS character so she found her zenith on TV. I feel bad her Joan was a mess because no one will ever watch that series
| by Anonymous | reply 150 | February 10, 2018 3:02 AM |
You’re nuts, r150. Her Joan was outstanding and people did indeed watch that series. What world do you live in? Jess helped redeem Joan from the horrors of Mommie Dearest and Faye’s trashy performance..
| by Anonymous | reply 151 | February 10, 2018 3:06 AM |
I mean no one besides you would ever seek it out and sit through the whole camp mess - eight hours right? Ugh
| by Anonymous | reply 152 | February 10, 2018 3:08 AM |
Stop trying to make Linda Fiorentino happen. The Last Seduction was a wretched film. There’s a reason her career never amounted to much and has been effectively over for almost ten years.
| by Anonymous | reply 153 | February 10, 2018 3:10 AM |
Aw, it’s cute and kind of nutty that you’re trying to rewrite history (a loon’s job, certainly?), but “Feud” did well and Lange was widely praised for her performance. I was hardly the only one watching.
| by Anonymous | reply 154 | February 10, 2018 3:12 AM |
[quote] Jess helped redeem Joan from the horrors of Mommie Dearest and Faye’s trashy performance..
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Yeah, no it didn't.
| by Anonymous | reply 155 | February 10, 2018 3:13 AM |
[quote] Stop trying to make Linda Fiorentino happen. The Last Seduction was a wretched film. There’s a reason her career never amounted to much and has been effectively over for almost ten years.
Yes there is. She was notoriously difficult to deal with. But that has nothing to do with the fact that she outacted Lange by miles.
| by Anonymous | reply 156 | February 10, 2018 3:15 AM |
Dunaway was so awful in MD that almost nothing could bring Joan back from kitsch heaven. But Lange came close, and all critics (but no loons) agreed.
| by Anonymous | reply 157 | February 10, 2018 3:19 AM |
Jessica was nothing like Joan. That was a made up character as imagined by Jess and Ryan Murphy so they could play their version of dolls
| by Anonymous | reply 158 | February 10, 2018 3:24 AM |
You’re a bore, and we know who you are.
| by Anonymous | reply 159 | February 10, 2018 3:37 AM |
The only things I’ve seen that have been worse than Mommy Dearest were the movie of My Fair Lady, an awful Disney musical called “Bedknobs and Broomsticks,” and this hideous new Brit film called “God’s Own Country.”
| by Anonymous | reply 160 | February 10, 2018 3:46 AM |
I agree that Bedknobs and Broomsticks and God's Own Country were awful, but nothing compares to the truyy disastrous Crawford that Jessica Lange played in Feud.
| by Anonymous | reply 161 | February 10, 2018 3:54 AM |
r142: Bitch, please.
99% of the negative comments in this thread are from that ugly bitch Matt. We can see right through your fat ass.
| by Anonymous | reply 162 | February 10, 2018 5:28 AM |
Hello again, Matt at r150. You tried it, fat ass. You tried it.
| by Anonymous | reply 163 | February 10, 2018 5:32 AM |
I love when Matt tries to impersonate someone else. He’s never any good at it. We always know.
| by Anonymous | reply 164 | February 10, 2018 5:40 AM |
You idiots Matt liked Lange and Janet. Obsessively. It’s just sad Jessica is out of work and washed up, ready for the wheel chair
| by Anonymous | reply 165 | February 10, 2018 7:27 AM |
r165: Nice try, lard ass.
| by Anonymous | reply 166 | February 10, 2018 7:35 AM |
Matt loathed Lange and worshipped Dunaway as Crawford. Sorry, r165, you lose.
| by Anonymous | reply 167 | February 10, 2018 7:37 AM |
Jesus, Matt. Who let you out of the attic?
| by Anonymous | reply 168 | February 10, 2018 6:36 PM |
Did Matt change identities? He nonstop posted gifs of Jessica Lange in an effort to make her seem current
| by Anonymous | reply 170 | February 11, 2018 12:38 AM |
Matt (R170), please. Stop. It just looks bad.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 171 | February 11, 2018 5:01 AM |
R172 Either you're Matt or new to the DL. I'll let the myriad other members who know about Matt's fiery hate for Lange school you.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 173 | February 11, 2018 5:22 AM |
Matt is a failure at life. That's why he hates the accomplished Ms. Lange so much.
| by Anonymous | reply 174 | February 11, 2018 5:26 AM |
Oh, Matt is also a failure at spirituality and religion, too. He believes EVERYONE is the Goyim, R174.
| by Anonymous | reply 175 | February 11, 2018 5:28 AM |
I think people are mixing up Matt - Lange freak, creates endless threads and gifs about her - with the Faye troll who despises Jessica’s poor acting on Feud. You can tell Matt because he constantly has to defend and promote Jessica even though she is not working
| by Anonymous | reply 176 | February 11, 2018 5:34 AM |
For example, Matt is the OP of this thread and is trying to make “blue sky” happen
| by Anonymous | reply 177 | February 11, 2018 5:36 AM |
And Matty McNut is at it again at R176/R177, lmao.
Jesus. Because, you know, Jessica Lange has only one fan.
You're fucking nuts Matt. All that time you spent bashing Lange in the Feud threads and it still wasn't enough for you. How many people have to call you out on your psychotic obsessions for you to stop. Between your hate for Lange, Mary Poppins and anything human, really and your love of Janet Jackson, Faye Dunaway and everything vile, you're a pretty easy shit stain to spot.
Stop the insanity!
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 178 | February 11, 2018 5:41 AM |
Your gifs and bad prose give you away. So long weirdo
| by Anonymous | reply 179 | February 11, 2018 5:44 AM |
Blue Sky was awful. And she was awful in it. Stop fucking lying because you like her. I love Jessica Lange but the movie and her cheap TV performance was just as bad. There's a reason it sat on a shelf for 3 years. It's wasn't brilliant marketing ploys by Orion. The movie is embarrassing. Chris O'Donnelll and Amy Locane subplot was far more interesting. Jodie, Winona and JJL in Mrs Parker were far better once you disqualified Linda Fiorentino. Who would have won and had every major critic behind her. A grade A femme fatale performance. As good as Ms Stanwyck.
| by Anonymous | reply 180 | February 11, 2018 5:58 AM |
Nice try, fat fuck Matt at r176 and r177.
| by Anonymous | reply 181 | February 11, 2018 6:02 AM |
"I can feel that radiation comingggggg offff you!" She was horrible
| by Anonymous | reply 182 | February 11, 2018 6:06 AM |
Lmfao! @ R180, aka Matty McNutty growing more and more unhinged.
Laneg won the Academy Award for Best Actress, along with the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress, the Utah Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress, and the Sant Jordi Award for Best Actress. She also came in second place for the National Board of Review Award for Best Actress, the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress, and the Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress.
| by Anonymous | reply 183 | February 11, 2018 6:07 AM |
Also the movie had no real purpose. It said nothing. Even if it was just meant to be a glimpse into a military family. There was no real thought into what it wanted to present. Fuck off
| by Anonymous | reply 184 | February 11, 2018 6:08 AM |
OH you got me R183 with all those second place finishes. It was a revelation of a performance. Watch it again as an adult and feel free to laugh.
| by Anonymous | reply 185 | February 11, 2018 6:10 AM |
"Blue Sky" was actually based on screenwriter Rama Laurie Stagner's parents and childhood. Also, the fact that you don't get what "Blue Sky"'s message was is indicative of your emotional as much as it is your intellectual retardation.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 186 | February 11, 2018 6:12 AM |
R185 She won the three prizes I most care about, hun: Oscah!, The Globe and LA.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 187 | February 11, 2018 6:14 AM |
Smell you. Yes I get what the "goal" of the message was. But it was not accomplished. The movie became trite and obvious as it unfolded. I only ever felt urgency at the plight of the young lovers story more than the A plot. The Powers Booth subplot was typical and handled just as generic as the film. You obviously don't have very high standards in storytelling.
| by Anonymous | reply 189 | February 11, 2018 6:19 AM |
You obviously don't have very high standards at all, Matt R189.
| by Anonymous | reply 190 | February 11, 2018 6:20 AM |
Just a hunch but guessing R190 thinks Gravity, Titanic and Avatar had a great script.
| by Anonymous | reply 192 | February 11, 2018 6:25 AM |
OP is ugly, likes to post naked pictures of itself, talks to itself, is a self-confessed HIV positive pianist, lives in a damp place, looks like a thug, posts annoying gifs and is sad, pathetic and lonely.
Jessica Lange would recoil in horror if she met it.
| by Anonymous | reply 193 | February 11, 2018 5:32 PM |
Matt is a human turd. Literally. If you’ve seen his pics, you see something that could pass for excrement, it has no value whatsoever.
No one believes his stupid other identities. No one believes him about anything.
What a failure as a human being.
| by Anonymous | reply 194 | February 11, 2018 11:16 PM |
You sound horny for "it", R193.
R194 lmao. So true.
| by Anonymous | reply 195 | February 12, 2018 4:18 AM |
Lange won because 3 Oscars before the age of 30 can't be done. Although she should have won for Taxi Driver too
| by Anonymous | reply 196 | February 15, 2018 4:30 AM |
Foster should have won for Taxi Driver more so than her other Oscar winning roles. She was not only a revelation in the part but a true actor in that movie. Whether she knew it at all. Scorsese is a excellent or was an excellent casting master.
| by Anonymous | reply 197 | February 15, 2018 4:33 AM |
Matt is a huge pile of human excrement. The Lange fan is a talented, funny, kind person who I want to hug and kiss. Lange fan is a talented pianist, is very sexy, and can joke at his own expense. Lange fan, know that I love you, even though it's from a distance.
| by Anonymous | reply 198 | February 15, 2018 4:52 AM |
R198 is a huge effeminate. Mark my words.
| by Anonymous | reply 199 | February 15, 2018 4:55 AM |
R199, This is a gay board. Why is that a problem? Fuck off.
| by Anonymous | reply 200 | February 15, 2018 5:07 AM |
[quote]Matt is a huge pile of human excrement.
Stop flattering him. Matt the Loon isn't anywhere near as attractive as a pile of dung.
| by Anonymous | reply 201 | February 15, 2018 5:09 AM |
Langefan is a disease ridden, skeletal, ugly, frightning, pathetic human being.
| by Anonymous | reply 202 | February 15, 2018 5:10 AM |
[quote]disease ridden, skeletal, ugly, frightning, pathetic human being
Except for skeletal, that's Matt the (Fat) Loon, but you can add mentally ill and just plain asshole to Matt's list.
| by Anonymous | reply 203 | February 15, 2018 5:12 AM |
Langefan is a sweetheart. I've chatted with him several times here, and have a real crush on him. Yes, I've seen his photos, but his piano skills are what made me fall for him.It's a shame he's had to delete his videos. But he is part of the best of DL: passionate, talented, brave and sensitive. We're not compatible, but I'd love to spend time with his crazy ass (and I know he won't hate me for saying 'crazy azz'). Matt, I'm honestly not a mean person, so I wish you would figure out how to handle your condition. And please stop trying to hurting people who are different than you.
| by Anonymous | reply 204 | February 15, 2018 5:24 AM |
It is a great film. Loved it!
| by Anonymous | reply 205 | February 15, 2018 5:28 AM |
A great performance in a very good film. But it's got to be one of the most obscure Best Actress wins ever. Despite Lange starring and winning the Oscar, very few people have seen or even heard of it.
| by Anonymous | reply 206 | February 15, 2018 5:36 AM |
Probably because Jessica was never that interesting and it’s one of the worst best actress wins ever.
| by Anonymous | reply 207 | February 15, 2018 5:49 AM |
Is Jessica transitioning to a man in later life? Something in her musculature suggests as much. Look at her arms at the Tony Awards two years ago. I rest my case.
| by Anonymous | reply 208 | February 15, 2018 5:53 AM |
Her whole schtick is forced and unnatural - perfect for camp horror but terrible for cinema
| by Anonymous | reply 209 | February 15, 2018 5:53 AM |
There's only one C in shtick. If you are going to revile the woman, at least spell your aspersions properly.
| by Anonymous | reply 210 | February 15, 2018 6:07 AM |
I don’t revile her, but I do think she is not great and plays the same character over and over again. Crazy, slutty, bitchy, Camp, forced - it’s why she is hard to cast except Ryan Murphy who is similar
| by Anonymous | reply 211 | February 15, 2018 6:13 AM |
r207: You have a problem with Lange's Oscar win, so take it up with the Academy. I'm sure they'd love to hear from a lonely, broke, mentally ill, ignorant fat ass.
| by Anonymous | reply 212 | February 15, 2018 6:13 AM |
I do wonder why she always speaks with that faux southern accent when she is midwestern born and bred and not from the South at all === can anyone explain? Ta!
| by Anonymous | reply 213 | February 15, 2018 6:14 AM |
No one remembers this movie because it is bad - like all her films
| by Anonymous | reply 214 | February 15, 2018 6:16 AM |
You bitches going on about The Last Seduction, which I love btw - Fiorentino wasn’t even nominated for a Golden Globe!
| by Anonymous | reply 215 | February 15, 2018 8:13 AM |
How many times are you going to ask that question, r213?
| by Anonymous | reply 216 | February 15, 2018 10:34 AM |
Um, once, which is the number of times I have asked it. Aggressive are we, perchance? Might have been more helpful if you could have answered it but this is DL so NOOOOOOOOOOOOO ....
| by Anonymous | reply 217 | February 15, 2018 12:30 PM |
R217, you've asked it at least three times, because I've seen it before.
And it's a stupid question. Do you really expect someone to have an answer? No, you're just trolling.
We know who you are. You can't hide.
| by Anonymous | reply 220 | February 16, 2018 1:20 AM |
Fantastic turn by Lange. Certainly one of the more deserving wins in the Best Actress winners.
Only Cate Blanchett has achieved what Streep and Lange have: the only three Best Supporting Actress winners in history to follow up with Best Actress wins.
| by Anonymous | reply 221 | February 18, 2018 5:21 AM |
"Crazy, slutty, bitchy, Camp, forced " R211
My God, a perfect definition of La Lange
| by Anonymous | reply 222 | February 20, 2018 7:27 PM |
Lange is so good, she even has obsessive haters, lol.
| by Anonymous | reply 223 | February 20, 2018 11:42 PM |
It's on TCM Thursday at 4:00AM.
| by Anonymous | reply 224 | February 20, 2018 11:58 PM |
Stop agreeing with yourself, dumbass at r222.
| by Anonymous | reply 226 | February 21, 2018 5:19 AM |
I caught this on TMC. She really was perfect in this.
| by Anonymous | reply 227 | February 25, 2018 3:43 AM |
She tied with Jodie Foster for the #2 spot in Goldderby's poll last month, ranking the Best Actress winners of the 90's.
She and Swank should've tied for #1.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 228 | March 2, 2018 5:09 AM |
Two horses. LOL it’s on at 4 am
| by Anonymous | reply 229 | March 2, 2018 5:55 AM |
Yes, but do you LIKE to watch?
| by Anonymous | reply 232 | March 4, 2018 2:45 AM |
I love Jessica Lange but Blue Sky is not her best work. And it's strange that she's connected to the film academy by a mediocre effort. She's great for so many other movies. Blue Sky is garbage.
| by Anonymous | reply 233 | March 4, 2018 2:50 AM |
I think Jodie is still considered an A list Hollywood elite while think insiders feel sorry for what Lange became. I'd pick Jodie's career.
| by Anonymous | reply 234 | March 4, 2018 4:32 AM |
Lange is close to being remembered as a Ryan Murphy person
| by Anonymous | reply 235 | March 4, 2018 4:34 AM |
It's so sad how the Lange detractor tries to convince everyone that Lange is anything short of a legend and icon.
She's one a Tony along with all of the theater critic awards, 3 Emmys, a Globe, a SAG and 3 Dorian awards in 8 years but according to It, she's forgotten.
LMAO! That is truly the height of delusion.
| by Anonymous | reply 236 | March 4, 2018 4:37 AM |
What's amazing about Lange's work in BLUE SKY is the combination of grit and glamour she brings to the role. I don't think any other actress could've brought the force, conviction and beauty that she brought to this role. It's beyond thrilling, even over 20 years later, to think that the Academy awarded her for her work here.
Totally deserving, totally surprising and totally perfect.
| by Anonymous | reply 238 | March 4, 2018 4:39 AM |
23 it is Lange acting horny on TV right? Or are we watching something else here?
| by Anonymous | reply 239 | March 4, 2018 4:40 AM |
Give it up. She was terrible and the movie is thankless and meaningless. Not even the ghost of Pauline Keal can change that. She's lucky Jodie won for Silence. Period.
| by Anonymous | reply 240 | March 4, 2018 4:46 AM |
Give it up, R240? lol. It sounds like you're the one trying to manipulate people into agreeing w/ you, lol.
| by Anonymous | reply 241 | March 4, 2018 4:48 AM |
"I can feel that radiation just coming off you"! (Plays with her hair ). Riveting.
| by Anonymous | reply 242 | March 4, 2018 4:52 AM |
R242 She was so amazing in that scene, wasn't she?
God, she's perfection in this.
| by Anonymous | reply 243 | March 4, 2018 4:54 AM |
Still unemployed - can’t get a job for good reason. Drunk on set and no one wants to work with her.
| by Anonymous | reply 244 | March 4, 2018 6:26 AM |
R244 Well, dearie, be a good son and help her out.
| by Anonymous | reply 245 | March 4, 2018 6:39 AM |
TOM's write up is great.
The original story for Blue Sky was created by co-screenwriter Rama Laurie Stagner, who based Carly and Hank on the emotionally fraught relationship she observed between her own parents when she was growing up. She also took cues from an unpublished memoir by her father, who was indeed a safety officer for an underground atomic test in Nevada in 1962. "The explosion wasn't supposed to come out of the ground," he recalled for an Arizona newspaper when Blue Sky was released, "but it did. It blew out the side of a mesa, and I knew it was my duty to fly in there in a helicopter and check the extent of what happened." As in the movie, he spoke up about what went wrong and the terrible impact it had on people near the blast, but ran into indifference and resistance from higher officers.
Stagner used herself as the model for Alex Marshall, the older daughter in the film, and gave this character some of the snappiest dialogue. "He's blind and she's crazy. They're perfect for each other," Amy says, describing her parents' stubborn inability to get their wobbly relationship in order. Hank is also quite articulate at times, as when he tries to explain Carly's volatility by saying she's kind of like water, which changes from liquid to solid to gas without altering its basic properties. Carly and younger daughter Becky get off some zingers too.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 246 | March 7, 2018 10:23 PM |
We're gonna have a party tonight! Woohoo!
| by Anonymous | reply 249 | March 10, 2018 5:29 AM |
Jessica winning Best Actress at the 1995 Oscars. At the end of her speech she thanks her 3 kids, but she does not thank Sam Shepard.
Lange also thanks the movie's director Tony Richardson. He died of AIDS in November 1991, 3 years before "Blue Sky" was released. Richardson was married to actress Vanessa Redgrave from 1962 to 1967. The couple had two daughters, Natasha (1963–2009) and Joely Richardson (born 1965), both actresses.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 250 | March 11, 2018 5:39 AM |
I simply love that you know all of that, R250.
| by Anonymous | reply 251 | March 11, 2018 5:49 AM |
I haven't seen it since she won. I taped it and plan to watch it sometime next week. I hope her performance holds up.
| by Anonymous | reply 252 | March 11, 2018 6:21 AM |
it's gotten better with age, R252. The Blu Ray Olive Films released last year or the year before contains a gorgeous transfer. You should watch it.
| by Anonymous | reply 253 | March 11, 2018 6:50 AM |
R253 So are you saying I should delete the TCM screening on my DVR, and just go out and buy the Blu Ray and watch that? haha
| by Anonymous | reply 254 | March 11, 2018 8:16 AM |
R254 I didn't mean it like that at all, lol.
| by Anonymous | reply 255 | March 12, 2018 6:28 AM |
I'll never get over her in this movie.
| by Anonymous | reply 257 | January 2, 2020 5:14 PM |
