Catching my breath

[4ofspades]

 In watching this year's Academy Award show, I was very curious to see how they would treat the category of Best Supporting Actress.  Traditionally, it's the prior year's winner of the Best Supporting Actor Oscar that presents the award in the successive year.  How very sad not to have Heath Ledger up on that stage tonight

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[lauralot]

(I need a more fitting icon for such circumstances.)

The Oscar ceremony has been bittersweet for me all night, though it took me the longest time to realize it was Heath Ledger that I was missing. I'd never even noticed the tradition with the previous Best Supporting Actor, so I suppose that my melancholy was left over from the huge emotional investment I had in the awards ceremony last year.

Morgan Freeman is an amazing actor, no doubt.

I need to take advantage of my spring break to re-watch all of Heath Ledger's films. Pity that my sister has the "Knight's Tale" DVD at her apartment.

[4ofspades]

I remember reading in your profile that Morgan Freeman was one of your favorite actors as well. He's just divine. Not to lean toward the morose, but when his death and Anthony Hopkins' death inevitably transpire, I'm going to be devastated.

[lauralot]

I couldn't stop thinking about that whenever they focused the camera on Morgan Freeman during the Best Actor bit. It's truly depressing to realize just how old many of my favorite actors are (though age doesn't guarantee anything, of course). At least we'll still have their work to remember them by, I suppose.

[4ofspades]

I really want to get my hands on his movie, "Candy". It looks like another hard-core performance.

Though his performances were good, the movie "The Four Feathers" was pretty flat, and I remember being disappointed that his hair wasn't blonde in the movie. (Could I be more shallow?) "Ned Kelly" was okay, but he's the one worth seeing.

His role in "Monster's Ball" was absolutely tragic. That's one I've got to rent again.

[battyclown]

Yes, you have got to see Candy. It's so gritty and his performance left me speechless.

The old cliche is so true, "you never fully appreciate what we have til it's gone," and I think that's true of everything in life. We live in such a technical world, hell I suffer from withdrawals if I'm without my computer, I think we tend to take for granted the finer things in life.

And as far as acting goes. My fave actors are old school, Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep, etc. Whose gonna replace them when their time comes? Hollywood is filled with crap, except for only a few, ie: Johnny Depp.

I don't know if you have HBO or Cinemax but Monster's Ball has been playing on both throughout this month.