Star Oscar Suicide (SOS): Remembering The Glorious Failures
IN “CURSE of the OSCARS,” the Mail looks at the woman – always the women – who have won an Oscar and then failed to perform in another half-decent film
Shock indeed that anything as solid as a secret vote by a shadowy band of Hollywood elitists, the self-importantly named Academy, should create a star each year and fail to see the value of Rachel Weisz’s work in My Blueberry Nights and Brenda Fricker’s craft in Casualty: The Movie.
This, of course, is that time of year when newspaper writers and media watchers put aside their envy at being not as good looking, less talented and less well paid than actors and actresses and observe the Oscars with a cold and objective eye.
“Look,” say the film experts, “there’s that dog Julia Roberts”; “It’s that stick-thin witch HalleBerry”; “Is Angelina Jolie wearing corduroy gloves or are those her worrying veins?” “Oscar disasters,” says the Times, looking at those dresses.
The Oscars might have made them millions and secured their fame and stardom, the apogees of glittering careers, but Holly Hunter “took a decade…to have another hit and that was in the form of cartoon when she provided the voice of Elastigirl in The Incredibles.
The Mail fails to note that Hunter was in O Brother Where Art Thou and Crash. But did you see her hair in those films? Eu! Too caring of the Mail to gloss it over…
Posted: 25th, February 2008 | In: Celebrities, Tabloids Comment (1) | TrackBack | Permalink
