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☆ Every live-action Joker actor, from Cesar Romero to Joaquin Phoenix, ranked
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-04 | by ( Ayomikun Adekaiyero | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Joaquin Phoenix is one of two actors to win an Oscar for playing the Joker. Phoenix starred as the DC villain in two solo films, 2019's "Joker" and the new sequel "Joker: Folie à Deux." Director Todd Phillips' approach of making the Joker a more realistic and human character appealed to critics, and the film won two Oscars. By contrast, the sequel film has bombed with critics and fans alike and currently has a Rotten Tomatoes score of 39%. AdvertisementIn August, Phillips seemed to suggest to Variety that there wouldn't be another "Joker" sequel when he said: "I think we've said what we wanted to say in this world."

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☆ Robert Downey Jr. says it was for the best that he didn't win an Oscar back in the '90s
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-26 | by ( Amanda Goh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Read previewRobert Downey Jr. thinks it's good that he didn't win the first time he was nominated for an Oscar in 1993. Back then, Downey Jr. was nominated for best actor for his role in "Chaplin," but lost to Al Pacino, who won for his role in "Scent of a Woman." Related storiesIn the years following his first Academy Awards nomination, Downey Jr. had numerous brushes with the law. AdvertisementEarlier this week, Downey Jr. was nominated for an Academy Award for best supporting actor for his role as Lewis Strauss in "Oppenheimer." This is his third Oscar nomination: He was also nominated for best supporting actor in 2009 for "Tropic Thunder," but lost to Heath Ledger, who played the Joker in "The Dark Knight."

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☆ How Superheroes Took Over the Multiplex
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-20 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Downey lost the Oscar (to Heath Ledger in “The Dark Knight”), but Marvel won the day. On this week’s episode, Gonzales and Robinson join the host Gilbert Cruz to talk all things Marvel. “We definitely, of course, wanted to write for the Marvel fans,” Robinson says. “But also we wanted to write a book for Marvel skeptics. We wanted to write a book for people who maybe fell in love with Marvel once upon a time, but are maybe slightly falling out of love with it.

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☆ Stream These 10 Movies Before They Leave Netflix in August
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( Jason Bailey | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

‘A Knight’s Tale’ (Aug. 31)Another period musical, this one from the writer and director Brian Helgeland (an Oscar winner for co-writing the “L.A. The movie’s writer, director and editor, Oren Peli, cleverly turns his technological shortcomings into bonuses, crafting a found-footage story of things going bump in the night with gooseflesh raising inventiveness. Naomi Watts provides a rooting interest as the cynical reporter investigating the tape’s mysterious origins and the spell it casts. ‘Salt’ (Aug. 31)Angelina Jolie fronted her fair share of action movies, but she never really seemed to find the right vehicle for her particular talents. operative, or both, or something else entirely — Jolie lands on the perfect role for her distinctive blend of butt-kicking athleticism, sensuality and intelligence.

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☆ Is A.I. the Greatest Technology Ever for Making Dumb Jokes?
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-10 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +12 min

Via Janelle Shane AI Weirdness Generated by A.I. Optimists cite scientific advances and other examples of human intelligence and machine intelligence augmenting each other, robots and people walking hand in hand toward the singularity. possibilities on a two-dimensional plot, where one axis runs from “machine stupidity” to “machine intelligence” and the other from “human stupidity to human intelligence.” Scientific leaps — like physicists’ developing A.I. Machine Intelligence, Human Stupidity Not just any A.I.-generated post deserves to be charted in the Funposting Zone. After all, the machines can keep improving, and human stupidity — the engine of many of history’s best jokes — isn’t going anywhere.

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☆ Stanley Tucci says he thinks straight actors should be able to play gay characters
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-02 | by ( Alli Rosenbloom | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Stanley Tucci weighed in on the debate about straight actors portraying gay characters in a new interview with BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs on Saturday. Tucci, who is married to literary agent Felicity Blunt, said he believes that as an actor, “you’re supposed to play different people.”“You just are. Tucci has portrayed gay characters in 2006’s “The Devil Wears Prada” and in the 2020 film “Supernova” alongside Oscar-winner Colin Firth. “Because often, it’s not done the right way.”For decades, Hollywood has cast actors in heterosexual relationships for gay roles. Conversations around inclusivity in casting transgender actors in transgender roles have also become pertinent, and casting cisgender actors for those roles has recently fallen out of popular practice.

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☆ Matthew Perry is removing controversial mentions of Keanu Reeves from future editions of memoir
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-23 | by ( Alli Rosenbloom | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —The one where Matthew Perry tries to make amends with Keanu Reeves. “River was a beautiful man, inside and out – too beautiful for this world, it turned out. It always seems to be the really talented guys who go down,” Perry wrote. On Saturday, Perry addressed the Reeves mention once more, this time telling the audience “I said a stupid thing. It was just stupid,” Perry concluded.

☆ Some critically acclaimed films by and about Black people don’t make the Oscars list in a major letdown
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-24 | by ( Michelle Garcia | Michelle Garcia Is The Editorial Director Of Nbcblk | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

While the Golden Globes brought several notable nominations and wins for Black performers in television and film, this year’s Oscar nominations look very different. “Till,” starring Danielle Deadwyler as Mamie Till-Mobley, chronicles the 14-year-old’s mother during her quest for justice after her child was brutally murdered. The film earned no Academy Award nominations. “Wakanda Forever” also failed to match the best picture nod earned by 2018’s “Black Panther” — the first superhero movie nominated for the top Oscar. Bassett is also the second oldest Black woman ever nominated for an acting Oscar, behind supporting actress nominee Ruby Dee, who appeared in 2007’s “American Gangster.”

☆ Diddy is unrecognizable dressed as The Joker for Halloween
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-31 | by ( Marianne Garvey | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

The music mogul pulled off a perfect version of The Joker from “The Dark Knight,” complete with a creepy laugh. “It’s not about the money,” Diddy captioned photos of himself running around Hollywood. Fans loved the impression, with one writing, “They need to cast Diddy as the next Joker!!!! !”“You can’t tell me Diddy didn’t just earn a legit audition to be the next Joker,” another wrote. Heath Ledger, who played the iconic role in 2008, won a posthumous Oscar for his performance in “The Dark Knight.”

☆ Matthew Perry apologizes for questioning why Keanu Reeves ‘still walks among us’
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

CNN —Matthew Perry is now saying he misspoke in his new memoir. There was backlash after outlets shared an excerpt from his forthcoming memoir, “Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing” in which Perry talks about the 1993 death of his friend actor River Phoenix and references another actor, Keanu Reeves. It always seems to be the really talented guys who go down,” Perry wrote. “Why is it that the original thinkers like River Phoenix and Heath Ledger die, but Keanu Reeves still walks among us?”Perry is now apologizing. I should have used my own name instead.”CNN has reached out to Perry and Reeves for comment.

Sen. Patrick Leahy, the veteran Democratic lawmaker who told reporters Monday he will not seek re-election in Vermont, holds impressive distinctions. Leahy went on to appear in "Batman & Robin" (1997), "The Dark Knight" (2008), "The Dark Knight Rises" (2012) and "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" (2016). "The Dark Knight" gave Leahy his juiciest role outside Capitol Hill — as well as his most cherished Batman cameo, according to David Carle, Leahy's press secretary. "He scared the heck out of me, when he came at me with the knife," Leahy told the political publication Roll Call. "I have too many other things going on with Covid, with appropriation bills," Leahy told the newspaper in August 2020.

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