Saturday, February 6, 2021
There is a long Oscar tradition of nominating lead actresses who bring singing legends to musical life over the years. The 2021 Best Actress race is no exception, what with Viola Davis bri…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 07:35PMFriday, February 5, 2021
While Julie Andrews might have felt that the hills were alive in the “Sound of Music,” it was Christopher Plummer’s Captain von Trapp who swept her off her feet in the 1965 Best Pictur…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 08:04PMFriday, January 29, 2021
Award-winning actress Cloris Leachman’s work ethic and versatility were only exceeded by her love of basking in the showbiz spotlight. The legacy she leaves her fans after dying this week …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:07AMSaturday, May 18, 2019
If ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ were the cheeseburger of music icon biopics, then ‘Rocketman’ is the sirloin steak – with lobster on the side.” – Dan Wooton, The Sun Judging from the da…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 08:20AMThursday, April 25, 2019
Jackson Maine and his lady love Ally will not be getting back together on the big-screen any time soon as those who have seen ‘A Star Is Born’ know all too well. But the actors who playe…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 04:30PMWednesday, April 10, 2019
It’s showtime again, folks! It is no secret that Bob Fosse, who won a directing Oscar for his 1972 film version of the musical “Cabaret” that collected a total of eight trophies but …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:00AMMonday, January 28, 2019
Can we agree that among the eight Oscar nominations granted “A Star Is Born,” its likeliest win will be Best Song for “Shallow”? That soaring ballad sold the music-pa…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 04:00PMTuesday, January 15, 2019
“Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.” — Carol Channing If anyone has heard her share of both gaffaws and clappin…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 03:33PMThursday, January 10, 2019
I saw a star being born and it wasn’t Lady Gaga. It happened on a dance floor early on in Spike Lee’s “BlacKkKlansman” when Ron Stalling, an undercover cop who — with the help …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 05:00PMFriday, December 28, 2018
“A Star Is Born” zoomed to the top of the Oscar Best Picture list on Gold Derby’s combined odds chart on Oct. 14, the week after it opened, pushing film fest fave “Roma” to No. 2. …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 03:30PMMonday, December 10, 2018
One of the oddities of this year’s Golden Globes nominees? That Fox’s Freddie Mercury biopic “Bohemian Rhapsody” and Warner’s “A Star Is Born” requested to compete in the d…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 07:30PMMonday, December 3, 2018
Oscar’s favorite actress, Meryl Streep, reconnected to her Jersey roots this past weekend while chatting with Stephen Colbert onstage during the Montclair Film Festival. And it sounds as i…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 01:30PMTuesday, November 13, 2018
The Best Actor Oscar race this year just might turn into the battle of the bulge, pitting a pot-bellied Dick Cheney against a chowhound Italian bodyguard going belly to belly. In this corner…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 02:00PMThursday, October 25, 2018
Remember Uggie, the super-talented Jack Russell Terrier from “The Artist,” a silent film that would claim 2011’s Best Picture Oscar? The pup sadly went to that big dog park in the …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 05:00PMTuesday, October 9, 2018
Not only did “A Star Is Born” open to a healthy $42.6 million at the box-office this past weekend. But the fourth version of the musical showbiz staple originally done in 1937 has allowe…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 05:00PMFriday, October 5, 2018
Some singers turned film actors hit a high note by playing a version of themselves, such as Whitney Houston in “The Bodyguard,” bolstered by a safety-net soundtrack of surefire hits. The…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 02:00PMTuesday, October 2, 2018
The Marx Brothers – mustachioed, stogie-smoking ring-leader Groucho, chatty, Italian-accented con man Chico, silent skirt-chaser Harpo and, early on, relatively “normal” matinee idol Z…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 11:00AMThursday, September 20, 2018
Did you swoon when the 2018 Emmys were handed out on Monday as Glenn Weiss, who won for his directing of this year’s Academy Awards ceremony, stopped the show and proposed to his girlfri…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 08:45AMThursday, September 6, 2018
Looking back on last year’s Oscar race as this year’s contest starts to heat up, it struck me that not enough was made of the fact that Greta Gerwig with “Lady Bird” and Jordan Peele…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 04:30PMFriday, August 31, 2018
A serious Oscar contender was born on Friday as critics at the 75th Venice International Film Festival went, well, gaga over the latest version of “A Star Is Born.” The tale as old as sh…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 04:20PMThursday, August 16, 2018
Glenn Close got her start on Broadway in the ‘70s, appearing in such shows as “Barnum,” and made-for-TV movies including “Too Far to Go” and “The Orphan Train.” She was 35 at t…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:30PM 
