Oscars 2020
The Morning After... If you’ve watched Tootsie, the very long acceptance speech from Renée Zellweger ultimately started to remind me of Michael Dorsey’s when he wants to reveal the truth about his identity and knows where he’s going but is very lost in getting there. As Renée is the co-star of Jerry Maguire, which is one of my all-time favorite movies, and gave a performance in Judy that shows her in utter command at very moment of a character who is clearly Judy in every moment and maybe Judy Garland in very few of them, and as she has had a career with quite a few bounces to it, some of them off the table and rolling around on the floor for a few years, I am deeply happy for her win. And as someone who was raving up every acting award, I sure do wish her speech had been less improvisational than Michael Dorsey’s. Joaquin Phoenix’s speech also rambled. I’m not entirely sure what he was saying though I heard every word of it, and am intrigued the morning after to discover that it is