Glenn Close is experiencing a rollercoaster of an awards season this year.
On Monday, the actress, 73, landed an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in last year s
Hillbilly Elegy. The honor came a week after Close was jokingly included in the Razzie Award s worst supporting actress race for that same film. Get push notifications with news, features and more. + Follow
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The eight-time Oscar nominee plays Bonnie Mamaw Vance in the Netflix movie opposite Amy Adams. The story follows a Yale Law student who is drawn back to his Appalachian hometown, and confronts his strained relationships with his mother and grandmother.
How Jon Voight Landed His Big Break in ‘Midnight Cowboy’ (Guest Blog)
Voight wasn’t the first choice to play the role of a male hustler opposite Dustin Hoffman, recounts writer Glenn Frankel
Glenn Frankel Guest Writer Last Updated: March 15, 2021 @ 2:58 PM
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Aspiring young actors in New York in the 1960s came in many shapes and psyches. There were angry ones and cynical ones and sincere ones and intense ones. But there weren’t many joyful ones. The road was too hard and it was strewn with failure. “No one starts at the top in the theater,” Gene Hackman once said, “and the bottom is a very ugly place.”