So when you were designing My Favorite Shapes, I have a chicken or egg question. So I think maybe that’s why I connect to the otherness of them. I was thinking there’s something about the immigrant experience that has a very ghost, A.I., Pinocchio, mermaid-learning-how-to-walk vibe to it. So I’ve been trying to focus on movies that tell those stories. Those are the kinds of characters that capture my heart. I think that my movie-a-day quarantine experience has solidified what I’ve known all along, which is that if the protagonist is an A.I., a hologram, a ghost, a robot, or like Pinocchio, I’m down. The episode also features two interviews! First, Hillary Busis talks to Julio Torres, the comedian and writer who had an outstanding and very busy 2019, with his stand-up special My Favorite Shapes, the HBO supernatural comedy Los Espookys, and more of his writing work on Saturday Night Live, which has already given the world classics like “The Actress” and “Wells for Boys.” And then! Joanna Robinson talks to Atticus Ross and Trent Reznor, the musicians who won an Oscar for their work on The Social Network and most recently provided the score for Watchmen, which they say is the first score they’ve done together that is “somewhat Nine Inch Nails related.”ĭefinitely a mixed bag. On this week’s Little Gold Men podcast, Mike Hogan, Richard Lawson, Katey Rich, and Joanna Robinson look back at My Cousin Vinny and what happens when the Oscars embrace comedy-and why they should do it way more often. But it happened to feature a lightning-in-a-bottle performance from newcomer Tomei, earning the film its sole Oscar nomination-and place in history. The fish-out-of-water comedy, starring newly minted Oscar winner Joe Pesci as a Brooklyn lawyer defending a relative against murder charges in Alabama, was pretty standard studio fare for the era. Which makes a rewatch of My Cousin Vinny all the more rewarding, as if that were even possible. Now, thanks to Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, we know exactly what happens if the wrong winner is somehow announced-and that Tomei won fair and square. It was so pervasive Tomei even joked about it when she hosted Saturday Night Live. Marisa Tomei’s Oscar for her charming, instantly iconic supporting turn in My Cousin Vinny was, for years, whispered to have been a mistake, the result of elderly presenter Jack Palance supposedly reading the name off the teleprompter instead of the envelope in his hand. It was the urban legend that just wouldn’t die.
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