What’s Aged the Best?
Rosemarie DeWitt; live music; title-drop speech; trumpet player’s toast to Ethan; Sidney’s wedding song; Debra Winger
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- Rosemarie DeWitt is praised and her lack of a supporting-actress nomination lamented.
- The 2008 supporting-actress nominees are recalled; asked whom to drop for DeWitt, one host cuts Amy Adams, likened to Alex Smith.
- The strange, memorable live music is praised.
- A speech that says the movie’s title is enjoyed.
- The trumpet player’s rehearsal-dinner shout-out to Ethan drains the life from Hathaway’s face.
- Sidney’s Neil Young song at the wedding is praised for his beautiful voice, with jokes that he should be in a band.
- Debra Winger is chosen, with research on roles she turned down or lost: Raiders of the Lost Ark, Fatal Attraction, Broadcast News, Peggy Sue Got Married, A League of Their Own, and Romancing the Stone after a reported biting incident.
- Winger’s career is discussed: Urban Cowboy’s overwhelming screen presence, An Officer and a Gentleman and Terms of Endearment making her the biggest young actress.
- Her reputation for on-set conflict is reviewed, including reported clashes with co-stars on An Officer and a Gentleman and Terms of Endearment and with the Wonder Woman star.
- An alternative career path imagines her aging into Diane Keaton parts as a Nancy Meyers muse; she stepped away from Hollywood in the late 1990s.
- She is felt in every second despite appearing in only about four scenes.