Watch List Weekly Recap 2/11/22
Name games, Mank memories, Oscar noms, and new movies
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On Monday, paying subscribers got to chime in on a fun fame-name game: Tell us five famous people you’ve met and we have to guess which one’s a lie. This led into some personal stories of my own encounters with Lillian Gish and Ike Turner (not at the same time, thank you) and a lot of great anecdotes shared by readers.
On Tuesday I wrote a brief heads up about a Thursday night Zoom event that the Watch List sponsored and which allowed me to have a Q&A with two grandsons of screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz (“Citizen Kane”), author Nick Davis and Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz. A video recording of the event has now been posted, if you’re curious. A fun time was had by all.
Tuesday was the day Oscar nominations were announced, and I had some thoughts abiut who made it in, who got skunked, and why.
And for New Release Friday, I reviewed a movie in theaters (the all-star Agatha Christie adaptation “Death on the Nile”), a movie on demand (“The Sky Is Everywhere,” a teen drama from a maverick filmmaker), and a movie that’s in theaters and on demand (the glitzy, silly Jennifer Lopez romantic comedy “Marry Me”).
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