Love this photo of Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal at the 2019 TCM Classic Film Festival opening night gala in Hollywood. Can you believe it? It’s been THIRTY years since When Harry Met Sally was released! If you remember, this film posed the question: “Can men and women really be friends?” Our answer would be yes- if the man is gay! What’s YOUR opinion?
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We have two major complaints about the Oscars. First of all, “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” and ”Hugo” had no business being nominated for Best Picture. “Extremely Loud” was ordinary, manipulative, and annoying. “Hugo” was totally rejected by its target audience -children— simply because kids don’t care about film preservation. (The movie made a paltry 69 million and cost close to 170 million to make.) Albert Nobbs and Jane Eyre should have been nominated for Best Picture. Nobbs was a highly original story about WOMEN and Jane Eyre (also about a WOMAN) was the best version of this story we’ve ever seen. Both were gorgeously photographed and technically superior. (Too many mature white male voters in the Academy, perhaps?) One more comment – Billy Crystal was not as entertaining as Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin...
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Billy Crystal, pictured above leaving Spago, still hasn’t given up on the idea of hosting the Oscars again this year. After last year’s Anne Hathaway-James Franco disaster, many people campaigned to have Billy return. Since then, Oprah has been under consideration, and recently Eddie Murphy surfaced as a strong possibility. Billy seems to WANT the job more than anyone else, and he never disappoints.
UPDATE: As you now know, Eddie Murphy landed the job. Maybe next year, Billy.
A top collector of baseball memorabilia in New York has been exposed as a fraud and he cheated sports crazed celebrities out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Six years after Barry Halper’s death, it turns out he was a con man who sold replicas and forged autographs as one-of-a-kind gems. Among those burned are sports fanatic Billy Crystal, who paid $239,000 for “Mickey Mantle’s 1960 glove” and Penny Marshall, who paid $387,500 for “the last glove Lou Gehrig used in 1939.” Both were judged to be fake. We imagine these items were framed and displayed on the walls of their homes with considerable pride.
