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Loading ...The Girl In The Cafe wins Emmy’s in the USA
It has been a succesful evening for the The Girl In The Cafe yesterday, at the yearly Emmy Awards. The film featuring Bill Nighy and Kelly MacDonald won 3 prizes :
Best TV Movie
Best Writing, mini-series/TV movie
Best Supporting actress in mini-series/TV movie (Kelly MacDonald)
All prices are absolutely deserved, Richard Curtis wrote a fantastic script, and Kelly MacDonald gave an excellent performance. So let’s not wonder about the obvious question. (How could they not nominate Bill Nighy that is).
The Chicago Tribune writes this:
Sometimes even when the Emmys get it right, they still get it wrong. Witness Kelly Macdonald’s win for “The Girl in the Cafe”; the problem is not that she won, it’s that she wasn’t actually playing a supporting role. The HBO film was really a two-person vehicle for Macdonald and the tremendous Bill Nighy.
The main thing is, it won. More power to all involved with “Girl” — it was a great movie and now people who haven’t seen it (but did see the Emmys) will rent and watch it. And then they’ll be introduced to two very fine actors.
Further, perhaps this will motivate Richard Curtis to write a sequel, or at least another vehicle starring the delightful, always-delivering Bill.
That’s so true what Susan wrote. Let’s hope sales and rentals go up for this one. And let’s pray for a sequel or new Richard Curtis film starring Bill. We already know Bill is a winner with us. Though I had heard the reason he wasn’t nominated was because there were some new rules this year. The actors for the movies considered for an Emmy must put their name down for the particular movie they wish to be nominated in. Bill may have chosen “Gideon’s Daughter” as his bet over “The Girl in the Cafe”. I just can’t see him being overlooked. How can one NOT notice him?
I heard the same thing, Bill had put his name up for another film, which must have been Gideon’s Daughter if he was nominated for that one.
But I agree, most important thing - it won, which is so great, and so well deserved. I look forward to any new Richard Curtis film, but I have no idea what he is working on at the moment.
But I don’t believe “Gideon’s Daughter” ever appeared on American TV and the Emmys are American. Might he have been in something else? I wonder if he put his name in for “Meerkat Manor,” not knowing it was going to get a new narrator for the U.S. of A. (And, btw, I’ve stopped watching the ones we have TiVoed ’cause I want to buy the British DVD and hear Bill’s voice for the last shows.)
What he’s working on: probably the indie film “Warm Blue Day” and also the last parts of Pirates III which were being filmed in a Hollywood studio this summer (or so I read somewhere).
In a month or so I imagine he will be in NYC beginning rehearsals for “Vertical Hour” (previews begin early in Nov.). I’m busily reading through David Hare’s plays — some of them are just masterpieces, such as “Skylight,” in which Bill starred in the West End. Urge you guys to read that play, if you haven’t already. Another of my favorite Hare pieces is the movie “Strapless,” with Bruno Ganz. His most successful works, IMHO, are the ones in which politics are sublimated and relationships — esp. those between men and women, lovers, parents and children — are at the forefront.
Basically, I like his more recent stuff lots more than the older. I totally hated “Wetherby” (walked out of the movie theatre before it was over) and find my reactions to his work always extreme — doubtless what he’s aiming to provoke in his audience.
blather, blather. must away, but i’m really happy for bill et al at the emmys…. S.
D-uh, Ingrid — you meant, what is *Richard Curtis* working on…. Sorry. I’m in a bit of a daze — went for a jog and the heavens opened up; I think some of my brain cells are still damp. Au relire!
LOL :-) I like to think that I more or less know what Bill is working on, though you can never be sure :-) I was indeed wondering when Richard Curtis is popping up again.