HOW DID THESE MOVIES LOSE OUT TO THOSE MOVIES FOR ACADEMY'S 'BEST PICTURE'?
There are winners and losers in movies. Sometimes the wires get crossed and great movies get sent to the showers in favor of movies that truly suck. Here are some glaring examples of good movies that lost out for Best Picture to some real duds.
‘Raging Bull’ somehow lost the 1980 Best Picture Award to O’rdinary People’. ‘Raging Bull’ is a graphic look at the brutal world of boxing as seen through the troubled life of Jake LaMotta. ‘Ordinary People’ was a boring look at a dysfunctional family. Too bad LaMotta wasn’t a part of the family.
He could have put them to sleep before they put the audience to sleep.
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1965 MARLIN-SMITTEN BY A RARE 1960S AMERICAN MOTORS FASTBACK
You can go to thousands of car shows and you might see a few 1965 Rambler Marlins. Maybe even enough to count on one hand. You’d have to attend thousands more to find one restored to Ron Stockton’s level-this may well be the nicest 1965 Marlin on the planet.
Ron Stockton was 20 when he first saw the brand new 1965 Marlin and he knew than that he’d eventually own Rambler’s new fastback.
This was rare because at the time most 20- year-old guys coveted cars like the GTO, Sting Ray or Mustang-being smitten by a Rambler was rare.
At the time Ron was like many young guys then and now-he couldn’t swing the price of a new car so he did the next best thing.
He bought the Marlin model kit, painted it yellow and black and lived with the reality that this little plastic car was the closest he’d come to a Marlin for many years…
But like most motivated car guys, he never gave up the quest for this big fish from American Motors so several decades later he landed his Marlin. It was a big job.
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THE 57 CHEVY PROJECT-A 50S LIFESTYLE IN THE 21ST CENTURY PART 5:THE END?
At this point Trevor is as close to “done” on the car as any car guy-in other words it’s “nearly there”
He wanted to upgrade the bodywork substantially from his earlier effort because the knew that things such as soft lower edges on the doors would be a future issue.
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'LOST STAR': ROB MACKENZIE'S 1961 HIGH SCHOOL LOVE BUG-"MY FIRST CAR"
Every now and then we do a 'Lost Star' story at MSCC-a car that really meant something from somebody's past-here's a great example...
The most important piece of the high school puzzle for every healthy male teenager is a set of wheels.
Sure you can get by without a car, but high school is not nearly as much fun as it can be with a car. A teen-aged Rob Mackenzie was no exception to this rigid rule, so he bought a solid 1961 Volkswagen to carry him through the learning curve of high school.
The other more important learning curve that included less algebra and more high school girls.
The best part of the VW deal was the price: A very affordable $100.00 bought Rob his first taste of four-wheeled freedom.
The price fit well within a high school kid’s budget.
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