SAG Awards Well Played: Annette Bening 2011 adwards
I love this. It makes me sad that Annette Bening didn’t beat Natalie
Portman — and thus that she probably won’t on Oscar night — because I
think the vagaries of her role in The Kids Are All Right seem
like they actually demand more of a finely honed instrument than a
showier Am I Going INSAAAANE role does. But what do I know? My piano is
two years out of tune, meaning the last finely honed instrument I played
was the recorder from my elementary school days that the twins just
found hidden in the piano bench. That thing never goes out of tune. Nor
style. You haven’t lived until you’ve heard R.Kelly’s “In The Kitchen
(Remix)” on a recorder. I was like a sex minstrel.
None of which has anything to do with Annette, or her Who Gets The Foreground battles with hubby Warren Beatty, except that if he’d had a recorder with him he would’ve won automatically.
Ooh! Annette makes an aggressive first move. This is like taking the
snap on first-and-10 and hurling the ball downfield toward the end zone.
Or maybe more accurately, it's like Warren trying to hurl the ball and
Annette being all, "Oh, nice try, but: INTERCEPTION."
NO! Warren gives up and dives into frame, the sheer audacity of which
nets him a million points and the victory. Sorry, Annette. Can't wait to
see what the BAFTAs bring.
None of which has anything to do with Annette, or her Who Gets The Foreground battles with hubby Warren Beatty, except that if he’d had a recorder with him he would’ve won automatically.
And here is the couple positioned as equals, each tilting his or her
body toward the center, as if neither wants to steal the spotlight.
And so Warren goes in for a territory-stealing tickle.
