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June 17, 2008 4:55 pm
The movies sure aren’t what they used to be. That much was clear at last night’s Cinema Society screening of “Trumbo,” Peter Askin’s documentary about outspoken Oscar-winning screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (”Spartacus,” “The Brave One”) and the injustices of the McCarthy-era Hollywood blacklist. Talk, naturally, turned to the bad old good old days. Francisco Costa nominated Joan Crawford for baddest big-screen diva: “She really epitomized Hollywood in its best and its worst.” Meanwhile, cast member Josh Lucas sang the praises of Steve McQueen—”talk about a raw, masculine force”—and Paul Newman, who gave him a case of I’m-in-the-presence-of-greatness jitters a few years ago on the set of “Empire Falls.” But modern times have brought improvements, too. For starters, there’s that blacklist. And cast member Joan Allen said there’s one particularly restrictive aspect of classic Hollywood that she’s happy to see gone for good: “A lot of uncomfortable undergarments—those long bras that sort of cinch you in. Thank God!”
tags: Cinema Society, Francisco Costa
