{"id":110170,"date":"2015-11-15T11:39:02","date_gmt":"2015-11-15T16:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=110170"},"modified":"2015-11-15T11:44:07","modified_gmt":"2015-11-15T16:44:07","slug":"gena-rowlands-speech-last-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=110170","title":{"rendered":"Gena Rowlands&#8217; Oscar Speech Last Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MweCcZfbE2Q\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\nListen to that ovation. Feel the emotion in that room! The explosion when she mentions &#8220;my late husband &#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She is one of a kind and every single person &#8211; even big stars and A-list actresses &#8211; know it. <\/p>\n<p>The Bette Davis story makes me laugh so hard. I had heard it before, but never actually told BY Gena Rowlands. It&#8217;s even better, with her gestures!<\/p>\n<p>I am also moved by her son coming forward near the end of her speech, protectively and supportively. And then Gena clearly deciding she was not done, and she wanted to stay on that stage a little bit longer. <\/p>\n<p>I wish she would never leave.<\/p>\n<p>Other speeches now up on Youtube from the whole night, which I haven&#8217;t watched yet. I want to revel in this one a little bit more. (And no, the tribute reel isn&#8217;t up yet.) <\/p>\n<p>As much as I totally disapprove of moving the Lifetime Achievement people to a different night from the main broadcast (because God forbid Hollywood publicly remember its history, and God forbid that the ignoramuses watching &#8211; who think Quentin Tarantino invented movies, or Robert De Niro invented good acting &#8211; would learn a little bit about the history of the industry they profess to love so much) &#8211; in a way, this separate ceremony is awesome because these honorees are given TIME. Time for their speeches. Time for multiple tribute speeches. Time to RAMBLE. I hate how rushed the nominees are on the main night. I love long speeches filled with emotion, anecdotes, and not a list of &#8220;I&#8217;d like to thank the receptionist at Warner Brothers.&#8221; Jeez Louise, send a Thank You card. While you&#8217;re at that podium, show me your HEART. <\/p>\n<p>So there is something very satisfying about all of this. It would have been painful to see Gena Rowlands forced to make a 45-second speech.  <\/p>\n<p>Give this woman TIME. More and more and more time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to that ovation. Feel the emotion in that room! The explosion when she mentions &#8220;my late husband &#8230;&#8221; She is one of a kind and every single person &#8211; even big stars and A-list actresses &#8211; know it. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=110170\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[195],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110170"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110174,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110170\/revisions\/110174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}