SALLY FIELD C/D

DUD DUD DUD.

okay watchable, maybe even good, in the 70s but so one-note for the last 20 years. i find her almost unbearable.

see, what IS that?? this is the reaction i get from peeps surprisingly often. i don't get it!

"They don't like her! They really really don't like her!"

i missed that wide-open goal but i really don't!

I've got no problem with her 2 Oscar-winning perfs. Or the flying sequences in "The Flying Nun."

but so one-note for the last 20 years.

Not sure I've seen her in the last 20 years. (I'm the one who skipped Gump)

mrs. doubtfire!

i must say, though, she does look unbelievably pretty in that photo.

I'd like to see Murphy's Romance again. I seem to remember it being decent.

Not Without My Daughter freaked me out something fierce when I was a kid.

Not Without My DaughterSybil freaked me out something fierce when I was a kid.

i also loved her as tv gidget.

not without my daughter was so good!! i've never seen sybil, which really is a shame

Sybil was pretty scary, yes.

My sister looks just enough like Sally Field that I always think of one when I see the other.

She was good as that cat in Homeward Bound. She really threw herself into that role.

I was prepared to dismiss Norma Rae as Hollywood-does-proles, but it's taut and uncondescending. She deserved that Oscar; as for the other one, I've hated Places From The Heart ever since a high school teacher inflicted it on us.

it is VERY taut and believable.

and her performance was very un-self-conscious and stirring.

i actually remember liking places from the heart (of the heart?) even though it seemed kind of schmaltz.

what was meant to be so bad about her going 'you really like me!' at the oscars that one time? i never saw it so what was the big deal?

i don't think it was meant to be so bad, it just ended up being parodied a lot, but she made fun of it too supposedly. and she didn't actually say "you really like me!"

it was something like "the first time [i won the oscar], i wasn't sure if you had respect for me, but now i'm sure. you like me! i know you like me!"

something like that

It was emotionally naked, hence easy for assholes to mock. As opposed to 'serious' actor reacting like they've cured cancer.

otm

She was awesome as Frog in Smokey and the Bandit.

Gidget and The Flying Nun are TV Gold.
I really loved her when I was a kid and the fact that my 7th grade Health Class teacher held a showing of Sybil as part of our unit on mental health issues.
Classic.

i love her. she is still beautiful.

yay

Classic (for Flying Nun if nothing else).

Also, casting her as Abby's (Maura Tierney) mother in E.R. was a nice move.

Her son went to the Iowa Writers' Workshop!

Sally Field is cute. Her acting skills are adequate.

Adequate + cute + good script == pretty decent movie. Adequate + cute + mediocre script == forgetable movie. Sally will never lift a movie well above itself or steal a single scene just by showing up. She was best in television, because television thrives on adequate + cute actors.

Watched Norma Rae for the first time ever last night--possibly the most famous American film from the '70s I'd never seen. Found it a little disappointing. Field is fine (I looked at the list of nominees she was up against, and I guess she deserved best actress, although I'd probably go with Jane Fonda in The China Syndrome, just because I like the film so much more), ditto Beau Bridges and Pat Hingle; Ron Leibman is good when he's angry, corny when he's trying to be flaky and likeable. I love Martin Ritt's Hud and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, but I didn't think this came anywhere close to those two films.

How did you feel about Kaz, clemenza?

I had to look that one up...I vaguely remember it now. Liebman seemed very familiar to me, yet when I scan his credits, the only specific memory I have of him is Night Falls on Manhattan.

One person I really liked seeing in Norma Rae was Grace Zabriskie, who gives my favourite weird performance in Twin Peaks.

I had forgotten about that show too, until it came up here: Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

Regardless of your opinion of "Soapdish" she's really the only person who could've played that role

always thought it was harsh that the 'you really like me' spiel got so much piss taken out of it. it seemed really genuine and that's not even what she actually says anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_8nAvU0T5Y

did it screw her career up this speech? kinda seemed to maybe..

I don't think so; rather in the Hollywood tradition, turning 40 did.

Sad but true. Soapdish owns.

Best Gidget

ha what she actually says is even worse than what she's known for saying.

her post-40 career has been great compared to most comparable actresses (in terms of "keeping busy") but yeah the big studio vehicles built around her were not gonna happen at that stage of her career (streep the exception to the usual)

she is super cute in Stay Hungry

I can't focus on anything in that speech but her applecheeks

was relieved that her Mary T-L was above competent.

Workin' the circuit:

http://www.thewrap.com/awards/column-post/sally-fields-killer-speech-talk-palm-springs-gala-71581

Publishing a memoir, in which she details adolescent abuse at the hands of her stepfather, the actor Jock Mahoney.

Ms. Field devotes several pages of “In Pieces” to (Burt) Reynolds, her former lover and co-star in films like “Smokey and the Bandit” and “Hooper.” Though celebrity periodicals often portrayed them as a blissful, well-matched pair, Ms. Field told me their time together was “confusing and complicated, and not without loving and caring, but really complicated and hurtful to me.”

She characterizes Mr. Reynolds in the book as swaggering and charismatic, and their connection as immediate and intense. She also portrays him as controlling of her, only able to accept certain aspects of her life and personality while uninterested in or disapproving of others.

Ms. Field writes that Mr. Reynolds used Percodan, Valium and barbiturates during the making of “Smokey,” and sometimes received mysterious injections to his chest. She recounts how she organized a surreptitious examination for him at the Miami Heart Institute, which came back all clear, but that Mr. Reynolds refused her urging to seek therapy for his stress and anxiety, dismissing it as “self-delusional poppycock.”

Ms. Field’s assessment now is that, in her romance with Mr. Reynolds, she was trying to recreate a version of her relationship with her stepfather.

“I was somehow exorcising something that needed to be exorcised,” she told me. “I was trying to make it work this time.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/11/books/sally-field-burt-reynolds-in-pieces-memoir.html