Oct. 6, 2018 - Steve Pieczenik
04:12
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| Hi, I'm Dr. | |
| Buchanek. | |
| Today I want to talk about my nomination for Best Actress and Best Film of 2018. | |
| I know it's early, but I just saw a film that was sent to me by Sony Pictures, and it's called The Wife. | |
| It stars Glenn Close, a woman and an actress whom I have admired since the Big Chill, Fatal Attraction, and now this incredible persona called The Wife. | |
| It's someone who is the wife of a famous novelist played by Jonathan Price, who's born in Brooklyn, a Jewish novelist in 1992, and he is going to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. | |
| Now, this is an incredible moment in the film because what you have is a dynamic between a very restrained Glenn Close and a pompous Jewish Brooklynite played brilliantly by Jonathan Price and He is so glad. | |
| He's glad-handing and he's saying all these patronizing things about Glenn Close that he couldn't have done anything without her. | |
| She was instrumental in every decision he made except for one little secret. | |
| And I'm not going to tell you that secret because that's part of the beauty of this film. | |
| This film was made, and I want to congratulate all the producers from Sweden. | |
| It's a Swedish film. | |
| It was funded by the Swedes. | |
| It cost only about $8 million, so it tells Hollywood that we can make excellent films without big budgets. | |
| At the same time, it was directed by a Swedish director who has been in the theater for a long time by the name of Bjorn Ringe, R-U-N-G-E, and he has framed every shot just brilliantly to show the dynamics and the repression of a woman like the wife and how she tolerates the pomposity of the writer and how she restrains herself and | |
| becomes extremely elegant. | |
| Of course, the editor in this film turns out to be the wife of the director, and her name is Lena Bling, and they both do a brilliant job. | |
| I would nominate the film itself for the best film of 2018, but let me proceed with the accolades for Glenn Close. | |
| She's an amazing actress. | |
| You don't see her very often. | |
| I have not seen her very often. | |
| I know a little bit about her, and ironically, My life kind of transected through hers, but in a very unusual way. | |
| She grew up and went to school in Greenwich, Connecticut. | |
| I was an intern at Greenwich Hospital in 1968. | |
| Ironically, she owned a cafe in Bozeman, Montana. | |
| And in that cafe, I built a company, NBI Health, with my partner. | |
| And we spent many weeks there, but I had never met Glenn Close. | |
| I think her sister ran that cafe. | |
| But it's that touch of irony that makes you feel like in some way you're connected with this actress. | |
| But I must admit, this is the first time I have seen Glenn Close so brilliantly restrained, so comfortable in her role, so intelligent, so effortless. | |
| In contrast, and I've got to say Jonathan Price, the British actor, did a brilliant job of playing a pompous Jewish writer, probably based on real life of somebody else. | |
| The original writer was a woman by the name of Meg Willitzer from Brooklyn, a Jewish woman who was I assume wrote this brilliant novel 14 years ago called The Wife. | |
| She herself has always maintained that to become a famous writer in America as a woman is very difficult. | |
| And I agree. | |
| I have always thought that the women in America are far better writers than the men are. | |
| Even though I've been on the bestsellers list, much of it I can attribute to my agents, to my publishers, to my editors, and to my writer, Jeff Rovin. | |
| But the truth of the matter is, Carol Burnett said exactly what I feel. | |
| I adore this actress named Glenn Close. |
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