http://moviemorlocks.com/2007/02/21/these-streets-are-paved-with-gold/ MovieMorlocks.com is the official blog for Turner Classic Movies (TCM). No topic is too obscure or niche to be excluded from our film discussions. And we welcome your comments on our blogs and bloggers. Mon, 21 May 2012 02:05:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://moviemorlocks.com/2007/02/21/these-streets-are-paved-with-gold/#comment-6924 Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:39:28 +0000 http://tcmmoviemorlocks.wordpress.com/2007/02/21/these-streets-are-paved-with-gold/#comment-6924 [...] that one of the surest ways to earn an Academy Award – or at least an Oscar nomination – was to portray a prostitute.  Though the focus of the article was on actresses, Jon Voight also received his first nod for [...]

]]> http://moviemorlocks.com/2007/02/21/these-streets-are-paved-with-gold/#comment-2174 Thu, 01 Mar 2007 21:54:18 +0000 http://tcmmoviemorlocks.wordpress.com/2007/02/21/these-streets-are-paved-with-gold/#comment-2174 Thanks for the link, Medusa, and some excellent (contemporary) additions, Chris! 

]]> http://moviemorlocks.com/2007/02/21/these-streets-are-paved-with-gold/#comment-2175 Sat, 24 Feb 2007 17:08:22 +0000 http://tcmmoviemorlocks.wordpress.com/2007/02/21/these-streets-are-paved-with-gold/#comment-2175 And in the same vein of Jon Voight's performance, there has been much critical acclaim bestowed upon male actors taking up these parts.I'm thinking first of the portrayal by River Phoenix in My Private Idaho. (There is also the concurrent theme of drug addiction that is almost the hand-maiden to prostitution.) If it wasn't for his early death, Phoenix just might have built the early critical attention needed to have been the young lion that Leonardo DiCapria has become ( with HIS best performance being a retared kid in What's Eating Gilbert Grape? )And lest we forget, the portrayal by Robert Downing, Jr. as a rather reluctant wayward  ( Hell, just call him lost ) soul in Less Than Zero, which  empowered him to pick and choose his roles with award winning potential written all over them. Certainly cementing his spot as one with serious acting chops. Throw in The Kiss of the Spider Woman, in a rather tangential way, and you have a fitting example as to how this role has lead many a contemporary actor to the road of fanfare and stardom as well.

]]> http://moviemorlocks.com/2007/02/21/these-streets-are-paved-with-gold/#comment-2173 Thu, 22 Feb 2007 02:01:34 +0000 http://tcmmoviemorlocks.wordpress.com/2007/02/21/these-streets-are-paved-with-gold/#comment-2173 Other than the fact that these roles are no doubt meatier and more fun to play than the so-called good girl, this may harken back to the olden (or perhaps not so olden) days when actresses and prostitutes were often one and the same, or considered to be so, at least.  There's at least one book all about this relationship, "Actresses and Whores" by Kirsten Pullen, which sounds fascinating:  http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521833418Great Subject, Highhurdler! 

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