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SAG Awards 2014: 'Hustle' cast wins, tightens race to Oscars
'AMERICAN HUSTLE'S' CAST WIN PUTS IT IN A TIGHT OSCARS RACE WITH '12 YEARS A SLAVE'. OTHER WINNERS INCLUDE MCCONAUGHEY, 'BREAKING BAD' AND 'MODERN FAMILY.'
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"American Hustle" won just a single trophy at the Screen Actors Guild Awards — the really important one.
The cast of David O. Russell's con-man tale took home SAG's cast award Saturday night, nudging "American Hustle" ahead of Oscar season's months-long front-runner, "12 Years a Slave," in what is proving to be a tight race.
After collecting 10 Oscar nominations Thursday, "American Hustle" also beat out the casts of "August: Osage County,""Dallas Buyers Club" and "Lee Daniels' The Butler" for the SAG Award.
The SAG category of cast in a motion picture is often seen as a reliable predictor for the Academy Award best picture prize because many SAG members are part of the actors branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the largest voting bloc in the organization.
It's perhaps not surprising that the actors' union rewarded a movie with a large cast of A-listers delivering their winningest screwball performances. A drama set in the 1970s and early '80s, "American Hustle" stars Christian Bale andAmy Adams as con artists forced by an FBI agent (Bradley Cooper) to participate in an elaborate sting to catch corrupt politicians. Jennifer Lawrence plays Bale's character's unpredictable wife.
"David O. Russell makes you feel like part of a family," Cooper said, accepting "American Hustle's" award on stage at the Shrine Exposition Center in Los Angeles. "He's an actor's director."
On the television side of things, AMC's "Breaking Bad" won for performance by an ensemble in a drama series and ABC's"Modern Family" was named the top ensemble in a comedy for the fourth consecutive year. Bryan Cranston, Maggie Smith, Ty Burrell and Julia Louis-Dreyfus all won individual actor statuettes as well.
In the individual film acting categories, SAG largely rewarded this Oscar season's favorites.
Matthew McConaughey, who already won a Golden Globe and Critics Choice Award in the past week, won the lead actor prize for his performance as homophobic but ultimately pioneering AIDS patient Ron Woodroof in the drama "Dallas Buyers Club."
Accepting the award, McConaughey gave a passionate if somewhat rambling speech in which he mentioned Neptune, bull rides and playing characters who are, "feverishly drunk on their obsessions."
"I've been having fun with the circus," McConaughey told reporters backstage, explaining his loopy behavior. "If I wasn't having fun, take me behind the woodshed and straighten me out."
Lead female actor winner Cate Blanchett kind of did. When a teleprompter warned her she was running out of time just seconds into her acceptance speech for her performance in"Blue Jasmine," Blanchett said, "Matthew McConaughey spoke about Neptune. I think I can have five seconds."
Lupita Nyong'o took home her first SAG Award on Saturday, after winning a supporting trophy for her performance as a brutally abused slave in "12 Years a Slave." In her speech, Nyong'o thanked Solomon Northup, whose 19th century memoir inspired the film.
"Thank you for taking a flashlight and shining it underneath the floorboards of this nation and reminding us what we stand on," Nyong'o said.
Jared Leto also spoke on a serious note after winning the supporting actor prize for "Dallas Buyers Club," in which he plays Rayon, a transgender woman with AIDS.
"I'd like to dedicate this special honor to people who have lost their lives to this dreadful disease ... the Rayons of the world," he said.
The guild gave its Life Achievement Award to Rita Moreno, the Puerto Rico-born actress, dancer and singer best known for playing the role of Anita in "West Side Story." At 82, Moreno made one of the more vital appearances of the evening, dropping an F-bomb and singing "This is All I Ask" in a leg-baring dress.
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David Rasche
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| David Rasche | |
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| Born | August 7, 1944 St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. |
| Years active | 1977–present |
| Spouse(s) | Heather Lupton (1980–present) |
| Children | 3 children |
David Rasche (born August 7, 1944) is an American theater, film and television actor who is best known for his portrayal of the title character in the 1980s satirical police sitcomSledge Hammer!. Since then he has often played characters in positions of authority, in both serious and comical
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[hide]EARLY LIFE[EDIT]
Rasche received a graduate degree from the University of Chicago and also worked as a teacher and writer, including several years at Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota.
EARLY CAREER[EDIT]
Rasche was at one time a member of Chicago's Second City improvisation group.
After Second City, he starred in the Organic Theater's 1974 production of David Mamet's Sexual Perversity in Chicago, which established the playwright's characteristic blend of earthy, sometimes brutal dialogue.
In 1974, he invested $1,000 to help start Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago.
He began appearing on television and films in 1977, making his film debut in 1978 in An Unmarried Woman, directed by Paul Mazursky. The following year, he had a small part in Woody Allen's Manhattan.
He played a terrorist in the 1983 television film Special Bulletin. He appeared on the Miami Vice episode "Bushido" (first aired November 22, 1985) as a KGB agent attempting to capture a former colleague of Lt. Castillo (Edward James Olmos). Ironically, during his subsequent starring role on Sledge Hammer! his character would often makes jokes about Miami Vice.
Rasche played Petruchio to Frances Conroy's Kate in a production of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew directed by Zoe Caldwell at the American Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford, Connecticut in the mid-1980s.
SLEDGE HAMMER![EDIT]
Rasche is best known for his portrayal of the title character in the satirical television sitcom Sledge Hammer!, which ran from 1986 to 1988. The show was a spoof of police dramas and concerned the character Sledge Hammer, a violent and chauvinistic policeman.
LATER WORK[EDIT]
Rasche had a minor role as a photographer in the movie Cobra alongside Brigitte Nielsen.
Shortly after Sledge Hammer! ended, he played to critical acclaim in the Broadway production of Mamet's Speed-the-Plow, and he later appeared in an Off-Broadway revival of Mamet's Edmond.
Rasche played the role of Ted Forstmann in the 1993 made for television movie Barbarians at the Gate, about the leveraged buyout(LBO) of RJR Nabisco.
In addition to his work as a screen actor, Rasche can also be heard as Captain Piett in the NPR radio adaptation of The Empire Strikes Back.
He portrayed the late Donald Greene, one of the passengers of doomed flight 93, in Paul Greengrass' 2006 9/11 film United 93.
He had a major role in the 2009 satirical political comedy In the Loop, as a US official pushing for an invasion of an unspecified Middle Eastern country.
Other film roles include:
- He starred as a crooked police officer in the 1989 Tom Selleck movie An Innocent Man.
- He appeared as Stig Ludwigssen in the 2000 movie The Big Tease starring Craig Ferguson.
- He played the President in the 2006 film The Sentinel.
- He has a minor appearance in Clint Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers.
- In 2008, he played a CIA officer in Burn After Reading.
- In fall 2008, Rasche starred in the ill-fated Broadway adaptation of To Be or Not to Be, in a reprisal of Jack Benny's role as Joseph Tura.
- In 2010 he acted as an alcoholic immigration officer in the Brazilian movie Blue Eyes (Olhos Azuis) directed by Jose Joffily, for which he received critical praise.[citation needed]
- Rasche portrayed Chief X in the 2012 science fiction film Men in Black 3.
TELEVISION[EDIT]
Rasche appeared on the short-lived 2001 television series DAG as President Whitman, the President of the United States.
Rasche joined the cast of Ugly Betty in its third season in 2009 as the wealthy father of Matt Hartley, Betty's love interest. He appeared in the final five episodes of season three, and remained in the cast until mid-season four when his character's arc ended.
Other television appearances include:
- Early-1990s NBC sitcom Nurses.
- Columbo: A Trace of Murder, 1997, as the murderer.
- The West Wing episode "The State Dinner", playing a Democratic Party supporter who is also escorting Sam Seaborn's call-girl girlfriend.
- Monk in the 2003 episode "Mr. Monk Goes Back to School", as a gym teacher.
- AMC's Rubicon in the role of James Wheeler.
- All My Children in 2008, in the role of Robert Gardner.
- Bored to Death, in the role of Bernard, the boyfriend of Ted Danson's character's daughter.
- He appeared on the May 11, 2012 episode of Primetime: What Would You Do?, when he inadvertently walked into the scene the producers and actors were putting on, where an employee dropped a customer's package and broke what was in it. David chose not to tell on the employee, and played along, saying, "I didn't hear anything."
PERSONAL LIFE[EDIT]
Rasche is married to Heather Lupton, who made a guest appearance in the series Sledge Hammer as Hammer's ex-wife.[2] The couple have three children.
FILMOGRAPHY[EDIT]
- Something Whispered - Jefferson Monroe (2013)
- The Big Wedding - Barry O'Connor (2013)
- Men in Black 3 - Agent X (2012)
- Die verlorene Zeit - Daniel Levine (2011)
- In the Loop - Linton Barwick (2009)
- Blue Eyes - Marshall (2009)
- Crimes of the Past - Thomas Sparrow (2009)
- Burn After Reading - CIA Officer Palmer(2008)
- The Girl in the Park - Doug (2007)
- The Sentinel - President Ballentine (2006)
- Just Married - Mr. McNerney (2003)
- Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood - Taylor Abbott (2002)
- The Big Tease - Stig Ludwigssen (1999)
- Friends & Lovers - Richard 'Richie' Wickham (1999)
- That Old Feeling - Alan (1997)
- Magic in the Water - Phillip (1995)
- Bingo - Hal Devlin (1991)
- Delirious - Dr. Paul Kirkwood/Dennis (1991)
- An Innocent Man - Detective Mike Parnell (1989)
- Made in Heaven - Donald Sumner (1987)
- Cobra - Dan (1986)
- ABC Grammar Rock - (1985)
- Best Defense - Jeff the 'KBG' Agent (1984)
- Special Bulletin - Dr. David McKeeson (1983)
- Fighting Back - Michael Taylor (1982)
- Honky Tonk Freeway - Eddie White (1981)
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Karen Wasylowski at 6:47 AM January 19, 2014
You know I used to look forward to the Academy Awards - now, why bother? We know exactly who will win, the same people win almost every award on these almost daily shows. Is anyone surprised by the fourth award show? I don't think so. I just like to look at the gowns and then I turn off to watch a cable series.
And the movies! They're getting worse and worse. Screaming/swearing for two hours, or glorified video games. Or Cartoons. Theater movies are for twelve year olds now. No wonder cable and the net are getting bigger and bigger.
Jane Allen at 5:27 AM January 19, 2014
what a bunch of egotists. How many events do these dope smoking high school drop outs and GED recipients have each year to praise themselves for some trashy movie? Hollywood is full of people who are paid outrageous salaries and tell eveybody else how they should live.
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