Flashback

  As we continue our 80-day countdown to the 80th anniversary of the Golden Globe awards on January 10, 2023, we look back on 1985, the year that Kathleen Turner won her first Golden Globe award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy/Musical, opposite Michael Douglas in Romancing the Stone. In a special Rewind edition of the Golden Globe Around the World podcast series, we hear the five-time nominated actress talk about that role, that award and her incredible history with the Globes beginning 40 years ago with her first nomination as Best New Star in Body Heat.

Ghosts of all kinds were very much in the minds of Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray when they came to see us back in June 1984. “Beyond American cinema, even Bergman loves the use of ghosts and devils visiting the Earth and that kind of thing”, Dan Aykroyd told us.

When we interviewed Tom Hanks for the first time, in September of 1986, he was mere two and a half years away from his first Golden Globe. Hanks was finally making strides in his career as a feature film actor, after a false start in 1980 in the horror flic He Knows You’re Alone (his character was supposed to die at the hands of the psycho killer, but director Armand Mastroianni found him so engaging that he decided to ax the death scene in the editing suite).

“To tell the entire story would be like 50,000 words”, Sylvester Stallone told us on November 15, 1976. “But a brief summary would be that my career had come to a sputtering standstill.

Keanu Reeves has been making some interesting choices lately - voicing a namesake cat in Key & Peele’s feline-in-the-hood movie, joining the exodus of A-list movie stars to TV with the series Rain. Or playing against type in The Neon Demon, director Nicolas Winding Refn’s stylish, nightmarish meditation on fame, beauty and sex that split the Cannes Film Festival in two.

This week’s opening of Matthew McConaughey’s new movie, director Gary Ross’ Civil War drama Free State of Jones, is the perfect occasion to recall our first encounter with our future Golden Globe winner. It was exactly 20 years ago, in July of 1996, and McConaughey’s breakthrough movie, director Joel Schumacher’s legal drama A Time to Kill, was weeks away from its premiere.

Fans of the 2010 Australian movie Animal Kingdom are probably excited and curious to see how that terse crime drama will translate into a TV show – starting June 14 the series will launch on TNT, transposed from Down Under to a Southern California beach town. Here’s a piece of good news: the pivotal role of implacable matriarch Janine “Smurf” Cody, which earned Jackie Weaver a Golden Globe nomination, has been taken over by another Golden Globe nominee, the talented Ellen Barkin.