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« on: April 02, 2004, 11:30:20 PM »i also can't get past Blair Brown with John Belushi in Continental Divide. it was on the other day!
I've never seen the film, but the making of it is discussed extensively in Bob Woodward's Wired, which I read several months ago mainly because I found a copy at a used bookstore for a dime and because Saturday Night Live interests me, though I'm not a huge fan of Belushi.
It was kind of striking to read about an SNL actor who envisioned himself as playing a Cary Grant, romatic lead type role in this film when the project was presented to him early on and hoped to use it as a springboard to do more "serious" work. Obviously, the film ran into all sorts of bumps, and this is not what it turned out to be.
Flash forward twenty years, and we see fellow SNL alum Bill Murray get an Oscar nomination for Lost in Translation and hear the ongoing discussion of how this was "the role of a lifetime" for him and his "one shot at an Oscar," and he comments himself that the nomination is bittersweet because he recognizes that some of his SNL mates who are no longer around never got this opportunity though they definitely wanted it.
It makes it all the more disappointing that Continental Divide turned out badly.