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We\u2019re kicking off our May miniseries on Focus Features with the winner of our Listeners\u2019 Choice poll, 1999\u2032s\u00a0The Muse<\/i>. To kick things off, we\u2019re looking at how Focus was birthed from the previous companies of USA Films, October Films, Gramercy Pictures and Good Machine. Written and directed by Albert Brooks,\u00a0The Muse<\/i>\u00a0stars Sharon Stone as the titular eccentric tasked with reviving the career of a once-celebrated Hollywood screenwriter (also played by Brooks). The antics result in a slew of cameos, Andie MacDowell baking cookies, and multiple trips to an aquarium, and it all resulted in a Golden Globe nomination for Stone before Oscar looked elsewhere.<\/p>\n
But that Globe nomination is now remembered as one of the many bumps in the history of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association\u2019s practices, namely for the watches they received as part of Stone\u2019s FYC campaign. This episode, we look at the lineup of films from the companies that merged into Focus Features, Brooks\u2019 surprisingly limited Oscar history, and Stone\u2019s ascension in the 1990s.<\/p>\n
Topics also include our other Listeners\u2019 Choice film options, the film\u2019s datedness even for 1999, and Elton John\u2019s abysmal original song for the film.<\/p>\n
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