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...they're often chosen over edgier fare. Thus, in 1977 the softhearted Rocky beat four superior films (All the President's Men, Bound for Glory, Network and Taxi Driver), and in 1982 another inspirational sports movie, Chariots of Fire, won out over Reds and Raiders of the Lost Ark. Oscar also ignores pictures deemed too weird (i.e., modern) or infra dig (i.e., genre films). In judging movie acting, the Academy is often slow to notice the arrival of talent ready to shake up or reshape a staid industry...
...longest time, Oscar ignored them too. The Godfather won Best Picture, but its auteur, Francis Ford Coppola, was not named Best Director. (He won for The Godfather Part II.) Nor did the Academy give Spielberg an Oscar for Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Raiders of the Lost Ark or E.T. (He had to wait till 1994, when Schindler's List took Best Picture and Best Director.) Martin Scorsese, by general acclamation the most intense and gifted director of this talented bunch, wasn't even nominated for Taxi Driver, then suffered a generation of indignity as his work...
...agency dedicated to developing new energy sources would allow us to end our dependency on foreign oil. But if this is too ambitious a plan for our politicians, they can give me my handout and I'll buy a large-screen TV. Jerry Ebersbaker, HOT SPRINGS VILLAGE, ARK...
...victory rally in Little Rock, Ark., Huckabee took a hard-earned moment to gloat, having overwhelmingly won four southern states despite having been counted out by the national press. "Today people across this country are saying that, yes, we heard what the pundits said," Huckabee told the crowd, speaking, as usual, without notes. "But this is our vote, not theirs. This is our election, not theirs. This is our presidency, not theirs...
...experts believe that given the narrow ambit left to the court under the judicial accords between France and Chad, they stand virtually no chance of receiving a more favorable ruling. In fact, French appeals courts are notorious for stiffening sentences in lower court rulings, meaning the Zoé's Ark crew could see they Chadian prison jolts lengthened - and then possibly compounded by eventual conviction in the case the French state brings against them...