Word: award
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...tend to be sointrinsically sympathetic that, combined with hisclassic stoic-yet-vulnerable schtick, it's almostoverkill. Almost, but not quite; no one can denyHanks' talent as an actor. However, Ryan's CaptainMiller is not his best role. And since Hanks hasalready strutted his stuff twice before for a BestActor award, the Academy may be less willing toreward him yet again-which is part of what makesthe Best Actor race so exciting and tough to callthis year...
Edward Norton, American History X:Edward Norton is unstoppable. At the tender age of29, he's up for his second Academy Award. He wasrobbed in the 1997 race for Best Supporting Actor(though he won the Golden Globe) by Cuba Gooding,Jr., but now he's hit the big time. Norton isalmost unsettlingly talented; in just a few yearsaudiences have watched him leap, chameleonlike,from psycho killer (Primal Fear) to dancingpreppie (Everyone Says I Love You) to thesemi-reformed white supremacist of the year'sAmerican History X. Though the performancewas intense and thrilling, the Academy probablystill feels that Norton...
...them, the great directorial career this award honors--one of the few such in America that actually changed the way people perceive movies--is irrelevant. To them, Kazan, 89, is a traitor who, almost a half-century ago, when anticommunist blacklisting plagued American life in general and show business in particular, "named names" before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), and, worse, has ever since refused to register shame or apology for so doing. To them, precisely because he was the most powerful individual to choose this course, he remains the central symbolic figure in the cautionary political fable...
...than sufficient punishment for Kazan's ancient apostasy. It is not at all clear how many supporters are rallying to a campaign led by two formerly blacklisted screenwriters, Abraham Polonsky and Bernard Gordon, urging the audience at the Oscar ceremony to "sit on their hands" when Kazan accepts his award unless he recants his sins. This curious plan represents something of a tactical retreat for Polonsky, who only weeks ago was "hoping someone shoots [Kazan]" because "it would no doubt be a thrill on an otherwise dull evening...
DIED. JOSE QUINTERO, 74, Panamanian-born Tony Award-winning theater director and founder of Circle in the Square, a group credited with sparking the off-Broadway movement; of cancer; in New York City. Quintero was best known for his devotion to the dramas of Eugene O'Neill. Often working with Jason Robards, Quintero directed more than a dozen of O'Neill's works, including the original Broadway production of Long Day's Journey into Night...