Word: awarded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...guys want a complimentary pass?" asks Barbara Kopple. She is fiddling with desk drawers in the Orson Welles. "No, sorry--it has to be signed," She shuts the desk abruptly. Kopple is the Academy award-wining director of Harlan County, USA, chosen last month as best documentary, and her credentials are impressive--sound woman on Hearts and Minds, camera, sound and direction on Winter Soldiers, and camera woman Gimme Shelter--all three classic documentaries of the 1970s. Kopple is a veteran of the anti-war movement, "from the first Pentagon march where they clubbed us," and sincere in her leftism...
What about the Oscar? "I thought long and hard about it when the film was nominated--it's really important. But one thing stuck out--all the documentary people sat together, and when the award was announced, we all sat with our eyes closed and holding hands. Nowhere in the place was there such solidarity." Later she recounted being led through the press rooms, "People shouting questions at me--aaaiiieee, frenetic you know? And Rocky, Sylvester Stallone, comes up to me and punches me on the arm and says, 'Ya made a good movie, kid.' It was crazy." Will...
Network. This is the film that garnered Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay at last month's Academy Award ceremonies, and if you haven't already, you're probably dying to see it. Take our world for it--don't. The best thing about this movie about the shenanigans behind the evening news at UBS is commentator Peter Finch's letter perfect impersonation of Eric Sevareid. But once you get over your amusement at that stentorian phrasing you find... nothing. The film is as sterile as a 30 second clip of Amy Carter walking to her integrated school. Faye...
...battle against impotence of a biological rather than an existential kind, complicated and intensified by a Southern upbringing and a Christian conversion. And next to The Moviegoer, whose main Southern Catholic character claims to feel "more Jewish than the Jews I know," and which won the 1962 National Book Award, Percy's declarative style has become self-conscious and strained. His first novel, The Last Gentleman, is his most exploratory, and a personal favorite. But after that, there is the newest song from Mr. Percy's canary...
After a final song by Ann-Margret -whom one wag nominated for a special award, "Best Body on an Adult" -the winners and losers moved on to the Beverly Hilton for some salmon mousse and fillet. Just as they were sitting down in their gowns and tuxedos, an equally elegant bunch was drifting out of Manhattan's Tavern on the Green, where Superagent Irving ("Swifty") Lazar had invited 200 of his closest friends-including Bianco Jagger, Truman Capote, Polly Bergen, Yul Brynner, Walter Cronkite and Lee Radziwill -to help him celebrate his 70th birthday and to watch the awards...