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...just sat there and stared at me, and I stared back.' Liza convinced Ebb that she was his Flora, but she had a harder time with director George Abbott ... Liza's revenge was that the critics booed the play and raved over her. She received the 1965 Tony Award as Best Actress in a Musical. At 19, she was the youngest actress-winner in the award's history. When Flora closed, Ebb worked with her on a nightclub act. Not for the first time and not for the last, Liza realized how much her mother's aura hung over...
ELTON JOHN is starting to remind us of that curmudgeonly relative who blurts out what everyone else is really thinking at the family reunion. While accepting a songwriting award in London last week, the elder rocker, 57, griped that he couldn't believe Madonna had been nominated for best live act. "Since when has lip synching been live?" John asked. "Madonna, best [expletive] live act? [Expletive] off." Last month John called a group of Taiwanese paparazzi who ambushed him "rude, vile pigs." And last spring he called the reality show American Idol "racist" after two black contestants were eliminated...
Life would be even better with an Academy Award nomination, and Foxx isn't shy about saying so. "You'd be stupid not to want that," he says. "It allows you to get better projects." If he were to win, he says the first and only person he'd thank would be his 95-year-old mother, who suffers from Alzheimer's but is otherwise healthy. He will not cry though. "I always tell people, do not cry on television, because they will run that over and over again. Who was the big black dude? Ving Rhames!" he shouts, making...
...Carruth proves anything with his film, it is that sci-fi movies dealing with the tenuous nature of the time-continuum need Christopher Lloyd. In addition to the Grand Prize, Robert Redford’s sad attempt at a cinema chateau also awarded the film a prize for the advancement of science and technology in film. If Primer deserves any prize, it is a Razzie award for the most nauseating and incomprehensible science fiction film ever created...
...previously hidden from the public,” he says, “a documentary is performing a similar function to All the President’s Men”—the book by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward detailing the Watergate scandal that later became an award-winning movie...