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Thus began an acting career that spanned more than 40 films and four decades. Among her best-known early pictures were Casque d'Or (1952), which won her the British Film Academy award for her portrayal of a free spirit, and Room at the Top (1959), for which she was awarded the Oscar for best actress, in the sensitively played role of a woman who was jilted by an ambitious younger lover. By then, at the age of 37, Signoret had reached a turning point in her professional life. "That is a difficult age for an actress," she recalled...
Last week's Walter Mondale ("We will win") Award for prediction inaccuracy goes to me, the only member of The Crimson Sports Cube who did not correctly predict every game last Saturday...
Commenting on the Bhopal case, Belli said he expected to win a $1 billion award from Union Carbide Co. on behalf of 22,000 clients. Thousands of people were killed or injured in the Indian village when deadly gas leaked from a Union Carbide plant earlier this year...
Tomlin won a 1977 Tony Award for her one-woman show Appearing Nitely. Both that comic montage and The Search for Signs were written and directed by Jane Wagner, who also collaborated with Tomlin on three Grammy-nominated record albums, four Emmy-honored TV specials and the film The Incredible Shrinking Woman. Wagner has developed a shrewd ear for Tomlin's inflections and an uncluttered directing style that takes full advantage of the star's arms- outflung exuberance and her adroitness at shifting from character to character, place to place, reality to fantasy and back. Here Tomlin plays a baker...
DIED. Lloyd Nolan, 83, versatile actor of stage, screen and television, whose memorable roles ranged from the genial neighborhood policeman in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) to the psychotic Captain Queeg in a TV production of The Caine Mutiny Court Martial for which he won an Emmy Award in 1956; of lung cancer; in Los Angeles...