Word: blakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...list of nominees turned up a few surprises. Based on the seven nominations for Blake Edwards' Victor/Victoria, the Academy seems ready to forgive Edwards for his 1981 satire on Hollywood, S.O.B. And for the fifth spot in the Best Director category, the nominators picked a name virtually out of the blue - or, rather, out of the deep -Wolfgang Petersen, the young German film maker who directed Das Boot...
...gotta be here. They call me Radar on account of because I can sometimes figure out what somebody's gonna say before they say it-but you knew that already. Just about all the guys here are great, my boss Colonel Blake and the surgeons and even the nurses, they're great guys too. But I miss you, Mom. Enclosed I've put some of my pay, so you can keep up your electrolysis. Love to Uncle Ed and all the animals and especially...
...20th Century-Fox studios in Los Angeles is dark. The backdrop of khaki-drab Korean hills and everything that might serve as inventory, booty or memento have disappeared. Gone are the tables, tubing, clamps and surgical gowns from O.R.; neither the blandly frazzled Lieut. Colonel Henry Blake (McLean Stevenson) nor the avuncular Colonel Sherman Potter (Harry Morgan) will preside any more over that surgeons' battlefield. In the mess hall, the serving trays and cigarette packs are missing; Corporal Klinger (Jamie Farr), the drag queen of 4077, will never again ask Father Mulcahy (William Christopher) to give absolution...
...another advantage, although at the time it must have seemed a daunting challenge. Four of the first season's eight regular cast members eventually left the show, and with each replacement the circle of community became tighter. In his rubber-limbed way, Stevenson's Colonel Blake had been as much a MASH misfit as Frank Burns: a suburban doctor reluctant to command, with a fisherman's wily patience and a heart of puppy chow. When Stevenson departed after the third season (his character was reported killed in an airplane crash in the Sea of Japan), Harry Morgan...
DIED. James Hubert ("Eubie") Blake, 100, durable ragtime composer and lyricist (Charleston Rag and I'm Just Wild About Harry); just five days after his centennial, following a bout of pneumonia; in Brooklyn. A onetime bordello pianist and a contemporary of Scott Joplin, Blake electrified Broadway in 1921 with his music for Shuffle Along. For the next 25 years the modest, unassuming composer enjoyed steady success before sliding into semiobscurity. His music was rediscovered in the '60s and eventually celebrated in such Broadway shows as 1979's Eubie...