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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...
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...
Biographer Martin Seymour-Smith handles much of the fiction as inspired entertainments and a good deal of the criticism as counterattacks in the literary wars. Graves' targets were not insignificant. Vachel Lindsay: "jazz Blake, St. Francis of Assisi playing the saxophone at the Firemen's Ball." Ezra Pound: bad rhythms and "a wet handshake." Dylan Thomas: "a Welsh demagogic masturbator who failed to pay his bills." T.S. Eliot: "a marvelous satirist with a true poetic sense who had sold out to institutionalized religion...
...Patricia Blake...