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...writing about Oscar nominations for Best Documentary Feature Films [SHOW BUSINESS, Feb. 27], Richard Corliss listed several documentaries that the Academy did not nominate, including The Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl. The fact is that this documentary was never even submitted to the Academy for consideration. Corliss further misstates that I was chairwoman of the Documentary nominating committee, implying that something other than merit was involved in the nomination of the documentary Maya Lin, which I co-produced. I am not the chair of the committee; it is headed by Walter Shenson. The fact that Maya Lin was awarded...
...equally strange family. Crumb's fears, particularly of women, whom Crumb feels are so inaccessible "they won't even let me draw them," are chronicled here, as well as the frustration shown in comics with titles like "Words fail me (Pictures Aren't Much Better)." Of Crumb's work Corliss says "With care and wit, he draws his own demons and goddesses. One thing he never draws is conclusions. That is for the viewer to do, and be horrified or edified."MONEYWATCH...
Thanks for your perceptive article on the controversy over Hoop Dreams' not getting an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary Feature [Show Business, Feb. 27]. However, Richard Corliss referred to the possibility that the documentary nominating committee may have preferred a no-risk, PBS-style format," and I feel it necessary to set the record straight: Hoop Dreams, in fact, is a public-broadcasting project. It was a co-production of St. Paul's Twin Cities Public Television and Chicago's Kartemquin Educational Films, and was funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and PBS (among others). This risk-taking film...
...John will follow the success of The Lion King [Pop Music, March 13] by writing music for a new version of Aida. Maybe now we'll see updates of Carmen, Don Giovanni and Lohengrin, or even new rap versions of Hamlet and King Lear! John E. Brow Chicago Richard Corliss's frank portrayal of John's bad times' being eclipsed by his new, improved, better times was, I hope, the start of the media's casting a more respectful eye toward this funny, brave, phenomenal performer. Leslie Ludwig Cheshire, Connecticut
...stories in the cover package were written by "the two Richards" of TIME's cinematic realm. In New York City senior writer Richard Corliss wove together the main story, while Los Angeles-based critic Richard Schickel commented on what all this has to do with the Oscars, and vice versa...