Word: cronyn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Martin Short is nominated against George C. Scott, Hume Cronyn, Gregory Peck and, posthumously, J.T. Walsh. Is Short even going to show...
...pity, but just because of exhaustion), I kept trying to remind her what an extraordinary success she had had as a wife, as a mother and as an actress. I hope that it registered and that in her darkest moments she may have remembered and even believed it. HUME CRONYN New York City...
...press credentials will get you into The Clinton Coffees, Pts. 1-44 (1997). Just four bucks will get you a coffee movie. But what exactly is a coffee movie? Parallax View was set in Seattle, yet features maybe two cups of the stuff (although one does kill Hume Cronyn). Pam Grier's blaxploitation babe-fest Coffy (1973), despite its many merits, isn't one either...
...Marvin (Hume Cronyn), who sucks the ink off Yahtzee dice, hasn't uttered a coherent word in years. His sister Ruth (Gwen Verdon) is so devoted to soap operas that she dons a formal gown when her favorite characters wed. His daughter Lee (Meryl Streep), who smokes all the time, has no talent for raising kids. Just look at her son Hank (Leonardo DiCaprio), with his pathological fear of apologizing to people he's hurt. Fortunately, Lee's sister Bessie (Diane Keaton) is around. She has taken care of her dad for 20 years. But no good deed goes unpunished...
...FILM COCOON, THREE OLD codgers played by Don Ameche, Hume Cronyn and Wilford Brimley begin taking furtive dips in a secluded swimming pool next door to their Florida retirement home. The pool, being secretly used by space aliens to rejuvenate companions left behind on a previous expedition, turns out to be a veritable fountain of youth. The senior citizens suddenly come alive: their arthritis disappears; their cancers dissolve; they disco into the night and regain their sexual prowess. Asked a film reviewer: "Wouldn't it be wonderful if decay were so easily washed away...