Word: deservingness
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What do Tilda Swinton in Female Perversions, Debbi Morgan in Eve's Bayou, and Russell Crowe and Kevin Spacy in L.A. Confidential all have in common? Two things, actually. First, to my thinking, they are the deserving winners of the four acting awards at this year's Academy Awards.
In the script adaptation race, L.A. Confidential has the dual virtue of both deserving to win and being assured of doing so. For original scripts, Good Will Hunting is a lock, but without the year's most deserving competitors--Eve's Bayou, The Apostle and In the Company of Men...
The high quality of the body of work of black soul musicians in the '60s and '70s never fails to impress me. I have personally collected the music of such widely known greats as Stevie Wonder, The Supremes and The Spinners, as well as equally deserving but less commonly recognized...
So when two teams collaborated in the season's final game to let hobbled University of Connecticut star Nykesha Sales break the No. 2-ranked school's scoring record, columnists and talk-show callers went nuts. They railed that it was an insult to the integrity of sports--as bad...
Hays said she was touched to learn that although the girl had so little she was willing to give the watch up to someone she thought was more deserving.