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...unexpected citation -- for a tender acting turn by a first-time performer in an inexpensive ($5 million) foreign movie -- thrilled Davidson. The minimoguls at Miramax, the film's U.S. distributor, might have been tickled too, since The Crying Game received five other important nominations (for best picture, actor, director, screenplay and editing), which promises that the film's domestic gross, a robust $16 million so far, could double or better. But the Miramaxers were spooked. They had helped make Davidson's identity the best-kept open secret in recent movie history. Would the ingenue's Oscar bid spoil their hiding...
According to a spokesperson for Priority Records, the recently-named distributor of the artist's work, Ice T was on his yacht in the Mediterranean Sea last night, and was un- available for comment...
...DISTRIBUTOR: VOYAGER/THE CRITERION COLLECTION...
According to Sally Greenberg, counsel for the Anti-Defamation League of New England, the newspaper is published by Chicago resident Gerhardt Lauck, "the largest distributor of neo-Nazi propaganda in what was the former West Germany...
...Spike Lee Joint. Even before shooting began, Lee conferred with Black Muslim minister Louis Farrakhan, an early associate of Malcolm's who has vexed many with his antiwhite, anti-Jewish harangues. Lee also hired a Black Muslim security force as bodyguards on the set. He fought publicly with his distributor (Warner Bros.) and insurer (the Completion Bond Co.) when work on the overbudget film was suspended. Then he solicited and received gifts from black entertainers (Bill Cosby, Oprah Winfrey) to help him complete postproduction. He urged kids to skip school and see Malcolm X on its opening day. He discouraged...