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...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 the Oscar shows that it was nominated on its merits. Corliss quoted film critic Roger Ebert [as seeing the nomination of Maya Lin as "logrolling"], but it should be noted that after screening Maya Lin, Ebert said it "deserved to be nominated...
...time on their hands) and conservative (preferring a no-risk, pbs-style format). They are also frequently accused of cronyism. The co-producer of one of the new nominees, Maya Lin, is Freida Lee Mock, the committee's chairwoman. Though Mock stepped off the panel this year, critic Roger Ebert sees the nomination as "logrolling. It's something you expect in pie-baking contests at the county fair." Many past nominated films have been made by committee members or have been distributed by Direct Cinema, a company run by committee sachem Mitchell Block. He insists the decision process is pure...
Forget Siskel and Ebert. TIME consulted a real professional: Zena, a psychic and tarot-card reader with offices on Bleecker Street in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. Her predictions...
Contrary to Roger Ebert's perception of the recurring Cruise character (earnest, cocky young man who gets the girl), Cruise said he feels that all of the characters he has played are very different; he stressed the extra preparation he has given to creating them. He learned how to drive a race car for "Days of Thunder," (his first film with his wife, Nicole Kidman), learned to flip bottles for his role as a cheeky bartender in "Cocktail," was coached on his Irish brogue for "Far and Away," (his second film with Kidman) and studied trial law (not at Harvard...
...PAUL EBERT...