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...quota of ambitious and/or self-important "prestige" projects--films whose stars and makers might reasonably have felt they had a shot at winning heaps of major nominations. Why did so many of these offerings fail? Has Hollywood lost the knack for marketing serious pictures? Take blustery movies about killing Englishmen: Does anyone really think Braveheart (last year's Best Picture) is significantly better than Michael Collins (only two minor nominations this year)? TIME asked a pair of experts--a top studio publicist and a former studio head (and Academy member) to pick over the remains of some of this year...
Tomorrow morning, millions of Englishmen will be anguishing over manager Glenn Hoddle's preference to Matt Le Tissier in his starting line-up over Paul Merson or Les Ferdinand; thousands of Chelsea fans will be torn between club and country on account of Gianfranco Zola's well-taken strike...
Paris fashion is nothing if not international. The last Frenchman to enter the big time was Christian Lacroix 10 years ago. The king of the industry is Chanel's Karl Lagerfeld, who is German. But the headlines are now being made by two young Englishmen: John Galliano, 36, and Alexander McQueen, just 27. A charming, egregiously talented pixie of a man, Galliano took over the house of Givenchy last year but has already moved on to preside over Christian Dior, considered--along with Chanel--the most important French fashion empire. McQueen, an East Ender previously unknown outside the trendier London...
...like Transylvania and turn GATT into another kind of four-letter word. Among TV talk-show conservatives, Buchanan emerged as the foremost belligerent power because when he talks, no niceties are observed. Race and immigration? "If we had to take a million immigrants in, say, Zulus, next year, or Englishmen, and put them in Virginia, what group would be easier to assimilate?" (1991) Women? "Simply not endowed by nature with the same measures of single-minded ambition and the will to succeed." (1983) Gays? "Have declared war on nature...
...social tensions and social divisions." But as a speechwriter, columnist and candidate, he has rarely missed a chance to open those wounds and pour salt in them. In 1992 he talked publicly about the problems a million immigrant "Zulus" might have assimilating in Virginia, compared with a million "Englishmen." He has expressed some doubts about the Holocaust and has said of the AIDS epidemic that "promiscuous homosexuals appear literally hell-bent on Satanism and suicide." His past attacks on gays, Jews and minorities make him a scary prospect, particularly as his rhetoric becomes more nuanced and his codes more subtle...