Word: englishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...made 29 films, including Oscar winners Midnight Express, Chariots of Fire and The Killing Fields. In 1986 English producer David Puttnam took over Columbia Pictures, vowing to make better films more cheaply and with less reliance on big-name stars. Following that formula, Puttnam put the Columbia name on such films as The Last Emperor, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1987. But in his pursuit of reform, Puttnam alienated much of the Hollywood establishment. A year after he was hired, Puttnam left Columbia. Now home in Wiltshire, he is independently producing a series of movies. Bruised...
When asked by a member of the audience why South African suppression was covered more than oppression in other places, such as Israel, Grossman said he attributed the diference to the fact that South Africans speak English, that they used to be part of the British Commonwealth and that their situation echos the Civil Rights movement...
GHETTO. Joshua Sobol's Nazi-era tragicomedy, seen across the U.S. in an Israeli production, makes its English-language debut on Broadway, with the same vibrant staging...
...soccer game in Bradford, England, fire engulfed the grandstand, killing 56 fans. The same year, 39 people died at Heysel Stadium in Brussels after Liverpool hooligans attacked supporters of the rival Italian team, touching off a lethal stampede. As a result, the Union of European Football Associations banned English clubs indefinitely and barred Liverpool from playing in Europe for an additional three seasons...
...British soccer fans, last week's tragedy could not have come at a more inopportune time. Only four days earlier the U.E.F.A. had decided to re-admit English clubs in the 1990-91 season, subject to British government approval...