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...Actress, and Best Screenplay at last month's Academy Award ceremonies, and if you haven't already, you're probably dying to see it. Take our world for it--don't. The best thing about this movie about the shenanigans behind the evening news at UBS is commentator Peter Finch's letter perfect impersonation of Eric Sevareid. But once you get over your amusement at that stentorian phrasing you find... nothing. The film is as sterile as a 30 second clip of Amy Carter walking to her integrated school. Faye Dunaway won her Best Actress award for Chinatown, not this...
Best actress went to Faye Dunaway as the bitchy-pushy programming V.P. in Network; her loony anchorman co-star Peter Finch, who died last January, was named Best Actor. Rocky, Sylvester ("Sly") Stallone's uplift tale about the little-known heavyweight who could, won Best Picture...
...SINGLE MOST TASTELESS PIECE OF FILM FOOTAGE AWARD: To the stooge who selected a scene out of Network, screened minutes after the deceased Peter Finch has won the Best Actor Award, that showed the news anchorman he plays in the film having a heart attack...
...AFTER All the President's Men took the first few rounds, snatching Best Supporting Actor, Best Set Design and Best Sound, Network began bearing down with Best Supporting Actress (Beatrice Straight), Best Screenplay, Best Actress (Faye Dunaway) and Best Actor (Peter Finch, who, as a knowledgeable friend of ours in Minneapolis put it, won on the death angle, since he suffered a fatal heart attack several months after the picture had been finished). But the evening finally went to a fairy-tale called Rocky, which, like three very dry martinis, makes you feel good. But Rocky takes much longer. Relevance...
...Jeff, 24, formerly a student at Georgia State, is studying for a degree in geography at George Washington University. As for Rosalynn, she has enough First Lady duties to rate her own East Wing office. She meets there each morning with her 18-member staff, including Press Secretary Mary Finch Hoyt, to discuss plans for upcoming state dinners-on Feb. 14 for Mexican President Jose Lopez Portillo and on Feb. 21 for Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau. She wants to help promote the flagging Equal Rights Amendment and plans to get involved in mental-health activities...