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Ending weeks of Oscar hype with an unsuspenseful flourish, favorite Forrest Gump topped contender Pulp Fiction for Best Picture, winning a grand total of six awards to Pulp's lone statuette. Tom Hanks (Gump) was Best Actor and Jessica Lange (Blue Sky) Best Actress; Martin Landau (Ed Wood) and Dianne Wiest (Bullets over Broadway) took Supporting honors...
...then again, other films conspire to leave us still deeper in the dark. Why couldn't "Billy Madison" have been the main character in "Forrest Gump," for example? They're equally stupid and both bear the name of a leader from south of the Mason-Dixon line. Or how about "True Lies" as a new title for "Basic Instinct?" How about "Basic Instinct" for just about every movie with a nude Sharon Stone...
According to these narrow, Eastern minds, L.A. is being overrun by a slew of evils, including earthquakes, fires, riots, mudslides, defense cutbacks, immigrant bashers, Forrest Gump lovers and the aforementioned Mr. Simpson's defense team...
...know. They are smart guys, all of them, but ask yourself this: a year ago, did you know--or even guess--that when the Academy Awards rolled around again the odds-on favorite to sweep a bunch of the big ones would be something called Forrest Gump? Or that its chief competitor would be Pulp Fiction? And what about Four Weddings and a Funeral, also in the running for best picture? Did you imagine that a $4 million romantic comedy, made in England, with no big stars, would turn out to be, dollar-in, dollar-out, the most profitable picture...
...Mangler" at 10:40 p.m. "Outbreak" at 1:15, 4, 7 and 9:50 p.m. "Nobody's Fool" at 1:25, 3:40, 6 and 8:45 p.m. "Hideaway" at 1:35, 3:50, 6:30 and 9 p.m. "Forrest Gump" at 12:30, 3:20, 6:15 and 9:25 p.m. "Heavyweights...