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...crew finally waved goodbye to the Australian contingent, they shuffled back to their Yard headquarters and sighed with relief. About 30 minutes later, Anderson and Neal received a call from the airport saying they were missing the Australian Secretary of Defense. After a short frantic search, they located the gentleman who bored with the press conference, had "snack...
...Motion Picture Arts and Sciences like to think of themselves as responsible citizens. Given the choice between a serious movie and one that is merely entertaining, they will almost always choose the former. Examples in the past: One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest over Jaws (1975) and Gentleman's Agreement over Miracle on 34th Street...
...dazzling performance as the doomed survivor of the Nazi camps in Sophie's Choice. Ben Kingsley won the Best Actor award for his uncanny portrayal of Mahatma Gandhi; Louis Gossett Jr. was chosen Best Supporting Actor for his hard-nosed drill sergeant in An Officer and a Gentleman; and Jessica Lange, who was also running in the Best Actress category for Frances, was picked as Best Supporting Actress for playing the girl who gets the girl, Dustin Hoffman, in Tootsie...
...head at the age of 39, in 1941, police arrested one of the cuckolded husbands, Sir John Henry ("Jock") Delves Broughton, 57. The motive seemed compelling. Broughton's bride of three months, Diana, 27, had fallen in love with Lord Erroll and wanted a divorce. Always the gentleman, Jock acquiesced; he even went so far as to bless the union of his erstwhile best friend and his bride. But as Lord Erroll remarked on the eve of his murder, "He has been so nice it smells...
...stand being poked fun at, when it is deserved. Yet some of the correspondence on Bloom County transcended humor, or even snideness. People seemed concerned more than anything to use The Crimson as a punching bag--a phenomenon that has not gone unnoticed in the past. One gentleman commented that "no one gives a damn what the Crimson's policies are," an indication of the slightly schizophrenic light in which the paper is seen: the people who say "nobody gives a damn" are the same ones who take the time to write in the first place, exhorting us to change...