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...type of best actor nomination with the cover story on George C. Scott (March 22). Though Scott had scorned the Oscar, the Academy in the end also found him irresistible. Following another hunch, the editors recently sent Contributing Editor Mark Goodman to England for an interview with Glenda Jackson; she turned out to be the dark-horse winner in the best actress category. "It was good to see a magnetic screen talent rewarded," he said. "Frankly, I was just as surprised as everybody else." His story on Actress Jackson appears in the Show Business section...
...Easy Pieces) as best supporting actress instead of Winner Helen Hayes (Airport). Otherwise, though, Mrs. Evans was as prescient as could be: she correctly named Patton for best picture, best direction (Franklin J. Schaffner), best actor (George C. Scott), and best original screenplay (Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund North); Glenda Jackson (Women in Love) for best actress; John Mills (Ryan's Daughter) for best supporting actor; Francis Lai (Love Story) for best musical score. It was too much to expect that she would also have picked the Oscar ceremony's best decolletage, which clearly and defiantly belonged...
...Ryan O'Neal in Love Story) are all hanging right in there. The potential Best Actresses are, too. They include Carrie Snodgress in Diary of a Mad Housewife, Ali MacGraw in Love Story, Jane Alexander in The Great White Hope, Sarah Miles in Ryan's Daughter and Glenda Jackson in Women in Love. Nominations in the other categories included the usual mind-boggling number of mediocrities: Airport, for instance, received a total of ten, including one for Best Picture. To Hollywood, quality and high budgets are often synonymous...
...Scratching. Tchaikovsky (Richard Chamberlain) is first observed in the bed of his lover, Count Anton Chiluvsky. As played by Christopher Gable, the count is a vaudevillain complete with waxed mustache and leer. Tchaikovsky, fleeing from scandal, marries the nymphomaniacal Nina Ivanovna (Glenda Jackson). The outcome is nearly homicidal. (One night, wrote the tormented composer, "I was within a hairbreadth of succumbing to that blind, unreasoning, diseased loathing that ends in murder.") Tchaikovsky suffers a series of breakdowns. Nina ends her life in a sanitarium, hopelessly insane...
...madwoman, Glenda Jackson does not damage her reputation so much as caricature it. In Women in Love she was the feminine soul brought beyond the melting point. Here again she writhes in agonies of longing, but her yowling and rug scratching are more reminiscent of feline heat than feminine misery. As for the composer. Chamberlain has the appearance and emotional range of an Aubrey Beardsley faun. After he gambols through the woods, one expects to find tiny cloven hoofprints...