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Nominee number five is "Sense and Sensibility"--like "Apollo 13," its director (Ang Lee) did not receive a nomination. But "Sense" won the Golden Globe award for best dramatic picture, and in the past 16 years, the Globes have accurately predicted 12 best picture winners, 12 best actors, and 14 best female actors. But the Golden Globes also splits its awards into two categories, Drama and Comedy/Musical--this year, the latter award went to "Babe." Still, the odds are good for "Sense and Sensibility." It's not the clear favorite, but it probably has the edge...
...quiet land. Deep, delicately carved canyons twist through golden walls of sandstone. A tortoise hides in the shade of a Joshua tree. Listen closely and you can hear the sound of a stream trickling through the rocks, over polished pebbles, and into a pool of crystal water...
...dominant in the ratings then, but morale was falling: many of its hits (Cosby, The Golden Girls, L.A. Law) were past their prime, and Littlefield admits he didn't move fast enough to make changes. When Don Ohlmeyer, a former NBC Sports exec, was brought in to oversee the network's entertainment division in 1993, many figured Littlefield would get the ax. Yet he survived--even through the dark days when NBC was being derided for having lost Letterman, who initially drew great ratings on CBS. "The scariest thing was when Dave came on that first year," he says...
DIED. LYLE TALBOT, 94, character actor; in San Francisco. His hard-edged good looks got him cast as the heavy in Golden Age Hollywood--and when they softened, as friendly neighbor Joe Randolph on TV's surreally suburban Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet...
...simply reporting historical fact: nothing was ruled out in Dirty Soccer as played at the Hale H. Cook school in Kansas City, Missouri, in the Golden Age of Dirty Soccer. There is such a thing as brutal competition within limits (e.g., the campaign for the Republican nomination) and such a thing as all-out war (e.g., the endgame in the battle between Charles and Diana...