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After garnering Emmy and Directors Guild nominations for his television work, Miller made the leap to feature films, directing "Any Wednesday," Jane Fonda's first comedic success...
...March 1996, Mira Sorvino '89 was onstage in Los Angeles accepting her Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Mighty Aphrodite. That film's writer-director, nominated the same evening for his screenplay, was named earlier that month as the Directors Guild of America's Lifetime Achievement Award recipient. And where during all these festivities was the illustrious filmmaker himself...
Into the current Sturm und Drang comes the Bertelsmann deal. "The decision of what is on the shelves is in the hands of a few," laments Paul Aiken, executive director of the Authors Guild. "This is consolidation in a major and disturbing way." Industry alarmists are concerned that advances are sure to dwindle when BDD and Random House are no longer competing for books. Bertelsmann disagrees. "I've heard much concern about advances in the past six years," says new Random House head Olson, "and they have only moved in one direction." North. Facing his critics, he says...
This irony was not lost on the director when he appeared last week at the first American public screening of his work, in Los Angeles, which was jointly sponsored by his union (the Directors Guild) and his agents (ICM). The film was appreciatively received, perhaps more as a civil liberties cause manque (you know how Hollywood loves those) than as a presumptive work of art (you know how anxious those make Hollywood). A couple of days before the screening, the press had reported that Lolita's backers were discussing a straight-to-cable release of their $50-ish million product...
...citation from the four of the five primary critics' groups who often foreshadow Oscars, and Robin Williams of Good Will Hunting, who has lost three times and now finds himself with a serious, broadly-appealing vehicle to recommend him. Edge to Robin Williams, who won from the Screen Actors Guild--the Actors Branch comprises by far the largest bloc in the voting Academy...