Word: helene
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...other big winner was "As Good As It Gets," whose unlikely romantic coupling of Helen Hunt and Jack Nicholson got a lock on best actor and actress. "Good Will Hunting" picked up some well-deserved gongs: best supporting actor for Robin Williams, a long overdue first win, and best screenplay for Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, the freshest faces in town. The biggest loser? It had to be the Awards' director, who, despite draconian efforts to keep speeches to a minimum, watched in agony as the ceremony overran by an hour. Some might say precisely the same of "Titanic...
...delivered lines like "I'd rather be Jack's whore than your wife!" In the Dueling British Ladies contest, Judi Dench in Mrs. Brown, who won the Golden Globe, has more momentum than The Wings of the Dove's Helena Bonham Carter. So the race is between Dench and Helen Hunt, also a Globe winner. Give Hunt the edge, since she won the Screen Actors Guild and is the only American nominee--that's how Tomei beat four Limeys...
...British have invaded. Sole American Helen Hunt wowed many with her turn as the waitress-with-backbone (not to mention a great back) in As Good As It Gets, but she's too new a big-screen presence to win. Ditto for Kate Winslet(Titanic), who merits only compassion for her efforts to overcome a rotten script. Julie Christie(Afterglow) already has her Oscar dues; the showdown will likely be between Helena Bonham-Carter (The Wings of the Dove) and Judi Dench(Mrs. Brown...
...Cook was trying to relay the European Union?s belief that such Israeli settlements imperil the peace process,? says TIME London correspondent Helen Gibson. ?But he appears to have handled it really badly, and to have created major problems ahead of Blair?s visit next month.? Then again, with Netanyahu insisting that such settlement activity is non-negotiable, there may have been no diplomatic way for Cook to make his point...
Other winners in the poll included Helen Hunt as best lead female actor and Jack Nicholson as best lead male actor in As Good As It Gets; James Cameron as best actor for Titanic, and Matt Damon as most promising performer...