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...like a nightmare. Tepid repartee was met with jittery tittering in the audience; microphones and material failed regularly; lack of distinction was the order of the night. Hardly anyone could quarrel with Rod Steiger's Oscar for best actor in In the Heat of the Night, but Katharine Hepburn's award for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner seemed simply a sentimental tribute to a career more remarkable than her latest performance. George Kennedy's recognition as best supporting actor in Cool Hand Luke was long overdue. But naming Estelle Parsons best supporting actress for Bonnie...
Somewhere in a procession of singularly mindless Oscars, the Academy saw fit to honor a great lady of stage and screen, Katharine Hepburn. Miss Hepburn, who had won her last award more than 30 years ago, was named best actress for her appearance in another tale of love between the races, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner...
...devotees of its director, Howard Hawks, are those who consider Baby very serious both as a romance and as a treatment of the theme of emasculation. How serious may be arguable, but such an interpreation is admissible precisely because the two main characters, played by Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn, are drawn neatly and adhered to unflaggingly. Grant is a man torn between dignity and free expression; Hepburn is a woman who expresses herself...
...Baby seems the more remarkable when you consider that it belongs to that class of movies known as "screwball comedies." Theoretically Baby is closer in genre to the Marx Bros. Pictures than to high comedies on the order of The Philadelphia Story. In practice, the presence of Grant and Hepburn, stars of great craft and surprising versatility, defines the tone of Baby as much as its insane story-line. When Grant says, "It isn't that I don't like you, Susan, because in moments of quiet I feel strangely drawn to you ... only there haven't been any quiet...
40TH ANNUAL AWARDS PRESENTATION OF THE ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS AND SCIENCES (ABC, 10 p.m. to conclusion). Angie Dickinson, Macdonald Carey, Barbra Streisand, Audrey Hepburn, Warren Beatty, Kirk Douglas and Carol Channing join Bob (still-waiting-for-an-Oscar) Hope in this year's presentations. of Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt (1922) and John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath (1939). Pat Hingle and Richard Boone read selections from the two works...