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...supporting actress Oscar; of a stroke; in Edgartown, Mass. Talented in many modes, she also wrote two hit plays in the 1940s (Over Twenty-One and Years Ago), a novel (Shady Lady, 1982), three volumes of autobiography and, with her husband of 43 years, Director and Novelist Garson Kanin, a host of antic romances, including the Hepburn-Tracy vehicles Adam's Rib (1949) and Pat and Mike...
...Academy Awards, along with myriad other special categories. "The academy has never had a permanent Oscar for makeup artists," says Smith. "The fact that they didn't give an award last year-with so many obvious candidates to choose from-points out the inadequacy of the system." Fay Kanin, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, promises that the academy will look at the complaints and make a decision, probably in the fall. It had better hurry, or this particular special interest group might just decide to turn Oscar into a voodoo doll...
...story wends its predictable way from hostility to love to fight to compromise, the same pattern as hundreds of movies of the era. Script-writer Peter Stone (who worked from a screenplay by Ring Lardner Jr. and Michael Kanin) might have attempted to elevate the drama from the cliched formula to examine the two-career relationship in the '80s. Stone, however, stuck with the original material, and the show labors with a hackneyed script, enlivened by some snappy repartee, but devoid of anything more than situation comedy level significance...
...Garson Kanin, whose bestseller Moviola resulted from a complex collaboration between Wolper Productions, NBC and Simon & Schuster, feels that while the trend may be "very good because it gets a kind of interest and attention for the book, danger can come if film people try to steer the writing. Then we're back in Ghastlyville...
...Garson Kanin, playwright (Born Yesterday), novelist (The Rat Race) and Hollywood memoirist, is wooden in his overall structure but energetic in his scenes. The Fatty Arbuckle party that led to his sex scandal, trial, ruin and censorship; Greta Garbo's slow but sure rise to stardom amid the "ah-rintch" groves, and the pandemoniac search for an actress to play Scarlett O'Hara. Much space is devoted to a novelization of the rise and fall of Marilyn Monroe. Farber's conclusion: Hollywood did not kill her; "it was just a case of bad luck, mismanagement...