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...less, who administered a scolding to those who had rebuffed Kennedy's manuscript and thereby inaugurated a streak of magic. When Ironweed finally appeared in 1983, it won a fistful of awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, not to mention a sale to Hollywood for a big-budget adaptation (Jack Nicholson! Meryl Streep!). Meanwhile -- the narrative gets even better -- Kennedy, now 60, found himself the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation fellowship ($264,000 over five years), diverse other honors, and that peculiar American status,the long, drawn-out, overnight success...
...Academy must have been on automatic pilot to make such choices as William Hurt, Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep and even Cher, all of whom have been nominated countless times in the last few years...
Best Actor Michael Douglas William hurt Marcello Mastroianni Jack Nicholson Robin WilliamsBest Actress Cher Glenn Close Holly Hunter Sally Kirkland Meryl Streep Best Supporting Actor Albert Brooks Sean Connery Morgan Freeman Vincent Gardenia Denzel Washington Best Supporting Actress Norma Aleandro Anne Archer Olympia Dukakis Anne Ramsey Ann Sothern Best Director Bernardo Bertolucci John Boorman Lasse Hallstrom Adrian Lyne Norman Jewison Best Picture Broadcast News Fatal Attraction Hope and Glory The Last Emperor Moonstruck Gary L. Susman Arts Editor Michael Douglas Cher Sean Connery Olympia Dukakis Bernardo Bertolucci Broadcast News Aline Brosh Arts Staff WriterMichael Douglas Holly Hunter Sean Connery Olympia...
...Soviets have never apologized for fatally shooting U.S. Army Maj. Arthur D. Nicholson in East Germany on March 24, 1985, although they did apologize for wounding Army Master Sgt. Charles L. Barry, shot in the arm by a Soviet soldier on Sept...
Both Berenger and Poitier have screen presences which generate their power more from a natural dignity than from affability or audience sympathy--more like Nicholson than William Hurt, for example. But in a dog like Shoot to Kill, an actor needs to be liked more than respected; it's impossible to keep a regal bearing in a circus of fools. The writers seemed to have recognized this problem, but their attempts at humanizing humor fall far short. In one scene for example, Poitier and Berenger are confronted by a bear, do a "Yikes!" take, and run away. Not even...