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...were for best picture (he co-produced Terms), best director and best screenplay adaptation, and two of his picture's stars also came in first. Shirley MacLaine was named best actress for her role as Aurora Greenway, the film's impossible but ultimately likable mother, and Jack Nicholson was chosen best supporting actor for playing Aurora's lecherous astronaut lover. The other major awards at the seemingly endless (a record 3 hr. 46 min.) ceremony went to favorites: Robert Duvall won the best actor Oscar for his role as an alcoholic country singer in Tender Mercies; Linda...
...felt that if Terms of Endearment lives as a comedy, I would be proud. If not, I would be a little lost." Trying to translate that kind of humor onto film was not easy however. Brooks tinkered endlessly with his script and added a new romance for Aurora, the Nicholson character who was not in McMurtry's novel. Sometimes he made his actors go through half a dozen takes, with half a dozen different approaches, so that he could choose the version he wanted in the editing room. "Jim wanted his choice of different levels of comedy," says Winger...
...however, he is still in a kind of daze. He and his wife Holly held hands and trembled through the whole awards ceremony, he says, and then made the round of parties, ending up at On the Rox, a hip club on Sunset Boulevard, with MacLaine, Winger and Nicholson. "We took a great prom picture on the stairs," he says. "To me it was the great prom picture I never got because I never had the great prom...
...have not been social butterflies on the Washington scene. I have not courted the opinion makers in Washington or New York socially, the way you're "supposed to." He has, however, cultivated friends in Hollywood since his McGovernite days. His more glamorous backers include Beatty, Robert Redford, Jack Nicholson, Goldie Hawn and Margaux Hemingway. In Washington he keeps close ties to influential reporters. For about a year before his most recent reconciliation with Lee, he lived at the home of Bob Woodward, the Washington Post investigative reporter who helped break open Watergate...
...wait. What about uptight Aurora and that raffish former astronaut, Garrett Breedlove (Jack Nicholson, giving a joyously comic display of just the kind of wrong stuff that appalls and attracts her)? Merely thinking over the possibilities he presents takes some comical time. He has been living next door to Aurora for ten years before she hints that she might entertain a luncheon invitation from him. Five years later she actually accepts it. Thereupon a woman who once told an admirer not to worship her unless she deserved it plunges giddily into a relationship with a man she knows suffers that...