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Consider the group's recent successes. Pitt has gained star status since his leading role as a wild-hearted rancher in Legends of the Fall, the country's No. 1 box-office hit for four weeks this winter. Ethereal beauties Ryder and Thurman earned Oscar nominations last week- Ryder for her role as Jo in Gillian Armstrong's Little Women and Thurman for her portrayal of a heroin-sniffing Mob wife in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction. Hawke has been winning rave reviews for his role as a charmingly scruffy, Auden-quoting romantic in Before Sunrise. In the meantime, Mary...
Last week, like Robert Redford and John Travolta, Bennett was nominated for an Oscar. King George received nods for Nigel Hawthorne (Best Actor), Helen Mirren (Best Supporting Actress) and Bennett for Screenplay Adaptation. His reaction is mildly pleased: "I'm happy, because it means more people will see the film...
That same reticence may keep this most English of writers in London on Oscar night. "I'm not a big traveler," he says. "You know, when the poet Philip Larkin was asked if he'd like to go to Australia, he said, 'I wouldn't mind, if I could come back the same afternoon!'" For George III or the Lady in the Van or Alan Bennett, there's no place like home. It's where one has a modest function...
Hanks kept the evening in perfect perspective. When asked if the Pot would reside anywhere near his Oscar, he replied it would be kept between his daughter's horse ribbons and swimming trophies. Asked why he subjected himself to the Pudding's harassment, Hanks could not find an answer. "Y'know, that's a damn good question...
...Vanities" to carve a name for himself. There is no Tom Hanks action figure, but he is a recognized personality. He has made successful feelgood movies in an industry driven by profit-turning action flicks. His sympathetic performance in a formulaic dying-man role gleaned him an Oscar for "Philadelphia...