Word: oscar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with metal eyelashes. "Come see my bug!" he yells, grinning and waving from down the street. Wine connoisseurs in town to tour Sonoma's vineyards turn to stare. Kids point and giggle. The "bug" turns out to be a Volkswagen painted as a lady bug to promote the Oscar-winning director's other "bug"--Pixar's computer-animated film A Bug's Life. Lasseter's tale of greedy grasshoppers and anxious ants broke the Thanksgiving holiday box-office records with $45.7 million in ticket sales and slaughtered its main competitor, Babe: Pig in the City. Hollywood, skeptical before the release...
...liquid eyes, perfect complexion and high cheekbones give her a look so defined and unique that the camera constantly finds new angles to show off her singular beauty. Unfortunately, Forlani seems a graduate of the Brad Pitt School of Acting. Her role, as written, might as well be Oscar bait--a young, intelligent woman who has found the love of her life must now come to terms with both the loss of this love and her own father to the same force. But Forlani refuses to dig deep. Her performance is strangely affected, and her brooding glares never radiate more...
Sure, we all know we don't believe that, not for now anyway, but over time the truth behind the title disappears and all that remains is the title itself. In a few years we are left with nothing but the class ranking, the MVP award or the Oscar. The perhaps undeserving recipient of the honor is forever referred to casually as "So-and-so, yeah, he's a brilliant lawyer, he graduated first in his class at Yale, may make a fine Supreme Court Justice." And then the title forever carries a currency that it never should have carried...
...priorities is required. It is of immeasurable importance that we stop viewing titles and other forms of institutional recognitions as reliable signifiers of worth. Most titles are not altogether reliable (is everyone at Harvard as intelligent as you expected them to be?), and some are outright capricious (has every Oscar-winning director really made the best film of the year?).It is the responsibility of every Harvard student to remain most skeptical about the value of even the most "valuable" awards...
...reported to have played particularly well to older men). The earnest side of my brain--the part that thinks Al Gore will make a darn fine President--even feels that these films should be applauded for trying to treat death as something sacred without asking us to watch some Oscar-trolling star die of a brain tumor. But if you're going to treat death as something more than an excuse for a kinesthetic jolt, if you're going to go ahead and push these kinds of audience buttons and make people cry (me anyway), it would be nice...