Word: oscar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ahead in America. The road to the White House is littered with bodies of wits like Fred Harris and Mo Udall and Bob Dole. Business leaders and college presidents--they're not funny. Being funny is not even the way certified funny people get ahead. Robin Williams won his Oscar for one of his suffering-psychiatrist parts. Steve Martin now works with David Mamet...
Then there's his lost hip-hop-influenced record. Not long after he wrote the Oscar-winning song Streets of Philadelphia, Springsteen all but completed a kind of hip-hop album. "I got together a lot of samples and loops and started to put this album together," he says. "It was fun; I enjoyed doing it, but I needed two or three more songs, and for some reason, I never got around to writing them. So I put it away. Eventually, I'm going to find a way to get this music out to people...
...your Oscar-best and head over to the Museum of Fine Arts for a different sort of awards bash: The World's Best TV Ads 1: The Best of the Cannes Film Festival 1998. Perhaps you'll decide that commercials really are the best part of TV. Then, if this is the case, stay for The World's Best TV Ads 2: The British Advertising Broadcast Awards. Call the MFA at 267-9300 for more details...
...Oscar Ramos '01 said Resendez's words providedencouragement to students interested in having anethnic studies department on campus...
...gripping The Lion in Winter; of a heart attack; in New York City. Though his Broadway version quickly folded, his 1968 screen version of the 12th century battle-of-the-sexes succession fight between Henry II (Peter O'Toole) and Eleanor of Aquitaine (Katharine Hepburn) earned him an Oscar. Goldman also wrote the book for the Sondheim musical Follies...