Word: oscar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...learn how to do this,'" Winfrey recalls. "And I remember thinking, 'Don't need to watch Grandma, because my life isn't going to be like this.'" Watching Diana Ross and the Supremes preening glamorously on The Ed Sullivan Show or Sidney Poitier stepping out of a limousine on Oscar night in 1961 made her fantasies seem possible: "I was thinking that could...
...late 1980s, as Winfrey became a major player in television and the movies (she won an Oscar nomination in 1986 for her supporting role in The Color Purple), her personal interest in slavery had turned into frustration that the subject was so rarely dealt with in popular culture. Even Alex Haley's sweeping slave epic Roots left her wanting. "While Roots was magnificent and necessary for its time," she says, "it showed what slavery looked like, rather than what it felt like. You don't know what the whippings really did to us." Then in 1987, she sat home...
...Broadway debut, Les Liaisons Dangereuses (all those elegant, suffocating drapes!), and 1994's Tony-winning Carousel (a small town in idyllic greens and blues), the kid from Cork, Ireland, showed the breadth and iridescence of his gifts. This year he had three new Broadway shows: Twelfth Night, the Oscar Wilde bio-play The Judas Kiss and Paul Simon's The Capeman. Amid the rubble of Capeman's reviews, Crowley earned praise for his expressionistic perspectives of uptown tenements and upstate jails. He is now at work on four projects, including Hytner's film of the show Chicago (with Madonna...
...this summer's success is diversity, according to Robert Bucksbaum, an analyst at box office watchers Reel Source. "You saw a wide range of films that you normally don't see in the summer: 'There's Something About Mary,' a slapstick comedy; 'Saving Private Ryan,' an Oscar-contending drama; and 'The Truman Show,' a warm-hearted satire," Bucksbaum says. "Family films did better than expected -- there's 'Mulan,' and 'The Parent Trap.' Even 'Ever After' is turning out to be a solid hit. It wasn't just a typical summer full of action-adventure blockbusters...
...coals stare, fondles an engagement-ring box with sweet subtlety, sheds urgent, persuasive tears at sexual climax. She smolders and glows--just what's needed as the heroine of a sudsy upscale romance. But Bassett doesn't need a camera to cue her glamorous art. She can give an Oscar-worthy performance sitting across from a journalist in a suite at Manhattan's St. Regis Hotel...