Word: oscar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...short films, music videos, commercials. Park, 37, a star of Aardman Animations in Bristol, England, has done it all, contributing to the 1986 Peter Gabriel video Sledgehammer and a series of spots for Britain's Heat Electric utility. But Park is best known for his own four films, all Oscar winners or nominees: Creature Comforts (1989), a five-minute potpourri of comments by ordinary English folk put into the mouths of zoo animals; and the three Wallace-and-Gromit adventures, A Grand Day Out (1989), The Wrong Trousers (1993) and A Close Shave. All but the last...
...adorable lamb named Sean (as in shorn). Its blithe originality suggests that Park could make terrific Wallace-and-Gromit films forever. But he already has a feature-length project on a new subject. Park is right to think big. In a year or two, he could be holding an Oscar for best picture...
...than be transferred, even though she was just short of qualifying for her full pension. A letter-writing campaign got her reinstated. McConnell's spokesman says "allowances have to be made" because the complainant is hearing impaired. His boss, however, had a chance to stop him but didn't. Oscar-night parties are the Publishers Clearing House of the glossy magazines, with Vanity Fair throwing the premier bash in L.A. and Entertainment Weekly holding forth in Manhattan. George magazine entered the sweepstakes with its first party in Washington at the hilltop house of Peggy and Conrad Cafritz. Editor in chief...
...sort worn by Coca-Cola deliverymen with what appeared to be a tuxedo jacket owned by a much larger man in 1938. In this country, fear of being ridiculed by high school buddies is about the only governor we have left on the behavior of the celebrated; around Oscar night every year, I feel even that slipping away...
...eight years later, I was watching the Oscars on television, when someone who had just won for Best Screenplay went up to collect his Oscar wearing a white silk scarf around his neck...