Word: oscared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exclusive, no dignitary too aloof for Berman, who posed as a waiter to demand Queen Elizabeth II's autograph during her 1957 visit, crashed J.F.K.'s Inaugural Ball in 1961, and had his finest moment in 1962 when he charged onstage to hand Bob Hope an Oscar in front of 100 million TV watchers...
...usual, some nominations had nothing to do with quality. Dr. Dolittle, despite its collection of pans, is in the running for the Oscar as the year's best picture; so is the bloated comedy of miscegenation, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. Sentiment presumably dictated the unexpected candidacy of Cecil Kellaway for best supporting actor in Dinner, a movie in which that kindly old character actor once again played a kindly old character. Spencer Tracy, also in Dinner, was nominated posthumously for best actor as a farewell gesture; he died less than three weeks after the film...
Dean Ford and Oscar Handling have agreed to debate the Vietnam war late next month...
Thursday, February 15 CBS THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIE (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). I Want to Live! (1958), with Susan Hayward, who won an Oscar for her portrayal of California Murderess Barbara Graham...
...musicals in town are a revival of The Boy Friend (1953) and an exhumation of The Desert Song (1926). George Bernard Shaw has been revived at least ten times during the past three years; Irene Worth and John Clements are currently appearing in Heartbreak House. Noel Coward and Oscar Wilde are also being trotted out regularly; last week The Importance of Being Earnest opened with Dame Flora Robson, and Hay Fever opens this week. Producers have even harked back to such antiques as The Bells, a Victorian melodrama in which Sir Henry Irving made his reputation, and John Galsworthy...