Word: oscared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Guide for the Married Man is an illuminated lecture on How to Commit Adultery that happily has more illustrations than text. It begins with an irreverent quote from Oscar Wilde: "The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." It ends with a pious bromide: "Midst pleasures and palaces, there's no place like home." Sandwiched between the two views is a sprightly scenario that makes this the most sophisticated sex comedy of the season...
...been denied top honors twice before by the inscrutable Cannes Film Festival jury, and she had been passed over only last month for an Oscar. So now, with each other for moral support, Italian Director Michelangelo Antonioni, 54, and British Actress Vanessa Redgrave, 30, she in sequined tunic and tights, braved a screening at Cannes of Blow-Up, in which Vanessa had taken a relatively small part simply because "I wanted to be directed by Antonioni." After the showing, Vanessa went home to London, but Antonioni stayed on for the happy ending: a Golden Palm applauding Blow...
...have "all and everything Napoleon had without the downfall. I was told this at her birth, so I was able to prepare." But Hollywood was not prepared for Linda's big Power play. During the past month, she has waged a selling campaign that ought to win an Oscar for Haughty Hokum and High Hucksterism. "Before Romina is 21," declares Linda, "she'll be making more money than Elizabeth Taylor. Liz will need a wheelchair by that time, the way she's carrying...
...honor of such memorable performances, this year, for the first time, the American TV Commercials Festival is awarding a Clio, the industry's equivalent of an Oscar, to the best actor in a commercial. Among the nominees is plump Charlotte Rae, who does a devastating satire of a nightclub torch singer mugging her way through the new Alka-Seltzer anthem, I've Got the Blahs. Easy wit, in fact, is the Homelies' forte. One of the best comic commercials now running features Bill McCutcheon, an inconspicuous little chap with a Silly Putty face who gets carried away...
...Imagine," observed Master of Ceremonies Bob Hope in one of his few quotable lines, "not even coming here to pick up an Oscar. I flew to Greensboro, N.C., to become 'Chitlin of the Month...