Word: oscared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Acting Department Chairman Oscar Handlin's decision, on the face of it, may not appear too unreasonable; he simply promised to set up a committee to study proposals advanced by the junior faculty. Unfortunately, Handlin did not announce the names of the members of the committee, nor the time when it would begin to meet. Cynics who slyly predict that the Department will take as little action as possible for as long as possible now have substantial supporting evidence...
...SHOP ON MAIN STREET. Terrorized by the Nazis, a bumbling Aryan carpenter (Josef Króner) turns his back on an old Jewish shopkeeper (Ida Kaminska) whose fate is the crux of this Oscar-winning tragicomedy from Czechoslovakia...
...Only Oscar Handlin, Winthrop Professor of History and the third member of the jury, voted for Miller...
Tattered Memories. But that was all the show. Inside, as color-TV cameras recorded the event for 60 million viewers, the Oscar derby seemed more ticky-tack than ever. Even Bob Hope seemed off his feed ("I can't drink like Lee Marvin, grunt like Rod Steiger or enunciate like Sir Laurence Olivier. And when it comes to Richard Burton, I'm really in trouble"). What was billed as entertainment made The Beverly Hillbillies look good. The choreography was out of Busby Berkley; the filmed interviews with former winners seemed like tattered memories from a discarded album...
...director (Robert Wise). Veteran Lee Marvin, 42, the hilarious mugger in Cat Ballon, was best actor. The best-actress award amounted to a battle of Julies: Andrews (for Sound of Music) and Christie (for Darling) -and Christie won it. For their performances in supporting roles, Martin Balsam got an Oscar for A Thousand Clowns, and Shelley Winters got her second (her first, in 1959: The Diary of Anne Frank) for A Patch of Blue. The only other notable awards went to Czechoslovakia's The Shop on Main Street (best foreign-language film) and To Be Alive, the Johnson...