Word: oscared
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...which wasn't doing very good business. I did my part for high culture and the indie film industry by persuading some customers to abandon "Far and Away" or "Sister Act," and watch "Howards End" instead. I told the customers that Emma Thompson was certain to win the Oscar for her performance. Such prescience I had! Nominations, after all, were a little less than a year away...
Might have imagined, that is, if he had lived in the age of Stalin. For the year is 1936, and the central figure of Nikita Mikhalkov's marvelous film, which won this year's Oscar for Best Foreign Film, is an old Bolshevik at terrible risk, Sergei Kotov (played by the director himself). Lost in contentment with his radiant young wife and adorable child, he does not see that, far from protecting him, his stature as a beloved hero of the revolution is precisely what makes him a threat to paranoid tyranny. He knows their visitor, Dimitri, works...
...pregnant with her first child. The baby, due in November, will be the couple's first, but it may not be their last; Baldwin has spoken often of his desire to have a family. Meanwhile, all may end well for Altman; discussions are under way to replace Basinger with Oscar nominee (Tom and Viv) Miranda Richardson...
...saga, because it's too complex and twisted for any screenwriter to handle. Where to start? In Brando's recent autobiography, Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me, he described his mother as "an off-the-shelf drunk" and his father as physically abusive. Where to end? The two-time Oscar winner (On the Waterfront, The Godfather) partly dedicated the book to "my children, who brought me up," yet he barely mentions his 11 (at least) offspring by his three wives and numerous lovers. Christian, 36, once said of his dysfunctional clan, "My family's so weird and spaced...
Well, he is. He's the subject of a spooky spellbinder called Crumb. With all due respect to Hoop Dreams, and with none to the inbred documentary-screening-committee clan of the Motion Picture Academy, which handed this year's Oscar to a former chair of that committee, Crumb is the one that should...