Word: oscared
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DAVID LETTERMAN Oscar audience un-amused by transplanted talk-show shtick...
Merchant, who received an Oscar nomination for best short film when he was only 21, said he was inspired to go into film-making when he saw "Somebody Up There Likes You," starring Paul Newman during his childhood in Bombay, India...
...best of the movie, not only because Bates does them so well, but also because the other characters are so well developed by the actors. Judy Parfitt is chilling as the fascistic, over-powering Nancy Reaganesque hostess; and David Strathairn portrays Joe with psychotic evil. Bates won the Oscar for her amazing performance as a crazed literary fan in "Misery;" in "Dolores Claiborne" she continues to prove that she is the perfect King actress...
...that L.A. is a city without problems. The new subway project is a mess. (Given its beautiful weather, Los Angeles is not a city meant to be traveled underground.) The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences didn't nominate Hoop Dreams for a best documentary Oscar. Crime remains frighteningly high. And white flight in some Southern California communities threatens to break up the multiethnic mold that is the secret to the area's past and future success...
Thanks for your perceptive article on the controversy over Hoop Dreams' not getting an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary Feature [Show Business, Feb. 27]. However, Richard Corliss referred to the possibility that the documentary nominating committee may have preferred a no-risk, PBS-style format," and I feel it necessary to set the record straight: Hoop Dreams, in fact, is a public-broadcasting project. It was a co-production of St. Paul's Twin Cities Public Television and Chicago's Kartemquin Educational Films, and was funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and PBS (among others). This risk-taking film...