Word: oscared
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...think your family holidays are tense, be grateful you're not a member of the Redgrave clan. Last Thanksgiving, while Oscar nominee LYNN REDGRAVE prepared the turkey for a houseful of guests, her manager and husband of 32 years JOHN CLARK decided to break some rather uncelebratory news. It seems that eight years earlier Clark had an affair with his personal assistant, Nicolette. The tryst produced a son, whose paternity remained secret. Then Nicolette got married...to Redgrave and Clark's son Ben, who soon learned he had become his half-brother's stepfather. Ben and Nicolette eventually split...
...HALLE BERRY, "but never before both at the same time." Such are the rewards of portraying DOROTHY DANDRIDGE, inset, the ravishing but doomed actress who died of an overdose in 1965 at the age of 41. Berry will play Dandridge, the first black woman nominated for a Best Actress Oscar, in an upcoming HBO film. "I understand the struggle of a black actress wanting to do so much but having so many limitations," she says. Berry won the role, coveted by such stars as Whitney Houston and Janet Jackson, by upping the stakes. "I produced it," she says...
Saving Private Ryan: Spielberg's WWII baby is clearly the front-runner here, and notonly because its Oscar victory been foreshadowedby the Golden Globes, the DGA awards and hundredsof critics' associations. Private Ryan is aquintessentially American movie. Despite criticalhyperbole setting the film up as a panculturalantiwar film a la All Quiet on the WesternFront, it is as hyperpatriotic as any JohnWayne picture of the 50s. And that's what theAcademy wants--clean lines. Kill the damnedGermans, and try to get out alive.Shakespeare in Love: John Madden's lovelyfilm came out of nowhere to wow the movie goingpublic with something that...
Best ActorNick Nolte, Affliction: Nolte's performancein Affliction is dark. Really dark. So incrediblydark, in fact, that his tortured Wade Whitehousedoes not at first appear to be complex enough tobe an Oscar-worthy performance. A few hours afterviewing the movie, though, it starts to sink in.His unobtrusive body language, for one. Withoutspeaking line of dialogue, Nolte communicates tothe audience a world of repressed pain and theveneer of machismo that inadequately stretches tocover it. Though the performance is incrediblygood, the film's obscurity and this year's stiffcompetition may keep the statuette out of Nolte'shands...
...sensed that many judged 47 years of relentless contumely more than sufficient punishment for Kazan's ancient apostasy. It is not at all clear how many supporters are rallying to a campaign led by two formerly blacklisted screenwriters, Abraham Polonsky and Bernard Gordon, urging the audience at the Oscar ceremony to "sit on their hands" when Kazan accepts his award unless he recants his sins. This curious plan represents something of a tactical retreat for Polonsky, who only weeks ago was "hoping someone shoots [Kazan]" because "it would no doubt be a thrill on an otherwise dull evening...