Word: oscared
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Beloved has been pegged as a heavy Oscar favorite, mainly because of its important subject matter and prestigious ensemble, and it has many admirable qualities. But it does not reach the powerful fever pitch of a film such as Saving Private Ryan, where viewers are so riveted that they can't take their eyes off the screen. For all its grace and dignity, Beloved is a movie to be respected but not loved...
Oprah's fans--and I know they are out there--will undoubtedly jump to defend the woman who has won 32 Emmys and an Oscar nomination and who has distinguished herself as an advocate for victims of rape and child abuse. She has shown Americans, they would say, that a poor, black girl from Mississippi--words that Winfrey regularly uses on her show to describe herself--can succeed beyond her wildest dreams. Those fans certainly have a point. It's hard not to admire a woman who has obviously overcome much...
What Oprah wants, Oprah gets. She has, after all, earned an Oscar nomination for her first movie part, in Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple. For more than a decade she has dominated the afternoon airwaves with her syndicated talk show. She is among the nation's most admired and influential people. Now, 11 years after first reading the Morrison novel, here she is as the producer of what she told screenwriter Richard LaGravenese would be "my Schindler's List": a pristine, potent distillation of Beloved, which opens Oct. 16. And there she is onscreen as Sethe. Or rather...
...Jefferson in Paris, came to the first script reading with an early, teasing hint of her character's mannerisms; her regal beauty explains how Beloved can cast a spell over Sethe and her brood. In the role of Baby Suggs, Beah Richards, who 30 years ago won an Oscar nomination for playing Sidney Poitier's mother in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, serves as both Greek chorus and black preacher; her sermons give the film heft and life...
DIED. JEFFREY MOSS, 56, Emmy-winning writer and composer who helped create Sesame Street's lovable fur balls, Coooookkiiieeeee! Monster and Oscar the Grouch; of cancer; in New York City...