Word: oscared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...admonished by the judge, is less eager to shoot off his mouth, he has been the subject of considerable criticism. We can only hope that he manages to cling to his A-list status for one more week, so he'll be able to attend one of the post-Oscar parties and report back to his client on what Leonardo DiCaprio is really like...
...Oscar! Oscar! Oscar...
...Oscar Wilde would have been pleased. British writer Joe Orton's satirical play What the Butler Saw continues the irreverent tradition set by that great literary master in ridiculing the social standards and judgmental morals imposed by society. This 1960s play also pays homage to the time in which it was written, concentrating on the hilarities of sex, death, religion and the police force. When Orton wrote this play, he was a quickly rising star in the British literary scene; by the time of his death, he was working on such prestigious projects as screenplays for "The Beatles". His plays...
...importunely stolen.Greaves and Smith are equally proficient inmilking every melodramatic funny bone in theaudience with their overactive (if repressed)sexual drives. However, the production takentogether as a clumped mass of sexual innuendoperhaps goes overboard on this front. It is inthis aspect that the production becomes in dangerof approximating not Oscar Wilde, but that otherEnglishman of perhaps more dubious fame, BennyHill...
...More on-screen Cinderellas abide -- and stall -- in Hoop Dreams (1994), a gritty, often wrenching documentary about climbing the athletic ladder in Chicago that got screwed out of an Oscar in 1994 (but what else is new). Teen dream Leo DiCaprio, back when he could act, drives the lane to ruination, via the glories attendant to a ball-playing youth, in Basketball Diaries (1995). Girls: there's a sex scene. Parents: Lots of heroin...