Word: oscared
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...Gore said, used Al and Tipper as models for the uptight preppy and his free-spirited girlfriend in Love Story; and Gore's Harvard roommate Tommy Lee Jones, who played the roommate of the Gore-like character in the movie version of Segal's book. When Jones won an Oscar in 1994 for The Fugitive, Gore tried to phone congratulations to him backstage, "but somebody kept hanging up on me," Gore said. "It was, 'Sure you're Al Gore'--click." Then he moved on, grabbing a cocktail napkin to diagram a new system for making Internet connections via satellite. Through...
...rare to see such tampering with a beloved classic--a play that won both the Pulitzer Prize and a Tony in 1956 and was turned into an Oscar-winning film in 1959. But The Diary of Anne Frank has never been an ordinary work of literature; more like a communal rite of grief. The journal has probably conveyed the horror of the Holocaust more personally to more people than any other document. Yet some scholars have objected that popularizers of the diary have sanitized its content and distorted its message...
...water this deep? And even if the picture turns out to be a hit, is it worth it? When Oscar night rolls around, if Cameron bounds to the stage and hoists the golden statuette, will the beleaguered Mechanic feel the agony was justified? Will anyone...
...things better, it was 'That's your problem.' " Stymied, Fox offered to give Paramount its money back and take over. Paramount didn't take the offer seriously. Rather than lose scenes he deemed essential, Cameron gave up his fees in bits. He relinquished some, for example, to pay for Oscar winner Kathy Bates to play the "unsinkable" Molly Brown. Eventually he gave up his profit participation as well (but kept his scriptwriting...
Amistad Is Freed For Now A federal judge lets Spielberg's slave ship pic sail onto screens Wednesday--but he's still considering the plagiarism suit against the Oscar favorite...