Word: oscared
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Other epithets, many not so complimentary, play on proper names. To Hoover is to inhale or consume greedily; Ike is an uncouth fellow; LBJ, the military's Long Binh jail in Vietnam; Jerusalem Slim, the radical syndicalists' derisive name for Jesus; Oscar, an unpleasant or foolish man. Joe gets more than three pages of entries, among them Joe Lunchpail, an ordinary working man, and Joe Sad, black English for a friendless or unpopular man. John Wayne wins nine citations. To John-Wayne is to attack with great force; a John Wayne cookie is a military field-ration biscuit...
Charmed indeed. Shuttling constantly between plays and movies, Kline has earned two Tonys and an Oscar by finding and playing variations of Hamlet in other men who suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. He first confounded moviegoers in 1982 as Nathan Landau, Meryl Streep's psychotic lover in Sophie's Choice. A year later, he backflipped effortlessly into the running shoes of Harold Cooper in The Big Chill, a successful entrepreneur at odds with his counterculture roots. Even his dual character in Dave--the story of an ordinary man pretending to be President--reflected a Hamlet-like internal...
...producer Norman Lear to beg unsuccessfully for his services. Another Tony followed for his performance as the Pirate King opposite Linda Ronstadt in The Pirates of Penzance in 1981. Movie roles came just as quickly after he landed the highly coveted male lead in Sophie's Choice, opposite eventual Oscar winner Meryl Streep; in 1988 Kline won his own Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in A Fish Called Wanda...
...Cates performed the Meg Tilly role. But it wasn't until Kline hired Cates' former personal assistant as his own--and gave her the job of securing a date with Cates as her first official task--that their relationship began. The couple married three weeks before Kline won his Oscar. Now, eight years later, Kline and Cates have a five-year-old son Owen and a three-year-old daughter Greta. The personal assistant has become an agent...
...refers to a crossroads as an "intersexual...homosection...intersection." Are these the symptoms of some rare disease--gay Tourette's--or merely the reaction of a gentle man under pressure? His life has been a mess ever since a former student of his, Cameron Drake (Matt Dillon), won an Oscar for playing a homosexual. In his acceptance speech, Cameron thanked his inspiring English teacher back home...