Word: oscared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During the last three decades, Jones entered another world that had been closed to blacks, as he composed the film scores for 33 major motion pictures. In 1985, he co-produced Steven Spielberg's "The Color Purple," which won 11 Oscar nominations, introduced Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey to film audiences and marked his debut as a film producer...
Lemmon's career had taken a turn for the better. Within five years, Lemmon had already been nominated three times for the Oscar for best actor...
...Oscar nominations include nominations for his performances in the hit comedy Some Like it Hot, with Marilyn Monroe and Tony Curtis, and his dramatic portrayal of terminal alcoholic in Days of Wine and Roses...
After an internal re-examination of the piece by seven reporters and editors, Ceppos concluded that the series "did not meet our standards" in several respects. The story fingered Nicaraguan drug supplier Oscar Danilo Blandon Reyes as the pivotal figure who funneled money from the L.A. crack trade to the contras, but failed to note that Blandon (who later became a U.S. government informant) testified that he stopped sending money to the contras in 1982, well before he began trafficking drugs in L.A. Moreover, Ceppos admitted, the assertion that "millions in profits" from drug dealing went to the contras...
Harvard's offense was a total team effort. The Crimson bats were smoldering against the Bruins, as the starting nine batters each collected at least one hit in doubling UCLA's total. The usual stars turned in Oscar performances as junior Aaron Kessler's three RBI led the hit parade. Following right behind in the procession were sophomore Hal Carey and junior Jason Keck, who each...