Word: oscared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...remember really well going in and auditioning for Ordinary People, and not getting it," KEVIN BACON says. "I didn't even get past the casting director." He obviously bears no grudge toward the guy who later won an Oscar in the role he sought, because he's starring in TIM HUTTON's feature directorial debut, Digging to China. "Being my first time," says Hutton, "it was great working with an actor who had just directed." (Bacon directed Losing Chase in 1996.) In China, Bacon plays a mentally disabled man who forms an odd friendship with a girl played by EVAN...
DIED. BOHUMIL HRABAL, 82, Czech novelist who wrote of life under oppression and whose Closely Watched Trains, about the Nazi Occupation, became an Oscar-winning film; in Prague...
...like the Fugees, who laid down a rap track over Ali's incantatory doggerel. But no one wanted to distribute the movie--until it won the documentary prize at last year's Sundance festival. The picture opens this week, 22 years late, but just in time for an expected Oscar nomination...
...Czechoslovakia, Forman is the child of victims of the Holocaust. Heavily influenced by the totalitarian oppression he witnessed, he chose to celebrate the freedom of the United States in his latest work. Prior to "Larry Flynt," Forman has enjoyed a prolific directing career and has twice received the Oscar for best director: first for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975) and again for "Amadeus...
BEVERLY HILLS: Independent films gave the major studios a beating as the Oscar nominees were announced. Four of the five best picture nominees were made by smaller studios. Topping the list was the wartime romance "The English Patient," which reaped 12 Academy Award nominations, including best picture, best actor and best actress. Other best picture nominees include "Fargo," "Shine," "Secrets & Lies," and TriStar's "Jerry Maguire," the only picture from a major studio slated for the award. Despite the heavy PR that heralded the film's release, "Evita," a rework of Lord Andrew Lloyd Weber's stage hit, failed...