Word: oscared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nearly 2 1/2 hours of bruising tenderness and bravura acting, yet it sails along with the expectation that some families can end up with the happiness they have worked so hard to avoid. Expect Brenda Blethyn, a teary tornado as the mother, to be in an aisle seat on Oscar night...
...ROLLINS, 46, actor who starred for five seasons in the TV series In the Heat of the Night; of complications from lymphoma; in New York City. Rollins was written out of the series after the 1992-93 season following repeated problems with substance abuse. He was nominated for an Oscar for his role in the 1981 film Ragtime...
MARRIED. DANIEL DAY-LEWIS, 39, Oscar-winning actor (My Left Foot), and REBECCA MILLER, 32, daughter of playwright Arthur Miller; both for the first time; in Vermont...
...stridently observed--see David sweat in slow motion. But then he finds his true love (Lynn Redgrave!) and Shine takes a dive into soapsuds. The film ceases to be a cogent study of the disease of genius and devolves into two lesser creatures: an ordinary weepie and an Oscar contender. Shine is not an instrumental but a choral work--a trusty hymn to the human spirit. You will be moved, ladies and gentlemen. Perhaps that is all you, and the Academy, need to know...
...holidays get near, Hollywood gets the glums. For Christmas, it gives moviegoers a hair shirt: severe, serious films angled more for Oscar consideration than for Yuletide joy giving. Remember Nixon, Georgia, Othello in '95? This season, with few Academy Award contenders emerging in the first 10 months, studios will come down with a bad case of good intentions...