Word: oscared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crisp snap of an October morn. The distant roar of a football stadium. The chatty drone of Oscar hopefuls being hyped. The inescapable thud as Michael Crichton's next best seller hits bookstores every-where. Yes, fall brings not only nature's harvest but culture's as well. A selective look at the new season's glories...
...Oscar winner ANNA PAQUIN likes acting, but she has a tiny complaint. "Not all roles for children have definite personalities," she says. "They're just there. I've been very lucky." Having played two of the saddest girls in moviedom--The Piano's Flora and the young Jane Eyre--Paquin, 14, keeps the melancholy theme going in her next film, Fly Away Home. She plays Amy, who moves in with her estranged inventor father after her mother dies in a car crash. She has to teach wild geese she finds to fly, or a wildlife officer will clip their wings...
...bank of 20 TV screens in the Olympic Stadium media subcenter, one could see arms being raised, in victory or despair. A man called Talant scored with two minutes left to lift Spain to the medal round, above Egypt, in team handball, 20-19. The perennial Olympian, basketball hero Oscar Schmidt, in his fifth and last Games, put up an absurd shot for Brazil with 17 seconds left, and it fell in, and Puerto Rico was defeated. In the new sport of women's softball, an American pitcher was one strike away from a perfect game when reality fell asleep...
DIED. CLAUDETTE COLBERT, 92, effervescent star of an earlier Hollywood; at her home in Barbados. In films that included such classic comedies as It Happened One Night (for which she won an Oscar) and The Palm Beach Story, as well as a pre-Liz Taylor Cleopatra, she played women who, through charm and technique, had to persuade society that they were something other, better, more glamorous than they really were. In doing so, she became the epitome of couture elegance and city-girl pluck. The Colbert heroine walked the earth in sensible shoes and met each adversity with a throaty...
...able to--or care to--parlay the role of this adorable meddler into a multimillion-dollar picture deal, as Clueless's Alicia Silverstone did. Still, Emma could conceivably vault Paltrow from her current status as bright ingenue to the top of the list of serious young actresses who combine Oscar eclat and box-office clout--a little Streep, a little Sandra Bullock. Anyway, Emma is a showcase part, handsomely played...