Word: oscared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Network next February) must wish the release dates had been reversed: their Masterpiece Theatre-style adaptation should have been seen before the MTV-meets-Saturday Night Live parody. Won't audiences now be disappointed if Paltrow doesn't say, "As if"? McGrath, who was nominated for an Oscar writing Bullets Over Broadway with Woody Allen, has a ready reply: "She does say, 'As if.' But it's in the middle of a sentence. Things like, 'It is not as if I were not displeased with you, Mr. Knightly...
DIED. STEVE TESICH, 53, Yugoslav-born Oscar-winning screenwriter of the 1979 film Breaking Away; of a heart attack; in Sydney, Nova Scotia. Tesich's works, which often dealt with social issues of his adopted U.S., included the plays The Carpenters and Division Street and the films Eyewitness and The World According to Garp...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Benjamin Netanyahu wowed Congress Wednesday in a speech to both Houses that showed the Israeli Prime Minister to be on the same economic page as House Republicans. "It was an Oscar-caliber performance," says TIME's Eric Silver. "He played his audience beautifully." Taking his cue from both Newt Gingrich and Bill Clinton, Netanyahu said that he would end the era of big government in Israel. Pursuing free market policies, Netanyahu said, would steer Israel towards true economic independence and allow it to be weaned off the $3 billion in annual U.S. assistance. Netanyahu's impassioned speech also...
After scoring an Oscar nomination for his performance in Chaplin four years ago, ROBERT DOWNEY JR. seemed on the verge of becoming the next Robert De Niro. Now Hollywood is worried that he may instead become the next River Phoenix. Stopped by police as he sped through Malibu in his truck last weekend, Downey was found to be carrying a small pharmacy of illegal drugs--crack, heroin--and, police said, a heavy-duty handgun. The hard-partying actor has been through rehab at least once since the late 1980s, but friends recently became alarmed at his downward spiral...
DIED. JO VAN FLEET, 81, actress noted for portrayals of proud, stoical mothers; in New York City. Her many films include Cool Hand Luke and East of Eden, for which she won a supporting-actress Oscar. On Broadway she appeared in The Trip to Bountiful and Look Homeward Angel...