Word: oscared
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DIED. BEN JOHNSON, 77, screen actor; in Mesa, Arizona. The connection that launched Johnson's career was his horse, rented out for Howard Hughes' The Outlaw. Johnson came along as a wrangler, ultimately landing supporting roles in westerns like Shane (1953) and an Oscar-winning turn in The Last Picture Show...
Harryhausen was a master of stop-motion, the laborious, handmade form of animation that lives today in the work of Oscar winner Nick Park (A Close Shave) and Selick, whose previous feature was Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas. This is a jauntier piece--more Disneyfied, perhaps, but still apt to leave a haunting impression on the children who see it. And when they finally read the Dahl book, they may be annoyed. Why, they will wonder, couldn't it be more like this movie...
LIZZY GARDINER, 29; SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA. 1995 OSCAR FOR BEST COSTUMES...
...credit cards because she was broke. Resourcefuness like that quickly garnered her offers for big-budget films. "America rolled out the red carpet for me," says Gardiner. "I'm very grateful." Nevertheless, this year, while her dress was attending a fund-raiser in Portland, Oregon, Gardiner watched the Oscar ceremony from her home in Bondi, Australia. Why did she go back? Seeing a stuntwoman she'd just been talking to decapitated on a set didn't help. Ultimately, though, her reasons were patriotic. "I want to see the film industry progress here," she says. "Even if it means...
DIED. GREER GARSON, 92; Oscar-winning actress; in Dallas. Once described by Time as "a goddess sculptured in butterscotch," Garson specialized in playing noble, tender, poised women--"walking cathedrals," she called them--like Mrs. Chips in Goodbye, Mr. Chips and the title role in Mrs. Miniver, for which she won her Oscar. Born in Ireland, she graduated with honors from the University of London and became an actress against the wishes of her family. She was discovered in a play by MGM boss Louis B. Mayer and became that studio's premier star. Garson's third marriage, to Texas...