Word: oscared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time leader in Grammy nominations with 76 and has received seven Oscar nominations...
...Lily Tomlin, Celluloid Closet is by turns funny and poignant. It interlaces old clips (for instance, a peignoired Cary Grant declaring, in Bringing Up Baby, "I just went gay all of a sudden!") with cogent commentary by Gore Vidal, Harvey Fierstein and others. It should be getting raves at Oscar time--except that, like Crumb and Hoop Dreams last year, Celluloid Closet was denied a nomination by the Academy's documentary committee...
...being shot outside his home; in Los Angeles. No one missed the irony of Ngor's death: he had survived four years in the slaughterhouse of Khmer Rouge Cambodia during the '70s, only to be struck down in the violence of an American city. In between he won an Oscar for his portrayal of fellow survivor and photojournalist Dith Pran in the 1984 movie The Killing Fields. Police are looking into whether Ngor, an outspoken benefactor of L.A.'s Cambodian-refugee community, was a victim of robbery or politics...
...esprit are usually the first words one hears in conjunction with Oscar Wilde's plays, as if anything beyond that strains his talents. Naturally Wilde's frivolity is not devoid of substance, even though his lazy work habits allegedly kept his best work from ever being recorded. Victorian England's Rococo fop was not loathe to entertain a single meaningful thought--only, perhaps, to express it as such...
...doomed detective in Psycho (1960); a Navy doctor utterly at sea in the moral morass of the nuclear age in The Bedford Incident (1965); and a hardworking family man at odds with his unreliable brother in A Thousand Clowns (1965), the role that resulted in a Best Supporting Actor Oscar. From 1979 to 1981 he played Carroll O'Connor's business partner in an All in the Family spin-off, Archie Bunker's Place...