Word: oscared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Denzel Washington stands apart. At 40, he is one of Hollywood's highest-paid stars, earning $10 million for his next film, the military drama Courage Under Fire, co-starring Meg Ryan. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards, winning the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in the 1989 Civil War epic Glory. More important than achieving these milestones, however, has been to playing a variety of challenging and not race-specific roles. For every Malcolm X, in which he starred as the slain Muslim leader, there was a Philadelphia, in which he played a homophobic lawyer...
...unable to speak, the 83-year-old was able to direct Beyond the Clouds with the help of WIM WENDERS, himself a director of serious European art films. Instead of talking on the set, Antonioni gesticulated and sketched ideas for shots with one hand. Despite lukewarm reviews, the Oscar nominee's first film in 13 years drew standing ovations last week at the Venice Film Festival. Encouraged, he's undertaken a new movie...
...seat theater to hear the First Lady urge them to make the goals of the women's conference a reality. "Hillary Clinton's speech may please women's rights advocates, but it won't change China's human right's policies at all," says TIME's Oscar Chiang. "The government blocked out all internal media reports about her speech. Later, they may criticize her for meddling in China's internal affairs, but right now their strategy is to just keep quiet...
DIED. MIKLOS ROZSA, 88, Hungarian-born, classically trained creator of stirring Oscar-winning scores for movies like Spellbound, A Double Life and Ben-Hur; in Los Angeles...
...Southern honor"?--continued after his death and became a barrier to appraisal of his work. One would prefer to think that Whistler the artist flies free of Whistler the celebrity, the "personality." Not so. On one hand, his pose as a self-constructed man remains as fiercely impressive as Oscar Wilde's. "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee"--he did that long before Muhammad Ali was born. On the other hand, he was a fine painter but never a great one, though some of his decorative work--conspicuously, the fabulous gold-on-leather Peacock Room in Washington...