Word: oscared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...white shorts, white top, white turban and acres of bare flesh for The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946), she bedazzled John Garfield into murder; in Johnny Eager (1942), she helped Robert Taylor live up to his character's name. Her turn in 1957's Peyton Place won her an Oscar nomination. She followed it with a role in the real-life melodrama that erupted when her daughter fatally knifed an abusive boyfriend of Turner's. Things went a bit better for her seven husbands; they merely got divorced...
...time defending Oscar champion Tom Hanks stars as Lovell, who commanded Apollo 13 and wrote the book, Lost Moon, upon which the movie is based...
...actors--Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep--may be recognized as Oscar-caliber performers, but they are often far from the favorites of the average ticket-buyer...
...Oscar Wilde once remarked that he had given his genius to his life but only his talent to his art. The same might be said of the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, only his life turned out to be a sad and sordid affair and his art was often no more than slapdash. As Patricia Morrisroe makes clear in her smart and readable biography Mapplethorpe (Random House; 461 pages; $27.50), the photographer's brief life-like his most notorious images-was not a pretty picture...
Brown nevertheless has won positive reviewson-campus for her portrayal of both male andfemale characters, ranging from her first-yearperformance as the title role in The Visit ofthe Old Lady, her junior year Characterizationof the murderess Charlotte Corday inMarat/Sade, to her more recent incarnationas Oscar Wilde in The Importance of Being Oscarthis past fall...