Word: oscarization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tough, and completely amoral, possessing an intentness and a capacity for brutality of which even the gangster is hardly capable. (In a Chandler or Cain story, the gangster is always sophisticated and generally weak.) Right now these men "constitute the ragged edge of literature," as Scott Fitzgerald said of Oscar Wilde, but at least they'll bear watching...
Fred Allen (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Oscar Levant, the smarty-pants pianist, takes a trip through Allen's alley...
Diadems & Dunce Caps. Oscar Hammerstein II was almost mythically affluent, with a producer's or librettist's haul from five smash hits: Oklahoma!, Carousel...
Born. To Luise Rainer, 34, two-Oscar cinemactress of the '30s (The Great Ziegfeld, The Good Earth), and Robert Knittel, 30, Manhattan editor (Creative Age Press); their first child, a daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Francesca. Weight...
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