Word: oscarization
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...change all the way back to Sinclair Lewis and Main Street. The aging moviegoer might cite King's Row, wherein cheerful Ronald Reagan lost his legs to a sadistic doctor. Me, I'd probably pick something like Boys Don't Cry, for which Hillary Swank won her first Oscar playing out a transgender tragedy on the flat and (as the camera saw them) fallow plains of Nebraska...
Lots of little boys love fighter planes. But New York City--born Donald Lopez became so obsessed after watching the Oscar-winning 1927 silent film Wings that he took his first plane ride--in an open cockpit--at age 7. He went on to become a U.S. Air Force test pilot and World War II ace, part of the team that was the successor to the storied Flying Tigers fighters. Later, as a director of the Smithsonian, Lopez collaborated with Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins to plan and build the National Air and Space Museum...
...them.") Set on the piers and streets of New York City, the movie broke with depictions of cops as inept bumblers--and private eyes as heroic crime solvers--and set the stage for the now teeming genre of gritty police dramas. Wald, who was nominated for an Oscar for the film...
...love with me.” This difference of opinion, which could have been wonderfully humorous, develops into a mundane debate between practical and romantic approaches to life. It’s a good representation of the entire movie, which has the potential to be as witty as an Oscar Wilde play, but ends up too cliché to rise to its own challenge. Harry’s disappointment with his married life drives him into the arms of Kay (Rachel McAdams, “Mean Girls”), a widow with a pin-up girl’s physique...
...When Oscar-winning actress CharlizeTheron came to Harvard on Feb. 7to receive the Hasty Pudding Theatricals’Woman of the Year Award, she joked,“I hope you all know I’m a high schooldropout. I just thought I’d be clean withyou guys.” Though her demeanor wasplayful throughout the Pudding roast,she was more thoughtful and seriouswhen discussing her new movie, “Sleepwalking,”in which she plays the dual roleof actor and producer.“I don’t think of acting...