Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born. To Jennifer Jones (real name: Phyllis Isley), 35, doe-eyed, Oscar-winning (The Song of Bernadette) cinemactress, and David O. Selznick, 52, Hollywood producer (most famed for Gone With the Wind), her second husband (No. 1: the late Cinemactor Robert Walker): their first child (his third, her third), a daughter. Weight...
...hottest thing in Europe today," says Moviemaker René Clair. In recent months she has become one of the world's most highly paid actresses (about $100,000 a picture). Last month she won the Silver Ribbon, the Italian equivalent of Hollywood's Oscar, as the "Best Actress of 1954" for her performance in Bread, Love and Dreams...
...hair and green eyes, stands 5 ft. 7 in. and is 28 years old. Because her beauty was marred by a mildly misshapen nose. Eleonora won no beauty contests, had to come up the hard way. She won the La Victoire Prize, the French equivalent of Hollywood's Oscar, in 1954, and about the same time had her nose fixed up by Paris surgeons. "I would give up everything for my career," she says, "and I mean everything." She has a speaking voice that would send her back to Genoa if her fans ever got to hear...
Dumb Disciples. For the rest, there are serious critiques of Flaubert, Peacock, Leopardi, and personal reminiscences of James Joyce, Franz Kafka. Virginia Woolf, Tolstoy and Oscar Wilde. This section is called Glimpses of Greatness, and Connolly aptly describes it as "a carillon of memories covering a recurring situation, the Maestro in all his simplicity and wisdom garrulously confronting his treacherous dumb disciple...
...gods gave an Oscar to the mortal who had been most miserable during his earthly course, Italy's Poet Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) would be seen to have left Cassandra and Schopenhauer at the post and won in a somber canto. History is full of tragic artists, but Leopardi differs from such as Mozart and Keats in that where they were struck by tragedy while in pursuit of happiness, Leopardi was so consistently unhappy that he positively winced when he was struck...