Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...best actor for True Grit, but the sound had approving overtones. "----the Viet Cong," snarled Lee Marvin. "Get those yellow bastards, John," exhorted Laugh-In Producer Ed Friendly. "Tell us about America, John," chimed in Shirley MacLaine as the Duke wiped away a tear after receiving the first Oscar of his career...
...actress. "Son of a gun!" marveled Hostess Gwen Davis. "They voted for a talent!" During Elizabeth Taylor's appearance on the screens, there were ribald comments about her cleavage, her saucer-sized diamond and her apparent fury over her husband Richard Burton's failure to win an Oscar for his performance in Anne of the Thousand Days. "Who is this?" asked Marvin. "She's grown up. I thought it was Shirley Temple Black." Comic Stanley Myron Handelman smirked: "She's got great elocution." But there was loud approval of her announcement of Midnight Cowboy...
While M.C. Bob Hope was making his embarrassingly reverent tribute to the film industry, the Mitchell guests tuned out ("Oh shut up, Bob Hope!" yelled Shirley MacLaine) and divvied up their own prizes for predicting the Oscar outcome. Jack Cassidy, a master student of the Academy's cynicism and sentimentality, scored a perfect seven out of seven and won a pair of cuff links. Ruth Berle, with three out of seven, took home a consolation award of an autographed glossy photo of Ruth Roman. Meanwhile, unwatched on any of the Mitchells' TV sets, Bob Hope was asking...
Maggie had a lot to worry about last week. First, she won an Oscar for her witty and sympathetic portrayal of the title character in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Then, the night after the award, Maggie's opening performance in London's National Theater production of Farquhar's The Beaux' Stratagem (TIME, Feb. 2) won glowing reviews and further enhanced her reputation in England, where at 35 she is already the leading actress of her generation. All of which only left her rather numb and glum amid the flowers in her dressing room...
...that has changed in England as a result of her dazzling succession of roles, from Miss Julie to The Country Wife, in the nation's top classical theaters. Last week, post-Oscar, it also began to change in the U.S., where she had been a relative unknown. "It would be nice to think that I've made it at last," Maggie says doubtfully, "and that nobody will discover me any more...