Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Arthur Rubinstein-Love of Life was made for French television in 1968, when its subject was a peppy 81. The movie received an Oscar in 1969, but is only now showing up in theatrical release, owing largely to distributors' reluctance to handle documentaries on any subjects more serious than the making of a pornographic movie. The biographical material in the film is sketchy. Rubinstein talks about his life in Poland, a youthful suicide attempt thwarted by a weak rope, his first success in Paris, flight to the U.S. If the journalistic material is cursory, though, the music is close...
...supercilious, Oscar Wilde face, with a nose that richly deserved tweaking. It adorned a new publication called The New Yorker, and the smart money said of face and magazine, as Dorothy Parker had once said of a pair of amorous gorillas: "I give them six months...
...movies. Usually by this time of year, when the Oscar nominations come out, and the Groundhog and the Valentines come out, and the senior theses come out, good new movies do nothing of the kind. It's the post-Christmas blight. This year as much as any Hollywood saved up for December, gambling that in this foul foul year when people across the world are facing disaster like never before, American moviegoers would be bored enough to relish apocalyptic scenes of their own destruction. Anyway, Christmas was a boom. Last year at this time, around when Patty Hearst...
...lectures, announced by flat two weeks ago, got under way last Tuesday as Oscar Handlin. Pforzheimer University Professor, fielded questions from 25 seniors on the subject of "Riots" for 40 minutes. They continue tonight at 7:30 p.m. when Donald H. Fleming. Trumbull Professor of American History, similarly "prepares" students for a generals question they will answer in May on "Responses to Science and Technology." The eight hours clearly are not enough. Since the department's 1973 generals fiasco--when seven students failed both the written and oral parts of the examination--the senior faculty has almost certainly spent more...
...including Frank Sinatra, Charlton Heston and Joseph Cotten, Welles was the picture of graciousness. "What I feel this evening is the opposite of emptiness," he said, as he accepted the award "in the name of mavericks everywhere." Then he dandled on his knee another enfant terrible and early Oscar winner Tatum O'Neal saying "You're terrific...