Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WRETCHED EXCESS (1): Costumer Edith Head's eighth Oscar for The Sting, for remembering how people dressed back when she began her career...
Everybody is born a king, Oscar Wilde once remarked, but most people die in exile. In Wilde's mood of royal bitterness, Ellen Douglas has written a savage little novel about life's next-to-last disenfranchisement-that deportation to Siberia known...
...cautiously balanced set of Oscars that were handed out last week. The Sting sweep (best picture, best director, best original screenplay, four minor prizes) could have surprised only those who cling to the fantasy that Hollywood's Academicians enjoy rewarding controversy (The Exorcist), truth telling (Cries and Whispers, American Graffiti) or success that is merely modest (A Touch of Class). The best-actor and best-actress choices-Jack Lemmon and Glenda Jackson-were also safe and sane. He is a popular local boy; she is a remote great lady winning her second Oscar in three years. Youth...
...this time, however, the Oscar ceremonies have established a life of their own, and the question of whether they serve truth and justice is less important to television viewers than whether the big broadcast fulfills its implicit annual promise to turn into a psychological Le Mans with a few expensive, finely tuned egos successfully negotiating the twists and turns of the three-hour course while a satisfying number of the other entrants crash. There was nothing this year to equal the spectacular flame-out that Marlon Brando arranged in 1973, but a dedicated Oscar addict could pass...
SWEETEST CHARITY: Groucho Marx's honorary Oscar. To see film's great anarchist spirit dimmed by age occasioned the night's only long, sad thoughts...