Word: oscars
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...some very sustaining memories of people in their sad, funny, futile, courageous and frightened ways of meeting life and trying to cope with it." When his engaging but minor talent began to fail, he turned to Hollywood, where his screenplay for Splendor in the Grass (1961) won an Oscar. Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff (1970), a novel about a woman brutally isolated from society, met with modest success. The manuscript of an other Inge novel, The Boy From the Circus, was found in his living room on the day of his death - rejected by a New York publisher...
...fell in love with this man, and I am pleased to say he fell in love with me," Liza Minnelli, 27, the Oscar-winning singer-actress, announced, batting her spiky eyelashes. The man: British Actor Peter Sellers, 47, whom Liza had been visiting for a week or so on the set of his new film Soft Beds and Hard Battles. "I suppose we shall live in London now," Liza added, declining to say whether they would get married. One hitch, of course, is that Sellers is currently wed. Meanwhile, there was Liza's previous engagement to Desi Arnaz...
George C. Scott, the crusty actor who turned down an Oscar two years before Marlon Brando did, does not seem to have much use for humans. In the movie of Robert Merle's political thriller The Day of the Dolphin, Scott is the scientist who becomes very friendly with a pair of Tursiops truncatus, the bottle-nosed mammals that may be the closest animal to man in intelligence. The scientist manages to get Bi and Fa, the cetaceans in his charge, to talk English, but what they tell him, alas, would be enough to confirm Scott's worst...
BRAVER MINDS in our literary past have said that it is immoral, if not impossible, to divorce style form meaning. Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and the delighted response that it elicited from Loeb Ex audiences last weekend challenge that ponderous view of art. A farcical confection, the play is concocted solely with equal parts elan and elegance levened with tart social witticisms. George Bernard Shaw perceived, with some astuteness, that the resulting delicacy is rather "heartless" because it lacks proximity to emotion. But to an audience suffering from the true heartlessness of reading period, the comedy...
...IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST by Oscar Wilde. "Pleasure, pleasure, pleasure: what else should bring one anywhere?" Which might not go over well in Phil 10 (maybe it would), but which made for a very funny play. 7:30 at the Loeb...