Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Forty Carats (who has an affair with a 20-year-old boy). He has copped out on us women in our 40s who have married 20-year-olds. May he be run into by lady truck drivers, may all his female associates over 40 go on strike, and may Oscar evade him forever. Why can't Hollywood leave a good thing alone...
CYNICS, according to Oscar Wilde, are those who know the price of everything and the value of nothing. Faced with the vast menu of life, they gaze exclusively at the right-hand side-until, at last, they forget why they came in. For Christmas and the New Year, then, let this be their gift: to lose their jaded tastes, their ennui with ordinary extravagance and to gain an appetite for value as well as price. If they must commit the venal sin of self-indulgence, let them learn to do it in style...
Engaged. Jane Fonda, 34, Oscar-winning actress (Klute) and antiwar activist; and Tom Hayden, 33, founder of the radical S.D.S. and one of the Chicago Seven defendants. The revolutionary twosome announced they will be married as soon as Fonda has her divorce from French Film Director Roger Vadim, probably early...
...plausible coherence in a sea of allusion, exploring and connecting literary, philosophic and psychological territory. He stages, in effect, a dialectical drama of many acts and of swiftly changing sets, where thesis and antithesis are sincerity and authenticity, and where such incongruous couples as Robespierre and Jane Austen, Oscar Wilde and Karl Marx, J.P. Sartre and R.D. Laing share the billing...
...prefer this melancholy literary man," picks up in the second act a presence he lacked in the first, and leads his zany band of pseudo-Dostoevskis. Paul Scharfman and Douglas Hunt, on their futile quest for literary prowess, dressed one and all in outfits inspired by Poe out of Oscar Wilde to rival the literary out-of-itness of Bunthorne and his "perfect" rival, Archibald Grosvenor (Marc Jablon). They all emerge, in Gilbert's words, "perfectly utter...