Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Critics and audiences alike have responded with enthusiasm to Follies' stylistic inventiveness. There is less unanimity of feeling about the theme. Some ?including TIME'S T.E. Kalem?found in it Proustian resonances. Some contend that James Goldman, whose screenplay for The Lion in Winter won a 1968 Oscar, has supplied less of a book than a book jacket. For Phyllis, he wrote some pseudo-sophisticated, Manhattanite monologues that are better read than said...
Grudgingly, most of moviedom had to concede that Scott had won his Oscar on sheer merit. Much less grudgingly, they had to say pretty much the same about the relatively unknown British housewife (see following story) who duplicated the 1969 Oscar success of her countrywoman Maggie Smith by walking off with the best actress award...
...most important actresses in Britain and the U.S. as well. Despite a sallow complexion, slight figure and somewhat crooked teeth, she has drawn accolades for her enigmatic, sexually energetic characterizations. Her intricate rendition of the D.H. Lawrence heroine Gudrun in Women in Love won her an Oscar last week at the Academy Awards in Hollywood...
...salary figures and statistics," in the words of Publisher Allan Barren, a bush-bearded black from New Jersey who once ran a computer company. The first issue adds little to the public's considerable knowledge of such obvious star subjects as pro basketball's Lew Alcindor and Oscar Robertson and football's Matt Snell. But Barren hopes to develop other healthy heroes for young blacks, who, he claims, "now identify only with guys on the block, like pimps and pushers." Because he could not find a qualified black to serve as editor, Barren appointed a white friend...
Married. Burl Ives, 61, folk balladeer and Oscar-winning actor (in 1958); and Dorothy Koster, 44, longtime friend and the architect of Ives' New Mexico home; both for the second time; in London...