Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shame that Mr. Scott is refusing the Oscar. The award would be a boost to the egos of the people who worked with him, and I gather, they do deserve a pat on the back after that experience...
Then in the 1950s, his vocal cords abruptly hemorrhaged. MCA, the giant talent agency, dropped him. Eventually he sold himself (though some say the mob helped) to Columbia for an insulting $8,000 to play Maggio in From Here to Eternity. That won him the Oscar for best supporting actor of 1953. The top again: $4,000,000 to $7,000,000 a year. By then he had left his first wife, the former Nancy Barbato, and had chased, married and been divorced by Ava Gardner. "I like broads," he said, and not a few photographers got punched out trying...
...Grammy Awards show on ABC descended past all previous lows for tedium and tastelessness. But two major contenders for the Uggy still loom ahead. TV's own Emmy show always finds fresh ways to embarrass the medium, and though little has leaked about next month's Oscar cast, there is reason to take faint heart: the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award will be given, with a straight face, to Frank Sinatra...
Mystical Way. The Knicks may be able to stop Milwaukee, but almost nobody else can. In Center Lew Alcindor and Guard Oscar Robertson, the Bucks have the most potent one-two scoring punch in the game today. Much more aggressive off the boards than in his rookie year, Alcindor is averaging 16 rebounds a game and scoring at a 32-point pace with his derricklike hook shots and whirling dunks. Snared from Cincinnati in a masterful trading coup, Robertson is playing as well as he ever has in his ten-year N.B.A. career. Remarkably unselfish for a superstar...
...early '60s, Scott had won his second Oscar nomination for The Hustler?and refused it. He had been acclaimed for his Shylock in another Papp production ("the greatest acting experience of my life"), almost stolen the show from Peter Sellers in Strangelove, and played in Desire Under the Elms opposite his wife Colleen. They now had two sons, but as his talent matured, his personal life began to crack. Everything broke open in 1964, after Scott left for Rome to play Abraham in John Huston's behemoth film The Bible...