Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last year, on her 49th birthday, Shirley MacLaine wanted to be alone with her dreams. She trekked up into the Rockies near Cripple Creek, Colo., and wished-or "projected," as she puts it-that during the next year, the film she was making, Terms of Endearment, would win an Oscar, and so would she; that her book on spiritualism, Out on a Limb, would become a bestseller; that a revamped version of her nightclub act would score a hit on Broadway. Anything can look possible to a woman who once danced an entire ballet on a broken ankle. But that...
...dance itself. MacLaine showed off her Joshua's-trumpet voice, her 50-year-old legs-"25 each," one appreciative observer remarked-and an appendage that has been with her so often of late that it has come to seem a part of her, the at-long-last Oscar that she won for Endearment...
Greenfeld convincingly evokes the terrain where he has lived for more than a decade, winning an Oscar nomination for the screenplay of his novel Harry and Tonto and psychic bruises from the failures of unluckier projects. In the Freudian setting of a studio men's room, producers trade angst-drenched conversation about whose career is bigger. Aging men who cannot control their appetites go in search of one-night stands and "kosher diet tacos." A rabbi pronouncing a eulogy reaches his apogee with the solemn question, "And who of us does not love show business...
...Today. While the expansion of TV newscasts cut into papers' influence, the print reporter's education, status, wages-and expertise-reached new heights. Although a post-Watergate arrogance infected some journalists, many others learned to operate with sensitivity and restraint. If print journalists were villains in an Oscar-nominated movie, Absence of Malice, they were the heroes in an Emmy-winning TV series that ran five seasons, Lou Grant...
...This compact makes extensive provisions for nuclear damages, reserving $150 million for this purpose. The compact has been sent by President Reagan to Congress for enactment into law--and I would note that it is being supported vigorously by the Marshallese government. The Chief Secretary of the Marshallese Cabinet, Oscar Debrum, is now in Washington for this purpose, as is the former Attorney General, Carl Ingram, who is a forum peace corps member now married to a Marshallese. You can reach them at (202) 343-9143 if you care to take the trouble to get your facts straight...