Word: oscars
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...just a three-letter word. But now, a mere 50 years after the first one opened in Camden, N.J., the drive-in is an endangered institution; in much of the U.S. it may not survive the end of the decade. "They're obsolete," says Historian Oscar Handlin, who teaches a course in popular culture at Harvard. "Their decline is a sign that a certain stage in American life is over...
...Goldwyn, despite having almost no acting experience. Niven served with distinction as a British commando officer in World War II, returned to star in more than 60 films, including Around the World in 80 Days, The Guns of Navarone and Separate Tables, in which he gave a 1958 Oscar-winning portrayal of a pathetic military impostor. His candid, bestselling memoirs (The Moon's a Balloon, Bring on the Empty Horses) abound with lightly told anecdotes of Errol Flynn's drunken revels and Greta Garbo's nude swims. Niven once described Hollywood as a "hotbed of false values...
BORN. To Mary Steenburgen, 30, Oscar-winning American actress (Melvin and Howard), and Malcolm McDowell, 40, British actor best known as the cherub-faced punk in A Clockwork Orange: their second child, a son; in Los Angeles. Name: Charles Malcolm. Weight...
DIVORCED. Patricia Neal, 57, Oscar-winning actress (Hud, 1963), and Roald Dahl, 66, British author of macabre short stories (Switch Bitch) and wry children's tales (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory); after 30 years of marriage, five children; in London. Dahl's affair with one of his wife's friends devastated a marriage that had survived much tragedy: a traffic accident that caused brain damage to their son, the death of a seven-year-old daughter from measles, and three nearly fatal strokes that partly paralyzed Neal during her fifth pregnancy...
Strife be unto him who in enlightened times is fool enough to suggest that women are getting too big for their britches, but evidence abounds. There has now appeared on television The Sins of Dorian Gray, a modernized perversion of Oscar Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray, in which the famous senescent canvas became a filmed screen test, and Dorian was played by a woman. A remake of the 1946 movie It's a Wonderful Life cast Mario Thomas in the role established by Jimmy Stewart and Cloris Leachman as the once male angel. Mary Tyler Moore made...