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Sarandon is known for her work in a variety of popular films, including "The Great Waldo Pepper," "The Rocky Horror Picture Show," and "Atlantic City," for which she received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress...
...encouraged the present civil war. After the Medellin conference, Salvadoran Catholics organized "base communities" that evolved into political cells. In reaction, right-wing vigilantes declared open season on Catholic lay workers and missionaries suspected of leftist activity. A pivotal event was the 1980 assassination in San Salvador of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, an outspoken opponent of the government, while he was saying Mass. Romero has become a martyr to the poor and to the rebellious left. John Paul may pray at Romero's tomb in the Metropolitan Cathedral, a gesture fraught with political significance. The right wing contends that...
...year of his wife Princess Grace, but as an ever increasing pack of press photographers dogged the family's every move, the vacation soured into a series of spirited confrontations between Grimaldis and paparazzi. Outside his Park Avenue hotel with Socialite Lynn Wyatt, the wife of Texas Oilman Oscar Wyatt and an old family friend, Rainier ran up against a virtual wall of press lenses. Momentarily losing his temper, he reportedly lunged forward and hit one of the photographers, sending the fellow's glasses skittering across the pavement. At a Broadway theater the next night, Rainier was accused...
...Oscar has something to smile about. Not only did 1982 set a record for movie box-office grosses ($3.4 billion), but judging by the Academy Award nominations announced last week, it was a vintage year for pictures and performances as well. By and large, the nominated were both predictable and respectable. Three Best Picture nominees dominated the Academy's voting: Sir Richard Attenborough's epic Gandhi with eleven nominations; Tootsie, directed by Sydney Pollack, with ten; and Steven Spielberg's E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial with nine. (The other contenders for Best Picture: Sidney Lumet...
Before receiving the pudding pot--the HPT's equivilant of the Oscar--Spielberg was treated to two less prestigous gifts...