Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Victor Buono, 43, corpulent actor who made a career playing heavies; of a heart attack; in Apple Valley, Calif. Buono's epicene, buffoonish pianist in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? won him an Oscar nomination...
Saying he is bored with t.v. editorials, Oscar Handlin, Pforzheimer University Professor, announces he will produce a Broadway musical based on the great wave of immigration that marked the end of the nineteenth century. "It will be called 'Nativism as a Response to Large-Scale Population Influx,'" the historian/entrepreneur says. He adds that he has yet to find a backer for the project...
William Holden, 63, whose rugged good looks and raspy baritone graced more than 50 films, including Sunset Boulevard, Picnic, The Bridge on the River Kwai and Network. He won an Oscar in 1953 for his hard-bitten prisoner of war in Stalag...
...still resembles what he once was: a professional soldier. A graduate of West Point, he is a World War II veteran, a decorated Korean War combat pilot and a former engineering instructor at the U.S. Air Force Academy. After retiring in 1970, Saxon began teaching math and algebra at Oscar Rose Junior College in Midwest City, a suburb of Oklahoma City...
Born in eastern El Salvador to a middle-class family, Oscar Arnulfo Romero, was by his own admission a conservative. In the months after his appointment as archbishop of the church in El Salvador, though, Romero watched the right kill several of his priests. And he read his Bible again. And soon he was speaking out so loud that the pathetic "men" running his nation had not choice but to kill him. The day before he died, Romero said this from the pulpit--"It is time that you come to your senses and obey your conscience...