Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gonna: Michael Caine, Hannah and Her Sisters. Because he was in five million other movies, including Mona Lisa, and he gave the same performance in each, and nobody knows exactly why they like this man, but they want to validate their insecurities, so they'll give him the Oscar...
...strategic forces can easily cover the targets now handled by them. Still, West European leaders have long clamored for removal of the Soviet SS-20s. They now have to face the very real possibility of such an event and its complicated consequences. Diplomats may be recalling an aphorism of Oscar Wilde: "When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers...
...Joyce, it takes place in Ireland, it stars my daughter and is written by my son." The man who directed his father Walter in the 1948 classic The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (for which both won Academy Awards) and guided Anjelica to last year's supporting-actress Oscar in Prizzi's Honor has now added Tony, 36, the author of the screenplay, to the family business...
Glowacki's text, translated by Jadwiga Kosicka, benefits from lively staging by Arthur Penn and sensitive performances. Ron Silver bearishly evokes the descent from self-doubt to despair. Dianne Wiest (an Oscar nominee for her role in Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters) bubbles with fantasies of redemption: she stuffs a pillow under her clothes and says she will have a child; she tells an enigmatic joke and vows to become a stand-up comic. Each gently deflects the other in a tender marriage, unharrowed by grief...
...Morricone has been nominated a second time for an Oscar (the first was for Days of Heaven). His score for The Mission, a large-scale parable of clericalism and colonialism in 18th century South America, is one of the loveliest he has ever done. The composer concedes, "This music represents me nearly completely." Says Leone: "It's practically like a sung mass." Morricone's mother, who is 83, has a slightly different perspective. "These Americans!" she said when Morricone's wife Maria called with the nomination news. "It is four or five years that they should have given...