Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...acting career that spanned more than 40 films and four decades. Among her best-known early pictures were Casque d'Or (1952), which won her the British Film Academy award for her portrayal of a free spirit, and Room at the Top (1959), for which she was awarded the Oscar for best actress, in the sensitively played role of a woman who was jilted by an ambitious younger lover. By then, at the age of 37, Signoret had reached a turning point in her professional life. "That is a difficult age for an actress," she recalled in an interview...
Maxwell House coffee. Log Cabin syrup. Oscar Mayer hot dogs. Jell-O. Birds Eye peas. From breakfast to dinner, millions of Americans eat General Foods products every day, never realizing that one company makes them all. While its products are household names, the firm, which had sales during its last fiscal year of $9 billion, is low-keyed, given to such simple boasts as "We sell more kinds of food and more of it." That tone may soon change. Last week General Foods was taken over by Philip Morris (1984 revenues: $13.8 billion), whose Marlboro man and Virginia Slims woman...
...Development office donated some old footage of hockey fans cheering, famous professors--such as John Kenneth Galbraith and Oscar Handlin--lecturing, and Commencement commencing...
...lines of stretch limousines and crowds of celebrity gawkers at Los Angeles' glassy Westin Bonaventure Hotel last Thursday signaled a Hollywood gala in progress. The collective star power of those in attendance would have done Oscar or Emmy proud. Elizabeth Taylor served as hostess and co- chairperson. Carol Burnett and Sammy Davis Jr. belted out a medley of show tunes. Fast-footed Hinton Battle strutted his stuff from the Broadway musical The Tap Dance Kid, and Rockers Cyndi Lauper and Rod Stewart teamed up to sing a pounding version of Time After Time. The audience was even treated...
...stars Sting and Tracey Ullman are able to break through the film's hard crust of mediocrity is a tribute to their collective talent and bravura. Brilliantly manipulating a spectrum of emotions from pastoral innocence to manic depression to pulsating sexuality, Streep may very well clinch the third Oscar of her career as the little--lost--activist. Once again, her most appealing characteristic is her chameleon-like control of facial expression. In one of the film's most fleeting but poignant moments (and probably the only one in which Baker's off-the-wall pacing has any effect), Schepisi moves...