Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...often turns his best instincts upside down. His gestures seem stranded between media: too intimate for the stage, too ostentatiously cunning for the screen. His Emmett Kelly face sags under the weight of compromise, drains of life, wears anguish like a Distinguished Service Cross. These roles inevitably win Lemmon Oscar nominations (three in the past five years), but this time he might even deserve one. Father Farley is an ideal Lemmon subject: the entertainer at mid-life crisis, with all attendant weary routines and stutter-step timing, and a love-hate relationship with his audience and himself. Lemmon...
MARRIED. Sally Field, 38, perennially plucky actress (Sybil, Norma Rae) currently being tipped as a possible Oscar nominee for her acclaimed role as a quietly determined widow in Places in the Heart; and Alan Greisman, 37, movie producer (Windy City), whom she met six months ago, when he brought a project to her fledgling production company; she for the second time (she is long divorced from Steven Craig, the father of her two sons), he for the first; in Tarzana, Calif...
...orchestra "may not be E.F. Hutton," her lawyer told the jury, "but when it talks, people listen." Redgrave testified that she was turned down for a role in a Broadway production for fear that her appearance would invite demonstrations. At one point, said the actress, who won a 1978 Oscar for her role in Julia, she was so desperate for money that she agreed to appear nude in an as yet unreleased film called Steaming, for which she earned...
...OSCAR WILDE'S MASTERPIECE "The Importance of Being Ernest" is as self-conscious a piece of fluff as ever there was. The play, indeed, is full of references to its own triviality. When one character advises another, "In matters of grave importance, style not sincerity is the vital thing," she could be talking about Wilde's own philosophy...
...Oscar Bartoli Rome...