Word: oscars
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...Salvadoran society for an end to the bloodshed. Evelio Sorto, a teacher displaced by the war from his home in the northern department of Morazán, was among the crowd that trekked to La Palma. "If this opportunity is lost, we may never have another," he observed. Said Oscar Martínez, a local peasant: "This is a beautiful country, but the war is destroying it. I hope the leaders can forget their differences and think about what they are doing to El Salvador...
...classic, it is at least a wonderfully ingenious counterfeit of one." And even if, in this century, the counterfeit has become more evident than the ingenuity, Rostand's rhapsody has attracted new generations of star actors, from Walter Hampden to Ralph Richardson to José Ferrer in the Oscar-winning film version. But the movie ran only 112 min.; the R.S.C. Cyrano soldiers on at nearly twice that length. More important, Anthony Burgess's verse translation, while lean and clever ("Our devil's changed into a Christian brother,/ Attack one nostril and he turns the other"), irons...
...preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde warned that those who would "go beneath the surface do so at their peril." This is precisely the risk novelists take, though the better ones know that the obvious can hold as much truth as the hidden. Alison Lurie is among the better ones. She has deftly drawn the relationship between outward style and inward character in such novels as Imaginary Friends and Real People, and in her social history The Language of Clothes...
...director work for free instead of receiving his usual $1.5 million salary-but for Rollins it is a late second chance. Like LeVar Burton after Roots and Louis Gossett Jr. after An Officer and a Gentleman, Rollins found himself a celebrity but not a hot commodity after his Oscar-nominated role in Ragtime (1981). He did not make another feature until A Soldier's Story. "People have been a little slow to pick up the phone," he understates. "Most of the scripts I did see used the catchword 'dignified' for my characters. It's another cliche...
Outside the theater, blacks were becoming hard to ignore, and their impact was refracted on the screen. "When schools were being desegregated," recalls Danny Glover, a likely Oscar nominee for his performance as the hobo in Places in the Heart, "you saw Poitier become a film star. And in the wake of the Watts riots and the push for community control, you got blaxploitation." These were the low-budget gangster and horror movies that, along with prestige efforts like Sounder and Lady Sings the Blues, detonated the explosion of black films in the early '70s. Suddenly directors like Gordon...