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...Quiet on the Western Front, played opposite Greta Garbo and portrayed Dr. Kildare in the MGM film series. During World War II, Ayres provoked an outcry by declining combat duty. (He served as a medic and chaplain's aide.) Weathering the controversy, he went on to receive an Oscar nomination for his role in Johnny Belinda...
...action against the company, resulting in 1996 in a $330 million settlement, the largest-ever toxic tort injury settlement in U.S. history. Brockovich-Ellis’ crusade was dramatized in the 2001 Hollywood blockbuster “Erin Brockovich,” starring actress Julia Roberts, who won an Oscar for the role.But many scientists insist that no link has been established between the contaminants in the water and the cancer cases in Hinkley, Calif. According to studies published by the Environmental Protection Agency and available on its website, “No data were located in the available literature...
...Warm Blob Our Appreciation of film director Robert Wise [MILESTONES, Sept. 26] referred in a rather disparaging manner to The Sound of Music, for which Wise won an Oscar for best direction. TIME's somewhat negative cinematic view was first voiced 40 years ago when the movie version of the 1959 Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein Broadway musical comedy opened. Here is an excerpt from that critique [March...
...Three Oscar-winning leading ladies—Charlize Theron, recently off her “Monster” Oscar win, Sissy Spacek (1980 winner for “Coal Miner’s Daughter), and Frances McDormand (for 1996’s “Fargo”)—lead the cast of “Country,” which is based on the true story of the first sexual harassment class-action lawsuit...
...with the opposite sex, and, most importantly, make jokes that people on the show actually laugh at. Gervais also is not the center of attention. Each week he shares the spotlight with a big-name star satirizing him or herself; the first week’s episode featured an Oscar-hungry, foul-mouthed Kate Winslet, and last week was Ben Stiller’s attempt to make a poignant film about Bosnian war victims. Gervais’ cohorts include Ashley Jensen as Andy’s dim-witted friend Maggie Jacobs, and his “Office?...