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Nominees: Joan Allen, The Crucible; Lauren Bacall, The Mirror Has Two Faces; Juliette Binoche, The English Patient; Barbara Hershey, The Portrait of a Lady; Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Secrets & Lies...
Nominees: Brenda Blethyn, Secrets & Lies; Diane Keaton, Marvin's Room; Frances McDormand, Fargo; Kristin Scott Thomas, The English Patient; Emily Watson, Breaking the Waves...
Nominees: Tom Cruise, Jerry Maguire; Ralph Fiennes, The English Patient; Woody Harrelson, The People vs. Larry Flynt; Geoffrey Rush, Shine; Billy Bob Thornton, Sling Blade...
Again, two names can be shelved quickly. Harrelson is still to be considered a TV actor, and even supporters of his controversial film are more likely to rally around its director than its star. As for Fiennes, The English Patient has enough chances in other categories that it doesn't need a win here. Cruise's nomination is richly deserved, but I suspect that after two $100 million hits in a year (continuing a streak of five), a Golden Globe and a $20 million salary, Hollywood will decide he's been rewarded enough...
Discipline is what sets David Rabe's A Question of Mercy apart from the earnest TV movies that it resembles. Recently opened at the off-Broadway theater where Rent debuted, the play follows a conflicted doctor (Zach Grenier) as he tries to help a dying aids patient (Juan Carlos Hernandez) commit suicide. TV would have turned this into a moralistic issue drama about the right to die. Under Rabe's focused gaze, it becomes a cold-eyed look at what happens when that noble ideal runs up against fallible human beings. Rabe--who in the 1970s wrote big, impassioned plays...