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...good place to start, in part because it shows how far the Academy has come. In previous years, Mary Tyler Moore would have cinched a nomination just for skewering her sunny image and sporting a Wonderbra in three scenes of Flirting With Disaster. In the same vein, lovable Marion Ross of Happy Days couldn't have missed for wearing age make-up and dying suddenly in The Evening Star. No dice, ladies. Instead, this year's voters went for Jean-Baptiste, an unknown first-timer in a tricky, understated ensemble turn. Allen and Hershey have higher profiles, but Hollywood...
Steering the night's entertainment into the realm of parody, "Speed-the-Play" skewers the theater of David Mamet. This skit contains miniature versions of four Mamet plays: "American Buffalo," "Speed-the-Plow," "Sexual Perversity in Chicago" and "Glengarry Glen Ross...
...DIED. ROSS FINNEY, 90, composer fascinated by the interplay between music and memory; in Carmel, California. His pieces ranged from folk-influenced compositions to 12-tone works...
...York Senator Alfonse M. D'Amato: "Having Al D'Amato chair an ethics inquiry is like having Ross Perot heading up a mental health task force...
...tension." Early in the day, the entire session abruptly ended after Cabinet ministers received word from an Israeli TV report that the United States did not intend to let Israel decide for itself the extent of troop withdrawals from the West Bank. Debate resumed only after U.S. envoy Dennis Ross called each of the ministers to assure them that the report was not official U.S. policy. For the Palestinian cabinet, approval was easy. A final vote count was not made available, but according to Palestinian Information Minister Yasser Abed Rabbo, the Cabinet authorized the agreement by a large majority. Under...