Word: schindler
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Aside from the unquestioned good of bringing the Holocaust to the front of the national consciousness, "schindler's list" has given heroism a face...
...film has made Oscar Schindler the Holocaust hero. His very human qualities his greed, his lusts, his apathy are displayed as evidence that normal people can do great good. If Schindler could become a humanitarian...
...measure of the style of Hollywood that often there is little room for more than one hero. This inevitable tendency of the silver screen overshadows others whose legacies might be just as meaningful, or more meaningful, than that of Schindler...
...over America last week, the people who won their office Academy Awards pool were those who made the unlikely pick of Anna Paquin for Best Supporting Actress. Everyone guessed the obvious winners -- Schindler's List for Best Picture, Tom Hanks for Best Actor -- so a daring bet on Paquin, who played Holly Hunter's charming, willful child in The Piano, made all the difference. And whoever gambled that an 11-year-old New Zealander with no previous acting experience would beat out Emma Thompson, Holly Hunter, Winona Ryder and Rosie Perez deserved to collect...
BEST PERFORMANCE IN ARMANI AND A HEADSET. How did the agents do? Of the seven winners in the acting, writing and directing categories, CAA represents three (Spielberg, Tom Hanks and Jane Campion), ICM two (Holly Hunter and Tommy Lee Jones), and the little-known Harold Greene Agency one (Schindler's List screenwriter Steven Zaillian). Eleven-year-old Anna Paquin is represented by the even-less-known Double Happy agency of New Zealand. The William Morris Agency was shut...