Word: snubbings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fury than a woman scorned-at least if the woman is Kathleen Turner. The bassoon-voiced actress, starring on Broadway in Indiscretions (a revival of Jean Cocteau's Les Parents Terribles), was the only member of the show's five-person cast not to get a Tony nomination. The snub was compounded in awkwardness because Turner had been chosen to read the nominations to the press and because her fellow reader, Jeremy Irons, then drawled cattily, "I always think it's better to be nominated than to win." Other than that, how do you like the play, Ms. Turner...
...when Hoop Dreams got stiffed, not only in the Best Picture category but also by the 47-member documentary selection committee, the snub spurred charges of corruption and artistic myopia. "It's a crime," fumes Wendy Finerman, a producer of Forrest Gump, which received 13 nominations. "This was one of the best documentaries of all time. The filmmakers were robbed." So fierce was the response that the Motion Picture Academy-a club with more secrets than the Masons-declared that it would examine the nominating procedure. "We always ask, 'Could our rules be changed?'" says Academy president Arthur Hiller...
...shot up the best-seller list last fall. DIED. L.C. GRAVES, 76, police detective; in Kaufman, Texas. It is an enduring image: Lee Harvey Oswald walking through the basement of the Dallas police building, his upper arm gripped by a black-hatted Graves, and inches away, Jack Ruby's snub-nose pistol. An instant later, as Oswald collapsed, fatally wounded, Graves grabbed Ruby's gun, preventing him from getting off a second shot. Graves left the Dallas police force in 1970; for the rest of his career he worked as a fraud investigator for a bank and resisted efforts...
...Serbs Snub Boutros-Ghali...
...Minister made his country's position clear today, possibly setting up a rift with the Clinton Administration's Partnership for Peace Program. "If Russia were to become a member of NATO, that would blow NATO apart," Volker Ruehe told a conference of German and American business leaders. Why the snub? Ruehe claimed it would be too difficult to integrate the Russians into the Western alliance, in part because they refuse to learn English, the accepted "common" language of NATO. His U.S. counterpart, Defense Secretary William Perry, hedged, saying Russia could get in line behind Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech...