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Paul Scofield, the best actor, for A Man for All Seasons, remained in Sussex, England. Elizabeth Taylor, the best actress, for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfl, sent her polite regrets from Nice.* Sandy Dennis, the best supporting actress, for Virginia Woolf, stayed put in New York. Only Walter Matthau, the best supporting actor, for The Fortune Cookie, showed up-as did All Seasons Director Fred Zinnemann and Scenarist Robert Bolt...
...fields in a score of states were churned into lacteal goo by the deluge, and in New Jersey-where farmers and their wives and children walked through a snowstorm to deliver their complaints to the state-house-nearly 1,000,000 Ibs. still warm from the cow, turned a Sussex County snowfield into curds...
...funniest show on Broadway: Peter Shaffer's Black Comedy. Vanessa was in Hollywood, playing Queen Guinevere in her first cinemammoth: a $17 million movie version of Broadway's Camelot, in which she sings in a musky mezzo and looks like a rain-washed daffodil in a fire-green Sussex meadow. On April 10, they will both take a day off to celebrate the climax of the Redgrave year in cinema. They will appear together at the annual Oscar awards ceremony, where for the first time since 1940, when Joan Fontaine beat out Olivia de Havilland, the nominees for Best Actress...
Scofield, who was raised eight miles from his present Sussex home, was a school dropout at 17, though his father was a headmaster. "Whatever pressures there were against my going into the theater," he recalls, "they were pretty well canceled out by the fact that I wasn't going to be very much good at anything else." Thus he went off to the London Mask Theater School. When the war came along, Scofield signed up with ENSA (Entertainments National Service Association), Britain's equivalent of the U.S.O., and for the next two years played Shakespeare, Shaw...
Fallen Angel. Neither loot nor limelight has ever seduced Scofield. The most introverted of English actors, he avoids public places, parties and the press. Between performances, he commutes by train to his cottage 50 miles into rustic Sussex, lives "a complete family life" with his wife, Actress Joy Parker, their two children, some horses and dogs. "It sounds funny for an actor to say it," he says, "but I haven't any desire for the center of the stage...