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...Garbo of bondage movies. Granted, Greta Garbo played Camille and Anna Karenina, while Bettie played Bettie - or, as it was usually spelled then, Betty - in five-minute, 8 mm epics with titles like Betty's Clown Dance and Dominant Betty Dances With Whip. Garbo, in Hollywood, had Irving Thalberg, the prince of MGM, as her boss and protector. Bettie had Irving Klaw. Calling himself the "King of the Pinups," Irving and his sister Paula ran a seedy Manhattan emporium called Movie Star News, which peddled celebrity glamour shots to the public and specialized photos and loops to a more discriminating...
...Alexander). Three times, he was Oscar-nominated for best director (Cries and Whispers, Face to Face, Fanny and Alexander); five times, as author of the best original screenplay (Wild Strawberries, Through a Glass Darkly, Cries and Whispers, Autumn Sonata and Fanny). The Academy also gave him the Irving G. Thalberg Award for career achievement - the only foreign-language filmmaker to receive it. In 1960 he received a still higher honor: he graced the cover of TIME, the first foreign-language filmmaker to do so since Leni Riefenstahl...
...building competition. On Oscar night, we'll see. Eastwood's Mystic River received a sheaf of rapturous reviews and did O.K. business. At 73, the old cowpoke might ride sentiment to take an Oscar. But he got Picture and Director statuettes for Unforgiven in 1993 and the Irving G. Thalberg Award two years later. A senior citizen can use only so many retirement gifts...
Cubby's success won him respect in Hollywood--in 1982 at the Oscars, he received the Irving Thalberg award--and every studio wishes it had such a lucrative franchise. But the family is deemed a niche player. Cubby did make more than 20 non-007 films, but only one was a hit: 1968's Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, also based on an Ian Fleming work. The family has a stage version of Chitty playing in London. But Bond is the core of the business; they'll continue, says Wilson, "as long as people want the product...
...show. The dirty secret is that we want the Academy Awards to be boring - we want, and we watch every year, the slow, predictable rituals that mark another year of our leisure time past. We want the In Memoriam roll. We want Dino De Laurentiis receiving the Irving Thalberg Home Audience Mass Sedation Award. We want the speech from the president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. We want that four hours of tedium, the better to set off that one perverse moment of total surprise...