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...statuettes were for best picture (he co-produced Terms), best director and best screenplay adaptation, and two of his picture's stars also came in first. Shirley MacLaine was named best actress for her role as Aurora Greenway, the film's impossible but ultimately likable mother, and Jack Nicholson was chosen best supporting actor for playing Aurora's lecherous astronaut lover. The other major awards at the seemingly endless (a record 3 hr. 46 min.) ceremony went to favorites: Robert Duvall won the best actor Oscar for his role as an alcoholic country singer in Tender Mercies...
...night, however, really belonged to Brooks. In a Hollywood story older than the Oscars themselves, he had been turned down by almost every studio in town before Paramount finally said yes, it would help him make a comedy in which one of the leading characters, Aurora's daughter Emma (Debra Winger), dies of cancer. "The script was always killed with kindness," says Brooks. "People really liked it but perceived it as a small, dark, emotional comedy. I spent two years telling studio heads that it wasn't a cancer picture. I hate cancer pictures...
They have practiced their roles for a lifetime. And now in Aurora, filming in Italy, Edoardo Ponti, 11, is making his acting debut opposite his magnificent mama Sophia Loren, 49. Naturally, the lad plays Loren's offspring in the movie, which-to keep things in the family-is being produced by his father Carlo Ponti, 70. How did the little cherub do, Mama? "He looks like an angel, but he's really like a devil," says Edoardo's glamorous costar. "Already he criticizes my acting." Meanwhile, the Pontis are working on plans for another family project...
...original score by Marvin Hamlisch (A Chorus Line, They're Playing Our Song). Says MacLaine: "I'll keep dancing and singing until my legs get as low as my notes." The fiery actress is currently basking in critical and popular praise for her portrayal of Aurora, the feisty Texas mother in Terms of Endearment, a role that is expected to win her an Oscar nomination. "I figure that I've put a lot into my life," MacLaine says. "Now I'm getting some of it back." -By Guy D.Garcia
...twelfth floor of the Ramada hotel in Aurora, Colo., is a cut above the rest. Up on the twelfth, Concierge Monika Lidman treats all of her guests like VIPS. "They love to be pampered," she says. In their rooms, guests find refrigerators stocked with smoked oysters, wine, crackers, olives and English tea cookies. Other comforts abound: fresh carnations, soft white bathrobes, wicker baskets filled with toiletries...