Word: oscared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dumb and Dumber becomes the most popular movie in America. ``Gross-out grosses,'' its rivals may sniff, and they would not be wrong. But so what? The fact is that D and D--in comparison with which Jim Carrey's other pictures look as if they were scripted by Oscar Wilde--makes you laugh out loud for almost its entire running time...
...wholesale privatization of American life may give conservatives goose pimples, but it also produces a kind of civic isolation. And Fortress America, ringed with gated communities and checkpoints and motion detectors, is a foreboding example of self-sufficiency. Says urban planner Oscar Newman: ``People who live in these communities tend not to participate very much in the affairs of the surrounding communities. I find that a little scary.'' Privatization is also a lot less liberating for the millions of Americans who can't afford their own private police, schools, street cleaners and country clubs...
...giving his movie a very effective realistic look, by helping his actors to shape strongly believable performances, even when they are doing implausible things, Benton lends credence to these inspirational fibs. And two important critical groups have rewarded Newman with their best-actor prizes. An Oscar nomination -- his eighth -- cannot be far behind. These are partly tributes to a long and invaluable career. But they are also rather careless obeisances to stardom's saving grace, its ability to impart a kind of unconscious glamour even to the contemplation of failure and mortality...
Italian President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro today ended a volatile, 22-day period of uncertainty at the top by naming the country's respected treasury minister, Lamberto Dini, as prime minister-designate to succeed flamboyant media magnate Silvio Berlusconi. The non-partisan Dini promised "a government of technocrats" to restore stability in a country that has seen 53 postwar governments come and go. But Berlusconi, who resigned last month after losing parliamentary support, called Scalfaro "a sphinx who minces his words" for not reappointing him. A large-scale political fight now looms, as Berlusconi presses for elections that, with recent gains...
With an impressive total of 14 films in eight short years, the early box- office success of Little Women, an Oscar nomination for The Age of Innocence and two or three movies -- due out this year, Ryder can think instead about the brilliant career behind and ahead of her. She has other things in mind too. "I'm one of those people who wanted to be a mom since I was five. But I don't know when it's going to happen. I'm not going to try, but I'm not going...