Word: oscared
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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...
Assistant Editors: Tam Martinides Gray (Research Chief), Ariadna Victoria Rainert (Administration), Oscar Chiang, Mary McC. Fernandez, Lois Gilman, Valerie Johanna Marchant, Adrianne Jucius Navon...
Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II put Edna Ferber's panoramic novel onstage in 1927. It keeps on rollin' in Harold Prince's vigorous Broadway version of the old paddlewheel musical. The story still works, the great score is well sung, and Lonette McKee makes for a lustrous, heartbreaking Julie...
...confidence votes. "A weight has been taken off," the Italian media magnate said after resigning. But Berlusconi, who just yesterday dared the country's lawmakers to vote him out, is following through on threats to immediately press for a new election he hopes will return him to power. President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro's more ceremonial role in politics now becomes pivotal: he'll decide whether to grant Berlusconi's elections request -- or call on politicians to form a new parliamentary majority without him. The balance tipped against Berlusconi's seven-month-old government last week, when former key ally Umberto...
...political comeback, as one of his chief aides predicted yesterday. Instead, the media magnate warned Italian lawmakers in a speech that voting this week to oust his seven-month-old coalition would turn voters against them. If he loses the no-confidence vote, Berlusconi said, he'll ask President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro to call another election to select Italy's 54th government in 49 years. The controversy revolves around a high-profile criminal inquiry into bribery allegations involving his own firms...