Word: oscared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Assistant Editors: Tam Martinides Gray (Research Chief), Ariadna Victoria Rainert (Administration), Oscar Chiang, Mary McC. Fernandez, Lois Gilman, Valerie Johanna Marchant, Adrianne Jucius Navon...
Hollywood giant Burt Lancaster, a 1960 Oscar winner for his role as flamboyant sham evangelist Elmer Gantry, died of a heart attack at age 80. His career spanned 70 films. But the Lancaster image that lingers for many is the once scandalous "From Here to Eternity" beach scene, in which a taut Burt and a svelte Deborah Kerr nearly get swept away...
...easy to say what's wrong with Show Boat, the seminal 1927 musical by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II that steamed onto Broadway this week in an $8.5 million blaze of spectacular stagecraft. Based on Edna Ferber's novel about a floating theater on the Mississippi River, the show has always been too long and thematically sprawling. The most engaging characters, the light- skinned black Julie and her white husband Steve, virtually disappear before the intermission, while the coincidence-plagued second act rambles episodically from 1889 to 1927. Over the years, some critics have found the treatment of blacks...
...particular voices, expressions, and mannerisms, the narrator appears somewhat lack. luster and awkward in comparison. Brown resorts to inexplicable stylized poses and gestures that do not project any distinct personality. But again, this weakness in the play seems to be a fault inherent in The Importance of Being Oscar. For the most part, Brown successfully carries the over-whelming burden of presenting an entire play...
Overall, The Importance of Being Oscar places itself in a difficult position. By highlighting such an intriguing figure and his own engaging work, the play cannot quite meet the challenge of its subject matter. However, it does offer an oblique perspective of Wilde's own fascinating struggles to reconcile the comedy and tragedy of life...