Word: oscared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...botches the job. The book, written with Thomas M. Coffey, is starchy, stentorian, too careful, like the world's longest Oscar-acceptance speech. We learn that Kramer grew up in New York City's tough Hell's Kitchen, that as a kid he belonged to an interracial gang, that after World War II he became a producer by buying the rights to two Ring Lardner stories. He writes that just before shooting began on Champion, the Lardner boxing story that would make Kirk Douglas a star, the actor got a nose job and said that in the fight scenes...
...Chayefsky took Coe's advice and gave him Marty, starring Rod Steiger and Nancy Marchand; the next day Chayefsky heard people mimicking the play's dialogue ("What do you feel like doin' tonight?" "I don't know. What do you feel like doin' tonight?"). The film version won the Oscar for Best Picture of 1955, and Hollywood was soon combing Philco Playhouse for other scripts: The Bachelor Party, The Catered Affair, The Rainmaker and Gore Vidal's The Death of Billy the Kid (filmed as The Left-Handed Gun) and Visit to a Small Planet...
...been able to ask Cardenas some questions during his campaign. If Cardenas means what he says, why didn't he strive to right so many wrongs 30 years ago, when he first had the chance? Just imagine how much better off all us Mexicans would be now! OSCAR ISLAS Mexico City...
DIED. WILLIAM HICKEY, 69, raspy-voiced actor whose breakthrough role as the one-breath-short-of-death don in Prizzi's Honor won him a 1986 Oscar nomination; of emphysema; in New York City...
...rooted like hell (and with Ivy League pride) as Princeton got edged out by Cal in the first round of the NCAA men's basketball tournament. And in April, I paced and cursed as Fargo, the only decent film in a long time to have a shot at dominating Oscar night, was snubbed in nearly every category...