Word: oscared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...beautifully felt performance behind that face ought to earn Thornton, who also wrote and directed Sling Blade, an Oscar nomination or two next week. The tale of Karl's return home after 25 years in a mental hospital, and of the awful temptations to repeat his crime, has already turned the actor into Hollywood's guy du jour. Clint Eastwood, Elizabeth Taylor, Mel Gibson and Tom Cruise are vocal fans of the film, and Thornton's fellow Arkansan Bill Clinton is expected to screen it at the White House soon. A perennial supporting player, Thornton is now getting fat roles...
...name may have helped Thornton get that japish citation, just as it may have hurt his early chances for serious roles ("And the Oscar goes to--Billy Bob who?"). But that has been his name since his youth, in Malvern, Arkansas, where Dad was a basketball coach and Mom was a fortune teller with, Thornton says, true psychic powers. The lad was unusual even then, says his boyhood friend Tom Epperson. "My nickname for him was Silly Slob...
...Malvern kid is Razorback royalty now, but he's shy of the Oscar talk. "I have a little of a small-town-guy inferiority complex," he says, "so I think that kind of thing couldn't happen to me." Well, get used to the kudos, Billy Bob. You and Karl--the man and the face--deserve no less...
...chest hair. Not only does Branagh seem to wish desperately that he be immediately lauded as sex symbol of the decade, but he also employs some heavy-handed Christ imagery when he is carried out after Fortinbras' coronation. Branagh seems to be going for much more than an Oscar here...
...DIED. OSCAR AUERBACH, 92, American pathologist who examined thousands of slides of human lung tissue to document anatomical evidence of a link between smoking and the development of lung cancer; in Livingston, New Jersey...