Word: oscared
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...CINEMA: Oscar gold in Christmas stockings...
...titillating the Corleones seemed in 1972 and '74, when Francis Ford Coppola turned Puzo's best seller into two Oscar-winning Godfather films. Here was a family of murderers viewed with cool compassion; they did their lurid business with style. Coppola's own style, which set the tone for '70s movies, was called operatic -- meaning that the characters moved slowly, died grandly and emoted at the top of their lungs. The book was a fast, brutal read; the movie saga was an extended, ravishing look...
Count on Awakenings, written by Steve Zaillian, to mop up at Oscar- $ nominations time. Any movie about mental disturbance (One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Rain Man) is likely to touch Academy members, not so much because it treats a serious issue as because it parades the performer's craft. To watch De Niro shrink into the shadow of catatonia is to be made aware of his great gifts of body control, of withdrawing into character, of seeming to be. It's an awesome show that reveals more about De Niro than about the man he is playing. Like...
REPORTER-RESEARCHERS: Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo, Brigid O'Hara-Forster, Jeanne- Marie North, Jane Van Tassel (Department Heads); Audrey Ball, Bernard Baumohl, David Bjerklie, Rosemary Byrnes, Val Castronovo, Nancy McD. Chase, Oscar Chiang, John E. Gallagher, Lois Gilman, Tam Martinides Gray, Georgia Harbison, Michael P. Harris, Anne Hopkins, Katherine Mihok, Adrianne Jucius Navon, Nancy Newman, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph, Zona Sparks, William Tynan, Sidney Urquhart, Susanne Washburn (Senior Staff); Elizabeth L. Bland, Kathleen Brady, Barbara Burke, Wendy Cole, Tom Curry, Nelida Gonzalez Cutler, Sally B. Donnelly, Andrea Dorfman, David Ellis, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Mary McC. Fernandez, David M. Gross...
REPORTER-RESEARCHERS: Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo, Brigid O'Hara-Forster, Jeanne- Marie North, Jane Van Tassel (Department Heads); Audrey Ball, Bernard Baumohl, David Bjerklie, Rosemary Byrnes, Val Castronovo, Nancy McD. Chase, Oscar Chiang, John E. Gallagher, Lois Gilman, Tam Martinides Gray, Georgia Harbison, Michael P. Harris, Anne Hopkins, Katherine Mihok, Adrianne Jucius Navon, Nancy Newman, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph, Zona Sparks, William Tynan, Sidney Urquhart, Susanne Washburn (Senior Staff); Elizabeth L. Bland, Kathleen Brady, Barbara Burke, Wendy Cole, Tom Curry, Nelida Gonzalez Cutler, Sally B. Donnelly, Andrea Dorfman, David Ellis, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Mary McC. Fernandez, David M. Gross...