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Eadie
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 25, 2019 3:41 am    Post subject: Oscar Awards 2019 Reply with quote

Reported at various sites; this is from Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/91st_Academy_Awards

The 91st Academy Oscar Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best of 2019 in film. (List of nominees and winners and Special Awards at site.)

In Memoriam Snubs Include Stanley Donen, Carol Channing, Sondra Locke and Verne Troyer, Many others also absent during tribute to showbiz people who died in the past year.

https://www.thewrap.com/oscars-in-memoriam-sondra-locke-verne-troyer-dick-miller-r-lee-ermey/

Singin’ in the Rain
director Stanley Donen, Sondra Locke, the Oscar-nominated actress and former partner of Clint Eastwood, Verne Troyer, character actor Dick Miller and Golden Globe nominee R. Lee Ermey were omitted during the Oscars’ In Memoriam tribute on Sunday.

Carol Channing, who was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the 1967 film Thoroughly Modern Millie and died in January, was also omitted during the tribute to showbiz people who died in the past year.

Gustavo Dudamel conducted the Los Angeles Philarmonic to a Can You Read My Mind? from 1978’s Superman.

Donen, whose death was announced Saturday at the age of 94, helped reinvent the big-screen musical, with a series of hits that included On the Town, 1954’s Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, 1957’s The Pajama Game, 1958’s Damn Yankees! and 1957’s Funny Face, with Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire.

Despite receiving an honorary Oscar in 1998 for “a body of work marked by grace, elegance, wit and visual innovation,” he never received so much as a nomination for any of his films.

Locke earned her Oscar nomination in 1968 for her supporting role in the adaptation of Carson McCullers’ The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter. It was her first acting role, which led to roles in films like Willard and “The Second Coming of Suzanne.”

Troyer, who was diagnosed with achondroplasia dwarfism, played Mini-Me in the Austin Powers films and also starred as Griphook the goblin in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.

Miller began his acting career in the 1950s in the theater before moving to Los Angeles, kicking off his six-decade career in film with hundreds of credits. He’s best known for his role in director Joe Dante’s Gremlins and its sequel, Gremlins 2: The New Batch. Miller played Murray Futterman, a World War II veteran haunted by memories of the creatures from the war, who gets his chance to fight back against the creatures when they attack a small Midwestern town during Christmas.

Ermey, a Marine Corps veteran, made his film debut in Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, and went on to play authority figures in films like Mississippi Burning, Se7en and the Toy Story films (where he voiced Sarge, leader of the plastic Army men).

A representative for the Academy did not immediately respond to The Wrap’s request for comment.

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 25, 2019 12:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Thanks, Eadie! Your column today in Eadie's Tinseltown Report has scooped all the other papers again!

Great work! Both Lois and Clark are jealous as heck! Wink

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