LOS ANGELES - Like a queen addressing her court, a regal Jessica Tandy took her bows before a standing crowd at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Monday night.
The star of Driving Miss Daisy dubbed her Oscar for best actress "a miracle."
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Pint-sized power; Kids pack punch in box-office draw; Children command focus in film
Nov. 30, 1990
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LOS ANGELES - In the new smash hit Home Alone, a pint-sized innocent who's scared of the dark defends his castle, outsmarts two thugs, and reunites his family.
Pure kid power.
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Romances and reptiles reeled in '90 filmgoers
Dec. 26, 1990
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LOS ANGELES - A ghost, a pretty woman and some human-sized turtles attracted the biggest crowds to the movies in 1990, Hollywood's second-best year ever at the box office.
By year end, 1990 ticket sales will total $4.9 billion to $4.95 billion, just under last year's record $5.03 billion, predicts Variety's Art Murphy.
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The year's top 10 movies
Dec. 26, 1990
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Ghost: $201.1 million gross
Pretty Woman: $178.3 million gross
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Oscar's night out; Long affair isn't short on emotion
March 26, 1991
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LOS ANGELES - Oscar night began with making Whoopi - a winner. And it ended with a seven-Oscar victory dance for Kevin Costner and his Dances With Wolves.
"I'm going to let my kids hold it," the father of three said of his best picture award. "Then I'll take it away 'cause they break most everything."
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Is the message lost? Violence mars 'Boyz' openings
July 15, 1991
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The trend is disturbing: No matter how responsibly they deal with stories of growing up in the turbulent inner city, such movies as Boyz N the Hood can't seem to avoid provoking real-life bloodshed at theaters.
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Women call the shots; More movies go to female directors; Success means more opportunity
Oct. 9, 1991
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LOS ANGELES - Little Man Tate, opening today, is the realization of a childhood goal for Oscar-winning actress Jodie Foster.
"It doesn't take long when you're on a set to see that's the place where everything comes together," says Foster, 28, of her directorial debut.
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Oliver Stone's truth; History his to interpret in new film
Dec. 20, 1991
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HOLLYWOOD - Oliver Stone is on the hot seat.
Accused of rewriting history by The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, Esquire and Time during the making of his film JFK, he felt the heat intensify this week as Newsweek and Time took him to task for creating characters that didn't exist and fictionalizing key elements of the story.
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Box-office tallies give '91 a mixed review
Dec. 26, 1991
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LOS ANGELES - Call it half a hooray for Hollywood.
The '91 box office, with two weeks to go, looks to finish with about $4.7 billion-$4.8 billion in ticket sales, down about 4% from last year, estimates the Exhibitor Relations movie research firm.
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'92 at the movies; Hopes high that sequels pay it again
Jan. 10, 1992
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LOS ANGELES - His life once again a major motion picture, even Christopher Columbus will be among Hollywood adventurers seeking gold in 1992 at the nation's box offices.
But it's not the Nina, the Pinta or the Santa Maria looming on the horizon. The big three are Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, Batman Returns and Lethal Weapon 3.
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Black is bankable; Filmakers aim beyond urban streets; New push for parity in Hollywood
Jan. 24, 1992
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Black directors have come a long way ... maybe.
Last year, their films were the hottest thing in movieland. Mario Van Peebles' New Jack City. John Singleton's Boyz N the Hood. Spike Lee's Jungle Fever. This year, the trend continues - Ernest R. Dickerson's new urban drama Juice is the No. 2 film in the USA.
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Gay activists to reveal 'Instinct' ending
March 12, 1992
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New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco moviegoers may learn who did it in the new thriller Basic Instinct even before theater lights dim.
Gay and lesbian activists in these cities - and possibly more by the movie's March 20 opening - plan to spill the beans at theaters to protest the depiction of bisexual and lesbian women as psychotic killers.
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The 'Batman' flap; McDonald's movie tie-in draws anger
June 26, 1992
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A box of bat guano.
That is what some irate parents, organizations and experts would like to leave on the doorstep of McDonald's.
In front of the Golden Arches, the home of the Happy Meal that now offers little ones a gaggle of Bat toys - commercial tie-ins to the blockbuster movie Batman Returns.
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Count the Draculas; Hollywood vampires are out for blood
July 9, 1992
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Grab a crucifix. Get out the garlic. The Count is back in town.
Now Hollywood really does bite as six new vampire films wing their way to theaters.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer opens July 31, with Rutger Hauer and Paul Reubens (a.k.a. Pee-wee Herman) as the vampires, Beverly Hills, 90210 star Luke Perry as a hapless hunk and Kristy Swanson as a vampire slayer.
