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- <title>
- Apr. 13, 1992: And the Winners Were
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Apr. 13, 1992 Campus of the Future
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 63
- And the Winners Were
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- <p>By Michael Quinn
- </p>
- <p> With the quick-witted Billy Crystal at the helm, this
- year's Academy Awards didn't drag on from here to eternity. But
- in the course of three hours and 33 minutes, a few awards seem
- to have been overlooked:
- </p>
- <p>-- The Um-Um-Uh Porky Uh-Uh Pig Um-Um Award for Uh-Uh-Uh
- Elocution. No, that was not Mel Tillis accepting the Oscar for
- Best Director. That was Jonathan Demme, who lensed Oscar sweeper
- The Silence of the Lambs. Number of ums and uhs in his
- acceptance speech: 94. Clarice wouldn't have been this nervous
- taking Hannibal Lecter to a restaurant with an all-you-can-eat
- special.
- </p>
- <p>-- The Elsa Lanchester Bride of Frankenstein Award for
- Original Hairstyle. Best Supporting Actress nominee Juliette
- Lewis (Cape Fear), who won for her queer coiffure, soon to be
- featured in White Women Can't Wear Cornrows.
- </p>
- <p>-- The George Jessel Droner's Distinction. Fortunately,
- the worst speech was the first speech: Karl Malden's treacly
- ode to "the pure joy of movies." He should have left home
- without it. In telling contrast to such inane Oscarspeak was
- bedridden Lifetime Achievement honoree Satyajit Ray's truly
- joyful reminiscences of his youth, when the future Indian auteur
- was bedazzled by American moviemakers--from master director
- Billy Wilder to perky ingenue songstress Deanna Durbin.
- </p>
- <p>-- The Cher Dress-for-Excess Medal. This year was notable
- for a refreshingly retro emphasis on class over cleavage.
- Among the appalling exceptions: Sylvester Stallone steady
- Jennifer Flavin, basically adorned in buckles and other people's
- averted glances.
- </p>
- <p>-- The Robert Fulghum Pseudo-Intellectual Depth Charge.
- The winner: a bespectacled Stallone, who forked over the
- Foreign Film Oscar after some indecipherable babble about "the
- nature of man, nature in the wild, which is too often the nature
- of man." The band wasn't fooled--it played the theme from
- Rocky as Sly strode to the podium.
- </p>
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