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Monday, January 23, 1995
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Gump nets three at the Golden Globes
'Pulp Fiction' and 'Lion King ready for Oscars
Associated Press
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — The quirky Tom Hanks box-office smash "Forrest Gump" topped Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction" in the 52nd Golden Globe Awards, often a bellwether for the Oscars.
"Gump," the saga of simple country boy, won best dramatic picture; Hanks won best dramatic actor and Robert Neckeckis was best director.
"Pulp Fiction," a dark gangster film that some have criticized as too violent, picked up an award for best screenplay, by writer-director Tarantino.
The two movies are considered front-runners for best picture at the Academy Awards, presented March 27. The Golden Globes is the first major awards show of the season.
Last year, Hanks won a Golden Globe for best dramatic actor for "Philadelphia," then went on to take the Oscar. This year, he refused to predict a repeat.
"I think we're all going to split them up, all the way down the line," he said backstage Saturday night at the International Ballroom at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
His feel-good film amassed $300.6 million in ticket sales before it was pulled from theaters Friday. Paramount Pictures will re-release it Feb. 17, three days after the Oscar nominations are announced.
"Pulp Fiction" has garnered the majority of critics' awards and grossed $70 million.
Tarantino said he didn't make the movie to get trophies.
"I liked it, so I was just hoping that people would like it and then, hoping people would go to see it," he said once he'd picked up his award. "Anything after that was just gravel."
One surprise was Jessica Lange's best dramatic actress award for her angry Army wife in "Blue Sky," which had a limited release. Even its star called it "a strange and peculiar little film."
"The Lion King" won for best comedy or musical, while Hugh Grant and Jamie Lee Curtis picked up awards for best comedy performances.
"It's tragic how much I'm enjoying getting this — virtually uncool." joked Grant, the elusive bachelor of "Four Weddings and a Funeral." "You're supposed to think awards are invidious, but this is heaven."
Curtis, the would-be spy of "True Lies," thanked director James Cameron for "letting me hang from a helicopter on my 35th birthday."
"Farinelli," a Belgian movie about a castrato, won best foreign language film.
Dianne Wiest, who plays the flamboyant stage star in Woody Allen's "Bullets Over Broadway," won best supporting actress in a drama. Martin Landau, Bela Lugosi in "Ed Wood," got best supporting actor.
Sophia Loren got a standing ovation along with the Cecil B. DeMille Award for service to filmmakem, presented by Charlton Heston, her co-star in "El Cid," and Robert Altman, her director in "Ready to Wear."
In television, the Fox series "The X-Files," Dennis Franz of ABC's "NYPD Blue" and Claire Danes of ABC's "My So-Called Life" took top dramatic honors.
NBC's "Frasier" and "Mad About
Golden Globe winners
The winners of the 52nd Golden Globe awards presented Saturday night:
Motion Pictures
DRAMA: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Forrest Gump."
MUSICAL COMEDY: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "The Lion King."
ACTRESS DRAMA: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jessica Lange, "Blue Sky."
ACTOR DRAMA: Tom Hanks, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Forrest Gump."
ACTRESS MUSICAL-COMEDY: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jamie Lee Curtis, "True Lies."
ACTOR MUSICAL-COMEDY: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hugh Grant, "Four Weddings and a Funeral."
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: ... "Farinelli."
SUPPORTING ACTRESS DRAMA: Dianne Wiest, "Bullets Over Broadway."
SUPPORTING ACTOR DRAMA: ... Martin Landau, "Ed Wood."
DIRECTOR: ... Robert Zemeckis, "Forrest Gump."
SCREENPLAY: ... "Pulp Fiction."
ORIGINAL SCORE: ... "The Lion King."
ORIGINAL SONG: "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?" from "The Lion King."
Television
BEST TELEVISION SERIES: "The X-Files."
ACTRESS DRAMA: "Claire Danes, "My So-Called Life."
ACTOR DRAMA: "Dennis Franz, "NYPD Blue."
SERIES MUSICAL-COMEDY: "Frasier, "Mad About You" (tie).
ACTRESS MUSICAL-COMEDY: "Helen Hunt, "Mad About You."
ACTOR MUSICAL-COMEDY: "Tim Allen, "Home Improvement."
MINI-SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION: "The Burning Season."
ACTRESS MINI-SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION:
Joanne Woodward, "Breathing Lessons—A Hallmark Hall of Fame Presentation."
ACTOR MINI-SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION:
Bru Julia, "The Burning Season."
SUPPORTING ACTRESS SERIES, MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE
MADE FOR TELEVIEW: ... Miranda Richardson, "Fatherland."
SUPPORTING ACTOR SERIES, MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE
MADE FOR TELEVIEW: Edward James Olmos, "The Burning Season."
You" tied for the comedy series award. Tim Allen of ABC's "Home Improvement" and Helen Hunt of "Mad About You" took best comedy
The Golden Globes are awarded by the 100 or so members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
acting awards.
Clinton's State of the Union: Help me
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Standing at a political crossroad, President Clinton is preparing a State of the Union address short on new proposals or ideas but long on the kind of "New Democrat" rhetoric that got him elected.
The president needs the 35- to 40-minute speech to convince Americans that he will move boldly to increase jobs, shrink bureaucracy and restore their faith in their government. In short, he wants voters to believe he is everything Republican promised to be before their midterm election landslide.
Clinton spent Sunday in the White House, reviewing drafts of the speech prepared by his main writers, Bob Boorstin and Don Baer. Aides said the president had heavily rewritten drafts and would tweak the speech until the moment it is delivered at 8 p.m. Tuesday.
The address comes after weeks of soul-searching by Clinton, who sought guidance from a wide range of people — including governors, college deans, retired generals and admirals, old friends, religious leaders and new-age motivational coaches.
Meanwhile, the political landscape has shifted dramatically since his last State of the Union address, and he must seize this moment to get his presidency on track for the 1996 reelection campaign.
A year after waving a pen before a
Democratic-controlled Congress and vowing to veto any health care legislation that didn't meet his standard, a chastened Clinton is expected to promise Tuesday to work with Republicans wherever possible in 1995.
Tax cuts, a line-item veto, reduced government, immigration control and even drastically curtailed health care reform can be produced by Democrats and Republicans — showing Americans that Washington can work for them, Clinton has said in a series of remarks leading up to the address.
"You have seen over and over and over again — probably enough to make you scream — that people in Washington know how to stop things for partisan gain. It's now time for us to join together and do things for the people's gain," Clinton told a Midwest crowd Jan. 10.
But aides say the address will be combative at times, particularly when he mentions welfare reform.
Foreshadowing the address, Clinton said Saturday that Democrats did "not want to punish women and children just because they are poor or because they made some mistakes in their lives," an apparent reference to GOP proposals to deny benefits to welfare mothers who have more babies.
He also is expected to warn that he won't tolerate efforts to repeal some of his most prized accomplishments, including the national service pro
gram and the ban on 19 forms of assault weapons.
Also, look for Clinton to stake a moral claim to campaign reform, urging Republicans to pass substantial changes now that they're in charge.
But aides don't expect the president to break any new ground Tuesday.
Rather, they say, Clinton will use the address' enormous stage to highlight three themes that surfaced first in his campaign but got lost in two years of controversy and the president's own lack of focus:
A "New Economy," bolstered by low interest rates, 5.5 million new jobs and a deficit-reduction plan that Clinton says took $11,000 in debt off every American family.
A "New Covenant," the 1992 campaign slogan that promises a commitment between a caring government and its responsible citizenry. In Los Angeles last week, Clinton said the relationship should "extend more opportunity in return for people assuming responsibility for their own lives."
A "New Government," evidenced by 100,000 fewer government employees and Vice President Al Gore's ongoing plans to eliminate or restructure scores of federal programs.
Clinton plans to say his "Middle Class Bill of Rights" exemplifies all three themes. The proposal would give tax breaks to families with children, parents paying college tuition and people saving for retirement.
It also would overhaul the federal job training program, giving money directly to unemployed and low-income people to use at the job centers of their choice.
Clinton may announce his support for a minimum wage increase. Aides say the president is leaning toward endorsing the hike, but a decision may not be made in time for the address and Clinton may opt to leave it out anyway.
The president also is expected to promise improved protection of the nation's borders, a major issue in the politically crucial state of California.
Although Clinton is expected to avoid specifics Tuesday, the administration does plan to propose hiring more than 600 Immigration and Naturalization Service investigators and seek money to detain and deport illegal aliens, a senior administration official said Sunday, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Summing up the address for ABC TV on Sunday, Chief of Staff Leon Panetta said, "The president is really going to target a vision for this country about where we need to go in these next two years, and where we really need to go into the next century."
Clinton comes into the address with a slumping approval rating. A U.S. News & World Report poll taken Jan. 13-15 showed that only 40 percent of the respondents approved of his performance, down from 48 percent in October.
Russian attacks widen to Chechen countryside
The Associated Press
But the focus of Moscow's attacks widened to encompass villages in the countryside — particularly Banut, strategically located between the capital and the mountains to the southwest.
GROZNY, Russia—The seesaw battle for central Grozny intensified Sunday, with Chechen rebels claiming to have recaptured the railway station, central market and two key government buildings.
The Russians pounded Bamut yesterday, firing missiles and artillery shells nonstop for nearly an hour. Helicopters launched rocket attacks on Bamut and the nearby village of Samashki.
Chechen rebels have vowed to regroup in the hills if the Russians capture Grozny, capital of the tiny southern republic that is fighting for independence.
After two days of relative calm in Grozny, artillery and small arms fire periodically ran out from the fog that hung over the city. A light snow fell, and the temperature hovered near 9 degrees. No jets or helicopters could be heard.
Russian artillery concentrated on Grozny's southern suburbs and on Chechen positions beyond the Sunzha River running through town. Mortar rounds pounded the streets near the railroad station.
Chechen claims that they recaptured the railway station, central market and government buildings could not immediately be confirmed. It was clear that neither side controlled the city center, devastated in three weeks of ground fighting and by air attacks that began more than a month ago.
Early yesterday, rebels launched a two-hour assault on their ruined presidential building, which they abandoned Thursday. They pulled back amid heavy Russian counter-fire.
In the fighting around Bamut, there was no indication that Russian soldiers were attempting to seize the town, 30 miles southwest of Grozny and former site of a Soviet military base.
"The Russians won't be able to keep any buildings for long, because our guys can show up anywhere they want," said 26-year-old fighter Akhmed Papiyev, clad in white winter camouflage. "We'll attack them head-on and from behind."
Both sides say Chechen snipers remain in the upper floors of the palace, now a blackened hulk.
With little to shoot at, frustrated Chechen rebels sent out snipers to harass the Russians.
"Chechens come and take whatever they want from our houses, telling us that if we tell anyone about this they'll kill us," said a tearful Yelena Dobrovoloskaya, 58. "They can kill us and nobody would know about it. Look how many dead bodies lie on the ground all over the city."
About 10 miles east of Grozny, Russian artillery pounded the town of Argun, which has stubbornly resisted for weeks. Beyond Grozny, the Russians apparently had only the northern areas firmly under their control.
In Grozny, many civilians left in the city are ethnic Russians who, unlike Chechens with relatives in the countryside, have nowhere to go. Most have expressed solidarity with their Chechen neighbors, but many are now beginning quietly to complain about their worsening treatment.
Dobrolovskaya, who is caring for her husband and paralyzed mother, opened her plastic shopping bag slightly and showed about a pound of meat she had just bought at an outdoor market.
"I don't know whether we'll have a chance to eat it or if the Chechers will come and take it away," she said, wiping away tears.
Dobrolovskaya and other ethnic Russians, who refused to talk to a reporter when their Chechen neighbors approached, accused Chechen fighters of using civilians as human shields.
The Russians sent tens of thousands of troops into Chechnya on Dec. 11 to crush the republic's drive for independence. Kremlin officials concede that clashes with the defiant rebels could continue for years.
"Those fighters are hiding behind us," she said. "They're attacking Russians and then behind in them again. After that, jets are coming and killing us. We can't stand this anymore."
Thousands of people have been killed, including hundreds of Russian soldiers.
In Moscow, several thousand people rallied on Sunday to demand an end to the war and commemorate its victims.
Separately, the Russian Council of Servicemen's Parents, the movement of soldiers' mothers and similar groups, demanded peace talks with the Chechens and an immediate end to all hostilities.
"No goals, including the preservation of Russia's territorial integrity and the disarmament of illegal armed formations, can justify (the loss of) hundreds and thousands of lives," they said in a letter to Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin.
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