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Tuesday, April 12, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
'Last Emperor' wins 9 Oscars
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Cher won the Oscar as best actress Monday night for her role as a widow who discovers love in "Moonstruck," and "The Last Emperor," a tragic epic of modern China, became the most-honored film in 26 years with nine awards, including best picture.
Michael Douglas was named best actor at the 60th Academy Awards for his portrayal of a ruthless inside trader in "Wall Street."
Best supporting performers were Olympia Dukakis, as her "outspo"
kqn Italian mother coping with a wayward husband in "Moonstruck," and Sean Connery, the hard-fisted, incorruptible Chicago beat cop in "The Untouchables."
Cher told the cheering crowd at the Shrine Auditorium, "When I was a little girl, my mother said, 'I really want you to be something,' . . . I don't think this means I am somebody, but I guess I am on my way."
The actress, wore for outlandish fashions, wore a see-through sequined dress that was somewhat less revealing than her notorious
beaddress outfit of two years ago.
"Emperor," the sweeping story of China's last imperial ruler, won in all nine categories for which it was nominated by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: best film, best director for Bernardo Bertolucci, screenplay adaptation, costumes, original score, art direction, cinematography, sound and editing.
That gav· it more Oscars than any movie since "West Side Story" took home in 1962. "Ben-Hur" holds the record for 11 in 1960.
Ceremony entertaining despite strike
By Kevin Dilmore
Kansan staff writer
Oscar winners were not the only people who should have left the 60th Annual Academy Awards ceremony with something to smile about. Millions of viewers of the worldwide telecast were treated to a three- and a-half hour show seasoned with more laughs and entertainment than usual.
Credit for the success of the Oscars show must be divided between its writers for going on strike and its producers for knowing how to make up for the lack of material. Since most of the award introductions were unwritten at strike time, comedians took the stage and ad-libbed to fill air time.
Master of Ceremonies Chevy Chase, returning from last year's show, set the pace of the humor right from the start with his welcome "Good evening, Hollywood phonies." He used his monologue to lambaste
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critics and chastise the Academy's nomination habits, making several veiled references to the omission of Steve Martin from the Best Actor category for his role in "Roxanne."
Film funnymym pulled out all the stops to make the show fun to watch. Billy Crystal did imitations of Humphrey Bogart and Rin Tin Tin. John Candy read a speech that was written, he claimed, by his 8-year-old daughter, Jennifer. And Robin Williams channeled the spirit of George Jessel to read the nominees for Best Director. "Does Woody Allen dream in black and white?" Williams asked the audience. "And if so, does Ted Turner buy them and color them in?"
The ceremony also featured some refreshing pairs of presents ranging from the understated class of Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck to the corny antics of Pee-wee Herman and RoboCop.
Presenters outscored winners in the most memorable speeches department. Marlee Matlin, last year's winner for Best Actress in "Children of a Lesser God," made the most moving speech of the evening when she signed and read aloud the nominees for Best Actor. The hearing-impaired actress had taken speech lessons for a year to do it.
Eddie Murphy came the closest to making a political statement when he announced the winner of Best Picture. He said he almost turned down the chance to present the award to send the message that black film makers should no longer be forced to ride the caboose of the industry.
But as usual, the musical production numbers brought the show to a sometimes grinding halt. The dancing Oscar statuettes that opened the ceremony and the duets by Dudley Moore and Liza Minelli announcing the Best Original Song nominees were cheesy at best.
Cleanup starts after ammo dump explosion
The Associated Press
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — U.S. and Pakistani bomb disposal experts yesterday began defusing thousands of deadly missiles and grenades strew around the capital after an explosion at an ammunition dump killed 93 people and injured 1,100.
Security forces and rescue teams also searched flattened buildings for hundreds of people still unaccounted for after Sunday's blast.
President Mohammad Zia-uLah who cut short a visit to Kuwait, called
the explosion an "extraordinary accident."
aclues Zia refused to speculate on the cause of the fire which ignited the ammunition dump explosion at Ojeri camp between the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi.
Commenting on reports that some of the ordinance was earmarked for Muslim guerrillas in Afghanistan and that some empty casings bore Chinese labels, Zia said: "It's nothing but speculation — a high measure of speculation."
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