CED Digest Vol. 6 No. 12

CED Digest Vol. 6 No. 12 • 3/24/2001
20 Years Ago In CED History:

March 26, 1981:
* The Social Democratic Party (SDP) gains official recognition in Great
Britain and becomes the third most important political party in
Parliament.

March 27, 1981:
* Actress Carol Burnett is awarded $1.6 million in damages in libel suit
against National Enquirer magazine.
* Future CED titles in widespread theatrical release: Final Conflict,
Thief.

March 28, 1981:
* "Rapture" by Blondie becomes No. 1 U.S. single.

March 30, 1981:
* President Reagan is shot in the chest outside the Washington Hilton
Hotel. The president's press secretary, James Brady, is also severely
wounded, and Timothy McCarthy, a Secret Service agent, and Thomas
Delahanty, a local police officer, are also shot. The assailant, John W.
Hinckley, Jr., is seized at the scene. Confusion arise when Secretary of
State Alexander Haig announced on television the he is "in control"
while Vice President George Bush is flying back to Washington.
* The Indiana University Hoosiers (from Bloomington) led by
irrepressible head coach Bobby Knight win the NCAA Basketball
Championship for the fourth time. Star player Isiah Thomas leads the
team to a 63-50 win over North Carolina. The start of the game is
delayed until it is confirmed that Ronald Reagan's surgery for a gunshot
wound is successful.

March 31, 1981:
* Four of five Indonesian terrorists are killed in Bangkok, Thailand
after hijacking an airplane on March 28. None of the 55 hostages are
injured when Indonesian commandos storm the plane.

* 53rd Annual Academy Awards (Winners in all caps):

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
John Hurt, The Elephant Man (CED)
Robert Duvall, The Great Santini (CED)
ROBERT DE NIRO, RAGING BULL (CED)
Peter O'Toole, The Stunt Man (CED)
Jack Lemmon, Tribute (CED)

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Michael O'Keefe, The Great Santini (CED)
Jason Robards, Melvin and Howard
Judd Hirsch, Ordinary People (CED)
TIMOTHY HUTTON, ORDINARY PEOPLE (CED)
Joe Pesci, Raging Bull (CED)

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
SISSY SPACEK, COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER (CED)
Gena Rowlands, Gloria (CED)
Mary Tyler Moore, Ordinary People (CED)
Goldie Hawn, Private Benjamin (CED)
Ellen Burstyn, Resurrection

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Diana Scarwid, Inside Moves
MARY STEENBURGEN, MELVIN AND HOWARD
Eileen Brennan, Private Benjamin (CED)
Cathy Moriarty, Raging Bull (CED)
Eva Le Gallienne, Resurrection

ART DIRECTION
Coal Miner's Daughter, John W. Corso (CED)
The Elephant Man, Stuart Craig, Bob Cartwright (CED)
The Empire Strikes Back, Norman Reynolds, Leslie Dilley, Harry Lange,
Alan Tomkins (CED)
Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior), Yoshiro Muraki
TESS, PIERRE GUFFROY, JACK STEPHENS (CED)

BEST PICTURE
Coal Miner's Daughter, Bernard Schwartz (CED)
The Elephant Man, Jonathan Sanger (CED)
ORDINARY PEOPLE, RONALD L. SCHWARY (CED)
Raging Bull, Irwin Winkler, Robert Chartoff (CED)
Tess, Claude Berri, Timothy Burrill (CED)

CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Blue Lagoon, Nestor Almendros (CED)
Coal Miner's Daughter, Ralf D. Bode (CED)
The Formula, James Crabe (CED)
Raging Bull, Michael Chapman (CED)
TESS, GEOFFREY UNSWORTH, GHISLAIN CLOQUET (CED)

COSTUME DESIGN
The Elephant Man, Patricia Norris (CED)
My Brilliant Career, Anna Senior
Somewhere in Time, Jean-Pierre Dorleac
TESS, ANTHONY POWELL (CED)
When Time Ran Out, Paul Zastupnevich

DIRECTING
The Elephant Man, David Lynch (CED)
ORDINARY PEOPLE, ROBERT REDFORD (CED)
Raging Bull, Martin Scorsese (CED)
The Stunt Man, Richard Rush (CED)
Tess, Roman Polanski (CED)

DOCUMENTARY (Feature)
Agee, Ross Spears
The Day After Trinity, Jon Else
FROM MAO TO MOZART: ISAAC STERN IN CHINA, MURRAY LERNER
Front Line,  David Bradbury
The Yellow Star - The Persecution of the Jews in Europe 1933-45, Bengt
von zur Muehlen, Arthur Cohn

DOCUMENTARY (Short Subject)
Don't Mess with Bill, John Watson, Pen Densham
The Eruption of Mount St. Helens, George Casey
It's the Same World,  Dick Young
KARL HESS: TOWARD LIBERTY, ROLAND HALLE, PETER W. LADUE
Luther Metke at 94, Richard Hawkins, Jorge Preloran

FILM EDITING
Coal Miner's Daughter, Arthur Schmidt (son) (CED)
The Competition, David Blewitt
The Elephant Man, Anne V. Coates (CED)
Fame, Gerry Hambling (CED)
RAGING BULL, THELMA SCHOONMAKER (CED)

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Confidence, Hungary
Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior), Japan
The Last Metro, France
MOSCOW DOES NOT BELIEVE IN TEARS, UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
The Nest, Spain

HONORARY AWARD (Acting)
HENRY FONDA

HONORARY AWARD (Scientific and Technical)
FRED HYNES

MUSIC (Original Score)
Altered States, John Corigliano (CED)
The Elephant Man, John Morris (CED)
The Empire Strikes Back, John Williams (CED)
FAME, MICHAEL GORE (CED)
Tess, Philippe Sarde (CED)

MUSIC (Original Song)
The Competition, Lalo Schifrin, Wilbur Jennings [Song: People Alone]
FAME, MICHAEL GORE, DEAN PITCHFORD [SONG: FAME] (CED)
Fame, Michael Gore, Lesley Gore [Song: Out Here On My Own] (CED)
Honeysuckle Rose, Willie Nelson [Song: On the Road Again]
9 to 5, Dolly Parton [Song: 9 to 5] (CED)

SCIENTIFIC OR TECHNICAL AWARD (Academy Award of Merit)
Laboratory, LINWOOD G. DUNN, CECIL D. LOVE, ACME TOOL AND MANUFACTURING
COMPANY

SCIENTIFIC OR TECHNICAL AWARD (Scientific and Engineering Award)
Camera Cranes, Samuelson Alga Cinema S.A., Samuelson Film Service,
Limited, JEAN-MARIE LAVALOU, ALAIN MASSERON, DAVID SAMUELSON
Laboratory, Filmline Corporation , EDWARD B. KRAUSE 
Lenses and Filters, DAVID A. GRAFTON 
Lighting, OSRAM GmbH , DR. WERNER BLOCK, DR. BERNARD KUHL
Stage Operations, ROSS TAYLOR 

SCIENTIFIC OR TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award)
Laboratory, Bell and Howell Company , CARTER EQUIPMENT COMPANY , ANDRE
DEBRIE S.A., HOLLYWOOD FILM COMPANY , WALTER HRASTNIK, JOHN W. LANG,
CHARLES J. WATSON
Photography, Elicon , PETER A. REGLA, DAN SLATER
Projection, LaVezzi Machine Works, Incorporated , WORTH BAIRD 
Systems, Cinetron Computer Systems, Incorporated , EUGENE NOTTINGHAM,
CHARLES VAUGHN

SHORT FILM (Animated)
All Nothing, Frederic Back
THE FLY (1980), FERENC ROFUSZ
History of the World in Three Minutes Flat, Michael Mills (short)

SHORT FILM (Dramatic Live Action)
THE DOLLAR BOTTOM, LLOYD PHILLIPS
Fall Line, Bob Carmichael, Greg Lowe
A Jury of Her Peers, Sally Heckel

SOUND
Altered States, Arthur Piantadosi, Les Fresholtz, Michael Minkler,
Willie D. Burton (CED)
Coal Miner's Daughter, Richard Portman, Roger Heman (sound), Jim
Alexander (CED)
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, BILL VARNEY, STEVE MASLOW, GREGG LANDAKER,
PETER SUTTON (CED)
Fame, Michael J. Kohut, Aaron Rochin, Jay M. Harding, Chris Newman (CED)
Raging Bull, Donald O. Mitchell, Bill Nicholson, David J. Kimball, Les
Lazarowitz (CED)

SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD (Visual Effects)
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, BRIAN JOHNSON, RICHARD EDLUND, DENNIS MUREN,
BRUCE NICHOLSON (CED)

WRITING (Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium)
Breaker Morant, Jonathan Hardy, David Stevens, Bruce Beresford (CED)
Coal Miner's Daughter, Tom Rickman (CED)
The Elephant Man, Christopher DeVore, Eric Bergren, David Lynch (CED)
ORDINARY PEOPLE, ALVIN SARGENT (CED)
The Stunt Man, Lawrence B. Marcus, Richard Rush (CED)

WRITING (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)
Brubaker, W. D. Richter, Arthur Ross (CED)
Fame, Christopher Gore (CED)
MELVIN AND HOWARD, BO GOLDMAN
Mon Oncle D'Amerique, Jean Gruault
Private Benjamin, Nancy Meyers, Charles Shyer, Harvey Miller (CED)

* 1st Annual Golden Raspberry Awards ("Winners" in all caps):

WORST PICTURE
CAN'T STOP THE MUSIC!
Cruising (CED)
The Formula (CED)
Friday the 13th (CED)
The Jazz Singer (CED)
The Nude Bomb
Raise the Titanic (CED)
Saturn 3 (CED)
Windows
Xanadu

WORST ACTOR
Michael Beck - Xanadu
Robert Blake - Coast to Coast
Michael Caine - Dressed to Kill (CED) / The Island
NEIL DIAMOND - THE JAZZ SINGER (CED)
Kirk Douglas - Saturn 3 (CED)
Richard Dreyfuss - The Competition
Anthony Hopkins - A Change of Seasons (CED)
Bruce Jenner - Can't Stop the Music!
Sam Jones - Flash Gordon (CED)

WORST ACTRESS
Nancy Allen - Dressed to Kill (CED)
Faye Dunaway - First Deadly Sin
Shelley Duvall - The Shining (CED)
Farrah Fawcett - Saturn 3 (CED)
Sondra Locke - Bronco Billy (CED)
Olivia Newton John - Xanadu
Valerine Perrine - Can't Stop the Music
Deborah Raffin - Touched by Love
BROOKE SHIELDS - THE BLUE LAGOON (CED)
Talia Shire - Windows

WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR
JOHN ADAMES - GLORIA (CED)
Marlon Brando - The Formula (CED)
Charles Grodin - Seems Like Old Times (CED)
Laurence Olivier - The Jazz Singer (CED)
David Selby - Raise the Titanic (CED)

WORST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Elizabeth Ashley - Windows
George Sanford Brown - Stir Crazy (CED)
AMY IRVING - HONEYSUCKLE ROSE
Betsy Palmer - Friday the 13th (CED)
Marilyn Sokol - Can't Stop the Music

WORST DIRECTOR
John Avildsen - The Formula (CED)
Brian De Palma - Dressed to Kill (CED)
William Friedkin - Cruising (CED)
Sidney Furie and Richard Fleisher - The Jazz Singer (CED)
ROBERT GREENWALD - XANADU
Stanley Kubrick - The Shining (CED)
Michael Ritchie - The Island
John Trent - Middle Age Crazy
Nancy Walker - Can't Stop the Music
Gordon Willis - Windows

WORST SCREENPLAY
CAN'T STOP THE MUSIC - BRONTE WOODWARD, ALLAN CARR
Change of Seasons - Erich Segal, Ronni Kern, Fred Segal (CED)
Cruising - William Friedkin (CED)
The Formula - Steve Shagan (CED)
It's My Turn - Eleanor Bergstein
Middle Age Crazy - Carl Kleinschmidt
Raise the Titanic - Adam Kennedy, Eric Hughes (CED)
Touched By Love - Hesper Anderson
Windows - Barry Siegel
Xanadu - Richard Danus, Marc Rubel

WORST SONG
"THE MAN WITH BOGART'S FACE" - THE MAN WITH BOGART'S FACE
"You Can't Stop the Music" - Can't Stop the Music
"Suspended in Time" - Xanadu
"Where Do You Catch the Buss for Tomorrow" - Change of Seasons (CED)
"You, Baby, Baby!" - The Jazz Singer (CED)

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Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 18:19:42 -0800
From: Neil Wagner <orac>
To: _CED Magic mail list <digest@cedmagic.com>
Subject: Huge collection for sale


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Neil
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