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Spielberg honored
by Director’s Guild
SPIELBERG
■ LOS ANGELES
(AJ'»—Steven Spiel-
berii isn’t talking
abend his latest honor
■ V the Directors
Guild of America's
Lifetime Achieve-
ment Award,
i ■“He’s going to
save it all for when he
get s the award,” spokesman Marvin Levy
said Monday.
■ The award will he given to Spielberg
during the 52nd annual DGA Awards on
I March 11. Past honors have gone to Cecil
De Mille, John Ford,Orson Welles, Bil-
Wilder, John Huston mid Frank Capra.
■ Among the films Spielberg has direct-
, ed are Schindler \ List, Saving Private
| Rytin, and /:. T. the Ex traterrestrial.
^■“It is truly astonishing that Steven
\ Spielberg, with so many great films still
ahead of him, is already such a perfect
chi nee for the ultimate directorial honor,”
DG A president Jack Shea said.
Singer Parton parts
with radio station
PEOPLE IN THE I>jEWS
the East Tennessee Radio Group, “can
take the station to the next level since ra
dio is their primary business.”
The sale price was not disclosed. Dol
ly wood general manager Ken Bell said
the main change will be new call letters
for WDLY.
Honor for Susan B.
Anthony requested
CANANDAIGUA, N.Y. (AP)
The town where Susan B. Anthony was
prosecuted for voting in an 1872 election
is asking President Clinton to exonerate
her on Feb. 15, her birthday.
Anthony was arrested after register
ing and voting in Rochester, her nearby
hometown. A year later, she was tried,
convicted and fined but refused to pay
the $ 100 penalty. To avoid a federal chal
lenge, the judge refrained from impris
oning her.
Anthony’s protest drew national at
tention for the suffrage movement.
Women eventually won the right to vote
in 1920, 14 years after Anthony died at
age 86.
A White House official says the Clin
tons are aware of Canandaigua’s request,
but have not yet made a decision.
■ SEVIERV1LLE,
Tenn. (AP) — Dolly
Pa rton is selling the
rapio station where
she first performed
as a child.
I Parton bought
■SEV-AM, on
which she first sang parton
atpgc 10, and its sis
ter FM station in 1991. She renamed the
FM station WDLY.
I “Since that time, we have tripled
sales and developed the station to be a
solid business serv ing the community,”
Parton said Monday.
BS Parton and her partners, Orr & Earls
of Branson, Mo., believe the new owner.
Crystal and Curtis
honored by Harvard
CAMBRIDGE,
Mass. (AP) —Billy
Crystal will soon S
find out how
“mahvelous” he
looks in drag, when
he and Jamie Lee L '
Curtis are honored at
Harvard University. crystal
Crystal and Cur
tis have been chosen to receive the an
nual I lasty Pudding awards, given out by
the nation’s oldest undergraduate dra
matic organization.
Curtis, who has starred in such
movies as Halloween and Trading
Places, will lead a parade through the
streets of Harvard Square on Feb. 10
with male Harvard students in drag.
Crystal will be the guest at a roast
Feb. 17 and will appear in bra and wig.
Previous recipients of the Hasty Pud
ding prize include Jodie Foster, Meg
Ryan, Julia Roberts, Steven Spielberg,
Tom Cruise and Harrison Ford.
Actor Kevin Spacey
wins Guild Awards
LOS ANGELES (AP) — American
Beauty, a satirical look at a midlife cri
sis gone over the
edge, received a !
leading four nomi- j
nations Tuesday for
the Screen Actors L
Guild Awards.
The film got
nominations for best
actor for Kevin l
Spacey, actress for
Annette Bening,
supporting actor for Chris Cooper and
ensemble acting.
“The Sopranos” led TV nomina
tions with five, including best actor for
James Gandolfini. Nominations for best
actor in television drama also went to
David Duchovny for “The X-Files,”
Dennis Franz and Rick Schroeder for
“NYPD Blue” and Martin Sheen for
“The West Wing.”
“Ally McBeal” earned nominations
for lead actress Calista Flockhart and co-
star Lucy Liu, best actor for Peter Mac-
Nicol and ensemble acting in a comedy.
The other nominees for lead actor in a
movie were Russell Crowe for The Insid
er, Philip Seymour Hoffman tor Flawless,
Denzel Washington for The Hurricane
and Jim Carrey for Man on the Moon.
Other nominees for lead actress in a
movie were Julianne Moore for The
End of the Affair, Meryl Streep for Mu
sic of the Heart, Janet McTeer for Tum
bleweeds and Hilary Swank for Boys
Don't Cry.
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gl “The exhibition of the film would
most certainly receive the majority of the
opposing voices from people who
haven't seen the movie,” Hoagwood said.
I Sethuraju said he agreed.
1 “It is sort of a known fact that that we
as a society are not as willing to discuss
issues relating to sex as, say, cultures in
Europe,” Sethuraju said.
I “This film is critically negative of the
pornography industry, but it is difficult
as a society to go beyond the visual im
age of sex. It prevents us from under
standing the message.”
| The organizers of the festival had
decided to base their decision on
whether or not to show the film on the
advice of Hoagwood, and he gave them
several ideas.
“I told them that the publicity ads for
the film should state that the film is crit
ical of pornography,” Hoagwood said.
“This movie shows that pornography is
a) destructive, and b) a metaphor for the
corruption of America.” The film had all
but been accepted into the festival, it had
a slot on the festival’s temporary sched
ule, but the final decision was to not ex
hibit the film.
“I agree that the majority of the neg
ative opinions about different forms of
art come from people who don’t view
the film’s content for what it really is,”
Whitworth said. “I’d say that the ma
jority of the backlash is an uneducated
backlash.”
“In this case it was our choice not to
show the film, to avoid the backlash
from the community,” Whitworth said.
“It was not an easy thing to decide,”
Sethuraju said. “Issues like this are complex.
It is difficult to determine what path to take.
As a festival, I don't know if we are gaining
or losing by not showing this movie.”
“It's a cultural issue, as opposed to
just being about A&M. It’s a depiction of
where we are as a society. In our culture,
this is a film that has very distasteful im
ages. In this particular case, the produc
ers ofthe film did a good job of showing
how the porn industry demeans women
and how it is just out to make money, but
it is those same images that prevent us
from understanding the message.”
“Were we right or wrong in not show
ing this movie? We’re not sure,” Sethu
raju said.
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