Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, December 16, 1993 TAG: 9312160005
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The National Board of Review on Tuesday named the movie its top pick. Martin Scorsese won the best director award for "The Age of Innocence."
On Saturday, Los Angeles Film Critics Association also picked "Schindler's List" as best picture and named Jane Campion best director for "The Piano."
Spielberg has never won a best-director Oscar either.
Other National Board awards went to Anthony Hopkins, best actor for "Remains of the Day" and "Shadowland"; Holly Hunter, best actress for "The Piano"; Leonardo DiCaprio, best supporting actor for "What's Eating Gilbert Grape"; and Winona Ryder, best actress for "The Age of Innocence."
Ted Kennedy didn't disappoint at his annual Christmas party. The fun-loving senator arrived decked out in a giant purple Barney costume at the Capitol Hill bash Tuesday night, with his wife, Vicki, dressed as one of the dinosaur's very young admirers.
The duo skipped and danced to Barney's syrupy "I love you, you love me" theme song. "They don't call me Tyrannosaurus sex for nothing," the senator quipped, according to the Washington Post.
Kennedy, whose past party getups have included Elvis Presley and George Bush, had the jam-packed crowd in the Labor Committee room rolling, the Post says.
Can the monarchy survive? Well, it's not a good bet. London bookmakers William Hill report that the official odds that the British monarchy will dissolve by 2000 have dropped from 100-to-1 in January to 4-to-1. "One punter alone has put down 14,000 pounds [$21,000] since February that the monarchy will collapse," a William Hill spokesman tells U.S. News & World Report.
"I don't mind being called Mrs. Loaf, and I don't mind Mrs. Meat Loaf. But I hate Mrs. Meat." - schlock-rocker Meat Loaf's wife of 18 years, Leslie, in People magazine.
by CNB