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ap- year we have a mixture of young and old," By BOB THOMAS Picture Arts and Sciences. work starts moving in equipment, and Howard W. said. "It's not too hard. Most people want to "This pear show." Koch said. "From Jeanne Crain and Cornel Wilde Hie The Oscars are the oldest and most prestigious of Koch and Marty Pasetta begin intensive operations. on the Oscar 50-pie- to Kristy McNicholand Tom Selleck." the show business awards. They are also big Koch is a veteran film producer (The Odd Couple, On Friday the ce orchestra records the song picture Airplane) who is producing the Oscarcast for the singers are The Oscar fever starts Mon- business not only to the winners of best numbers in a Hollywood studio. "The Pasetta works from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Monday acting awards, who can enjoy added eighth time. Multiple Emmy-winn- er Pasetta is live the orchestra is recorded," day at dawn, when the first spectators curious and the on the show, but to perfect the staging, using stand-in- s for the stars. hard-cor- is winner. directing his 12th Oscar show. main- tourists and e movie fans" begin filling millions. The Academy itself also the Koch explained. "It would be impossible to Then the ushers take down the "No Smoking" 1982 provided $3,734,870 in Producer and director started meetings last the bleachers in front of the Music Center. The awards telecast tain a balance." -- signs, remove the coffee cups and spruce up the ar- providing a December, assembling staff and making plans. The excitement rises as the first celebrities start revenue. The show cost $2,811,499, The 17 television cameras are moved into the theater. Pasetta starts taping the arrivals as they are Academy's were announced, their work riving in late afternoon. The ceremonies begin at 9 $923,371 profit to help finance the When the nominations Music Center on Friday, and Pasetta begins to work greeted by columnist Army Archerd in front of the designers, activities. began in earnest: hiring dancers, scenic gh p.m., the drama playing to 3,000 fancily dressed library, educational and cultural on lighting and staging. Saturday brings a run-throu- Music Center. 16-ho- observers in the Dorothy Chandler Pavillion and an The Oscar season begins in December, when the costumers. "During the last week I start ur with the emcees this year four of them: . . . concludes estimated 350 million TV watchers throughout the late entries are released in theaters amid much days," Pasetta said. "After Saturday I have an , Dudley Moore, Richard Pryor and Three minutes before 9p.m., Pasetta sleep editing is cleared, the world. hoopla. The noise level rises as the studios campaign apartment in the Music Center so I can two or Walter Matthau. the arrival shots. The network Early Tuesday morning, the last loser will toss for nominations, then maintains a steady pace until three hours a night." music swells; and the announcer begins the show: down a brandy and leave the Board of Governors the balloting closes six days before the awards. Koch, who has lined up all the presenters and per- Sunday is the day of the big dress rehearsal. The county-operate- nominated songs are per- "Live from the Los Angeles Music Center the Ball at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Then history will The d Music Center is shut down formers, has a standby list in case of dropouts. "If production numbers and claim the 55th awards of the Academy of Motion for a week before the awards. Then the ABC net anybody gets sick, I can find somebody else," he formed, and the presenters go through their paces. 55th annual ..." Oscars '83

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The major categories and nominees for Gossett Jr. in An Officer and a Gentle- the 55th annual awards of the Academy man, in The World Ac- of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in- cording to Garp, James Mason in The clude: Verdict, Robert Preston in VictorVic- toria. Best Picture: E.T. The Extra-Te- rr Best Performance by an Actress in a estrial, Gandhi, Missing, , Supporting Role: in The The Verdict. World According to Garp, Teri Garr in Tootsie, in Tootsie, Kim " ' : - Best Performance by an in a Stanley in Frances, in v Leading Dustin in Toot- :Af vw h$V' Role: Hoffman Victor Victoria. sie, Ben Kingsley in Gandhi, Jack Lem-mo-n Best Director: Richard Attcn-boroug- h in Missing, Paul Newman in The for Gandhi, Sidney Lumet for . Verdict, Peter O'Toole in My Favorite : !t-- The Verdict, Wolfgang Petersen for Das . A . Year. am .AV'i J Boot (The Boat), Sydney PollacTf'for Best Performance by an Actress in a Tootsie, for E. T. The Leading Role: in Vi- Extra--Terrestrial. ctorVictoria, Jessica Lange in Frances, Best Original Song: "Eye of the in Missing, in Tiger" from Rocky III, "How Do We Sophie's Choice, in An Keep the Music Playing?" from Best Officer and a Gentleman. , "If We Were in Love" from Best Performance by an Actor in a Yes, Giorgio, "It Might Be You" from Supporting Role: in The Tootsie, "Up Where We Belong" from Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Louis An Officer and a Gentleman.

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Streep is the favorite, however, By TOM GREY for the role. He adopted the mannerisms. Meryl win an Oscar. "I also think that Gossett we people interviewed for the Best Staff Writer He had to play someone whom know of most brought out 's acting." from history, while Tootsie is Dustin Actress category, even of those who For Best Supporting Actress category, So, who do people think is going to win Hoffman's own idea of a woman." haven't seen Sophie's Choice. Many who the choices spread out again. an Oscar? Jones, not surprisingly, said he thought had seen the film said that Streep's per- Jerry Rhodes, a junior RTVMP major see," a man on the street "Let's Kingsley would win in the Best Actor formance as the concentration sur- said he thought Glenn Close would win answers. that for television shows?" "Is category, but this may be the hardest of vivor was remarkable. for her role as Garp's mother in The Some people don't watch television or ' the five major awards to pick. Housman called her a remarkable ac- World According to Garp. go movies. to think Hoffman has the edge," tress for our times. "She seems bland, Housman said he thought one of the But others do and many seem to agree "I Gorham Kenden, associate professor in but her range is extraordinary," he said. two actresses in Tootsie would win Teri with those who say that when awards are the RTVMP department, said. "While "She plays a fully fleshed character in an Garr or Jessica Lange. handed out Monday night Gandhi will be Hollywood does not usually reward com- otherwise flawed film." Angela Barbano, a journalism named Best Picture. edies, Hoffman showed great versatility . "What can you say?" Jones said. graduate student who saw Teri Garr on a is extraordinary work at so "Gandhi an well-connect- ed in his performance." "She's the hottest thing out. She's recent morning talk show, said , she many levels. It's an epic," said Arthur Another contender for Best Actor is with her training at Yale." thought that Garr wanted to win badly. Housman, professor of dramatic art. Paul Newman for his role in The Verdict. Kim Snooks, a senior English major, "I'll support her on the basis of that," "While Tootsie is a tour de force for Newman has never won an Oscar. disagreed. She said she thought Jessica she said. Hoffman, and E. T. The Extra-Terrestri- al Dustin "Paul Newman has paid his dues," Lange would win for Frances. "This So, how important is it to win an is wonderful popular enter- English pro- movie showed what she's capable of do- Oscar? What makes an actor, actress or tainment, Gandhi is much more, a leg up said J.C. Brookhouse, an fessor who teaches movie criticism. "He's ing. It's not just a King Kong role." , studio want to win? on the others." Jr. has been mentioned financially Herman Jones, a graduate student in a company man and will probably be Louis Gossett "It's important for the film likely Oscar winner for his role in An sure the master of fine arts program agreed. rewarded." as a industry," Kenden said. "I'm not of Gentleman since the movie liked the subject matter. Ben Kingsley In other categories, the professors and Officer and A the politics of the voting or how much the "I important gave himself to the role," said Jones, others interviewed have not seen several came out. studios push a vote, but it's an see a black . who is studying acting. "He lost weight of the choices. Jones said he would like to showcase for the industry." Academy Awards may give new life to movies Theatre manager Frank Elkins said the effect of week or so. " By JEFF GROVE Ram both nominations and awards on a film he has shown for Elkins said theaters in Raleigh and Durham "really and DAVID SCHMIDT 18 weeks should not be dramatic. "We have had a lot of hype them up" but said his limited newspaper advertising Staff Writers ' - repeat business on Tootsie," he said. -- "It seems like budget in Chapel Hill prohibits him from promoting way. Now showing, the film nominated for 49 Academy everyone has seen it. Tootsie kind of sells itself." Elkins, a nominated films that four-ye- Steele plans no extra hype for Coup de Torchon. The Awards ... ar veteran of theater management, has been with was booked before the Oscar nominations were an- Starring the Oscar-winnin- g actress the Ram since December. film the one foreign film (nominated in the Featuring a brilliant score by Academy-decorate-d com- Varsity Theatre manager Jim Steele holds an even lower nounced. "It's poser ... opinion of whether Oscar victories help films. "I expect foreign film category) that the average moviegoer might reflection quality, Directed by that sentimental Oscar favorite ... that it would," he said. "But it's hard to say how much. see. The Oscars are not a of I can't recall a year in recent memory when the nominations were is are these Our audience pays more attention to the notices, arid they If a picture worth a thousand words, words less interesting, and when the nominated films were less pictures they advertise? tend to hold the Academy Awards in contempt." Steele, worth thousands of dollars for the interesting." Steele added, "I have no idea who might win managers agree that Oscar nominations and who came to the Varsity in early March, spent five years Local theater (in the category). I've been surprised a lot recently. Some A victories can affect their businesses. But they disagree on as assistant manger and manager of the Carolina Theatre in Durham. years the choice is political; some years it seems like it's the amount of influence the awards carry. "' drawn from a hat." " " ..jinn. Nominations help box office business a lot, said Warren Managers definitely try to have nominees playing in the v theaters at the time of awards night, Elkins said. This Stiles, manager of the Carolina Theatre since August. . Deaver said he didn't push for added advertising based week's movie listings prove that most have succeeded. Stiles has managed theaters for alf years. on nominations. "If a film should win an award of Gandhi, which has been nominated in 11 categories, "A lot of times they re-rele- films just for that purpose, substance, we can increase the advertising space," he said. begins because it does create more revenue," he said. As for the a second run Friday at the Plaza Theatre. Sophie's "We think Gandhi will perhaps win Best Picture and Best victories, Stiles said they probably don't help business any Choice will rejoin Tootsie at the Ram Theatre the same Actor, but that's our judgment. If the public reacts more than nominations alone. day. Frances makes its Chapel Hill debut Friday at the favorably, we'll keep it." C.H. Deaver was more terse in his evaluation of how Carolina Theatre. And later this month, the Varsity s Extra-Terrestri- much extra business the Oscars bring. "From the nomina- Theatre will premiere Best Foreign Language Film Stiles hedged his bets on E. T. The al, six-mon- th Carolina this year. tions very little," he said. "From the actual awards nominee Coup de Torchon. . which enjoyed a run at the will win Best Picture because it's so .z. a great deal. The of films is predicated on the "We always make sure people know about the nomina- "I don't think E.T. j tions, and it will especially improve the business of a film commercialized now," he said. know so cm" chance that (a film) might win." Deaver, director of "I don't much v like Stiles said. He CJrv t r i i advertising and publicity for the Charlotte-base- d Eastern An Officer and a Gentleman," of it seems political." politics Federal Corp., books films for the Plaza Theatres in predicted an Oscar victory for Jessica Lange's perfor- Elkins did not seem to care much about the of like see T. get Best Picture," he Chapel Hill and has 40 years' experience in the film mance in Frances, saying it should help at the box office if the awards. "I would to E really business. A she wins. Otherwise, he said, the film will stay for only a said. "It was for everybody."