"Long Before the War Ended, Patton Was a Legend. Spectacular, Swaggerinc , Pistol Packing, Deeply Religious and Violently Profane
No BASTARD EVER WON A WAR BY DYING FOR HIS COUNTRY. HE WON IT BY MAKING THE OTHER POOR DUMB BASTARD DIE FOR HIS COUNTRY..." GENERAL GEORGE S, RATION, JR. FROM A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORIAL, DEC. 22, 1945: "LONG BEFORE THE WAR ENDED, PATTON WAS A LEGEND. SPECTACULAR, SWAGGERINC , PISTOL PACKING, DEEPLY RELIGIOUS AND VIOLENTLY PROFANE... EASILY MOVED TO ANGER... EASILY MOVED TO TEARS... HE WAS A STRANGE COMBINATION OF FIRE AND ICE." «*-«•r. snrrr/ K uu, MJJJW•X * tit "t*Vl TOV i !*m Keumt rttMIUH.SgttffiffB mUiSlRWmStlK 81. l«m*S/i«SS. 'ISSlfliilSSTSItt SlbUliMMtn tfWT (OIBSWTK V facets of t fie 'Diamond: 75 years of 'Best "Picture Dinners Academy of Motion Ticture Arts and Sciences SamueC QoCcfwyn 'Theater ApriC28, 2003 1970 The Forty-Third Academy Awards® presentation, for films released in 1970, was held on April 15, 1971 in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion of the Los Angeles County Music Center. It was produced for the Academy by Robert Wise. It was produced and directed for NBC by Richard Dunlap. Awards were presented by thirty-four "Friends of Oscar®" including: Burt Bacharach, Harry Belafonte, Richard Benjamin, Joan Blondell, Jim Brown, Genevieve Bujold, Glen Campbell, Petula Clark, Angie Dickinson, Melvyn Douglas, Lola Falana, Janet Gaynor, Goldie Hawn, Bob Hope, John Huston, James Earl Jones, Shirley Jones, Sally Kellerman, Burt Lancaster, Steve McQueen, John Marley, Walter Matthau, Sarah Miles, Ricardo Montalban, Jeanne Moreau, Merle Oberon, Ryan O'Neal, Gregory Peck, Paula Prentiss, Juliet Prowse, Eva Marie Saint, George Segal, Maggie Smith and Gig Young. Ingmar Bergman received the Thalberg Award, Frank Sinatra the Hersholt Humanitarian Award and Honorary Oscars went to Orson Welles and Lillian Gish.
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