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‘Lambs’ in like lion at Oscars LOS ANGELES (AP) The politically incorrect “The Silence of the Lambs” rewrote Academy Award history as the grisly drama about an FBI rookie and a flesh-eating killer swept the top five Oscars, including best picture. “Silence” stars Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins were named best actress and actor at the 64th annual awards Monday night, and Jonathan Demme won as best director. Ted Tally was honored for best adapted screenplay. “My God. I can’t believe it! I am greatly honored and tremendously moved,” said Hopkins, who played the cunning Hannibal (the Cannibal) Lecter, a lipsmacking killer who matches wits with Miss Foster’s FBI rookie. UNLIKE MOST OSCAR winners, “The Silence of the Lambs” is not a warm, sentimental work such as “Terms of Endearment” and “Driving Miss Daisy,” nor a “serious” film such as “Gandhi” and “The Last Emperor.” Blasted by gay rights activists for its stay of a cross-dressing, homosexual serial killer, “The

Silence of the Lambs” is the first terror film to won the Oscar for best picture. Jack Palance, the tough-as-nails cattle driver from the comedy “City Slickers,” and Mercedes Ruehl, the video store owner in “The Fisher King,” won for best supporting performances. The 72-year-old Palance demonstrated his fitness by performing several push-ups on stage and offered a taste of his crusty “City Slickers” character by looking at Crystal, the film’s star and the evening’s host, and snorting: “Billy Crystal. God! I crap bigger’n him.”

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MISS RUEHL RECOUNTED her early struggles as an actress, and added, “At this moment, all of those sort of doleful memories ... suddenly transformed themselves into nothing more than the sort of charming and amusing anecdotes from my memoirs.” Warren Beatty’s “Bugsy,” which had a leading 10 nominations, won only twice for art direction and costume design. Oliver Stone’s “JFK,” a controversial polemic about the assassination of President Kennedy, also went quietly with awards for cinematography and editing. It had eight nominations, including best picture and best director. Others losing out on the best picture award were “Beauty and the Beast,” the first animated film nominated in that category, and Barbra Streisand’s “The Prince of Tides.” “The Silence of the Lambs” is only the third movie to sweep the major awards. The others are “It Happened One Night” in 1934 and “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” in 1975. Composer Alan Menken won for best original score for “Beauty and the Beast.” He and his late musical partner, lyricist Howard Ashman, won a second Oscar for the movie’s title song. Here it a list of winners at Monday’s 64th Annual Academy Awards: PICTURE: “The Silence of the Lambs” ACTOR: Anthony Hopkins, “The Silence of the Lambs” ACTRESS: Jodie Foster, “The Silence of the Lambs” SUPPORTING ACTOR: Jack Palance. "City Slickers” SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Mercedes Ruehl, "The Fisher King" DIRECTOR: Jonathan Demme, “The Silence of the Lambs” ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Callie Khouri, "Thelma & Louise" ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Ted Tally, "The Silence of the Lambs” FOREIGN FILM: Italy, "Mediterraneo” ART DIRECTION: Dennis Gassner and Nancy Haigh, “Bugsy” CINEMATOGRAPHY: Robert Richardson, “JFK” COSTUME DESIGN: Albert Wolsky, “Bugsy” DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: Allie Light and Irving Saraf, • “In the Shadow of the Stars" DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT: Debra Chasnoff, “Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment” FILM EDITING: Joe Hutshing and Pietro Scalia, "JFK" MAKEUP: Stan Winston and Jeff Dawn, “Terminator 2: Judgment Day" MUSIC ORIGINAL SCORE: Alan Menken, "Beauty and the Beast” MUSIC ORIGINAL SONG: Alan Menken and the late Howard Ashman, “Beauty and the Beast” from “Beauty and the Beast" ANIMATED SHORT FILM: Daniel Greaves, "Manipulation” LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM: Seth Winston and Rob Fried, “Session Man” SOUND: Tom Johnson, Gary Rydstrom, Gary Summers and Lee Orloff, “Terminator 2: Judgment Day" SOUND EFFECTS EDITING: Gary Rydstrom and Gloria S. Borders, “Terminator 2: Judgment Day” VISUAL EFFECTS: Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, Gene Warren Jr. and Robert Skotak, “Terminator 2: Judgment Day”

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TRENTON, NJ. (AP) years since Bruce Springsteen’s last album, but he’s back in force with two new releases today. “Human Touch” and “Lucky Town” were in the stores at midnight, and some retailers in the Boss’ home state stayed open late |o get a jump on sales. “I’m looking to sell a ton of it,” said Ken Stein, manager of Record Town at Freehold Raceway Mall, just outside Springsteen’s hometown of Freehold. “We’re in the heart of Springsteenland.” The “Human Touch” album and single are already on the Billboard charts. The Square Circle record store near Atlantic City said it would sell the “Human Touch” single for 29 cents to boost interest. • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Jane Pauley says she doesn’t think her new show, “Dateline NBC,” will make or break her career. “I do recognize that NBC is not going to give me magazine shows in perpetuity,” Pauley said in Monday’s The Tennessean. But she said, “I fully expect to be working at NBC for the rest of my career.” NBC has had 17 news magazines fail in the past 23 years. CBS’ “60 Minutes” is one of television’s most popular shows, and ABC’s “20-20” and “Prime Time Live” get high ratings, too. • NEW ORLEANS (AP) Humorist Lewis Grizzard says he performs at benefits to “make up for some stuff I did earlier.” “I’m not at liberty to divulge what I did. But just in case, I want to make sure,” he said. Proceeds from his show Tuesday night will go to the Louisiana Center for the Blind. Grizzard’s column is syndicated to 450 newspapers. He has written 18 books, and his first album of country music is due out in a few months. • BURBANK, Calif. (AP) Warner Bros, have started principal photography on “The Rest of Daniel,” a romantic adventure starring Mel Gibson, Elijah Wood, Isabel Glasser, George Wendt and Jamie Lee Curtis. Set in Northern California, “The Rest of Daniel” is the story of one man’s coming to terms with an resolved romance. Gibson stars as Daniel, a daredevil test pilot struggling to cope with a tragedy involving the woman he loves (Glasser). Directed by Steve Miner and written by Jeffrey Abrams, “The Rest of Daniel” marks Icon Productions’ initial collaboration with Warner Bros., which also domestically distributed Gibson’s “Hamlet.” • NEW YORK (AP) The satiric artistry of radio stars Bob and Ray will be presented in a special program by The Museum of Television & Radio from April 7-Sept. 20. “Bob & Ray: A Comedy Sampler” focuses on Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding’s radio career from 1946 to Goulding’s death in 1990. They first teamed when Elliott was a deejay and Goulding a newsman at radio station WHDH in Boston. They engaged in humorous banter after the newscasts and eventually expanded into satiric routines featuring a “cast of thousands.” They moved to New York in 1951 and went national over NBC radio. • IRVINE, Calif. (AP) About 600 people rushed the stage during an Ozzy Osbourne concert, and he and several fans suffered cuts and bruises. The heavy metal rocker had asked fans up front to come on stage during the last song Saturday. “It wasn’t supposed to happen that way,” his publicist, Mitch Schneider, said Monday. Osbourne, 43, had to crawl off stage to escape the crowd, Schneider said. About 12,000 people were at the concert at Irvine Meadows Amphitheater. Damage to equipment was estimated at SIOO,OOO.

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