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- Apr. 12, 1993: Oscar Night 1993:So Many Ribbons...
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Apr. 12, 1993 The Info Highway
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- PEOPLE, Page 81
- Oscar Night 1993: So Many Ribbons, So Many Rants
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- <p>By GINIA BELLAFANTE
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- <p> Glitzy ceremony or naively politicized performance art?
- This year's Academy Awards certainly didn't lack tiresome
- gratitudes, tight dresses or bad hair, but all told the Oscar
- shindig was most remarkable for its instructive exercises in
- social consciousness. Women, we were reminded over and over, are
- very important to the business of making motion pictures. "To
- shoot from the hip, to tease and uplift"--these are just a few
- of the contributions women make in movies, noted Geena Davis.
- Better yet, impassioned pet-cause speeches were in ample supply.
- Prior to handing out an award, SUSAN SARANDON and beau Tim
- Robbins voiced their discontent over U.S. policy regarding
- HIV-infected Haitians. RICHARD GERE hit the stage wondering if
- Deng Xiaoping might be watching the 213-min. extravaganza
- (unlikely, given that Baywatch was airing on a competing
- station), then attempted to persuade the Chinese leader to end
- oppression in Tibet. From a documentary filmmaker came a lecture
- on the Panamanian government. All the political posturing riled
- Oscar producer Gil Cates, who said he wouldn't invite the
- ill-behaved to present statuettes at future ceremonies he
- produced. Sarandon's response: "It's not appropriate to be
- silent when one wears a red ribbon." Popular as they were, aids
- ribbons weren't the only loaded accessories at Oscar night.
- ANDIE MACDOWELL sported a pin symbolizing the need for better
- film roles for women; DENZEL WASHINGTON wore a purple ribbon to
- protest urban violence. That'll do the trick against an AK-47.
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