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_ _ /lrdY Kanago - - - - - - - - - - - - l e i s u r e editor This is the time of the year when all the awards for the best movies of the year are announced. The Golden Globes and the Oscars, are presented to various peoplewhoeithermalce excellent timely fllms.In the spirit of these awards, the Lance's leisure staff picked winners for the Lance equivalent of the Golden Globes and Oscars, the Andys. Several categories between the Oscars and the Andys are different. There are several awards the Oscars give out the Lance doesn't (Best Foreign Film? Who can understand what they are saying. While there are several Andy categories that don't appear during the Oscars. • Best Picture In a poor fiscal year for Hollywood, some good ftlms were still made. Among the best were City Slickers, Terminator 2, and The Fisher King in the comedy, action, and drama genres respectively. The Andy for this year goes to the Fisher King. This soft drama with abundant humor drives home a message, something many dramas have trouble doing. The excellent acting of Jeff Bridges and Robin Williams help bring excellence to this drama about a mournful disc jockey and a pleasent but insane vagabond help drive tHis ftlm to excellence. • Worst Picture Usually during the movie year, one film is so pitiful it wins this category hands-down (past examples are Leonard Part VI, and the mother of all bombs, Jshtatj. In 1991, we have been blessed with several. Life Stinksstunlc:and Stone Cold was a poor example of pulp action. However, the worst motion picture to come out in 1991 was Vanilla lee's debut ftlm, Cool as Ice. The "badH white rapper out of Texas (not Miami) needs to walce up and discover blondes don't malce it in the rap business. Ice, in his defense, was not helped by a flavorless plot (lhe Vanillaness is stuck in a small town when his motorcycle brealcs down, and he changes the town with his presence), or horrible reviews. •Best Actor During the typical year, the awards for the best actors and actresses usually go outto those in the best movies. This year is no exception. Robin Williams wins the Andy for his portrayal of a harmless madman in The Fisher King. Williams was able to combine humor and seriousness at the same time. Williams has come a long way since his drug-addicted days of Mork and Mindy (Nanu-nanu). • Best Actress There were not as many stupendous acting performances for the actresses this year as there were for actors. The best came from Jodie Foster for her role in Silence of the Lambs. The
former child-starwas utterly convincing in her role of a rookie FBI agent outto catch a psychopath with the help of an incarcerated, insane killer named Hannibal the Cannibal (Anthony Hopkins). Between the characters of Foster and Hopkins exists a thiclc: psychological tension that truly merits an Andy.
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• Worst Actor As with the best actors, the worst actors typically come from the worst movies. Vanilla Ice, Brian Bosworth, and Mel Brooks all gave terrible performances that are deserving of this dubious honor. Also, Warren Beatty is up for nomination because no one is really sure Beatty was acting in his steamy scenes with Annette Benning in Bugsy. However, Brooks wins the Andy for his role as a millionaire turned bum in life Stinks. The deciding factor was that Brooks is truly a better actor than his shallow, unconvincing performance in the film History of the World Part I, Space Balls, and ToBeorNottoBeallprove his ability to act, whereas Life Stinks doesn't. • Worst Actress Unlike the Worst Actor category, determining the worst actress is much tougher. Many performances had little conviction or believability, such as Mary Elizabeth Masterantonio (in Robin Hood) and Julia Roberts (in Dying Young). The Andy winner for worst actress this year is Kathleen Turner for V.I. Warshawski. Turner played a female detective so violentitwas scary. Why she ever took the job in the first place, we'll never know. • Best Director For the past six or seven years, Oliver Stone has been the movie leader in malcing controversial, question-raising dramas. His standard of excellence continues in his newest project, JFK. Throughout the three hour marathon, Stone weaves together fact, assumption, stunning visuals, and tension so thick it can be cut with a
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lc:nife. It really doesn't matter ifStone's hypothesis about the assassination is true or not; what matters is how elegantly he puts it together. Stone is also responsible for directing The Doors, a three hour journey through drugs, music, and rebellious movements. In 1991, there was no contest for best director. • Best Directorial Debut SeanPennwinstheAndyforhis first-time directorial job in Indian Runner. Penn does a magnificent job of creating a poignent story of two brothers seperated by war and the law. Penn, who has been plagued by the Madonna questions and nosy photographers, shows both sides of hispersonalityinthetwomain characters. Joe (David Morse) is the police officer just trying to help his brother Frankie (Viggo Mortensen). Penn shows promise as an up-andcoming-director. • Best Sequel The best sequel of 1991 would have to be Star Trek VI. To thousands of devoted Treldcers over the past 25 years, Jrlc:, Spoclc:, Scottie, and the rest ,f the crew have been household names. Star Trek VI, the old generation's last hurrah, combines the drama, action, and moral stands of the past quarter century and rolls it into one film. In Star Trek VI, the crew of the Enterprise faces racism in the form of their age-old enemies, the Klingons. What malces the film sospecialishowthecrewhandles it. The Trek actors have been worlc:ingtogetherforsolong,and they are so natural with their performances, it is like reality. Terminator2mayhavebeenofequal quality and exceeding popularity, but this time the Andy goes to the veterans. • Worst Sequel The Andy for this year's worst sequel goes to Child's Play Ill. Inapoorexcuse for a movie about a psychopathic doll named Chuclc:y, while cussing more than Eddie Murphy, virtually every law of physics, biology, and tastefulness is broken. Child's Play III is typical of today's sequel in which the producers try to get rich quick by conniving people into ~~~g a cheap,
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• Most Annoying Ac Kevin Costner (Robin Hood at choice for the Andy for most am Off-screen he is rather boring. aJ he is rather boring. He even use film his own rear-end shots. Ev' didn't like him.
• Most Annoying Ac1 Sandra Bernhart receives the roleinHudsonHawk. The mainr victory of most annoying actress It looks like someone very stron~ a watermelon through Bernhart Hudson Hawk, what made her was how she moved her lips wh1 It was as if her lip muscles all mo ent impulses. Thought: What w if Bernhart and Miele: Jagger h Steven Tyler Jr.?
• Best Special Effe If the phrase "you get what y indeed true, then Terminator 2 · egory hands down. The special for T2 was rumored to be hig Pentagon budget, and it show explosions, awesome shots of and the special effects on the TlO special efffects which have nev before.
• Best Anlmatlo The best animated feature · clearly Beauty and the Beast. Dis chugged out a timeless classic w recognition. The storyline of fir worth of a man underneath the less as the movie will be. What 1 and the Beast so excellent is a cc a timeless plot, life-like animatlo tiful soundtrack.
• Best Sets TheAndyforbestsetsgoesto The audience is able to detec1 origin ofthe marvelouslydetaile the mind ofSteven Spielberg. T must have cost a very large sum fabulous and intricate designs o land. Spielberg has garnered a designing such rich baclc:grounc ies (past examples of Spielbe1 elude Close Encounters of the T the Indiana Jones saga). • Best Soundtra In 1991 , the best soundtrac Commitments. The movie abc teenagers in Dublin, Ireland jt garnered several excellent sor "Mustang Sally, and "Take ME H
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