Some have been standing, some are waiting in line
Behind the scenes
Who is with who?
As if there was something that they thought they might find
Who are what?
Where do they go after the show?
Taking some strength from feelings that all wait for share
What do the critics think?
What did Leonard think?
And in the background, the eyes that just stare
What do they say?
Who talked to Rona?
Who's watching in New York?
What kind of a day was it for?
Crowds
I have no idea
We have the words
We have the pictures
For this Tuesday, March 25th, 1986
The fifth annual Everything You Always Wanted to Know about last night's Academy Awards Show on Entertainment Tonight
We survived! Hi everybody, I'm Mary Hart
And I'm Rob Weller
It was an evening of sentiment, good sportsmanship, high humor, and grace
The 58th annual Academy Awards Show was long, 3 hours and 13 minutes long
No matter, time flies when you're having a good time
And from the moment the first limousine pulled up and the first star stepped out
It was clear that this night was to be Hollywood at its glamorous best
It started with a traffic jam of stars
And Lisa Gibbons was in the midst of it
This is one of the more tension-filled assignments on Oscar night
Army archer has the prime position
He announces as the stars arrive
Then they're on their own as 650 members of the media all clamor for their attention
Don Amici!
Hi, how are you?
Oh, John!
Ali, hi, have you got a quick word for us?
No, ladies and gentlemen
You'll have a lot of Academy Awards ahead of you
What does it feel like this year?
Very exciting, I've never been here before
It's an Academy Awards show
It's really exciting
I'm doing great
There are a lot of big stars that come through here
But you have gotten the biggest reception
Oh, no, I got it
Now, there's some guy up there who stayed up all night
Oh, I just heard somebody on the radio say that
They were interviewing people in the stands
And they said they waited up all night to see me
So I was very flattered, I wanted to say hi
Given everything that's happened
What are you feeling tonight?
How do you feel about this?
You know, I'll be back
You will return?
Me and Arnold Schwarzenegger
Give me one word now, what are you thinking?
I can't believe all this
You know, all the people and everything
You don't really think about it
I was just concentrating on Emily
And then all of a sudden I hear it
I'm excited now, finally
It's great to come back this year and be on Home Turf, huh?
Oh, it's never Home Turf
My knees are knocking, I'm not even nominated
When you run into Sally Field like that
And we see you hugging
What do you two say to each other?
Well, we usually meet at chameleon restaurants
And have a bite to eat on Saturday night
And I said, wouldn't you rather be there?
Every year the Academy recognizes your work
The pressure must get greater and greater
The pressure to get to the bathroom is the one I'm feeling right now
I think she said that because Meryl is expecting very soon
Out of Africa, the stately romantic story of a woman fighting for her dreams on the African continent was the big winner
Seven Oscars out of 11 nominations
Among them, Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay Adaptation
For the color purple, also with 11 nominations, it was a nine of the blues, not one single win
It was also one of those rare occasions when small independent films won big awards
Best Actress Geraldine Page for The Trip to Bountiful
Best Actor William Hurt for Kiss of the Spider Woman
Don Amici, the spry septuagenarian of Cocoon won Best Supporting Actor
And Angelica Houston, Best Supporting Actress for Preecy's Honor
Houston holds an Academy record now, the third generation of her family to win
Backstage, still flushed with victory, the winners had plenty to say
37 years ago, my father and my grandfather won for Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Best Director and Best Supporting Actor
So this is sort of a wonderful karmic turnaround
Well I used the two words in the acceptance speech, exhilaration and euphoria
And they're about the best words that I know for what I was feeling at that time
If I knew what I was feeling at that time
I mean it's wonderful to win, this is a great night for me, but it doesn't make me believe I'm the best director
It's a fantasy, you know, I mean I gotta admit that
But I was mostly touched that my peers thought that I was any good
This may be because it was eight times
It may be because it's Kerry Watts and not another role
We don't know what made it actually slide into my welcoming arms this way
But I know what made me get nominated
I did a damn good job, and Kerry was great
For the eighth time, Geraldine Page crossed her fingers and this time it paid off
Her win as Best Actress was not just for a remarkable performance in the trip to Bountiful
It was for a career of remarkable performances
Page at heart is a theater actress
And her co-workers were watching at an actor's hangout in New York
Scott Osborne was there
Meet the Mirror Repertory Company in its most recent off-Broadway effort
Somerset Moms, The Circle
Legendary Catherine, champion Cheney, Lord Paul
And here is the company's artist-in-residence, Geraldine Page
Last night, of course, the theater was dark
The company gathered at a small eastside tavern to watch its artist-in-residence at the Oscars
I consider this woman the greatest actress in the English language
The winner is Geraldine Page, who took the stage
Thank you all, I wanted to say while Maria's here, thank you for the Mirror Repertory Company
This page is to act with Michelangelo, Picasso, Ornée, Mr. The Visual Artist
Are you all there at Carol's? Are they where they are?
Hello gang, guess what? I didn't disgrace you, I got it, I'm bringing it home
Have one on me gang
Scott Osborne, Entertainment Tonight
We don't know what you thought of the show, but we do know what three prominent TV critics thought
First up, Los Angeles Times Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Howard Rosenberg
This is the last time I'm giving out free advice to the Academy Awards people
Look, leave in the Oscars for best actors, best director, and best film
Leave out everything else, including the nominated songs
Then we can keep this sucker to 45 minutes instead of 3 hours plus
Also, you don't bring back Alan Alden, Jane Fonda
You do give Robin Williams more time
What happened to him? He opens the show in Orson Welles tuxedo
Then apparently gets locked in the men's room and disappears for 2 hours
You also bring back Cher
The evening's highlight came when Donna Meachie was early impaled on her headdress
And definitely bring back Terry Gahr
I thought her production number was great camp
Others insist it was merely bad
We all agree though that if a brick could sing, it might sound like Terry Gahr
Finally, my nomination for Oscar Personality of the Year is Jack Valenti
Keep up the good work, Jack, but you know, next year, move the mouse
Coming up, more winners, the big parties, and Oscar's Fashion Parade
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I thought it was wonderful
Very entertaining, very well-run, very well-done
Long and boring, it's always long and boring
I thought it was an excellent show, the Greg Byrds was fabulous
I thought the format was pretty much the same
And that self-congratulatory, you know, mutual admiration club just eventually gets to be a bore
It was very entertaining and I really liked watching it
I don't really remember, I fell asleep
Well, whatever you thought, it certainly is always beads, bangles, spangles, sequins, and skin
The Academy Awards are a virtual rainbow of styles
And as Gene Wolfe discovered, the styles range from conservative to far out
Hey, baby
Oscar
And it was a little big, you know, so I said, well, when am I gonna do it?
And the winner is two fried eggs, so they fixed it, never mind
I wouldn't miss this and share for anything in the world
This is my night
This is my night
The night
There'll be no award for best outfit
But when the Oscars are over, people will still be talking not only about who won what, but who wore what
The Oscars are a night when the stars dress to shine
My night, my night, my night
No one has ever seen a dress like this
I designed it myself
So, I guess it was kind of my own making
It's Hubert de Givenchy
And I went to Paris to see the opening of his collection, because I wanted to get in there early
And I chose what I thought was the prettiest dress in the collection
It kind of holds me together, you know?
It's a little difficult to sit down, right?
Well, you know, I just ran over and got this the other day
And it wasn't ready until 3 o'clock today
I was sweating bullets
Gene Wolfe Entertainment Tonight
Last night at the Governor's Ball, senior correspondent Rona Barrett asked some of the winners for a more personal response to their victories
Rona?
Thanks, Rob
After the thrill of victory at the Oscar ceremony, the big winners later took time to consider with me just what the statuette might mean to their personal and professional lives
And Geraldine Page, a perennial bridesmaid, finally became the blushing bride
The winner is Geraldine Page, who took the bottom
I'll ask a million dollar question. After eight nominations, did you really think tonight you'd win?
Riff said I was in grave danger of winning
What did he mean by that?
He thought I was going to win, I think
Yes? And were you afraid to win?
Well, I was really terrified of having to give up, get up and speak about it
Why?
I'd be very happy to get it and run with it
Well, it's embarrassing, you know
Why is it embarrassing, Geraldine?
I don't know why, it's just because you cannot, you cannot thank all the people you want to thank in the way that you want to thank them
Baboom, baboom, baboom, you know, it's incredible
What do you think this Oscar will do for your career?
I do not manipulate moves in terms of a career
I would like there to be a body of work that represented my best accomplishment as a human being, I would like to see that
But I don't think of that as being encased in a frame called a career
I act, I act because I love it
And when I don't discover myself through it and can't offer anything or share anything that I think is constructed with others, then I hope I stop
This means a lot to me since it comes from a role in which I was directed by my father
Having a few moments now to reflect, how do you feel about the fact that you won tonight and your father and Jack did not?
Well, I don't know, I'm pretty selfish by nature so I can't do all that bad
I think that if either of them had had the choice of my winning or their winning, I think they're both generous enough and loving enough to have wanted it for me
I feel I'm very glad to have been in that position
The winner is out of Africa
You were recently quoted as saying that it took you three years to make Out of Africa and you'd never do that again after winning the Oscar tonight
Would you do it again?
No, I don't think so
I mean, I don't regret having made the film but if I had to start all over again, I don't know that I would do that
It was a very, very difficult film to make. It did take three years. There were a lot of rewarding and wonderful things about it
But it's time to go on to something else now. I certainly don't want to repeat myself if I can help it
I also asked Sidney Pollack about his colleague Steven Spielberg and his film The Color Purple receiving 11 nominations but not one award
Pollack said, quoting here,
Whether or not his film wins an Oscar or 11 Oscars doesn't make his film or himself the best of anything as it doesn't make me the best of anything either
Mary?
Thank you, Rona. Good response
Thank you
Marvin Kitman, TV critic of New York's Newsday, was among the one billion people around the world who watched the Oscar telecast
Here are his thoughts
Usually it's the best rest I get all year but this Oscar was a shocker. It was actually funny
I found myself laughing with them for a change
Robin Williams was hilarious, the best thing since they invented popcorn
Did you see his Nicholson bit? And he was so right about the one billion Chinese rushing home to see the Oscars
Quick, we don't want to miss the Irving Thalberg Award
Too bad you had to wait two hours to see him
The acceptance speeches were no worse than usual
Cher won the fashion award for how not to dress as a serious actress
And Don Amici made me cry and what a classy speech
There were lots of free movie clips and stars to look at
I must be dreaming. I actually enjoyed the Oscars again
When we return, cost Maria Brandauer's busy day of waiting and parties galore
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Carl Smeria Brandauer, who played the unfaithful husband in Out of Africa, flew in from Vienna for the Oscars
determined to come what may to make the best of it. Eric Byrne spent the day with him.
He probably should have known what kind of night it would be because of what kind of morning it was.
Someone who professed to be a fan didn't know his name.
I can't pronounce your last name sir.
Someone who wanted an autograph couldn't get his pen to work. Someone who wanted a picture couldn't get his camera to work.
And when he tried to get away from it all, he was led to the wrong limousine.
Oh I thought this was your car. Is this your car? No.
Yet before he and his wife went to the Oscars, Klaus Smeria Brandauer was just happy to be a nominee.
I had a wonderful feeling last week on Friday. I think all the nominees were together.
Most of the nominees together in Beverly Hilton. There was no winner and no loser.
We all were together. It was a wonderful event. It was very nice.
I'm rooting for everybody because I think everybody should get this award.
But everybody didn't.
Don Amici and Cuckoo.
Don Amici did. And so Klaus Smeria Brandauer was not in the spotlight at the post Oscar parties last night.
He was however as gracious as could be in the shadows.
I have now very good friends. Sydney, Merrill, Robert. That was fine.
The whole thing is a game more or less and I was in the game so that's fine. That's good.
Tonight Brandauer is in Vienna playing Hamlet on stage.
But one expects to see him back in Hollywood competing again for an Oscar.
Eric Burns, Entertainment Tonight.
Tom Shales, The Washington Post's TV critic, looked away from showbiz along the Potomac and west to showbiz Hollywood style.
Hollywood always tries to go back to its future and bravely forward into its past at the Academy Awards show.
And this year it managed to pull the skitzy trick off.
There were wry old hams like John Huston and Don Amici and cute young Turks like Terry Gar and Molly Ringwald.
There was a ridiculous coogie outfit Cher in her cockatoo getup and a wayward political statement.
Something from somebody about Central America.
There was even a Hollywood scandal this year. The complete shutout at the Oscars of The Color Purple.
But it's not a good comment on the excitement level of the Oscar show when the big, big news is that movie that didn't win anything.
This year's Oscar show had class and splash and sentiment and all the things it's supposed to have.
But I have a sinking feeling that the Oscar show won't get much better until the movies get much better.
If the Academy Awards show were a cassette, I fear that nobody would really want to rent it.
There was non-Oscar entertainment news today also.
Much of it to do with a big shakeup on ABC's Monday Night Football.
Al Michaels is taking over the play-by-play duties.
Frank Gifford is being offered a job as analyst.
ABC's buying out Joan Namath's contract and O.J. Simpson, who is also leaving Monday Night Football,
is being offered a commentator's job on ABC's college football broadcast team.
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An invitation to Swiftie Lazar's glittery Oscar night gathering is the most sought after invitation in town.
Barbara Hauer lives in New York, but when that envelope arrived, she headed for Hollywood.
It was the ticket to the place on the night in Hollywood, and everyone showed up, especially the fans.
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For 30 years, this annual Oscar bash has grown the biggest luminaries in the entertainment world.
And this time around, the AAA guest list included some who are no strangers to the party scene.
And others rarely known to kick up their heels in public.
Even young Ronald Reagan showed himself to the crowd.
But in a town like Hollywood, where even the most revered traditions and institutions come and go,
what brings the hottest stars in the entertainment world back to the Lazar party year after year?
Well, there are several reasons, but the long and the short of it is the evening's host.
What makes Swiftie's party special?
Swiftie?
Something like that.
What makes your party special?
Share.
But Super Agent Swiftie Lazar knows how to package a party,
making just the right mix of people from television, movie queens, leading men and music superstars,
and even a camera-shy Barbara Streisand.
Swiftie has a magic, and Swiftie is generous, and Swiftie is rich, and Swiftie gives terrific parties.
He is Oscar, isn't he?
I mean, look at it. Have you ever seen the two of them together?
He's got no hair, and, you know, well, could be.
I had a great time myself.
And I think they've had a good time. I think it's a pretty good party tonight.
And next year, same time, same place?
Same time, same place, more people.
Barbara Hauer, Entertainment Tonight.
Hey, good night.
Wait.
Tomorrow on Entertainment Tonight, Julian Lennon, Lee Van Cleef, and our weekly preview of what's new on videocassette.
Also, Leonard Malton's commentary on the Oscar winners.
Best cinematography, David Watkin.
Best original score, John Berry.
Both for Out of Africa.
What images and what music.
See you tomorrow.