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DATE: MONDAY, March 18, 1991 TAG: 9103180024
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The 43rd annual Directors Guild of America awards were presented during ceremonies in Beverly Hills, Calif., and New York. The guild's 9,300 members picked the winners.
Costner also starred in the film, a three-hour account of a U.S. cavalry officer living with American Indians. The film won him the Golden Globe award as best director earlier this month.
In Saturday's competition, Costner beat out veteran director Francis Ford Coppola, who was nominated for the fifth time for "The Godfather, Part III." Also nominated were Barry Levinson for "Avalon," Martin Scorsese for "GoodFellas" and Giuseppe Tornatore for "Cinema Paradiso."
Directors were also honored in several other categories Saturday, including television shows and commercials.
The other awards were presented to:
James Burrows, for best director of a comedy series for "Woody Interruptus," an episode of the NBC series, "Cheers."
Peter Smillie, for best director of commercials.
Jeff Margolis, for directing the best musical variety show, the 62nd Academy Awards program that aired on ABC.
Robert Fishman, for directing major league baseball's American League 1990 championship series' fourth game for CBS Sports.
Elena Mannes, for best documentary for "Amazing Grace."
Michael Zinberg, for "Vietnam," an episode of NBC's "Quantum Leap," for best nighttime series.
Lynn Hamrick, for "Testing Dirty," an ABC Afterschool special, for best daytime dramatic series.
Roger Young, for NBC's "Murder in Mississippi," for best dramatic special.
Tornatore's film won an Oscar last year for best foreign language film and arrived in U.S. theaters in February 1990, qualifying for the guild award. It was his first guild nomination.
Last year, Oliver Stone won the guild award for his "Born on the Fourth of July." Levinson won in 1988 for "Rain Man."
Coppola's four previous nominations were for "Apocalypse Now," "The Conversation" and the two earlier "Godfather" films.
Scorsese received his third nomination. Previously he was nominated for "Raging Bull" and "Taxi Driver." "GoodFellas" has been named the best film of 1990 and Scorsese the best director by associations of film critics in New York, Los Angeles and Boston.
Actress Valerie Bertinelli and rock star Eddie Van Halen became parents over the weekend.
Wolfgang Van Halen was born Saturday night at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, Calif., weighing in at 7 pounds, 13 ounces, said Maureen O'Connor, Van Halen's publicist. Van Halen was present throughout his wife's labor, she said.
Wolfgang is the couple's first child. Bertinelli suffered a miscarriage in 1986, and the couple of 10 years has been trying to have a child ever since, O'Connor said.
Bertinelli, 30, became one of TV's most popular actresses after her role as the kid sister in the TV series "One Day At a Time."
Van Halen, 33, is lead guitarist for his band, Van Halen, which is working on a new album, O'Connor said.
Ned Graham says his road to the ministry took a rocky detour through drug abuse despite the influence of his father, the Rev. Billy Graham.
"I was just infatuated with the drug subculture of the '60s," said Graham, the 72-year-old evangelist's youngest son.
"I used marijuana mainly. I smoked a lot of pot. I drank a lot. Did coke periodically, although I never really got into that. I was into hallucinogens a lot," he said.
In the 1980s, the 33-year-old Graham enrolled in a Seattle branch of Fuller Theological Seminary. For the first time, he said, he took his studies seriously.
Today, he is pastor of the Bible Baptist Church in Auburn, a Seattle suburb.
He said his parents disapproved of his drug use, but never condemned him.
"There was always unconditional love in that home, and to tell you the truth, that was irresistible," Graham said.
by CNB