Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, January 29, 1993 TAG: 9301290155
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 1 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Chris Gladden
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
SATISFY YOUR OSCAR APPETITE
The Golden Globe Awards, which were just handed out, generally serve as a warm-up for the big event: the Academy Awards. Nominations will be out in coming weeks, and studios and aspiring recipients have started campaigning in earnest.Look for publicists to crank up the hype machine even more, peddling their clients to all the national media they can reach.
But if all the talk show appearances, personality profiles and media handicapping doesn't satisfy your Oscar appetite then you should rush out and buy a copy of "Inside Oscar."
This book by Mason Wiley and Damien Bona is smaller than the New York phone directory but only a little. It weighs in at more than 1,000 pages. The authors take each year's Oscar race, provide background on the movies and nominees involved, set the scene, give a blow-by-blow account of the ceremonies and then tackle the aftermath.
We learn that "Easy Rider" director Dennis Hopper wore a white, 10-gallon cowboy hat to the 1969 ceremonies and that Jane Fonda raised her fist to the crowd and shouted "Right on."
We learn that in 1963, prim Hollywood gossip columnists who made their living sorting through other people's dirty laundry, campaigned against "Tom Jones" because they thought it was too bawdy. We learn that at the 1950 ceremonies, William "Hopalong Cassidy" Boyd threw silver dollars to his fans.
We learn that soft-core publicity hound Edy Williams came to the 1973 ceremonies in a leopard skin bikini and that hard-core porn star Linda Lovelace arrived in a horse-drawn coach. The book offers more substantial information, as well. It comes equipped with a list of nominations, a huge index and credits for the awards productions themselves.
During a period when biographies - both book and screen - seem to be hot, this one of Oscar could well be the most exhaustive.
a What's the hot new trend in movies here at the beginning of 1993?
Why, melted candle wax and handcuffs, of course. In the S&M antics in "Body of Evidence," Madonna dripped melted wax all over a willing Willem Dafoe. In "Used People," Marcia Gay Harden did the same for an unwilling Joe Pantoliano. So it looks like this is shaping up to be a big movie year for bondage and torture.
Clearly, the material of choice for the Material Girl is leather. And Hollywood's licensing experts are quick to hop on anything with exploitation value. So expect a line of Madonna S&M accessories at your neighborhood adult book store: whips, handcuffs, studded collars and of course the new and improved Madonna American Hot Wax candles. It could give unsafe sex a whole new meaning.