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T)ppr Hnntpr' 'Hoat.on Oscar By Bob Thomas AP Writer Hollywood ? The Deer Hunter, a corrosive i offrvr?f c nf Ho \/irvf *-*a ? 1 vnvvw vm 11 iv. * 1V.HI0111 >*<11 un America, dim tl Wait, a fantasy comedy about a pro football \ returns to earth after death, scored top honors Academy Award nominations Tuesday with nine Another treatment of Vietnam War veteran Home, followed with eight nominations, Midnigh the story of an American youth's imprisonment was nominated in six categories and Woody Alk Inlorim-v VmH fi\/r> Sir Laurence Olivier was a surprise best actc for his role as a Nazi war criminal hunter in The 1 Brazil. Other nominees for best actor: Warren Beatt Can Wait; Gary Busey, The Buddy Holly Stoi DeNiro. The Deer Hunter, and Jon Voight, Comin Three-time winner Ingrid Bergman was again i for best actress, this time for her role as a conceri Autumn Sonata. Other nominees: Ellen Burst Tinwt Vnvl Vo'ix- till Plo..K..-rtU a? 11 ?.?uv, iivAi i vai , uiaj'uuign, /ah uiuiiainei Jane Fonda, Coming Home; and Geraldine Page, Nominated for best picture of 1978 were Comi The Deer Hunter, Heaven Can Wait, Midnight Ex An Unmarried Woman. Nominees for supporting actor: Bruce Derr Home, Richard Farnsworth, Comes A Horseir Hurt, Midnight Express; Christopher Walken, Hunter: and .lark W;irkpn lioavon r-.m j ? , . ?avM t via V.HII Tf aiv. Supporting Actress: Dyan Cannon, Heaven i Penelope Milford, Coming Home; Maggie Smith, Suite; Maureen Stapleton, Interiors; and Meryl S Deer Hunter. Interiors, which failed to be nominated as be: nevertheless won a nomination for Woody Alk director. Other directorial nominees: Hal Ashb; Home* Michapl C!iminn Tho noor i'-."'" a ??V L/Wl IIUIIIUI , TV CXI I and Buck Henry, Heaven Can Wait; and Ala Midnight Express. All five nominations for best foreign language to Europe: Get Out Your Handkerchief, France; Dell, West Germany; Hungarians, Hungary; V Italy; and White Bims Black Ear, USSR. Contenders for best original song: "Hopelessl to You" from Grease; "Last Dance" from Thar Friday; "The Last Time I Felt Like This" fi Time, Next Year; "Ready to Take a Chance Ag Foul Flay and "When You're Loved" from Th< Lassie. Original screenplay: Autumn Sonata, Coming 1 Deer Hunter, Interiors and An Unmarried Woniai Mhjt y' II fi ISS ?11 - i : U - :M t^wM fnj j^j HOLY HYPE, BATMAN! It>s in the sidewalks ir Usually I don't use this column to of boxes ant make a personal attack on orange and something, but I'm a little tired of handed oul hoopla. Street-haum W*., l/r>nt>. I Til " ' " iv/u Mum wiku i int'iiii. i nere is mai inc ny. a certain organization on campus are sky-writ that spent all of this past week Hoopla in advertising two programs to take tiring, and ii place this week. "How's vour Love havo aHv#?rv Life?" and "If I Should Die . . Superman d Well, if I SHOULD die, it will be articles anc " all the advertising for these paperback ~ently classic presen- Grease bee ? ? ^ur'ous Can Wait' lead nomina\ /iew of the K ^ ~ *J| eaven Can >layer who H 9 ^ in the 51st pK ^ each. % ? -wB it Express, *\ jjj m Turkey fill ?n's drama ^|Hp - ?y, Robert g Home. p nominated I pianist in ^1 :yn, Same ;|1| i Woman; \ J Interiors. ng Home, press and | , i, Coming lan; John The Deer Dan Wait; ^ California # treep, The I st picture, Nominees t ;n as best y, Coming Screenplay adaptation: Blo< en Beatty Heaven Can Wait, Midnight E: n Parker, Year. Walter Matthau, Susan Blak Howard W. Koch read the maj( film went television cameras. The Class Thprp u/pro ?irtnoii?r nn - -?w* w ??v.* v v 11 tuunjr HU OU iva Italia, nomination in The Boys from favorite for the same film. y Devoted ik God It's Among those awaiting the nc om Same the glittering new headquartei ;ain" from Picture Arts and Sciences in B ? Magic of Hollywood press agents, all ho] would appear on the magic list, tlome. The Publicists with nnminatpH f f^^^^^^time before buying advertisir 5 financially success either illegal damaging. Hoopla is a phenomenon, due wildly expanded c network. This is foi Shakespeare, forgotten the Star W ^? 1 wu ve seen me now hear the origi (overture writt< paper, it's written on Williams, theme i chalk, it reaches out Witchery" sung d coffins, it leaps from Manilow), see the r yellow slips of paper John Travolta as t by smiling Green- Thane of Glamii ters. The only media Newton-John as t pe has failed to touch stained Lady Macl ing and sound-trucks. movie soundtrack general can be a little copies before i these days it can even THOUGHT about >e effects. I went to see novelization by Jir espite all the magazine Didn't Know th< 1 TV commercials and Loaded: the Sordi books. I've never seen Cawdor Street Mui ause anything that is the new 'Eye of Ne\ ily publicized and that TV dinners." tions ann for 'Coming Home9: Foj ^brothers, California Suite, continue their cam repress and Same Time, Next spent to win attenl voting members. p|v anH AcaHpmu ProciHon^ r^o?o?- ?4; ^ * ivoiuviii voval nwiUHlct 11U >r nominees for the benefit of the Academy, so I and writers for wi rprises except for Olivier's best picture. The t Brazil. Gregory Peck was a | the final awards, v in a ceremony tel< Angeles Music Cen >minations announcement at 1 The scientific ar 4.1? A 1 " s ui uie /vcaaemy 01 Motion released, as have tl everly Hills were a hundred Laurence Olivier i ping their studios and clients director King Vidoi a cinematic creat ilms planned to waste little Walter Lantz, the A ig space in trade papers to Superman for visu? ful is obviously Not to mention the TV sei or mentally starring McLean Stevenson , Phyllis Diller. fairly modern Hoopla in the right hands cc mainly to the be an amazing weapon. W ommunications would happen if the U.S. Gov( tunate: whai if ment started using all the publi< example, had stunts to gain acceptance for ars treatment? programs? Would we see Welf play Macbeth; Wars in the cinema houses, 1 nal cast album Carters Sing Ancient Chinese F ?n by John Songs in the record shops, Na song "Disco That Iranian Leader as the new ; by Barry TV quiz show? Would the hott uuvic vautn ing bestseller in the bookstores the ambitious Defense Spending Dearest? s and Olivia he evil, blood Who thinks up all of this sti >eth), hear the anyway? I know that schools of (sold a billion degrees in advertising and the li anyone even but does that necessarily prodi it), read the the warped and highly hyperb( nmy Breslin (1 mind that is required to think e Knife was these stunts? One imat*ir?nc d Story of the typical day in the life of a large rders), and eat agency with an important client vt, Toe of Frog' "I know. We'll have a conte whoever can solve the bir ounced 1 gj^^^^p^^jyfe^jpj|By>v ^^s^^l#JiBaaEMW#^M^HBV ^^^B|fo:j: \<# ' ^Qpr riffo on/f l/^i#?i?i iuu cinu v uiym paigns. An estimated $2.5 million will be ion and votes from the Academy's 3,600 ns are made by individual branches of hat actors nominate for acting awards riting. All members select a choice for otal Academy membership will vote for /hich will be presented Monday, April 7, evised nationally by ABC from the Los ter. id technical awards have already been he special Oscars. The latter included Sir or his contributions to the art of film. * "for his incomparable achievements as or and innovator," cartoon producer fluseum of Modern Art's film library and il effects. ries control problem in 25 words or less and wins a free audience.'' "Nah, too limited. I've got it: >uld we'll write a best-selling biography hat of his life:Why I Ignored George jrn- andKingo." :ity "No, let's have him record a its number-one disco single: 'Vatican are Night Fever.'" The Well, maybe not the Pope. oik ine Which brings us back to the est programs that Campus Crusade is est sponsoring (oops, I let it slip!). It is be fitting, in an ironic sort of way, that ? 1 1 1 v.mv niv piugictuis were prooamy pre-empted by " WIN jff, TEKSTOKM '79," a "lifestylefer altering experience," raved noted ke, weather critic Sam Sleet. But you ice have to admit: the Crusaders have )lic certainly done a good job getting im M * men jji ograms advertised. But I a can't help thinking that their ad energy is a little misdirected. I mean, just imagine what would st; happen if they got ahold of a th- concept like Christianity