European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 6, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes thursday february 6,1986 2 films earn 11 Oscar nominations each Beverly Hills Calif. A the color purple a drama about a battered woman s journey from submission to Independence in the Rural South and out of Africa a romantic moment in the life of a danish novelist each earned 11 nominations wednes Day for the 58th Academy awards. Prizzi s Honor the bitter comedy of a Lovesick mafia Hitman and witness a police Chase against a backdrop of Amish farm country followed with eight nominations apiece. All four top nominees were contenders for Best Pic Ture along with kiss of the spider woman the Story of a homosexual prisoner living out his fantasies by telling his cellmate the plots of old a movies. Nominees for Best actor of 1985 were Harrison Ford of witness Jack Nicholson of prizzi s Honor James Garner of Murphy s Romance William Hurt of kiss of the spider woman and Jon Voight of runaway train whoops Goldberg the standup comic making her him debut was nominated for Best actress in the color  also nominated were previous Oscar winners Anne Bancroft for Agnes of god Jessica Lange for Sweet dreams meryl str cup for out of Africa and Geraldine Page for the trip to Bountiful. Page 61, has been nominated eight times and has never won. Don Amechi whose film career began in 1936.li Nally made the Oscar race As supporting actor in co Coon at the age of 79. Also nominated were Klaus Maria Brandaur for out of Africa Willuam Hie Kejr for prizzi s  Robert Loggia for jagged Edge and Eric Roberts for runaway  Margaret a cry and Oprah Winfrey both of the color purple appeared among the nominees for sup porting actress along with Anjelica Huston who was directed by her father John Huston in a nazis  also in the race were Amy Madigan for twice in a lifetime and Meg Tilly for Agnes of  All five Are first time nominees. In the race for Best direction were two classic filmmakers. Huston 79. For prizzi s Honor and Akira Kurosawa for  the Academy voters also nominated argentinian Hector Babenco for kiss of the spider woman australian Peter Weir for witness and american Sydney Pollack for out of Africa. The nominees for Best foreign language film were on  Yugoslavia. Pop Star Lionel Richie captured a nomination for Best song with his say you say me from White  Richie was also named for co writing lyrics to miss cyclic s blues sister " from the color  other songs nominated Power of love from Back to the future separate lives from White nights and Surprise Surprise from a chorus  other nominations included original screenplay Back to the future Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale Brazil Terry Gilliam Tom Stoppard Charles Mckeown the official Story Luis Quenzo. Aida Bortnik the purple Rose of Cairo Woody Allen witness Earl w. Wallace and William Kelley screenplay and Kelley Wallace and Pamela Wallace Story. The nominees in 22 categories were announced at the Academy of motion picture arts and sciences Bead quarters Here. Texan s artificial heart surgery is 3rd in . During week by the associated press a texan who became the third person this week to receive a temporary artificial heart was in critical condition wednesday As a woman in Arizona staged a fairly dramatic recovery and doctors in Penn Sylvania waited for fluid in a patient s lungs to Drain before seeking a human donor heart. A 41-year-old Man who received a Jar Vik-7 heart during a two hour operation tuesday at St. Luke s episcopal Hospital in Houston underwent the surgery after his kidneys began to fail said Hospital spokeswoman Connie Turner. The implant was performed by a team headed by cardiac surgeon or. Denton Cooley a critic of permanent mechanical hearts. He maintains that artificial hearts Are useful Only temporarily until a human heart can be found and transplanted. In 1969, Cooley put the first temporary implantable artificial heart in a 37-year old Man who lived for 65 hours with the device before being Given a heart trans Plant the first in the United states. He died 36 hours later. In Pittsburgh a 39-year-old Man who received a Jarvik-7 in surgery completed monday was still in critical condition wednesday at presbyterian University Hospital. He showed slight improvement tuesday said administrative assistant Dave lash and doctors will begin searching for a human heart As soon As fluid in his lungs decreases. Houston Hospital officials wednesday identified the patient there As Harris Bill on the Road to recovery Vallis  12, known As Bill meets with journalists this week it the Cleveland clinic one week after undergoing successful double heart by Kent a retired army major from Elpaso Texas. The name of the Pittsburgh patient has not been disclosed. Meanwhile Bernadette Chayrez 40, of Phoenix Ariz., developed a fever of about 101.5 degrees wednesday morning which concerned her surgeon who was trying to determine its cause said Hospital spokeswoman Nina Trasoff. Surgeon Jack Copeland had said earlier that Chayrez who remained in critical pass surgery to Correct rare cholesterol buildup problem in us arteries. With Bill is his Mother and or. Richard Ster a. Condition was making a fairly dramatic recovery thanks to the Jarvik-70, a smaller version of the heart. The human being is Able to rebound very rapidly once the bad pump is re placed with a Good pump Copeland said tuesday at University medical Center in Tucson Ariz. Chayrez was being monitored for a flu infection. Pathologist or. C. George Ray said tuesday night that preliminary tests taken since the operation showed no signs of the infection that had earlier damaged her heart said Trasoff a Hospital spokeswoman. If test results remained negative wednesday and thursday then we Are Home free with relation to the virus tra Soff quoted Ray As saying. Trasoff said wednesday that Chayrez had a Good night and was Alert. She also said nurses indicated the patient had begun writing messages to communicate. The Assembly line worker from Phoenix seemed a Little bit bewildered although she apparently understood that the artificial heart was in place Copeland said tuesday. Within the first 24 hours after receiving the heart monday Chayrez s temporary heart had brought about increased kidney output and apparently improved liver function and it had cleared some fluid in her lungs he said. The timetable for a transplant maybe moved up from its present target of one to three weeks if it is determined in the next few Days that she has no viral infection and continues her rapid recovery. Cope land said. In Pittsburgh the patient is awake and aware of his condition. Lash said. He has been communicating with his family by nodding his Bead and squeezing he hands the Man had been suffering from if Che Mic cardiomyopathy a deterioration of the heart Muscles caused by hardening of the arteries. His condition began deteriorating rapidly last week. Debt Ridden Farmer commits suicide before scheduled auction of property Waynesboro a. A a Farmer shot himself dead about 20 minutes before his property was to be auctioned on the Steps of the county courthouse authorities said wednesday. Burke county sheriff Greg Coursey said . Hill Iii 67, shot himself at his cast Georgia Home tuesday morn he wanted to Stop the Sale which in fact he did Coursey said adding that Hill s death officially has been ruled a suicide. It just Tore us up when we heard about it said David Morgan of Dublin president of the Federal land Bank of Central Georgia and the Farmers production credit association a Federal Agency which held the note on Hill s 700-acre farm. Morgan said the Farmer owed Money to the Spca through the Federal intermediate credit Bank of Colum Bia . He declined to say How much Hill owed. I m anticipating More of this especially As foreclosures pick up in the next three or four months Georgia agn v culture commissioner Tommy Irvin said wednesday. It s a traumatic experience for Farmers to feel they re a fail ure even when most of the time the failure is beyond their control. Agriculture department spokesman Steve Rich said the Federal land Bank and the Spca have begun foreclosure proceedings against 293 of Georgia s 50,000 farms. In addition the Farmers Home administration plans to notify about 4,000 Farmers they May face foreclosure if they Don t make plans to restructure their debt he said Morgan said Hill had visited Spca officials in Waynesboro before the auction to see if he could sell Dart of his property to relieve the debt. V it would t have been enough Morgan said. We had been working with or. Hill for Over a year and it just not to the Point where it looked like there was nothing he or Morgan said the auction has not been rescheduled. �