European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 1, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes wednesday april 1,1987 platoon captures 4 oscars Paul Newman finally wins Best actor award los Angeles a platoon the grim Saga of War without glory in Vietnam was named 1986 a bust picture in a night of emotional Triumph in which Paul Newman won his fire Oscar and Marlyce mall in became inc first deaf per former to win an Academy award. Woody Allen s Hannah and her Sis ters earned him a Best screenplay Oscar on monday night and captured support ing actor and actress honors Tor Michael Caine and Dianne i Csc. Related Story on Page 17. The Academy of motion picture arts and sciences also awarded Ralph Bella my still handsome at 82. An honorary Oscar Tor his 103 movie roles. He said n was the greatest Honor that could be Given to an actor consideration by one s Peers in every area of the Busi  it also voted the special Irving g. Thalberg achievement award to director Steven Spielberg the Box office Champi on snubbed repeatedly by Oscar. The Victory of platoon whose four Academy awards led the pack was hailed by its director and producer As an american commitment to peace. I think what you re saying is that for the first Lime you really understand what happened Over there said Oliver Stone who was named Best director. And i think what you re saying is that it should never Ever in our lifetimes happen again.". Producer Arnold Kopelson said the film had brought to this generation a new perspective of War that War is not glamorous that it maims and  Mallin who overcame her deafness to claim an Oscar As Best actress for Chil Dren of o lesser god said she hoped it would open new doors. I just want work anything any a Tress would want the 21-year-old Star said in sign language backstage. I m an actress who just does t happen o hear. I have my own hearing. It s different from yours but in s mine. The 59th Academy awards brought Long awaited validation to Newman and came whose names glittered in lights for decades while Oscar eluded their grasp Bui neither Newman As Best actor nor Caine was on hand to savor the Triumph. Newman said he was too superstitious to risk disappointment for an eighth time. And came who took the. Oscar after four tries was filming jaws in in the Bahamas. The Jinx is broken. He s in rejoiced Robert Wise president of the Academy who accepted Newman s award for the reprise role of Hustler fast Eddie Al son in the color of  Newman won a special Oscar last year for his Ca reer achievements Caine was honoured for his performance As an urbane philanderer in  actress Sigourney Weaver accepted the award saying i know How much it would mean id him to be Here and having worked with him i know How much he deserves it Spielberg snubbed last year for his much nominated the color purple refused to hold a grudge. It s very hard for me to Field questions about last year because there s always this year and the year after he said noting he still Hopes to win a real Oscar. A no show who has in fact never shown up for an Oscar ceremony was Allen whose Quirky family Saga or Man ners and mores in 1980s Manhattan gleaned Golden statuettes for supporting actor and actress As Well As original screenplay. Hell just be thrilled Wist said after picking up her Oscar for her role As the husband searching neurotic in the Hannah and her  asked if she had discussed with Allen her decision to appear at the ceremony he skipped she said i just told him i was going to buy a party dress and go As picture of the year platoon took four oscars including those for Stone s direction sound and editing it had eight nominations. Hannah and her Sisters followed with three it had seven Nomi nations. And a room with a View the gentle talc of a Young woman s euro Pean sojourn at the turn of the Century also scored three for the script by Ruth Prawur Jhabvala Art direction and cos tume design it had eight nominations. Aliens an outer space thriller with seven nominations won two oscars for sound effects edit ing and visual effects. Belle Davis in command of her moment in the spotlight interrupted Wise s Effort to accept Newman s Oscar in sisting on delivering her own tribute this award Paul is Long  now you gel on she told Wise but by then the segment was ending in a swell of music. Oscar co Host Colic hawn asked arc you Guys done yet Best original song was take my breath away from top  3rd Marine arrested in Moscow embassy Case Washington a the Marine corps has arrested a third Security guard from the . Embassy in Moscow on suspicion he failed to report contacts with soviet women while working in the soviet Union the Pentagon said tuesday. Robert Sims the Pentagon s chief spokesman identified the Man As staff sol. Robert Stanley stuff Mcbeam 24, of Bloomington 111. He said Stufflebeam was arrested sunday at the Marine base at Camp Pond lion Calif. Related Story on pages Sims said Stufflebeam had not been accused of espionage As have two other former Moscow embassy guards. He said stuff Webcam the former no. 2 Man in the Marine detachment in Moscow had been arrested based on information gathered in the course of an ongoing probe of sol. Clayton a Lone Ricc and Cpl. Arnold Bracy. British soviet talks called investment in future Moscow up British prime minister Margaret Thatcher tuesday said her lengthy talks with soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev were an in vestment for the future but indicated they did Little o narrow the Gap Between the East and the West on a medium Range arms Accord. Biological father awarded custody of baby m Hackensack no. A custody of baby m was awarded to her biological father William Stern tuesday and he judge ruled the surrogate contract under which she was born was valid. The judge s decision which he spent More than 2 a hours Reading to a packed courtroom is the first in the nation on the legality of a Surro Gate Mother contract. Superior court judge Harvey Sorkow said he upheld the contract because just As men have the constitutional right to sell their sperm women can decide what to do with their wombs. The judge made no provision for the Surro Gate Mother Mary Beth Whitehead to Ever Sec her daughter again. Sorkow condemned the sur Rogate Mother As impulsive and exploit live and said she either selectively omitted information or lied about aspects of her life during testimony. An auctioneer at Christie s auction House in London takes bids of Vincent Van Gogh s pointing  Van Gogh s sunflowers brings record $39.8 million at auction London a spectators gasped and applauded As Vincent Van Gogh s sunflowers which the impoverished dutch artist failed to sell for $125 before his suicide in 1b90, was auctioned for $39.85 million. An Anonymous buyer bidding by Telephone monday paid 24,75 million pounds for the famous painting at Christie s auction House More than tripling the record for a painting sold at auction. The Price stunned the 1,300 an buyers and enthusiasts from around he world who had crowded into the auction room. Before the Sale Christie s Hud said it expected about $16.1 million would be bid for the painting a burst of Gold and Ochor measuring 39 inches by 30 inches and showing 15 sunflowers. In an april 18. 1985, auction the a Paul Getty Art museum at Malibu Calif paid a record 8.1 million pounds then �10.5 million for Andrea Mantegna s adoration of the  that Price was exceeded in dollars but december in London when an Anonymous european collector bought a Paris Street scene by edouard Manet for 7.7 million pounds then Worth is  million because the Pound had risen in value. Christie s refused to name the buyer or even reveal which country the successful bidder was speaking from. Bui rumours circulated that the buyer was in Japan. Christie s had sent the picture on a tour of Tokyo new York and Zurich Switzerland. Van Gogh who reportedly managed to sell Only one painting in his lifetime painted sunflowers in Jan uary 1869 and wrote in 8 letter thai year that he expected one of these scots or americans might buy it for 500 French francs then Worth about $125. The picture was the last and biggest of seven similar paintings and was painted from memory. Van Gogh who had a history of mental illness lived on handouts from his brother Tho an Art dealer who told him the Money was coming from sales of the artist s work. Eighteen months after writing the loner Van Gogh killed himself at the age of 37. Sunflowers was bought in Paris in 1934 for an undisclosed sum by the family of sir Alfred Chester Beany a .-bom briton who made a Fortune in american mines. Ii was sold by executors of his daughter in Law Helen Chester Beatty who died last year. The proceeds will go 10 mrs. Bucany s daughter Sarah Thompson Jones and Jones two children by the Earl of Warwick monday s Sale look place on the anniversary of Van Gogh s birth on March 30, 1853, and Christie s threw a party afterwards with a cake decorated with a Model of the painting