European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 6, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday january 1989 the stars and stripes Page 9 working girl tops Globe Billing running on empty close runner up Beverly Hills Calif. A working girl the Holiday season hit about an ambitious Secretary s escape from the Steno Pool combined with a dark film about aging 60s radicals to Lead nominations for the 46th annual Golden Globe awards. The awards Are considered important not Only for their use in newspaper television and radio ads but also As indicators of favourites for the oscars in March. Last year s big Golden Globe winners were the last emperor with four trophies and Moonstruck and "l.a. Law with two statuettes apiece. Working girl collected six nominations wednes Day including Best musical or comedy motion picture Best director for Mike Nichols Best actress for Star Melanie Griffith and Best screenplay for Kevin Wade. The Mike Nichols film which features Harrison Ford As Griffith s suitor is a smart comedy in the tradition of Katharine Hepburn Spencer Tracy match of the 1940s. A Darker film running on empty Drew five nominations including Best drama Best drama actress for Christine Lahti Sidney Lumet for Best director and Naomi Foner for Best screenplay. The accidental tourist regarded by Many critics As one of the year s Best movies and Box office giant big collected Only two nominations apiece. The civil rights film Mississippi burning the autism study rain Man and the melodrama a cry in the dark each collected four nominations. In the Golden Globe television Competition Abc s "l.a. Law captured seven nominations ahead of Abc s epic miniseries War and remembrance with four. The nominations were announced at a news Confer ence at the Beverly Hilton hotel by the Hollywood foreign press association which will present the trophies Jan. 28 at the hotel on a broadcast carried by Cable. The association composed of 79 writers who cover entertainment began the Golden globes in 1944. In this year s Golden Globe contest films will com Pete in 13 categories and television shows will oppose each other in 11 divisions. Vague awards categories occasionally produce unusual selections. Hope and glory a reminiscence of life in world War ii London last year was named Best comic or musical film. Nominated for Best dramatic motion picture were the accidental tourist a cry in the dark go Rillas in the Mist the adventure of Dian Fossey Mississippi burning rain Man running on empty and the unbearable lightness of selections for Best musical or comedy Moton Pic Ture were big a fish called Wanda Midnight run who framed Roger Rabbit and working Babette s feast Janussen Pelle the Conque ror Salaam Bombay and women on the verge of a nervous breakdown were selected for top foreign language film nominations. Nominees for Best performance by an actor in a dramatic motion picture were Gene Hackman Mississippi burning Dustin Hoffman rain Fantom Hulce Dominick and Eugene Edward James Olmos stand and deliver and Forest Whitaker Jodie Foster the accuse Lahti running on empty Shirley Maclaine Madame Sousa aka meryl Streep a cry in the dark and Sigourney 1 setting sail the world s Fleet of floating pleasure palaces has up to the ship s Billing As the world s most elegant added the $135 million Royal Viking Sun to its cruise vessel. The finnish made ship shown at the ranks. With its sailing trials Over the 38,000-ton port of los Angeles weighs Anchor for its Maiden ship is ready to face its toughest test that of living around the world cruise sunday. 2 . Missionaries kidnapped in Colombia during religious rite Cali Colombia a gunmen abducted two american missionaries during a religious service and shouted slogans for the release of a Colombia drug Kingpin serving a life prison term in the United states police and a Church spokesman said wednesday. The gunmen on tuesday night seized pastors Roy Libby and Ricardo Grover in the town of la Florida and demanded Freedom for Carlos Ledger Riyal a Leader of the Medellin drug Cartel said police in the Southwest state of Cauca. In july last year Ledger Rivas was sentenced in Jack Sonville fla., to 135 years in prison and fined $350,000 for smuggling tons of cocaine into the United states. Hector Pardo director of the evangelical federation of Colombia said in the capital Bogota that the gunmen initially seized three pastors including Noe mias Salazar a colombian they later released. Libby has been in Colombia for 20 years. Grover has lived in the country for 10 years most recently in Medel Lin. Their Ages and . Hometowns were not available. Weaver gorillas in the Mist were the actresses nominated for work in a dramatic films. For acting in a musical or comic film the male nominees were Michael Caine dirty Rotten scoundrels John Cleese a fish called wan atom Hanks Bigboy Hoskins who framed Roger Rabbit and Robert de Niro Midnight run. Their female counterparts were Jamie Lee Curtis a fish called Wanda Griffith working Girlamo Irving crossing Delancey Michelle Pfeiffer married to the mob and Susan Sarandon Bull Durham. Actresses nominated in supporting roles were Sonia Braga Moon Over Parado Barbara Hershey the last temptation of Christlena Olin the unbearable lightness of being Diane Venora Bird and Weaver working girl. Nominated supporting actors were Alec guinness Little Dorrit parts i and ii Neil Patrick Harris Clara s heart Raul Julia Moon Over Paradox Martin Landau Tucker the Man and his dream Lou Diamond Phillips stand and deliver and River Phoenix running on empty. Actor Clint Eastwood received a Golden Globe nomination for his work As director of joining Eastwood in the category Are Barry Levinson rain manalan Parker Mississippi burning Fred Schepisi a cry in the dark Lumet and Nichols. In television Competition Best drama series Nomi nees were "l.a. Law Beauty and the beast Mur Der she wrote thirty something and cheers the Golden girls Murphy Brown Roseanne and the wonder years were the nominated comedy series. Reorganized Braniff to buy 50 Airbus jets new York a Braniff inc. Will acquire 50 Airbus industries a320 planes and has options on 50 More in a Deal valued at up to $3.5 billion. The Deal could nearly triple the Fleet of Braniff a car Rier with 53 jets that has endured three changes of ownership a chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization a major recapitalization and the Transfer of its major operations to Kansas City from Dallas in the past six years. The Carrier has vowed to become More competitive. The move announced wednesday also represents one of the largest single orders for jets produced by Airbus a european aircraft consortium that has emerged As a major competitor for the . Giants Boeing co. And Mcdonnell Douglas corp. The Airbus a320 is a 150-seat, highly efficient air Craft used widely to replace aging jets. The plane re quires Only two pilots rather than the customary three. It was unclear How Braniff s acquisition of these planes would affect plans to acquire 23 Boeing 737s from Amr corp., Parent of american airlines. Braniff currently operates 25 Boeing 727s, 10 Boeing 737s and 18 bag ills built by British aerospace pc. Last june the investment group Bia Cor holdings inc. Acquired the Dallas based Braniff for $100 million from Dalfort aviation inc., which is owned by the Pritz Ker family of Chicago. Through the investor group Paine Webber inc. Controls a majority stake in the airline. The group appointed five top executives from pied Mont airlines to manage Braniff. The executives had helped build Piedmont into one of nation s most prof Itable Deal includes 16 planes originally intended for pan am corp., which recently decided to scrap an order of a320s in Exchange for a $ 115 million pay ment from Airbus. Pan am had an order for 16 of the aircraft and an option on 34 More. The Deal would be Worth the $3.5 billion Only if Braniff exercises options to acquire All 100 planes. Airbus will sell the first 42 planes to a financing group which will in turn lease them to Braniff. Airbus will have to make its own financing arrangements for the other eight in the first group of 50.the members of the financing group Are spa group Ltd. Of Shannon Ireland an aircraft leasing company
