European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 16, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes thursday february 16,1989 rain main tops Oscar nominations Beverly Hills Calif. A rain Man which features a scheming car Salesman learning to love his autistic brother led nominations wednesday for the 61st Academy awards with nods for Best Pic Ture and seven other categories. Nominations for the movie included Dustin Hoffman As Best actor and Barry Levinson As Best director. Earning seven nominations each were dangerous liaisons about the bed hopping seductions of the wealthy in pre revolutionary France and Mississippi burning a controversial drama depicting the Fri s investigation of the slaying of three civil rights worker sin 1964. Both were nominated for Best picture As were the accidental tourist an adaptation of Anne Tyler s acclaimed novel tracing the emotional journey of a travel writer and working girl a Cinderella tale of a Secre tary who Battles her Way up the corporate ladder. Sigourney Weaver claimed a rare double Oscar nomination As Best actress for gorillas in the Mist the adventure of Dian Fossey and Best supporting actress for working  the nominations were announced in a pre Daw news conference at the Headquarters of the Academy of motion picture arts and sciences. Oscar trophies will be presented in a televised ceremony on March 29. Joining Weaver in the Best actress Competition was Melanie Griffith for working girl her first Oscar nomination. Others nominated for Best actress were Glen close for dangerous liaisons Jodie Foster for the accused and meryl Streep for a cry in the  their male counterparts joining rain mans Hoffman were Gene Hackman for Mississippi Burn ing and Oscar newcomers Tom Hanks for big Edward James Olmos for stand and deliver and Max von Sydow for Denmark s Pelle the  in addition to Levinson s nomination for Rainman nominees for Best director were Charles Crich ton for a fish called Wanda Martin Scorsese forthe controversial the last temptation of Christ Alan Parker for Mississippi burning and Mike Nich ols for working  apart from working girls Weaver nominees Forest supporting actress were Joan Cusack for work ing girl Geena Davis for the accidental tourist Frances Mcdormand for Mississippi burning an Michelle Pfeiffer for dangerous  Veteran act9r Alec guinness co Star of Little Dor Rit was nominated for Best supporting actor As was Kevin Kline for a fish called Wanda Martin Landau for Tucker the Man and his dream River Pho enix for running on empty and Dean Stockwell for married to the  nominated for Best foreign language film were Hun Gary s Janussen Belgium s the music teacher India s Salaam Bombay Spain s women on the verge of a nervous breakdown and Denmark Spelle the  multiple nominees included who framed Roger Rabbit an inventive comic blend of animation an live action that Drew six nominations for technical achievements. Working girl also collected six Nomi nations including Best original song for Carly Simon s let the River  other multiple nominees were gorillas in themist with five and the accidental tourist and die hard with four nominations apiece. Among the films and performers attracting Little Orno attention from the Academy were a cry in the dark and Bull Durham each collecting Only on nomination. However there was no apparent backlash against Mississippi burning widely criticized for rewriting the history of the civil rights movement. William Hurt had been nominated the last three years but was overlooked this year for the Acci dental  Shirley Maclaine in Madame Sou Swatzka was also passed by. Actress Weaver becomes the fifth performer name Din two acting categories in the same year. Jessica Lange last performed the feat in 1982 with Frances  the others were Fay Bainter in 1938, Teresa Wright in 1942 and Barry Fitzgerald in 1944. Turner picked As this year s Hasty pudding Plum Cambridge mass. A movie heartthrob Kathleen Turner accepted the Hasty pudding theatricals 1989 woman of the year wearing a Rome Stone Tiara and garlanded in a string of sizzling sexy adjectives. Turner joined in a chorus of wild thing and engaged in off color banter with the Harvard University students who since 1951 have Given the award annually to the performer who makes a lasting and impressive contribution to the world of  the students suggested the title of tuesday s Cere Mony should have been Peggy sue gets verbally Lam basted by a Bunch of snot nosed Harvard  they compiled a list of adjectives to describe turn or hot steamy soldering sizzling torrid blazing sweltering simmering Seething  of that was sesame Street " the actress interrupted. Turner made her 1981 film debut in body heat starred in Peggy sue got married and was recently featured in the accidental  she also was the voice of Jessica Rabbit in the cartoon who framed Roger Rabbit in which her most memorable line was i m not bad i m just drawn that  Turner said her roles in the accidental tourist and Roger Rabbit May compete for this year s acad Emy awards. I m told i May be up against myself for supporting actress As both Sarah and Jessica Rabbit she said. Asked by reporters about her throaty voice and faintly foreign accent Turner replied it s because grew up in South America and England and because i m a Little  Turner said she plans to Start rehearsals in Decem Ber or a new York stage production of Tennessee Williams cat on a hot tin roof in which she will play the part of Maggie. Before the ceremony Turner was paraded through Harvard Square on the Back of a 1947 Lincoln Contin rental convertible. Wearing a red dress and the Rhine Stone Tiara she was flanked by male Harvard students in drag a tradition that dates Back to the Days when the University s Constitution forbade men to Wear women s  Kathleen Turner holds the Hasty pudding pot presented to her by Harvard students in Cambridge mass. Citizen Kane decision All in Black and White los Angeles a Turner entertainment co. Said it will not colonize Orson Welles Black and White film classic Citi zen Kane because the late director s estate May have the right to prohibit it. A storm of criticism blew up in january when the company revealed it was Oloriz ing test scenes. Director Henry Jaglom said Welles specifically asked him to protect the movie from such treatment two weeks be fore he died in 1985. Turner entertainment which is Parton Ted Turner s broadcasting Empire obtained partial rights to citizen Kane with the 1986 acquisition of Mem s film Library and remaining rights from re pictures in 1987. Turner president Roger Mayer s announcement tuesday that preparations to color the film had stopped indicated that it was a Legal decision rather than a Bow to those who claim colouring Artisti Cally spoils a Black and White film. Our attorneys looked at the contract Between Rio pictures inc. And Orso Welles and his production company Mercury productions inc., and on the basis of their review we have decided not to proceed with colonization of the movie Mayer said. While a court test might uphold our Legal right to colonize the film provisions of the contract could be read to prohibit colonization without permission of the Welles estate. We have completed Resto ration of a printing negative which now enables us to slow first rate Black and White prints of this  citizen Kane is considered one of the finest american movies. Welles starred Inland directed the 1941 Saga of a wealthy and reclusive newspaper publisher Jaglom recounted last month that Welles was Adamant about not letting his film be tinted. Orson said to me at lunch about two weeks before he died -1 remember this vividly please do this for me. Don t let Ted Turner deface my movie with his crayons " Jaglom said. Movie purists have previously lamented the colonizing of such classics As it s a wonderful life Casablanca and a Christmas carol.". Proponents claim that adding Colo gives films a wider audience