MADONNA confidently believes her role in Evita is worth an Oscar nomination, she said in London yesterday. "Yes and yes," she replied when asked whether she thought she would figure in the February nominations, and whether that would mean a great deal.
The all-singing role in Alan Parker's movie of the Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, in which she stars with Antonio Banderas and Jimmy Nail, has re-launched her flagging film career, she said.
Jeremy Irons has denounced the "moral panic" which is threatening distribution in Britain of the film Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov's tale of a man's obsession with a young teenager.
The actor, who plays the role of paedophile Humbert Humbert in the US-made film, directed by Adrian Lyne, has threatened to leave Britain if Lolita fails to find a distributor there.
The mystery buyer of Clark Gable's Oscar award, auctioned for $607,500 on Sunday, has been revealed as producer/director Steven Spielberg.
In a letter to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Spielberg said he was returning the statuette to the academy for public display.