My choices are noted with a ★. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔. (Note: Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand tied for best actress.)
I saw the road show presentation of 2001: A Space Odyssey back in 1968 and it opened up my seven-year-old head like a can opener. Into that space flowed the Beatles, Batman, Laugh-In, the Smothers Brothers, Apollo 8, Mad Magazine, Captain Kangaroo, Charlie Brown, Richard Nixon, Billy Graham, Viet Nam, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, reruns of Bugs Bunny, Bullwinkle, Jonny Quest, my college-aged brother's record collection, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King — heady stuff at an impressionable age.
I didn't understand the culture of 1968 back in 1968, but I absorbed it like a sponge. No wonder I am the way I am.
P.S. Little known fact: Sondra Locke, who like your faithful correspondent was born in middle Tennessee, once hitched a ride with my parents ...
Although I gave the nod to mister wilder, Oliver Reed's depiction of Bill Sikes in Oliver! likely deserves it. I have never seen a more murderous, evil, frightening villain -- possibly in any film, and certainly not in a musical. That he was sexy, and Nancy's doomed relationship is entirely understandable. That whole relationship -- although it somehow fits seamlessly into that MOR film -- makes Sid and Nancy look like bobbysoxers. . . .
ReplyDeletesome motherlover oughta edit that third sentence above -- it's unintelligible. I mean, like, MOre than Usual. . . .l
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