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Her résumé read "actress," but Lauren Bacall was first and foremost a Hollywood movie star.

Long considered to be one of the most talented film stars ever, Peter O'Toole held what must have been a frustrating distinction. O'Toole, who died on Dec. 14 at age 81 in London, is the performer nominated most often for a best actor Oscar - eight times - without winning.

 

 

Meryl Streep was in a playful mood last night when she held court backstage before a crowd of admiring press after winning her Best Actress Oscar for "The Iron Lady."  "I thought I was so old and jaded, but they call your name and you just go into sort of a -- I don't know, a white light, and it…

I didn't get to watch a lot of movies as a kid. (It's a long story.) The few ones I did watch left indelible impressions. As it turns out, when you watch the Sound of Music close to 30 or 40 times as a young teenaged woman, Christopher Plummer sticks in your mind. (As does the soundtrack. These are…