Tuesday, November 22, 2005

My Oscar video pick of the week is a 1973 (oooh, the year I was born) film that features Timothy Bottoms, Lindsay Wagner (in a pre-Bionic Woman role) and John Houseman. The film is The Paper Chase and it features a class of guys (and women but the men are front and center) in their quest to pass their first year of law school and Harvard. It's a trying time for these guys as they are grilled and pushed and tortured by Professor Kingsfield (Houseman in his Oscar winning role). Bottoms is the main character, Hart, and he ends up falling in love with Susan, who just happens to be Kingsfield's daughter. He thinks that Kingsfield considers him a protege of sorts until after a year teaching Hart, Kingsfield turns to him in response to a compliment and says, "What was your name?" Houseman deserved the Oscar but didn't deserve to star in the CBS series created in the late 70's.

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