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The Academy Award nominations are due as they are every year - what better time for the film community to bestow its best wishes on its favoured peers. The only trouble every year is finding five finalists who are deserving of such love and effection.
As a forinstance, 1989 may have been a banner box office year - $ 5 billion! - but it sure didn't set any records for artistic achievement. Just the same, with 12 months of movies to choose from, Academy voters should be able to find five respectable contenders in each category. Cream does rise to the top, after all.

JUNE HAVER, 79, wholesome actress of such 1940s film musicals as The Dolly Sisters and Look for the Silver Lining, promoted briefly as the next Betty Grable; died in Los Angeles on July 4th, 2005 of respiratory failure. A tumultuous personal life led her in 1953 to join a convent briefly, before returning to Hollywood and marrying actor Fred MacMurray in 1954. Their marriage lasted until his death in 1991.