7/4/2023 0 Comments Inside Oscar by Mason Wiley![]() ![]() “Women were asked to forget what a sensation Julie Christie had created last year in a miniskirt and dress in long gowns. ![]() Once again, a dress code was sent out to ceremony participants.” ![]() The Academy that year, the authors wrote, “wasn’t completely joining the newer generation glamour was too valuable a Hollywood asset to surrender to the latest fashion trends. Take the 1968 Oscar ceremony, which was delayed for two days because of the assassination of the Rev. In 1982, Bona and his former Columbia University classmate Mason Wiley began doing their extensive research for “Inside Oscar,” an encyclopedic reference book that New York Times film critic Vincent Canby called “a giddy social history of our place and time.”īona and Wiley did much of their digging at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences library in Beverly Hills, where they uncovered a treasure trove of Oscar facts. 29 at a hospital in New York, 15 days after sudden cardiac arrest, said Neil Cohen, his brother-in-law. Bona, coauthor of the 1986 book “Inside Oscar: The Unofficial History of the Academy Awards” and sole author of a 2002 sequel, died Jan. ![]()
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