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Academy Award®-winning actress Olympia Dukakis will be the special guest at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' "Monday Nights with Oscar®" screening of "Moonstruck" on Monday, December 17, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy Theater in New York City. Dukakis will join host Robert Osborne in a post-screening onstage discussion. Pictured here are Cher (right) and Nicolas Cage in a still from the film.
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Nora (Olympia Dukakis) and her three grown daughters, living in the suburbs of New York City, are stunned when Tom (Roy Scheider), Nora's husband and the father of the girls, comes back after 15 years and reunites their family. However, he has changed.
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The formidable Lowell native Olympia Dukakis plays Rose for six performances beginning Tuesday at the Calderwood Pavilion, presented by Bank of America Celebrity Series. Dukakis spoke to the Globe by phone from New York, fast forwarding through the events of Rose's life: "Shtetl to Warsaw ghetto to the sewers to the Exodus boat, where she met an American sailor, to Atlantic City to Florida, where she ran a hotel with her third husband, to Israel." Rose covers all this while sitting shiva, in mourning.
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Olympia has gone on to appear in thirty films, twenty-five Broadway and off-Broadway productions, twenty television movies and over one hundred regional stage productions. Besides an Oscar, she has won, among others, a Golden Globe, a New York Film Critics Award, two Obies, and two Emmy nominations for her work.
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Actress, director, producer, teacher, activist--this is how Olympia Dukakis defines herself. The Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning star of such films as Moonstruck, Steel Magnolias, Picture Perfect and the top rated mini-series Tales of the City, Olympia Dukakis is a woman of uncommon achievement and dedication. A 30-year veteran of stage and screen, she ... founded and served as artistic director of New Jersey's whole theater for 19 years and sits on the boards of several influential arts organizations.
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Contest judges include the narrators on the book’s accompanying CD: Oscar winner Olympia Dukakis, Grammy Winner Gloria Gaynor, American Idol’s Constantine Maroulis, CBS News anchor Alexis Christoforous, and Guiding Light’s Frank Dicopoulos. The judging panel ... includes actress Florence Henderson, Make-A-Wish Foundation of America VP Jennifer Maher, iParenting Media (promotional sponsor) Editor-in-chief Elisa All, and The Children’s Museum of Manhattan.
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