Peter Travers Oscar Quotations

We've been hearing this year how there are no Oscar favorites, ... Now, with 'American Beauty' receiving eight nominations ... it goes into the Oscars as the 'favorite.'

She's on the fringes of both films but manages to create indelible impressions in characters the screenplays barely filled in. She's never the same from character to character. Maybe she's too attractive or too much of a chameleon for Oscar voters to realize that a true star - the kind that acts as well as shines - is in our midst.