Oscar Memories
With respect to the best-actor Oscar, one can only surmise that Daniel Day-Lewis won over Morgan Freeman because the academy was impressed with his portrayal of a physically handicapped character. (So was I.) However, I wonder if any academy member could even fathom the difficulty inherent in Freeman’s extraordinarily believable portrayal of a character whose imposed disadvantages were more visceral than visual.
HARRIET J. BLACKMAN
Los Angeles
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