‘Emperor’ takes four Globes

Press, 26 January 1988, Page 6

‘Emperor’ takes four Globes

NZPA-Reuter Los Angeles “The Last Emperor,” a spectacular story of China in the early twentieth century, has won four Hollywood Golden Globe awards for the best dramatic picture and best director (Bernardo Bertoiucci), best screenplay and best original score. The British film “Hope and Glory” (directed by John Boorman) — warm memories of life in Britain during World War Two when Boorman was a schoolboy, won the globe for best comedy or musical film.

The awards are given each year by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association — 88 foreign reporters who cover Hollywood. The awards are closely watched by film studios, which use them to help push their campaigns for Oscars.

Michael Douglas won the award for best dramatic actor for his role as a tough corporate raider in Wall Street. "Here’s to a good part. There were some beautiful.words,’’ he said.

Sally Kirkland was named best dramatic actress for her sensitive portrayal of an older actress being forced out in “Anna.”

Cher was named best actress in a musical or comedy role for her portrayal of an Italian-Ameri-can bookkeeper who blossoms when she falls in love with her fiance’s brother in “Moonstruck.”

Olympia Dukakis, who played Cher’s mother, won a globe for best supporting actress.

Robin Williams won the award for best actor in a musical or comedy film for his role of a disc jockey sent to cheer up United States troops in “Good Morning Vietnam.”

The British actor, Sean Connery, won the award for best supporting film actor for his part as a tough Chicago policeman in the Prohibition era in “The Untouchables.”

Sweden’s “My Life as a Dog,” the poignant story of an orphaned schoolboy, was named best foreignlanguage film. On the television side, “Escape from Sobibor,” the true story of a mass escape from a Nazi prison camp, won a globe for best mini-series or film and also collected an award for the Dutchman, Rutger Hauer, for best supporting actor. The British comedienne, Tracey Ullman, beat Cybill Shepherd, of “Moonlighting,” and the

stars of “The Golden Giris” to win a globe for best actress in a television musical or comedy series for her United States series, “The Tracey Ull-

man Show.” Wearing a giant red and white bow in her hair and a red and white crinoline miniskirt, she thanked her cast for “surviving the

hell we go through each week.”

“The Golden Girls” was named best musical or comedy television series. Dabney Coleman was named best actor in a musical or comedy series for his role of a journalist in “The Slap’ Maxwell Story.”

The television series “L.A. Law,” which re-, volves round members of a legal firm, was named the best television dramatic series and one of its stars, Susan Dey, was named best actress in a television dramatic series.

Claudette Colbert, aged 84, won a globe for best supporting actress in a television film for her role in “The Two Mrs Grenvilles.”

Richard Kiley who was named best actor in a dramatic television series for playing the patriarch of a middle-class family in “A Year in the Life and Randy Quaid” was named best, actor in a television mini-series or picture for his portrayal of President Lyndon Johnson in “LBJ: The Early Years.”

Gena Rowlands was named best actress in a televison miniseries or picture for her portrayal of another White House resident in “The Betty Ford Story.”