I certainly would have given the worst actress statuette (!) to the woman with the angora sweater in Glen or Glenda (Help me with her name, somebody). And there were any number of contenders for worst actor -- I particularly admired Paul Simon in Annie Hall, James Taylor already mentioned, Roy Orbison, these music guys, eh? -- and it was a terrible struggle between Kevin Costner in The Postman, or Kevin Costner in Waterworld. The winner? Kevin Costner in "For Love of the Game". Unbelievable, incredible tripe, everyone in it is appalling, the script is putrid and you can set your watch by the plot twists. But Kevin is so superlatively bad you cannot take your eyes off him for a moment. Such is star power. It is the perfect game of appalling acting in our time.

yours, Peter T.