By GILBERT WONG
No time to read Sight and Sound? That must be one of the aims behind this series, a sort of crib guide for popular and cult culture. Other guides provide the opinions you need to know about everyone from Philip K. Dick (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was made into Bladerunner) to Orson Welles and Stanley Kubrick.
The filmic bent is best seen in this rough guide to the Oscars, including confirmation of some of the anecdotes that accompany the films Hollywood judges its best. Was it true that Woody Allen was so disappointed by Manhattan that he urged United Artists not to release it? Yes, according to the guide, which notes the film won best picture in 1979.
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