![]() ![]() The breakaway party moved to a conference room where they continued to vote, pending clarification of the rules regarding indignant resignations. Schickel resigned, along with three like-minded Cassavetes fans, including Renata Adler and Vincent Canby of The New York Times. “Deadwood” was how he reportedly characterized Lion voters. Whereupon Richard Schickel, then of Life magazine, lost his temper with a force worthy of the Plantagenets themselves. One more vote, and the Lion had it, 13 to 11. A second-thoughts check of the Circle’s elaborate bylaws revealed that Oliver! should have been gone! from the last ballot. According to Tom O’Neil’s book Movie Awards, each film had 11 votes, with one lost soul casting a vote for Oliver!. ![]() Anthony Harvey’s film version of an unsuccessful play about Henry’s un-cozy family reunion had tied, on the seventh ballot for Best Picture, with John Cassavetes’ Faces. That quip from Henry II in The Lion in Winter could serve as an epigraph for the meeting of the New York Film Critics Circle in 1968. “What shall we hang, the holly or each other?” ![]()
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