A10 The BulleTin • Sunday, May 2, 2021
OLYMPIA DUKAKIS • 1931-2021
Actress won an Oscar for ‘Moonstruck’
BY BROOKE LEFFERTS
Associated Press
MAPLEWOOD, N.J. — Olympia
Dukakis, the veteran stage and screen
actress whose flair for maternal roles
helped her win an Oscar as Cher’s
mother in the romantic comedy
“Moonstruck,” has died. She was 89.
Dukakis died Saturday morning in
her home in New York City, according
to Allison Levy, her agent at Innova-
tive Artists. A cause of death was not
immediately released.
Dukakis won her Oscar through
a surprising chain of circumstances,
beginning with author Nora Ephron’s
recommendation that she play Meryl
Streep’s mother in the film version of
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The clock was started on
Jan. 19 and doesn’t stop for
nights, weekends, holidays,
COVID-19 shutdowns, Sen-
ate walk-outs or House slow-
downs.
And when it is over, it’s over.
All bills left are dead. Ideas can
come back the next session,
but have to start over again.
Third witching hour: The
Legislature has its own auto-
matic Spring cleaning with
four “witching hours” during
the session that kill off bills
stalled in committees. House
Speaker Tina Kotek, D-Port-
land, estimated early in the ses-
sion that up to 4,000 bills and
resolutions were introduced.
Hundreds of bills stuck in the
maze of the Legislature’s 43
committees were culled by ear-
lier deadlines. The next witch-
ing hour is May 14 when bills
Ephron’s book “Heartburn.” Dukakis
got the role, but her scenes were cut
from the film. To make it up to her,
director Mike Nichols cast her in his
hit play “Social Security.” Director
Norman Jewison saw her in that role
and cast her in “Moonstruck.”
Dukakis won the Oscar for best
supporting actress and Cher took
home the trophy for best actress.
She referred to her 1988 win as “the
year of the Dukakii” because it was
also the year Massachusetts Gov. Mi-
chael Dukakis, her cousin, was the
Democratic Party’s presidential nom-
inee. At the ceremony, she held her
Oscar high over her head and called
out: “OK, Michael, let’s go!”
must be scheduled for a final
committee vote in the second
chamber (House bills in the
Senate, and vice versa). There
are a few “safe harbors” for leg-
islation. Bills in Rules, Revenue
and joint (House-Senate) com-
mittees are exempt from the
deadlines.
Legislation Resurrection:
When legislative leaders re-
verse themselves and want one
of the dead bills to move for-
ward after all, the job is done
with a “gut and stuff” move.
A bill that has moved forward
can be sent to the Rules or an-
other deadline-exempt com-
mittee where its entire con-
tents are removed (gut) and
an amendment becomes the
entire text of the bill. Look for
the move as the Legislature
scrambles when the end of the
session gets close.
Encore, Encore!: Sept. 20 is
the start date for the special
session of the Legislature to
Actress Olympia Dukakis, winner of a
Golden Globe for “Best Performance in a
Supporting Role,” and Cher, winner of the
“Best Performance by an Actress in a mu-
sical or comedy,” hold the awards they re-
ceived for performances in “Moonstruck”
at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in 1988.
Reed Saxon/AP
Dukakis, who was born in Lowell,
Massachusetts, had yearned to be an ac-
tress from an early age and had hoped
to study drama in college. Her Greek
immigrant parents insisted she pursue a
deal with overdue redistricting
maps. Lawmakers received an
letter (Invitation? Summons?)
from leadership last week.
East meets West: Sept. 20
is also the 30th anniversary of
East Germany and West Ger-
many voting to unify into one
nation. Getting western Or-
egon and eastern Oregon to
unify might be a harder trick.
The Cascades make for a much
prettier Wall than the one that
stood in Berlin.
Feeling for an economic
pulse: On Friday, the pre-
liminary June state revenue
forecast was sent to key gov-
ernment planners. The report
won’t be made public until
May 19. But an early version
was sent to the Governor’s
Council of Economic Advisors
and the state Department of
Administrative Services. The
quarterly reports measure how
much money the state is taking
in and spending.
more practical education, so she studied
physical therapy at Boston University on
a scholarship from the National Founda-
tion for Infantile Paralysis.
After earning her bachelor’s degree,
she worked at an understaffed hospi-
tal in Marmet, West Virginia, and at
the Hospital for Contagious Diseases
in Boston.
Wrong way repeat? The
revenue forecasts are a best ed-
ucated guess — and sometimes
prove wrong. The June 2020
report forecast a sharp reces-
sion that would require major
cuts by the state. By the next
report in September 2020, the
fiscal storm had disappeared
as strong tax revenues from
higher earning residents came
in. Aided by a major infusion
of federal aid, the state has
been swimming in cash so far
this year.
How fat a wallet: Orego-
nians voted yes in Novem-
ber on Measure 107, closing a
court-imposed loophole that
campaign contributions were
protected activity under Or-
egon’s expansive freedom of
speech guarantees in the state
constitution. Two bills were
introduced this session to put
numbers on the limits. House
Bills 2680 and 3343 are both
parked in Rules with no addi-
But the lure of the theater eventu-
ally led her to study drama at Boston
University.
It was a shocking change, she told
an interviewer in 1988, noting that
she had gone from the calm world of
science to one where students rou-
tinely screamed at the teachers.
“I thought they were all nuts,” she
said. “It was wonderful.”
Her recent projects included the
2019 TV miniseries “Tales of the City”
and the upcoming film “Not to Forgot.”
But the stage was her first love.
“My ambition wasn’t to win the Os-
car,” she commented after her “Moon-
struck” win. “It was to play the great
parts.”
tional action scheduled. The
differences between the two
bills come down to the size of
the biggest donation allowed.
The Legislature may punt on
the issue and send it as a refer-
endum on the 2022 ballot. Af-
ter saying “yes” to limits, voters
would be asked “how much is
too much?”
Empty executive office
pending: With Gov. Kate
Brown unable to run because
of term limits, the 2022 gov-
ernor’s race will be the first
since 2010 without an incum-
bent on the ballot. Democrats
have won every election for
the state’s stop job since 1986.
It’s not surprising that “every
Democrat who can fog a glass,”
as one wag recently put it, is
rumored as eyeing the May
2022 primary. Candidates can’t
officially file for office until
Sept. 9, and can wait to jump in
as late as March 8, 2022.
GOP for governor: Specu-
Veteran, Locally Owned & Operated
lation of which Republicans
might join what recent his-
tory has shown as a quixotic
run for governor has started
early. Bud Pierce, the GOP
nominee in the 2016 special
election for governor won by
Kate Brown, has announced
he plans to run. Oregon Cat-
alyst, a popular conservative
website, recently posted an on-
line poll asking readers to pick
from among five names getting
some early buzz as possible
GOP standard-bearers. Sandy
Mayor Stan Pulliam came out
on top. Others included Pierce,
Sen. Dallas Heard, R-Roseburg
(who is also the Oregon Re-
publican Party chair), Rep. Bill
Post, R-Keizer, and Clackamas
County Commissioner Tootie
Smith. Candidates can’t offi-
cially file for office until Sept.
9, but expect more straw polls
across the political spectrum
over the summer.
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