..From our family to yours.With no artificial ingredients."aWashington Postad montage played on TV, identifying the location of the estate as Washington, DCa clip from an episode of the originalGet Smart(TV series from 1965-1970)an excerpt from the quiz showHollywood Squaresfeaturing Paul Lynde answering a questiona show about a man who suffered a skull fracture and chest crushing and became a paraplegic, but recuperated after a year in the hospital, acquired a Master""s degree, and was feeling posiive about his futureChance searched in the attic for a small suitcase in he Old Man""s possessions.The film was the first Best Picture Oscar winner to be adapted into a regular prime-time TV series (NBC: 1988-1992 and CBS: 1992-1995), with Carroll O""Connor as Sheriff Bill Gillespie and Howard Rollins as Virgil Tibbs.She made him become what he always wanted to be - a lover, a hero, a rich man...and a killer!Laugh, Cry, and Dream...There were varying dates given for the film (1980 and 1981), due to a number of factors:it was filmed in 1979it was shown at the Venice Film Festival in late August-early September 1980it was then released in France, Italy and Germany in 1980its first US showing was April 2, 1981 at the Los Angeles International Film Exposition (Filmex)its official US premiere was April 3, 1981, with nationwide showings beginning a week laterThe film was praised at the time by the Academy of Motion Pictures with five major nominations: Best Picture, Best Director (Malle), Best Actor (Lancaster with his fourth and last career nomination), Best Actress (Sarandon with her first nomination), and Best Original Screenplay (John Guare), but went away empty-handed.J.Hunsecker - a stern, cold-blooded, morally corrupt, monomaniacal, and treacherous newspaper columnist (allegedly based, in part, on influential real-life Broadway gossip columnist Walter Winchell who could similarly make and break reputations).