The Goblin leader was seated on a flat stone, with a large staff decorated with an animal skull and shrunken heads.And become America""s hottest new actress."1982 became known astheyear with many Academy Award-nominated cross-dressing, gender-reversed, drag or transvestite performances/ roles with confused sexual identities:Julie Andrews earned a Best Actress nomination forVictor/Victoria (1982)as Victoria Grant, the title role singer who pretended o be gay Polish cabaret singer Count Victor Grezhinski, while co-star Robert Preston received a Best Supporting Actor nomination as her gay partner-in-crime Carroll "Toddy" Todd, who ended up in drag during the finale singing "Shady Dame From Seville"John Lithgow was given a Best Supporting Actor nomination for playing trans-sexual (sex-changed) ex-football player Roberta Muldoon inThe World According to Garp (1982)and then in 1983, Linda Hunt won Best Supporting Actress for the male role of Chinese-Australian photographer Billy Kwan in the next year""sThe Year of Living Dangerously (1983)Many other cross-dressing comedies - in the guise of examining male-female sex roles - played upon the same main features of this film, beginning with:I Was a Male War Bride (1949), by director Howard Hawks, with Cary Grant as a dress-wearing female to comply with the War Brides ActTorch Song Trilogy (1988), by director Paul Bogart, about witty drag queen actor/playwright Arnold Beckoff (Harvey Fierstein) in a film adaptation of the smash Broadway play of the same nameMrs.The French government has recognized Soviet Russia and he doubts that hey will risk a war for my poor sake.Producer David O.Selznick had acquired the film rights to Mitchell""s novel in July, 1936 for $50,000 - a record amount at the time to an unknown author for her first novel, causing some to label the film "Selznick""s Folly.During the treasurer""s report, the financially-strapped members of the opera expect him to pay the opera""s annual deficit of $180,000.