1975

Crime Pays

Francis Ford Coppola wins best director award Oscar for "The Godfather, Part II.  It was a sequel to his 1972 award-winning movie "The Godfather."

Jack Nicholson Opens In Cuckoo's Nest

In one of his earliest films, "The Little Shop of Horrors," Jack played a man who liked dentists to molest his molars.  Pain was just marvelous.   In the current "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Nicholson is again offbeat, but aching to free others from torture, leading fellow mental patients in rebellion.

Deaths

Lovely star, Susan Hayward, is dead.  Her life was as sad as her film roles.  She starred in the 1958 film "I Want to Live." She received five Oscar nominations.

Richard Tucker - leading tenor with Met 30 years.

Josephine Baker, who led a host of black Americans to Paris in search of artistic freedom.

Frederick March - Leading actor in a multitude of films.

New York, New York

"The Wiz" brings black musical artistry to an American classic.

Jaws

Just when you thought it was safe to go into a theatre "Jaws" snaps to your attention.  It was directed by 27-year-old Steven Spielberg, whose only success has been "The Sugarland Express."

Opera

Beverly Sills, one of America's foremost sopranos, made her debut at the Met in Rossini's "Siege of Corinth."