Cliff Rothman is a cultural reporter at large for the New York
Times, Harpers Bazaar, GQ, Vanity Fair and
The Nation.
Nixon thought so; Otis Chandler doesn't. Maybe it depends on where you
stand.
The inevitable controversy--presenting name-naming film director Elia Kazan with a Lifetime Achievement Award--has unfolded like an accident waiting to happen, aggravating the Academy of Motion


