From: utzoo!watmath!bstempleton
Newsgroups: net.movies
Title: What kind of Oscar would you give to Billy from Year of Living Dangerously
Article-I.D.: watmath.4851
Posted: Tue Apr  5 23:41:27 1983
Received: Wed Apr  6 00:05:46 1983

There's been talk of nominating Julie Andrews for Best Actor and Dustin
Hoffman for Best Actress, but what do you do in a case like the new film,
"The Year of Living Dangerously".  One of the two male lead characters
(the other is played by Mel Gibson, the Road Warrior) named Billy is
actually played by a woman, whose name is Linda something_I_can't_recall.
The part is a short Australian Chinaman, and the acting is quite good.
I did not know until the credits that the actor was an actress.

So the question is, if you were to nominate this person for an oscar,
what would she get?

Perhaps this means that the actor/actress distinction in awards should
go the way of the dodo, because it's a bit sexist?