It has been 42 years since Julie Christie won an Oscar for her part in John Schlesinger\u2019s Darling<\/a><\/i> (1965), and many people think she could win another golden statue this Sunday for her part in Sarah Polley\u2019s Away from Her<\/a><\/i> (2006) \u2014 and if she does<\/i> win the award this year, it will apparently mark the longest gap between Oscar wins in Academy history. (Or so says Shinan Govani<\/a>.)<\/span><\/p>\n That\u2019s an interesting bit of trivia in its own right, but here\u2019s another, which I was only alerted to the other day: Darling<\/i> marks the one-and-only big-screen appearance of Hugo Dyson<\/a>, a member of the Inklings<\/a> and a key figure in the conversion of C.S. Lewis; he was there on that fateful night in 1931 when J.R.R. Tolkien explained to Lewis his belief that Christianity was a myth that happened to be true. (He was also the guy who reportedly<\/a> said \u201cOh no! Not another fucking elf!\u201d when passages of Tolkien\u2019s Lord of the Rings<\/i> were read aloud at Inklings meetings.)<\/p>\n I have never seen Darling<\/i>, but I think I will have to, now. Dyson\u2019s uncredited performance isn\u2019t very big, apparently \u2014 in fact, the five-minute video below is supposed to contain all the scenes that depict or refer to his character \u2014 but it would be good to see these scenes in the broader context of the entire film.<\/p>\n