The dreamers and the schemers...the hustlers and the hopefuls...the free-loaders and the phonies...the fakers and the famous...all fighting for the highest possible award! — tag line for The Oscar
It is not yet known just what kind of Academy Awards ceremony we're going to have this year if the writers' strike continues to complicate Hollywood's efforts to switch on the glitz. It could be said that in its long, star-studded history, the Academy hasn't really done all that much for the art of the motion picture, but it did inspire one of the all-time classic surreal trash movies, that one in a gazillion that justifies the often-misused and overtolerant phrase, "so bad it's good." The Oscar may not deserve to actually be called "good" in any sense, but it is a classic, if it's possible to be a classic among shitbombs.
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