Back in the day, I was lucky enough to be able to watch my tiny-screen, black-and-white TV when exciting and glamorous stars emerged like blazing flares out of the wings and up to the Oscar podium.
One after another, Bette David, Errol Flynn, Tyrone Power, Joan Crawford, Rita Hayworth, Humphrey Bogart, Hedy Lamar, Red Skelton, Bob Hope, Jennifer Jones, Charleton Heston, John Garfield, Ingrid Bergman, John Wayne........I was lost in three ecstatic hours spent in a heavenly galaxy of thespian blazing stars, comets and meteors as these fabulous creatures presented or accepted the awards.
I haven't watched the Oscars for a decade now. Three hours of utter boredom. I haven't been to a movie theater in a couple decades, either. I couldn't even name five top-notch, charismatic male and female stars if my life depended on it.
On my DVD I can satisfy my lust for films from the Golden Age of Movies, foreign and artsy gems and a few notable movies made in the past couple years....and, to boot, my pop corn doesn't cost me 6 bucks a bowl.
Leni
Could Charlie Sheen Crash Oscars With Porn Star Pals?
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2011/02/26/charlie-crash-oscars/?test=faces
Charlie Sheen may have never won an Oscar, but what are the odds that he and his two sexy young “goddess” friends will attend Hollywood’s most prestigious award show Sunday night?
“He is the last person the Academy would want there right now,” veteran Beverly Hills publicist Ed Lozzi tells FOX411. “Not just because of the scandal, but because it would be seen as a blatant publicity stunt, which the Academy doesn’t need. They have more to get over on that night than Charlie Sheen.”