2011 Oscars running thread, aka "worst awards show ever?"

Re: 2011 Oscars running thread, aka "Will Banksy show?"

It has little about the "history of street art," and to call is a documentary is stretching the truth quite a bit. How a film like this can get nominated and lauded, while "Catfish" is derided as fake ... well, that is at best confusing and at worst unfair.

 

Re: 2011 Oscars running thread, aka "Will Banksy show?"

There is considerable buzz that the social experiment was a put-on.

 

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This guy is now banned from the Oscars:

http://oscars.movies.yahoo.com/news/2511-oscars-ban-blogger-after-spoilers-published-reuters

 

Re: 2011 Oscars running thread, aka "Will Banksy show?"

If the Banksy documentary is a hoax, then he completely destroyed the credibility of the art industry in which he's made a tremendous amount of money from.

Whether it was a hoax or not, the film is incredibly entertaining.

As for his unspeakable acts, it's pretty impressive that Banksy is such a huge name in the art world that when he does tag a building, it makes the property value of the building go up.

And I suspect the tagging in Oceanside is fake. And great for the taco shop's business.

Oh yeah, and there's no chance in hell that Banksy outs himself at the Academy Awards.

 

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I like watching the preview stuff on E! before the red carpet show. (They talk about all sorts of stuff, like what meal they serve and the place settings and jewelry.) They currently have a Disney fashion show by Kenley from Project Runway on. I want to throw something at my TV.

 

Re: 2011 Oscars running thread, aka "Will Banksy show?"



Could Charlie Sheen Crash Oscars With Porn Star Pals?

By Meaghan Murphy

Published February 26, 2011



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."

Sheen, who has been busy "having a ball" with porn star Bree Olsen and ex-nanny Natalie Kenly on a private island in the Bahamas, has concerned fans with his erratic behavior in recent days. Sheen has blasted producer Chuck Lorre in several rants, calling him — among other things — a "clown" and a "turd."

The "Two and a Half Men" star, who claims to be "100 percent sober," would make a lot of heads turn if he decided to crash the Oscars Sunday night, arriving with Olson and Kenly on each arm — but that's a very unlikely photo op.

If Sheen decides to ignore all advice and common sense and attempts to crash the Oscars with his new lady friends, he still has plenty of time to get back to L.A. in time for the Oscars.

"Firing up a jet from the Bahamas to L.A. is easy. It's about five-and-a-half hours of flying nonstop," travel expert Tom Botts, Managing Partner of Hudson Crossing, tells FOX411. "I'm sure Charlie owns his own jet, but for anyone else, you could figure on at least $5,000 per hour of flying at the very minimum. A customer could be lifting off in a couple of hours after slapping their Platinum Amex down with a charter company!"




Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2011/02/26/charlie-crash-oscars/#ixzz1FCcBMT3Y

 

Re: 2011 Oscars running thread, aka "Will Banksy show?"

You forgot to use the blue font.

 

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You can't just crash the Oscars. Doesn't matter who you are. That Sheen story is ridiculous.

 

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Consider the source.

 

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I'd say the same thing about White House state dinners, but...

 

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Housewives reference! Mancard, now!

 

Re: 2011 Oscars running thread, aka "Will Banksy show?"

I went through that exhibit in person. It was held in the old CBS-2 building on Sunset Boulevard, just east of the Palladium. People "in the know" were arguing in the crowd over whether it was by Banksy's hands even then (I personally believe Banksy has a group of people who do his work for him, and he oversees it, the same way Warhol did and Jeff Koons does).

Did I buy any art? No. But to hear people just gush over all that work in person about how...great it was, that was a laugher. Yeah, some of the stuff was great, but boy, there was a lot of pure shit in that show. They all had huge price tags on them and people had bought them.

Any doc named "Exit Through The Gift Shop" that talks about art is a total scam/social experiment.