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Wednesday, Eeb,.22, 2012.
The Clackamas Print
Star-studded ceremony rolls out red carpet
By Anna Axelson
Its like prom night for celebrities: everyohe’shop-
ing to get lucky.
Decked out inyour’finèst, you arrive on Hollywood
Boulevard at the Hollywood and Highland Center
and roll to a stop in a high class limousine, flash
bulbs popping and the crowd screaming. After
presenting your invitation — something so exclusive
that only a fraction o f the Academy even receives
one— you shuffle through so much-security that
even Tom Hanks couldn’t get past w ithout a valid
photo ID (true story, look it up):
Next comes the eternal red carpet, a Sid Grauman
contribution to Hollywood’s history, in which you
smile and .wave for hundreds, thousands, millions of
fans and cameras as well as being taken under deep
scrutiny for your right or wrong choice o f attire.
Interviews and posing ensue as you slowly make
your way past the press and a set o f bleachers holding
somewhere around 500 lucky lottery winners (who
after watching you strut your stuff, aren’t quite lucky
enough to be invited inside — however they will
head across the street to the El Capitan Theatre to
watch the show on the big screen).
After passing through a larger than life arch, the
grand staircase laden with royal red carpet lays before
you w ith matching red curtains to either side doing
their best to conceal a deep dark secret and maintain
the elegance o f such a prestigious event (psst, spoiler
alert: you are in a maU; you’ll be lucky not to find
a Pottery Barn behind one o f those curtains). T he
stairs are wider and shorter in height than your aver
age set, in accommodation o f high heels and trailing
dresses as yqu make your way toward an exclusive
set o f double doors info'the five story, $94 million
Feeling parched? Don’t fret, there is a fully
stocked open bar on every level o f the theater and
a couple hundred unpaid seat fillers — under orders
to only speak when spoken to— who stand, ready
and waiting to keep your seat warm while you-
duck out during commercial breaks for a nip.
Definition: Small drink o f something usually
alcoholic.
- T he breakdown: the nominees, the per
formances, the honoring of those lost and
then finally, the winners.
I f you’re lucky, you walk away a winner,
in possession o f the m an himself: Oscar.
Standing at 13 and a half inches and weighing
eight and a half pounds, Oscar is cast from a
pewter-like alloy, plated with 24-karat gold and
stands upon a film reel with five spokes repre
senting the five original branches o f the Academy:
actors, directors, producers, technicians and writs
ers.
After four hours o f ceremony, speeches, laugh
ter, tears and paparazzi: it’s all about the after
parties, |
T he planning for the notorious Governor’s Ball
begins once the cleanup fo r,foe .last one ends. 'X -
theme is chosen and meticulously planned, down
to every last detail and whatever those details may
encompass. N ot only will you be complexly swept
into whatever world an imaginative designer chooses,
but Wolfgang Puck himself is the brainchild behind
your exclusive, delectable, Oscar themed meal.
All in all, it’s n ot a bad night.
W hat began May 16, 1929 at the Roosevelt
Hotel with only 270 in attendance has now evolved
into an event that "now has over 3000 attendees-as
well as being telecast around the world to forty fflii-
lion viewers. Sunday night, the American
Kodak Theatre.
A ca d e m y o f M o ti o n
M any take this opportunity to visit the George
Eastman VIP Room, and-you* might as well get in
on the action. W ith its multifaceted glass, inside and
out youare offered both exclusivity and a voyeuristic
view q f the elite as they sip cocktails, rub elbows with
their peers and await the festivities while an Oscar sits,,
on display just feet away. ■
Before long, it’s to your seat you go; nominees
in the ffont row-and lining die aisles, the Academy
in the upper levels and everyone elsç filling in the
blanks. M onths o f planning goes into this exact
momgnt: rehearsals and contingency plans for every
possible variable.
T he amazing Billy 1 Crystal opens thé show
(undoubtedly with a style that can’t’be matched) a n d .
you are captivated as the show gets underway.
Sciences for the eighty fourth time will
induct a new group o f stars into its
exclusive club,' granting them immor
tality in Hollywood history.
You never know, maybe even you
can join that club someday.
' / W atch this Sunday night on ABC
at 7 p.m. for the entire star studded
action and reactions. You can also
visit www.TheClackamasPrint.
cqm 'for the complete list.o f
nominees (with a Sunday night
update o f the winners) and visit
www.Oscar.com for more on
anything Oscar.
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