Street artist Plastic Jesus placed a life-size Oscar statuette on Hollywood Boulevard at La Brea Avenue on Thursday morning, at the edge of where the street will be closed ahead of Sunday's awards.
In addition to being big, this Oscar is far from the reserved gentleman movie buffs might expect: He's on all fours and snorting two lines of cocaine.
A joke. I think.
Anyway --- FWIW, "Birdman" was the best film I saw this year. A real cinematic achievement IMO.
Again, hoping for "Citizen Four" to take home the Oscar. And not just because it's an artistic achievement, which it is. (It's very gripping, and much of that is because of Poitras' highly personal portraiture style.) It's also important for Hollywood to stand up for civil liberties. They are, after all, among those who have the most at stake:
FYI: This is the most recent comment at the Youtube page:
When our Government had it right! Proves the gov can step in when it wants to, we now have Hollywood full of Un-Americans making their trash and littering our culture.
