Eclectic Amateur

Looking back at the Oscars …

I am not the perpetrator of this (hi Mick!):

I will take this small golden statue, Oscar, and keep

it an as heirloom of my House and the heirs of my

body forever. It is precious to me, though I buy it

with great pain, of all the works of Hollywood the only fair.

When first I took it, the statue was hot with the heat

of its master, and it burned me like a klieg light so that

I think I shall never be free of the pain of it. Now it cools,

and the fiery words around its base begin to fade: “Best

Supporting Actor…”