The Academy is in such a mess that guests may need to dip into their goodie bags for some alternative therapy on Sunday
The guest list for Sunday night’s Oscars reads like Steven Spielberg’s Rolodex. As well as the glitzy nominees, presenters will include Barbra Streisand, Helen Mirren, Michael Keaton, Daniel Craig, Whoopi Goldberg, Jennifer Lopez, Charlize Theron and Serena Williams. But it was a sigh of relief, rather than a starstruck gasp, which met the confirmation on Thursday of another guest. An Academy Awards press release assured us that Hollywood’s “official doc”, Dr George Gauthier, will “supply emergency and stress care for the celebrity attendees, able to do more on site than EMT [emergency medical technicians] and mainstream medical doctors”.
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