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March 06, 2006
Sorry Yari, and Other Tales From the Carpetbagger
So while reliable Daliy News gossips Ben Widdicombe and Jo Piazza were writing up bits and pieces from New York's mostly stagnant Oscar scene, and while Page Six had something from every major Hollywood party (including an epic Weinstein rimjob) seemingly all at once, and while Cindy Adams played Impressionistic Mad Libs on the red carpet (Actual kicker: "Chiffon was big. And, thank you, gone were those tiresome cockamamie spaghetti strap jobs."), a quick look at the record indicates that NY Times Carpetbagger David Carr may have been the hardest-working reporter in show business over Oscar weekend.
Check Carr's 12 dispatches over the last two days, including video filings from the Independent Spirit Awards, prolific party coverage and revealing a dramatic security apparatus that sounds more West Bank than West Hollywood:
To get here, the Bagger went to wrong entrances in serial fashion until somebody finally took pity on him, scanned his badge and let him in. The Oscars are an odd combination of logistical gravitas and a souffle subject. Hollywood is very serious about its main infomerical of the year, and Lord help you if you are not credentialed, dressed, or comported correctly.
The Kodak Theater is ringed in two-foot wide, four-foot high concrete barriers. It was odd, after making his way through the seemingly endless checkpoints and people in headsets, only to find a bunch of people in frilly dresses.
And what would the Father of The Reeler be without extracting a burst of unadulterated pathos from an atmosphere of festivity:
Bob Yari, the Crash producer who has sued because he said he was denied credit by his partners, the Academy and the Producers Guild, held a party at Crustacean (Saturday) night to remind folks in town for the Oscars that he had a role in making the film happen. By the time the Bagger left at 10, none of the major members of the film’s ensemble cast had shown up, but Mr. Yari said many would be coming. Asked if a come-from-behind Crash victory would be tough to watch – Mr. Yari was not invited and so will be watching it on TV – he said: “It would be very sweet, but I can’t deny that I would be hurt. I am 100 percent behind this movie, but the Academy needs to come to grips with how movies are made out in the real world.”
Top that, Cindy. And do it in the active voice, or, better yet, in a complete sentence.
Posted by stvanairsdale at March 6, 2006 12:53 PM
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