Vanities

Handicapping the Academy Awards

April 2003
Vanities
Handicapping the Academy Awards
April 2003

23 to I Odds that there’ll be a big Gangs of New York dance number featuring a butcher’s cleaver and a lot of rhinestonestudded codpieces.

4 to I Odds that someone will thank a lawyer before a spouse in an acceptance speech.

14 to I Odds that Daniel Day-Lewis will still be in character as Bill the Butcher.

7 to I Odds that, somehow, it will be all about Julia. Again.

2 to I Odds that Nick Nolte will show up at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

3 to I Odds that one of the courses on Wolfgang Puck’s Governors Ball menu will be at least 11 inches tall.

EVEN Odds that anyone, four months after the awards, will remember who won.