the OSCARS ban the goodie bag!!!

dunkman
dunkman Posts: 19,646
edited December 2006 in A Moving Train
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2511237,00.html

For Hollywood film stars they have become a “must-have” perk of being part of glamorous award ceremonies: the lavish goodie bags handed out to presenters, nominees and even members of the celebrity audience at the Oscars and the Golden Globes.

At the 2006 Academy Awards, the “swag bag” was thought to be worth about $100,000 (£50,000), including such perks as a home-cooked meal for ten by the celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck, a free Cadillac for two weeks, $7,000 of Victoria’s Secret underwear, and a coupon for Lasik eyecorrecting surgery in LA.

But film stars will leave the 2007 Oscars empty-handed after the intervention of the US taxman, who has declared that the gifts are liable to income tax.

Ed Norton, the Oscarnominated actor and director, has described them as “sick and disgusting”, claiming that they made Hollywood “look ridiculous and out of touch”.

He told New York magazine: “The gift baskets, worth amounts of money that a low-income family could live on for a year, [are given to] people who have so much already. It gets depressing. You sit there, going, ‘This is an embarrassment’.”





why give millionaires gifts they can easily afford themselves? :confused:

i think this a brilliant decision by the tax dept which has resulted in this kind of celeb backslapping shit!!
oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
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  • chopitdown
    chopitdown Posts: 2,222
    that is good news. I like the Ed Norton quote too; I wonder how many in hollywood feel that way though.
    make sure the fortune that you seek...is the fortune that you need
  • harmless_little_f***
    harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    dunkman1974 wrote:
    why give millionaires gifts they can easily afford themselves? :confused:

    I ask myself this everytime I'm looking for a Christmas present for my dad.
    'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'

    - the great Sir Leo Harrison
  • Jeanwah
    Jeanwah Posts: 6,363
    I think I love Ed Norton now...any celebrity who can see through the fluff is admirable. Now, think about the actresses who love these free gifts...Gweneth Paltrow has been known to say, "Why should I buy something when I can get it for free?" And Winona Ryder...well, she just didn't want to spend her millions, she'd rather steal it.
  • exhausted
    exhausted Posts: 6,638
    dunkman1974 wrote:

    i think this a brilliant decision!


    ok, but it's not like the decision was made for altruistic reasons.

    "oh noes!!!! we'll have to pay tax!!!"
  • mookie9999
    mookie9999 Posts: 4,677
    chopitdown wrote:
    I wonder how many in hollywood feel that way though.

    Probably not too many. In yesterdays am morning new york free paper it spoke of Nick Hambone Lachey picking out loads of free loot from some event and his intentions of giving these items as gifts to his fiance and mom for Xmas. What a fuckin' loser!
    "The leads are weak!"

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  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    exhausted wrote:
    ok, but it's not like the decision was made for altruistic reasons.

    "oh noes!!!! we'll have to pay tax!!!"


    sorry... i meant it was a brilliant decision by the taxman.. not the Oscar folks.. they are just not giving now as it'll upset the fluffy celebs... which makes them still sycophants.

    but bravo to the Tax Office :)
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • trappedinmyradio
    trappedinmyradio Posts: 1,189
    harmless_little_f*** wrote:
    I ask myself this everytime I'm looking for a Christmas present for my dad.

    i know what you can get your dad this year...a sponsorship card...to sponsor me in my unemployment while i look for a job! ha.
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    from my window to yours

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