Oscar Drinking Fun!

The Post comes up with a few ideas for Oscar drinking games during the ceremony:

• An award winner forgets to thank his or her significant other.
• An award winner says the words "blessed," "humbling" or "my agent."
• The orchestra cuts off an acceptance speech.
• Host Billy Crystal makes a Mel Gibson joke.
• A camera cuts to Jack Nicholson.

Gothamist would like to add someone saying "Oh my God" (we want to get very tanked up), an "Arnold the Governor" joke, a reference to how it's inevitable The Lord of the Rings will win, joking about being cut off mid-speech by orchestra, and a joke about Sean Penn's anti-establishment stances or Bill Murray making a good speech or Johnny Depp's being dirty or Charlize Theron's transformation. Oh, and something about the trouble at Disney.

The Post also recommends to try out usually hard-to-get-into clusb for those Oscar eh-ists who don't have to watch. The clubs mentioned have special events for the Oscars.

The Times has a PDF or Excel file of all the liquor stores in the city open tomorrow; the liquor stores that are open having been doing great business. The Times is catching up because Manhattan User's Guide raised the bar by providing some of this information two weeks ago. Yes, New Yorkers like to get their drink on!

Contact the author of this article or email tips@gothamist.com with further questions, comments or tips.

By Jen Chung in Arts and Events on February 28, 2004 3:28 PM

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ziegfeld

Regarding Oscar and the trouble at Disney...

The proposed merger between Comcast & Disney brought to mind this exchange between Ned Beatty (Jensen) and Peter Finch (Beale) in "Network" (which earned its share of Oscars in its day):

Jensen: You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won't have it! Is that clear?! You think you've merely stopped a business deal -- that is not the case! The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back. It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity. It is ecological balance. You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations. There are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no third worlds.There is no West! There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multi-variate, multi-national dominion of dollars. Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, Reichmarks, rins, rubles, pounds and shekels. It is the international system of currency that determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic and subatomic and galactic structure of things today! And you have meddled with the primal forces of nature, and YOU WILL ATONE!

Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale?

You get up on your little twenty-one inch screen, and howl about America and democracy. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and ITT and A T & T and Dupont, Dow, Union Carbide and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today. What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state -- Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, just like we do. We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable by-laws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale! It has been since man crawled out of the slime. And our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that perfect world in which there's no war and famine, oppression or brutality -- one vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock, all necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused.

And I have chosen you to preach this evangel, Mr. Beale.

Beale: Why me?

Jensen: Because you're on television, dummy. Sixty million people watch you every night of the week, Monday through Friday.

Beale: I have seen the face of God.

Jensen: You just might be right, Mr. Beale.

And to think this script is almost 30 years old!

I found this on American Rhetoric. Check it out for other great movie speeches.

Slim

Ques for drinking should include the words "extraordinary" and "amazing". Although I doubt the average participant would be able to drive home if these words were included in the game.

Frankenstein

There seem to be a lot of liquor stores open on Sunday on the Upper West Side. That would suggest to me that people who live on the UWS are inclined to dipsomania. Does Gothamist know anyone who lives up tehre?