Vice President Gore and Leonardo DiCaprio just came out to announce that for the first time in Oscar history, the show has gone green, meaning whenever possible, choices favored those that were ecologically sound.
Of course, it probably was much closer to green back in the early ‘30s when it was just a dinner get-together of Hollywood insiders. You wanna be really green? Don’t force the closure Hollywood Boulevard for about a week, leaving cars trucks and buses belching fumes while they idle in the traffic.
And don’t anybody remind Al about all the chemical waste involved in metal plating on those statuettes.