The Shortlist for Feb. 10

You might want to rethink that Hollywood dream of someday attending the Academy Awards. According to Dustin Hoffman, "It's boring." Speaking to Maxim, the Oscar-winning actor explains, "It lasts forever. And don’t think you’re seeing spontaneous behavior. You see couples who are suddenly smooching, and, well, there’s a guy sitting on the ground with the camera at their knees." Once, however, Hoffman had a plan to make things a bit more interesting. "There was one particular time I knew I wasn’t going to win,” he recalled, “and when they’d train the camera on me as one of the losers, I wanted to be able to rip open my tuxedo shirt and just have stenciled on my chest, 'Oh, [bleep]!' But my wife wouldn’t let me do it." (NYPost)

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