Doorstop, nutcracker, toilet room conversation piece—some Academy Award winners discover practical alternate uses for their gold-plated trophies. For most, though, not only does Oscar bring loads of peer respect and opportunities for even better roles, the shiny little fellow also adds several more zeros to those paycheques.
Below the fold, a few of the biggest post-Oscar paydays.
Tygers, Friday the 13th, Baby safety, Laptop theft, M. Ward, The Atlantic vs. Toronto, Oscars, Taking sides
Until April 19th, Montreal—Art lovers can visit Van Dongen, Painting the Town Fauve, in the first major North American retrospective of the art of Dutch painter Kees Van Dongen.
Coproduced by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Nouveau Musee National de Monaco, the collection ”brings together some 200 works, including over a hundred paintings, as well as forty rare drawings, prints and other archival documents and photographs, and, for the first time, a dozen Fauvist ceramics.”
