She had two statuettes of Brett Favre, the former Green Bay Packers quarterback, on her bookshelf.
Refreshingly, certain famous buyers are treating the statuettes for what they are: movie memorabilia.
Fifty-five statuettes disappeared from a Los Angeles loading dock just days before the ceremony in 2000.
After asking some basic questions, she shuffled the stones and statuettes around her checkerboard and launched into my diagnosis.
In the years before World War II, winners in the supporting actress category received plaques, not Oscar statuettes.
Closed-circuit video footage showed the suspects as they seized about 65 statuettes, Greece's official AMNA news agency reported.
Another Hollywood Hunk, Tom Cruise, has nothing to show for his millions either--at least in terms of gold-plated statuettes.
Preparations for the event are under way, with giant Oscars statuettes in place and grandstand seating erected outside the Kodak Theatre.
But capitalizing on fleeting fame is far tougher than it is for those with sports heroics, platinum records or Oscar statuettes.
Sotheby's and Christie's have so far avoided auctioning off newer Oscars, but both houses are doing a brisk business in older statuettes.
" The duke, Cellini continues, "amused his leisure hours by cleaning up these statuettes himself with certain little chisels used by goldsmiths.
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Statuettes in bronze and terracotta emphasise such mundane details as the sophistication of ancient hair-styles and a wrestler's technique for throwing an opponent.
Powell is a hugely successful designer and has won two statuettes - for The Aviator and Shakespeare in Love - out of eight nominations.
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Working in the lavish period piece's favor is a team so noteworthy you can imagine the TV academy already etching their names on Emmy statuettes.
Though he is reluctant to divulge the specifics of his collection, he says he bought the statuettes because of his interest in the history of filmmaking.
Industry experts speculate that 150 Oscars have been sold since the first Academy Awards ceremony in 1929--half of which are likely gray-market sales involving post-1950 statuettes.
Dame Helen Mirren and Forest Whitaker are almost certainly going to get their statuettes, with Jennifer Hudson putting in a strong showing for best supporting actress.
Mario Gomez, who has been mining since he was 12, became the group's spiritual leader and requested a crucifix and statuettes of saints so the men could construct a shrine.
That flack was, unsurprisingly, over the top in ways that only commenters on the internet can dish out flack: neither helpful nor conducive to a sober discussion of, uhm, zombie torso statuettes.
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Since 1950, the Academy has required Oscar winners to sign an agreement stipulating that neither they--nor their heirs--will sell their statuettes without first offering to sell them back to the Academy for a buck.
Eastwood's victory makes him, at 74, the oldest person ever to win a best director Oscar, and caps a hat-trick of statuettes (he previously won for Unforgiven in 1993 and was given the Irving G Thalberg memorial award two years later).
Look around and you may see a coffee-table resting on a Greek capital, a tiny Roman mosaic sprucing up the foyer, a spread of Phoenician statuettes and Byzantine coins strewn along the bookshelves or a discreet Crusader cannon in the courtyard.
Travis, who has sold more than 20 million records, has won seven Grammy Awards, 10 Academy of Country Music statuettes, 10 American Music Awards, seven Music City News awards, five Country Music Association honors and eight Dove Awards from the Gospel Music Association, according to his website.
In his Upper West Side office, Mark Kurlansky, author of The Big Oyster, a chronicle of the rise and fall of the bivalve in New York, is couched by a hotch potch of model ships, statuettes of jumping fish, an atlas, piles of novels, foreign language dictionaries, encyclopedias and loose papers.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has been dishing out its golden statuettes since 1929, relying on a voting process that allows the Academy's 5, 500 voters (who work in the movie industry and know good movie-making when they see it) to focus on their area of expertise -- directors vote on directors, actors on actors, etc.
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