Online Casino GoldenPalace.com Leases Academy Award
5 March 2006
Perhaps GoldenPalace.com, the online casino that refuses to be budged from its spot in the headlines, is trying to hint to Hollywood that it's time someone made a movie about the casino. Known for its various stunts involving Virgin Mary grilled cheese sandwiches, Captain Kirk's kidney stones, and Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's baby scan, the online casino decided to go after a prized Hollywood item – an Academy Award.
"We've been trying to buy an Oscar, but the academy's legal agreement clearly states that most of them [Academy Awards given after 1951] can't be sold, so we had to think creatively," reported GoldenPalace.com spokesperson Drew Black. But this didn't keep the online casino from getting its hands on Morris Stoloff's 1960 academy award for the score of the musical picture "Song Without End." All it took was $30,000.
"The agreement says nothing about leasing" continued Black. Indeed, the casino leased the Academy Award for the next 999 years. The latest purchase will be added to a traveling museum that the casino developed over the past years with all of their quirky acquisitions.
GoldenPalace.com initially offered $100,000 for Margaret O'Brien's honorary Oscar for Outstanding Juvenile Performer of 1944, but she declined, stating her daughter might wish to own it after she passed away. However, should her daughter agree to the leasing of her mother's award, O'Brien reported that she might accept the offer next year.
Black was quoted as saying that “Our offer to Ms. O'Brien still stands and we'd like other Oscar, Grammy, Emmy and Golden Globe winners to know that we're open to leasing their statuettes, too.”
Source: OCN Staff
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