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And the Goody Basket Goes To...
What the heck is this booty? Leftovers from Liza's wedding? Try Oscar gift baskets.
Gift baskets are the time-honored way of gifting one's guests. When you hold a dinner party, for example, perhaps your friends each receive a tin of Altoids. When the Oscar folks hold a party, each presenter and featured performer (like Tom, Julia and Paul McCartney) receives a comp for a three-night stay at this really cool resort in Cabo called Esperanza (worth $3,000, natch).
Now, the Oscar folks don't spring for the Cabo resort themselves. Sometimes, they ask companies if they'd like to contribute stuff to the bags. Other times, companies fall all over themselves trying to get their stuff inside the bags.
The Academy isn't keen on bragging about the bags, particularly in this post-September 11 climate. (And, indeed, it won't comment on the matter.) Still, USA Today has managed to draw up the most complete Gift Bag 2002 rundown. The highlights:
$1,700 Tempur-Pedic mattress (in gift certificate form); Ebel watch (a $1,600 one for the women; a mere $1,450 one for the men); Allsteel #19 office chair (worth $1,195-$1,495); $600 Brite Smile teeth whitenening service; $499.99 Hewlett-Packard Photosmart camera; $300 Birkenstock gift certificate; assorted (and designer) scarves, candles, perfume and sunglasses. As for the La-Z-Boy? Ah, yes. Well, La-Z-Boy has taken its gift-basket contribution straight to the press. It wants everybody to know that Tom, Julia, Paul, et al. will receive a gift certificate for "one of four stylish La-Z-Boy Chairs from the company's contemporary 'New Look of Comfort' collection." (Retail value: $539 to $1,199.)
In all, each bag will contain 40 items. Perhaps this explains why the Academy was able to confirm a bunch of presenters on Thursday. Now set for Sunday's big show: Sandra Bullock, Jodie Foster, Hugh Grant, Ethan Hawke, Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Kingsley, Ali MacGraw, Ryan O'Neal, Ryan Phillippe, Will Smith, Sharon Stone, Naomi Watts and Reese Witherspoon.
They'll join previously announced presenters Tom, Julia, John Travolta, Ian McKellen, Nathan Lane, Hugh Jackman, Helen Hunt, Josh Hartnett, Mel Gibson, Tobey Maguire, Cameron Diaz, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jennifer Lopez, Kirsten Dunst, Marcia Gay Harden, Ben Stiller, Benicio Del Toro, Russell Crowe (a nominee, too), Denzel Washington (ditto), Halle Berry (ditto) and Owen Wilson (ditto--he's up for The Royal Tenenbaums screenplay).
Additionally, scheduled performers (and gift-basket getters) include: Beatle Paul (singing "Vanilla Sky" from Vanilla Sky); Randy Newman and John Goodman ("If I Didn't Have You" from Monsters Inc.); Enya ("May It Be" from The Lord of the Rings); Sting ("Until" from Kate & Leopold); Faith Hill ("There You'll Be" from Pearl Harbor) and the circus non-freaks from Cirque du Soleil (performing a top-secret "salute to a particular aspect of film [the show] will be honoring").
No word on whether presenters/performers who win will get two bags or, more importantly, a truck to haul all the booty home.
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