Ed Norton is the Grinch Who Stole Swag Bags
Hard on their luck actors — you know, the kind who get invited to the Academy Awards — won’t receive their free spa packages or Manolo Blahniks or private jet gift certificates this year, and way-too-serious-for-his-own-good Ed Norton is partially to blame (or thank? I can’t figure this one out). He explained his anti-swag stance in the recent issue of New York Magazine.
Uhh, I’m not sure that your entire generation of actors agrees with you there, buddy. Charity? Isn’t that what GAP t-shirts are for? [I—well, I should say, a lot of people who I would call our generation, really—just said, “I’m sick of this. It’s not who we are, it makes us look ridiculous and out of touch. If these evenings are going to be a celebration of our craft and what we express about what’s going on in the world, then picking through $35,000 gift baskets is disgusting and shameful.” My suggestion was to have the Academy commit to contributions in the name of the winners, but I don’t know what will come of that. Definitively, though, I got word the other night from the Academy’s producers that the gift baskets have been scrapped.
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