Best story I've heard this Oscar weekend comes courtesy of Variety's part-time priest and peripatetic partygoer, Bill Higgins.
Friday night he chatted with Vittorio Sodano, who, with Aldo Signoretti, shares a Best Achievement in Makeup nomination for "Apocalypto." It's one of three noms claimed by Disney's controversial Mel Gibson pic (the others are in sound -- mixing and editing).
Miramax aside, Disney's never been big on Oscars. However, its Academy Awards enthusiasm may have reached a new low. The studio's Oscar-night "Apocalypto" expenses appear to be limited to the nominees' coach plane tickets. If Sodano wanted a hotel, much less a limo, he was on his own.
"Someone on the phone (from Disney) tell me," he said, shrugging. "I'm 32. I'm happy to be here. I would have paid twice for the limo."
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