Was It Comedian Ben Gleib Who Said This About Runyon Canyon:
“Hiking up Runyon Canyon to be amongst nature and smell the air thick with depression of out of work actors?”
Well, now, Runyon Canyon has something else.
Someone put up a very tall statue that looks a heck of a lot like a giant Oscar®…Except it isn’t.
Worse, it’s a skeleton. With a quote inscribed: “Beauty Is A Snip Away”.
Apparently it’s an art installation from an English artist, commenting on the Oscars.
At Awards Daily, Sasha Stone wrote that originally, she thought it was from the Guerrilla Girls, protesting how women are portrayed in movies.
The caption behind the photo is that “Beauty is just a snip away.”
I’m not sure to what it refers, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it is a stunt by the Guerilla Girls [sic] who have, for years, been driving home the point that the Oscars have been dominated by white men for 82 years. If anyone else knows what it might be – give a shout out. This skeleton Oscar was at the top of Runyan Canyon this morning.
UPDATE: the friend who sent this in says that it says ‘beauty is just a snip away.’
Awed, I’m sitting here thinkin’ how’d they hike that thing all the way up that trail??
And, about how it’s some cool art. Wee bit hipper than Oscar Bingo,which is on my Oscar Prep by way of Oscar.com.
That’s my taste. What do you think?
Here’s a Guerrilla Girls Awards Season sample, from 1996, on Hollywood Boulevard…
Best,
Dana
PS I snagged the elevators-in-movies-video, in my sidebar, from Sasha Stone’s AwardsDaily.com too.
PPS In case you weren’t familiar with Runyon Canyon, here’s part of a google page. See the part about “celebrities”?
