http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/mary-pickford-oscar-controversy/ The Oscars, film awards, new releases, Los Angeles screenings, movie classics, gay movies, film festivals, box office, foreign and independent films Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:29:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/mary-pickford-oscar-controversy/#comment-514370 Dave Fri, 28 Jan 2011 03:29:59 +0000 http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/mary-pickford-oscar-controversy/#comment-514370 As a teenager in the late 1970s, I was invited to Pickfair by Buddy and my friend, Valerie SoRelle, who was Mary and Buddy's long-time friend and spent a lot of her childhood at Pickfair. I remember having picnics by the swimming pool, viewing Chaplin's graffiti on the changing room walls, checking out Valentino's swords in the basement, etc. It was a beautiful place and I got a piece of Mary's hair as a momento! Mary, by the way, wasn't drunk and I don't think she is incoherent when she received the honorary Academy Award. I thought she did pretty good. The staff at Pickfair loved working there: I talked a lot with Margaret Granger -- Mary's cook since the 1920s, and heard a few good stories in the kitchen. Mary and Buddy seemed geniunely kind caring and generous people. Too bad they're gone now. As a teenager in the late 1970s, I was invited to Pickfair by Buddy and my friend, Valerie SoRelle, who was Mary and Buddy's long-time friend and spent a lot of her childhood at Pickfair. I remember having picnics by the swimming pool, viewing Chaplin's graffiti on the changing room walls, checking out Valentino's swords in the basement, etc. It was a beautiful place and I got a piece of Mary's hair as a momento! Mary, by the way, wasn't drunk and I don't think she is incoherent when she received the honorary Academy Award. I thought she did pretty good. The staff at Pickfair loved working there: I talked a lot with Margaret Granger — Mary's cook since the 1920s, and heard a few good stories in the kitchen. Mary and Buddy seemed geniunely kind caring and generous people. Too bad they're gone now.

]]> http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/mary-pickford-oscar-controversy/#comment-465812 Charles Morton Mon, 29 Dec 2008 19:48:14 +0000 http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/mary-pickford-oscar-controversy/#comment-465812 Just think of where all that money spent on lawyers could have gone. Pathetic. Just think of where all that money spent on lawyers could have gone. Pathetic.

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