Hollywood Gets Honest at Governors Awards

Hollywood Gets Honest at Governors Awards.

"The first annual Governors Awards banquet, created to bestow career-oriented Oscars on the worthy without taking up time on the annual awards broadcast, was loving, lustrous and long.

Held in a giant banquet room near the Kodak Theater, where the regular Oscars will be handed out in March, honorary and career awards on Saturday night went to Lauren Bacall, Roger Corman, Gordon Willis and John Calley in a ceremony that clocked in at 3 hours and 18 minutes. That was only a little longer than the three hours considered ideal for a full-blown Academy Awards broadcast.

But something happened at the semi-private dinner — there was no television coverage, and a relatively modest press presence — that almost never happens on-air: Genuine things were said."

Maybe Hollywood should try to be honest on camera and see what happens. Maybe the rest of us will appreciate it as much they do.