Oscar Partiers Feed Homeless Leftover Smoked Salmon and Truffles!
Filed under: Awards, Oscar Watch
If you want to have a really nice lunch today, all you have to do is head over to a Los Angeles shelter, where the homeless people are snacking on smoked salmon with caviar, gold-dusted chocolate Oscar statues and imported French truffles -- all left over from last night's Governor's Ball. Over 1,600 nominees, winners and movie business executives dined on spiny Shanghai lobster and other delicacies, and after they were done, the leftovers were donated to the homeless. "I would be sick if I would see this great food going to waste," Wolfgang Puck is quoted as saying. "I'm happy to make a little more because I know where the leftovers are going."
Before the food can be sent to a shelter, it has to be picked through for poppy seeds or alcohol seasoning, because the opiates and liquor could cause issues for homeless people with drug and alcohol problems -- isn't Hollywood thoughtful? Actually, most of the credit belongs to Angel Harvest, a non-profit organization that picks up unused food from showbiz events like this one and doles it out to different soup kitchens and shelters. Angel Harvest reports that movie-related events are often completely free of leftovers, if Harvey Weinstein has been an attendee. Okay, I made that last part up.









Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
2-26-2007 @ 2:52PM
M. Loughridge said...
De Generes had that very tasteless scene of vacuuming
the carpet around ladies in their beautiful expensive gowns and footwear, who on earth thought that one up -- De Generes herself ?
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2-26-2007 @ 4:26PM
IT NEEDS TO BE SAID said...
I thought the vacuuming idea was hysterical and innovative. Those women wouldn't know the buisness end of a vacuum cleaner if it bit them in the ass and the counterpoint was ironic and very, very funny.
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2-26-2007 @ 5:02PM
Navstar said...
I thought that was a hilarious moment. Tasteless would be picking your nose or making fart jokes.
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2-26-2007 @ 7:12PM
Chris said...
Opiates?!!! That's so ridiculous!!! Even if they were opium poppy seeds, there are NO narcotic content in them. California poppy seeds are regularly used in food and are completely unrelated to the opium poppies. Same goes with marijuana seeds, there is no THC until the female plant is grown and flowers(bud)into maturity. That is the most ignorant thing I've ever heard.
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