TROPHY TALES.

This article focuses on Oscars Academy Awards. The awards are all about gold and glamour, flash and finery, beautiful people in gorgeous clothes. At the Shrine Auditorium, often as not it was the smoking section just outside the artists entrance, which by midshow was often crowded with the likes of Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck and Winona Ryder. Winners will betoo dazed to notice you, while presenters will be focused on walking across the stage and opening their mouths in front of that mythical billion viewers. And so it goes in the world of Oscar, where stardom is relative, where every onstage highlight or lowlight has its backstage corollary and where the 77th Academy Awards will no doubt add to the lore.