Ravenwood - 04/04/05 06:45 AM
For the life of me, I don't know why you'd pay more than 3 cents to sit through a mind-numbing awards show, but stargazers are apparently shelling out as much as $30,000 for scalped Oscar tickets. But Hollywood doesn't want to party with regular Joes like you and me, so they are suing resellers to stop the practice, and plan on vigorously matching names to the guest list in order to stop gate crashers.
To bar people who have bought the nontransferable tickets from resellers, Quinto's staff is stationed outside the Oscar show to clear up issues if guest identification does not match a ticket. Security officers usher out illegitimate holders.If you squandered $30k, remember to thank the Academy as they are roughing you up while dragging you off the red carpet."When you show up, you better have an I.D., or you're escorted off the red carpet," [David Quinto, a partner at the academy's law firm] said, adding that every year there are a "couple of dozen" disputed tickets.
More thugery from the Hollywood Left. See, they know TRUTH; because they are its guardians anything they do in defense of it is OK.
Hitler and Stalin believed this too.
Posted by: kjo at April 4, 2005 10:26 AMIf you actually shelled-out $30,000 to see this crap then you got what you deserved when they escorted you off the sacred red carpet.
Hell, they'd actually be doing you a favor as far as I'm concerned. Sort-of a Scared Straight program for dumbasses.
Posted by: roger at April 4, 2005 10:48 AMThey better hope they have a rock solid "non-transferrable" clause, or they are looking at a huge lawsuit, since someone who has $60K to blow on a set of tickets has $500K to gamble on a lawsuit.
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