FEATURE: Oscar speech diarhhoea ... and some insight too!
AN uncle gave me some sage advice years ago as I perused my one and only Best Man’s speech. “A decent speech should ideally be like a woman’s skirt,” he advised. “Long enough to cover the subject matter, but short enough to hold the attention.”
Wise words that served me well. Pity someone doesn’t emblazon this message on the base of every Oscar statuette. Yet, for all the histrionics and tears the Academy Awards have given us down through the years, the chance to see global stars make bumbling fools of themselves is surely one of the reasons a billion of us tune in to this Hollywood extravaganza every February.
