How the Oscars got started—and all the flops that almost did it in
Well before the grandiloquently dubbed Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hosted its inaugural award ceremony at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles on May 16, 1929, the movie industry was already up to it eyeballs in stink. Star Fatty Arbuckle had been acquitted for rape and murder. Director William Desmond Taylor was a cold case, … Read more