Monday, February 25, 2008

brad renfro omitted from oscar memoriam

Nearly 100 industry heavyweights were honored last night during the Academy Awards' "In Memoriam" video package, but not 25-year-old star Brad Renfro, who died last month from an accidental heroin overdose in his Los Angeles home.

According to a spokeswoman at the Academy, the omission was not an intentional slight but a necessity, given limited time to make and show the piece.

"Obviously, [that piece] is not something that we can continue to cut right up until the day of the show, so there's a point at which we have to make difficult decisions," she told MTV News. "It's a very difficult piece to put together every year, but we're just not able to include everyone. There were many people [this year] who were not included."
(MTV NEWS)

i call bullshit. brad renfro passed away a week before heath ledger - yet they made time to add him? plus, I know it takes time to render, get video, etc. but if my agency can create a huge website in a month, that's way more than enough time to add a static image and a name to the end of a footage reel.

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