The Oscars – who was Oscar?

  • 27th February 2011 at 1:10 pm
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As it’s the Oscars tonight.. how about a refresher course on where the name “Oscars”came from and who exactly was Oscar?  Above is the original video I made for this!  Enjoy!  And I hope you have fun watching the Oscars tonight…. will Bansky show up?

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  • Anonymous

    Ocsar, Oscar gimme the views, I got a bad case of luving you… Mwah!!!

    The Marina’s… And the Gorby goes to….

  • Dezdkado

    The only ones that immediately come to mind the Emmy and the Tony.

  • Dezdkado

    As strange as Oscar might have been, at least the award didn’t remind her of her uncle Richard…

  • patrick

    Here I thought it was named after Oscar Robertson (“The Big O”)

  • thematrix75

    Well very good lesson my dearest Marina, that looks like my Uncle Oscar LOL! That was funny I would have never guessed or known if not for you dearest of teachers. Some very good and cool info.

  • thematrix75

    Hey everyone Joke, and many different things heading your way soon!

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    The lawyer squirmed in his seat and admitted, “He sued me for the money.”

  • thematrix75

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  • thematrix75

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  • thematrix75

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  • thematrix75

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  • http://twitter.com/seesixcm6 seesixcm6

    Dear Marina,
    Thanks for the re-run of your “Oscar” video on Oscar’s night! Your accent was lovely then, but I like the way you speak English now, even better than before. When you met Mila Kunis, did you notice she speaks English just like the rest of us? Because she moved here when she was seven and a half years old, she got to learn English very well. After you stay here in California for a few more years, I hope you will speak English just the way we do, and I would like you even more! 
    It is fun to watch the Oscars TV show. It starts at 4:00 PM, our time. The beautiful actresses will wear expensive gowns created by the best designers and will wear expensive jewelry for the occasion. The men will wear Tuxedo suits with b lack ties, and everything will be so elegant! Anne Hathaway and James Franco are hosting the TV broadcast. Anne might change gowns for different parts of the presentations. After the show, the participants dine at the Governors Ball, hosted by the Governors of the Motion Picture Academy. The food will be excellent.
    Someday you might be at the Academy Awards, because you are more likely to create a great movie than I am. It would be wonderful to see you in a fabulous gown and arrive by limosine. Maybe you will pick me to accompany you. I look OK in a Tux. (Really!)
    SeesixCM6

  • leoNard

    My uncle was in that movie with…no not Author of beWitch—Elton John – Pinball Wizard (Tommy 1974)
    Keith Moon    ….did we win?…..Keith Moon – Tommy Can You Hear Me

    ……

    say uncle!…the cabin is a rocking and here is that WORD… Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin; the Fugtive Slave Law………..the ball player had dramma and….
    stageRIGHT/stageLEFT

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  • hott4urblog

    Marina Orlova and the BIG BEAT… Gotta Love It!!! ..the older vids rock! I Love My Grammys! NEXT: Herrick, Oscar…. Oscar Herrick Would you Please step forward. So, Is an Oscar worth its weight in Gold? Could you please explain, “A Mystery Wrapped in An Enigma” ? just kidding, lol… Marina’s Hot For Words is Hotter and Sexier than Webster and his Dictionary!

  • Anonymous

    Tony (Antoinette Perry) awards

  • Anonymous

    Tony (Antoinette Perry) award

  • sniperskaya

    Marina, Oscar was Emmy’s lover. ;-p

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IROEESZ3YKZU7PH2YHNUKPXFGQ Samuel

    The Edgar. For Edgar Allen Poe. Given for Mystery Novels, I believe.

  • Anonymous

    I’m not bald, but I have a bald spot and I like to walk around my house naked.

    The other awards are:

    Tony – live plays

    Emmy – TV

  • Anonymous

    Where does emmy and tony or clio come from?

  • thematrix75
  • thematrix75

    Hey leoNard, what’s up? I can’t tell if this is a reply to me or not, I doesn’t say out here on the lesson pages, on my screen at least, and hardly ever get notifications. I hope you don’t mind me commenting/talking to you? I know of some Elton John songs, and heard and knowed of the song Pinball Wizard, I thought it was cool and funny. I always loved playing pinball, even though I was a very bad player. Was that from some kind of movie or show or something. Was that other song apart or something to do with the first song? I heard of one Uncle Tom’s Cabin
    Marina’s lessons on Say Uncle, and Aunt and Uncles was very good , cool, a very welcome blast from the past, I love the character’s she played, they were witty and funny. See you soon, and hope all or some others can holler on back. Were is everybody, why aren’t they talking or replying to me, you’ll aren’t hiding away in the forums, I was thinking of hiding in mine maybe in a little while, I see if I can come up with maybe jokes, pics, videos, if I can find anything of interest. Well hope to see you or someone soon. Peace!

  • thematrix75

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  • leoNard

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  • http://blog.cyberquill.com Cyberquill

    I can’t think of any other awards named after people, only of a kind of Italian-style tomato sauce named Marina (or something like that—I’m not exactly a trained chef).

  • Steve

    I can think of the Tony, Hugo, and Rubist awards. But except for the last one (named for Rube Goldberg) I don’t know who exactly they’re named after.

  • http://www.facebook.com/mkelly534 Michael Kelly

    The Nobel Prize named after Alfred Nobel and the Pulitzer named after some yahoo.

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