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Will the Oscars be cancelled? In the aftermath of the LA fires, there are calls to scrap the annual awards ceremony for the first time in its 96-year history

In the aftermath of the LA fires, there are calls to scrap the annual awards ceremony for the first time in its 96-year history

It means that movie awards season is officially in full swing, and in just six weeks all eyes will be on Los Angeles, and on Oscar night, and the likes of Adrien Brody, Cynthia Erivo and Timothée Chalamet, and a chance to celebrate the blinding glitz, the delicious glamour and the fabulous affluence of the world’s entertainment capital, from the Pacific Palisades right down to … Ah, yes, I see. Meanwhile, apparently, the official Academy Awards committee — including Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep — is monitoring the situation daily, deciding whether or not to pull the plug on a show that, by its very nature, can only be tone-deaf to the city’s suffering. We know that Demi Moore, fresh from her Golden Globes best actress win for her horror movie The Substance, had to round up her nine dogs and flee the fires to the safety of the exclusive Beverly Hills L’Ermitage hotel.

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