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Oscars urged to banish gift baskets
New York, Nov 22 Actor Edward Norton is campaigning to banish giving gift baskets at the Oscar awards.

   

According to imdb.com, Norton is not happy with the gifts celebrities get backstage at ceremonies even as people watching the shows are struggling to get food and pay rent.

He said: "A lot of us have talked to the Academy Awards producers about this and I think they're actually going to scuttle the gift baskets. I mean the gift baskets, worth amounts of money that a low-income family could live on for a year, (are given to) people who have so much already. It gets depressing. You sit there going, 'This is an embarrassment'."

 

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