Eddie Haskell was actually played by actor Ken Osmond, who died in May 2020. It wasn't the only Haskell-related switcheroo rumor he had to deal with. Around the same time Alice Cooper was getting big, a porn actor was getting credited as "Eddie Haskell" in movies. Osmond sued, and the actor changed his stage name to "John Holmes." Osmond really needn't have bothered—Eddie Haskell clearly hadn't grown up to do porn. He was too busy performing rock onstage.
Fans Had A Pretty Good Explanation For Why Marisa Tomei Won That Oscar
The Academy often honors odd picks. Usually, we know why. Maybe they skip over the consensus best film in favor of whatever historical film features royal costumes, or they go with whichever Holocaust movie was released this year, or whichever film solved racism this year, or whichever movie is produced by the guy who procured for them the youngest prostitutes the night before. Maybe they give it to whoever's due regardless of who deserves it right now, or maybe they just give it to whichever of the nominees they've heard of because no one bothered to watch all the films this time around.
None of the usual excuses explained why Marisa Tomei won Best Supporting Actress for My Cousin Vinny in 1992. The movie was the opposite of Oscar bait. It was a comedy—as in, an actual comedy, with jokes, not a "comedy" about a family reconciling over loss or whatever. She was a newcomer. The movie addressed no social issues, unless you count the cruel prejudice against those with Brooklyn accents. The movie's good, but Oscar voters don't care about that. The movie's also known for being surprisingly accurate in its portrayal of legal procedure, but if anything, accuracy makes you less eligible for awards.
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And so came a conspiracy theory: She hadn't won the award at all. The presenter, Jack Palance, couldn't read the results right, possibly because he was drunk or high. So he just read the first name he saw, which was the final name on the nominees' list, Tomei. The Hollywood Reporter traced the myth to someone a few degrees of separation away from the show, some winner's ex-son-in-law. Everyone denied it, but it seemed fairly plausible. After all, what would the Academy do if a presenter actually did read the wrong name, and the wrong winner came up and accepted the award and everything? They'd probably just let it go rather than expose the error and ruin the show, right?
We got the answer to that question a couple years ago when the show's auditors stepped in and stopped the broadcast short to say Moonlight had won Best Picture, not La La Land as a presenter had announced. So, no, a presenter's mistake can't actually lead to the wrong person getting the award.
Unless, you know, that whole Moonlight mix-up was staged, just to give the whole ceremony some counterintuitive legitimacy. Hold on. We need to look into this.
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