OSCARS EXHIBIT WHOOPI GOLDBERG

Oscar fans in New York are lining up to get a rare glimpse of Oscar statues at New York's Grand Central Terminal."This exhibit is in place so that you can walk thru and you know, see the best actor and the best actress Oscars that are going to be handed out this year, see how an actual Oscar statuette is produced from the beginning to the end," said Patrick Harrison, who is the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science's New York program director.
U.S. actress and "The View" co-host helped kicked off the week-long event with a ribbon cutting. Goldberg says that winning an Oscar is like none other.
"It's really a big deal and it doesn't get better than Oscar. And if you get one, you're lucky enough to get one it's pretty good," said the actress.
This explains why she accused the New York Times of 'sloppy journalism' after an article failed to mention her 1990 win for best supporting actress for her role in the film "Ghost?"
"There's a lot of people in that small little world of black Oscar folks and yea, if you're going to talk about it, then talk about it, don't sort of talk around it, that was my point," explained Goldberg.
The paper responded by saying the piece was not to name every African-American who had won an award, but 'to draw a comparison between the number who won prior to 2002 (the year Halle Berry and Denzel Washington won) and those who have won since.' Goldberg later apologized to the paper for her comments.
In March of 2000 55 Oscars statuettes were stolen while being transported from their Chicago manufacturer to Los Angeles. 52 of the awards were recovered next to a trash bin nine days later, the last three were recovered in 2003. Harrison says new safe guards have been put in place to prevent another disappearing act.
"These Oscars are under lock and key, that was a very interesting part of our history where a supply of Oscars were you know, side-tracked and went a different direction. But we have systems in place now so we won't be stuck like that again," Harrison told Reuters.
And Goldberg is doing everything she can to avoid her Oscar from being stolen.
"I'm not telling anybody where it is. I just feel like, if you tell people where it is and they break into your house they'll find it, so it's at my house," Goldberg said with a smile.
"Meet the Oscars, Grand Central" will give movie fans the opportunity to have their picture taken holding an actual Oscar statuette. Visitors stopping by the exhibit all leave the podium with the same thought.
"A lot heavier, really, really heavy then I thought it would be," said Maria Roberts from England.

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