We've covered the malaise and the hoopla, the puppies, the ladies, the gents and the scene-stealers. It's been an eventful Oscar circuit. Now we've packed away our gowns and our cocktail party chatter - it's time for us to retire our red carpet chops for another year.
But the Bagger would like to end the season on a classy note. Naturally, we turn to Meryl Streep. In the aftermath of her unexpected victory Sunday over Viola Davis, Ms. Streep donated $10,000 to a Rhode Island school in financial trouble, Reuters reported. She made the donation, through her charity, Silver Mountain Foundation for the Arts, to the Segue Institute for Learning, a charter school in Central Falls, Rhode Island, in Ms. Davis's name. Ms. Davis has been an advocate for the now-bankrupt town where she grew up and is childhood friends with the school's founder, Angelo Garcia.
“We've just been screaming from the rooftops,†Mr. Garcia said of Ms. Streep's donation, though he noted that it was just the start of the $1.2 million the school, with more than 200 pupils, needs to stay open.
Any other Oscar winners want to jump in? Anybody? Angelina? Angelina's Right Leg?
Until next year, everybody.
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