The Surprising, Queer History of the 1974 Oscars Streaker
Story of the Week with Joel Stein03/10/23 • 38 min
The Oscars seems to be cursed with a series of chaotic live television gaffes. But one moment in Academy Award history takes the cake. In 1974, a scrawny white man named Robert Opel ran across the stage butt naked, right as the Best Picture category was being announced. New Yorker magazine writer and Oscars aficionado Michael Schulman recounts the queer, wonderful, and historic life of the 1974 Oscars streaker.
You can read the full story here: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/02/06/what-became-of-the-oscar-streaker
You can find Michael Schulman’s new book Oscar Wars here.
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03/10/23 • 38 min
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Story of the Week with Joel Stein - The Surprising, Queer History of the 1974 Oscars Streaker
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Pushkin. I'm Michael Schulman, and I wrote Ballad of the Oscar Streaker for The New Yorker and it's the story of the Week. Five weeks before the two thousand and nine Oscars, I got a call from Hugh Jackman's producer.
Speaker 1Jackman was hosting the show and he wanted to know if I would be one of the show's writers. Like so many things in my career, I figured somebody just made some kind of mistake. I
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