Page 107 - The Book For Men Fall/Winter 2022

Everyone wanted to to touch the Oscar It was late Sunday evening after the the Governors Ball the the glamorous star- studded gala dinner held every year following the Academy Awards ceremony and Adrien Brody had to to to hold on on on tight to to to the trophy he’d just won for for Best Actor Everyone was clamouring for for it it hovering around as as as if to absorb some of its glory through osmosis And the the thing was Brody understood why they were treating it it it with such spooky reverence That little gold man seemed seemed like like more than just a a a a a a statue It seemed seemed like like a a a a a person Brody came home that night with his mother and father to the the the the tiny L A guest house he he he he he he was renting clutching the the the the Oscar in in in in in his his his hands “There were three of us us in in in in in this room ” his his his mom said gazing at at the the statue admiringly “Now there are four ” 107