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| | Metroactive Features | Alternative Award Awards |
 | | As an important pop-culture event, the Academy Awards presentation was once second to none, capturing the imaginations of the worldwide masses, routinely ranking among the highest rated television broadcasts of the year and enticing Cher to improbable flights of fabric-twisting fancy while easily earning its reputation as the undisputed Superbowl of the filmmaking world. |
 | | Nowadays, the Golden Globe Awards, always held in January, are seen as a kind of pre-Academy litmus test, anticipated as a laid-back Oscar-lite affair, at which celebrities become drunk and disorderly and say wonderfully embarrassing things. |
 | | The awards are not annual; Lewis merely posts his favorites as the mood hits him, but as evidence of the award's significance, he proudly mentions the written response received from Zee Medical Supply, maker of the towelette that was once nominated for best in the "medical" category. |
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