“When you live in Hollywood and work in the industry, you realize how endemic drug use really is – affecting everyone from aspiring actors and actresses to sound and lighting guys to agents and managers...”
Cocaine-Snorting Oscar Statue Street Art Appears Saturday February 21 st , 2015 at 2:31 PM Comments On: Cocaine-Snorting Oscar Statue Street Art Appears In Hollywood 1 Share @plasticjesusart/Twitter by Daniel Nussbaum 20 Feb 2015 Los Angeles, CA 81 On Thursday morning, a life-size replica of an Oscar statue bent over and snorting two lines of cocaine was placed on the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and La Brea Avenue, ahead of Sunday night’s Academy Awards. The street art is captioned, “Hollywood’s Best Party.” “The piece is intended to draw attention to Hollywood’s hidden problem of drug addiction that effects [sic] hundreds of people in the showbiz industry and is largely ignored until the death of a high profile A list celebrity,” Plastic Jesus collaborator Nick Stern said in a statement to LAist . This is the second time Plastic Jesus has constructed a satirical Oscar statue; last year, the artist put up a life-size statue w