It’s one week to the Oscars which means only seven more days before they start taking down the phallic billboards around town.

Anyway, I’ve been trying to stay away from blogging about the Oscars since everybody pretty much has it (or will have it) covered, but I ran across this little tidbit on Cinematical about a bet Phillip Seymour Hoffman made a number of years ago with his Capote compatriots Bennett Miller and Dan Futterman.

When he was 16, Hoffman, along with friends Bennett Miller (director of Capote) and Dan Futterman (writer of Capote) got a tiny bit wasted one night. Hoffman explains, “We had this friend at the time, Steven, and we all made this drunken pact that if one of us ever won the Academy Award, that we would bark the whole acceptance speech. We were very serious. Literally, we were like, ‘I’ll do that. I will definitely commit to that.”

As you might know from my almost live blog of the SAG Awards, I think Heath Ledger should win Best Actor for “the gay sheepherder movie” but will he bark his acceptance speech? Probably not.

And in the end, if PSH wins, he likely won’t bark his speech but the possibility that he will provides for some excitement come next Sunday.

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