Newsweek's Oscar Roundtable

Check out all the fancy actors in one place, huh? Newsweek conducted an Oscar Roundtable that included Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Forest Whitaker, Helen Mirren, Penelope Cruz and Leonardo DiCaprio. The event consisted of all these stars schmoozing and picking on eachother (in a nice way) for two hours.

I guess the event was a success, since Newsweek published nine freaking pages of it. Read the whole thing here. For those of us with short attention spans, here's my favorite excerpt from Brad Pitt (of course):

"I had a job driving strippers around. Yeah, my job was to drive them to bachelor parties and things. I'd pick them up, and at the gig I'd collect the money, play the bad Prince tapes and catch the girls' clothes. It was not a wholesome atmosphere, and it got very depressing. After two months I went in to quit, and the guy said, 'Listen, I've got this one last gig tonight.' So I did it, and this girl—I'd never met her before—was in an acting class taught by a man named Roy London [a famous acting coach]. I went and checked it out, and it really set me on the path to where I am now. Strippers changed my life."

Photo from Newsweek.