John Kena News Today

The closest I have come to holding an actual Oscar was when I was staying with a great friend in Los Angeles, the Production Designer Dean Tavoularis, who won his award for The Godfather Part II (he worked almost exclusively for Francis Ford Coppola for about 30 years). He had used it as a garage door stop and it had become tarnished so he charged me with the task, while he was away on location, of returning it for re-plating to the hallowed halls of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Scien...