Clapping fatigue, Covid smooches and sprayed canapés: inside the Oscar nominees luncheon - The Guardian

Will Smith spurns my advances, Kenneth Branagh makes new friends and Coppola chardonnay flows at this year’s socially distanced nominees lunch

I am in a hotel ballroom in Los Angeles, two floors below street level, the kind of venue I associate with family barmitzvahs and work parties. But I am talking to neither a cousin nor a colleague. I… [+8523 chars]

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