...so every year I start paying attention to what's happening re the Oscar nominees, and a few weeks prior I go to the KPCC event at Egyptian Theatre (with Larry Mantle hosting various film critics...taped for radio...and then the day before the Oscars at the Egyptian they have the nominated editors talk about their experiences i a panel-style discussion with a moderator...and in the afternoon they have a panel discussion with the nominated production-designers ...among other events...and then on the day OF the oscars I make a point of trying to get a few pics of the red-carpet arrivals, ...depending on how the LAPD does crowd-control..sometimes you can get closer than other times...they change it every year ...I suppose so nobody can predict anything...this year they allowed people to go to the nearest intersection (hollywood & highland) after a while...and after padding us down for any weapons...and then there's another check-point...this year I didn't get past the 2nd check-point..they had too many people there already..so I saw a lot of VIP arrivals (various studio employees, maybe some relatives of some, but not as many of the nominated actors which come from the other direction on highland rather than hollywood)...thankfully it stopped raining for a while on sunday..so we weren't all standing in the rain..but saturday it was RAINING HARD almost all day..nonetheless, everything went as usual...and here's some of the pics I took. 
“I pray ... also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know ... His incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is like the working of His mighty strength, which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead... “
Ephesians 1:17-20
“…For we believers have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God….”
1 Peter 1:23
“To Him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before His glorious presence without fault and with great joy -- to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority,through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen.”
Jude 1:24-25
“We proclaim Christ, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may presenteveryone perfect in Him.”
Colossians 1:28
“Once [we] were alienated from God ... but now He has reconciled [us] by Christ's physical bodythrough death to present [us] holy in His sight,without blemish and free from accusation.”
Colossians 1:22
“...[are you] in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God -- that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption. Therefore, as it is written:"Let Him who boasts boast in the Lord."
1 Corinthians 1:30-31
