The £130,000 Oscar goody bag

The Oscars goody bag may been more expensive, but the Bafta's offerings have more class.

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This year's Oscar "goody bag" is "an eloquent testimony to Hollywood's enormous financial resources, as well its sometimes extraordinarily bad taste", say James Gillespie and Alex Yeates in The Sunday Times. Those who attend on 28 February as nominees for either acting or directing awards can look forward to a wide range of gifts, including "a vampire' breast lift for £1,300" (which involves taking blood from one part of the body and using it to revive the decolletage in some psuedo-scientific manner) and "six packs of luxury Swiss loo rolls worth £190".

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