And the Oscar goes to ... Heidi the cross-eyed opossum?
The googly-eyed marsupial isn't up for an award herself, but Oscar-watchers are going to make a trip to visit her at her home in Germany's Leipzig Zoo, where she will offer up her Academy Awards picks as part of Jimmy Kimmel's pre-ceremony show Feb. 27.
If you can't bring the opossum to the Oscars, you've got to bring the Oscars to her.
Hollywood and the Academy Awards -- here I come, reads an entry on Heidi's official Facebook page, where she has more than 300,000 fans. But I stay in Leipzig zoo and the producers come to me. Great deal.
And since there's no better place to see and be seen than the Oscars, Heidi is already on a diet to help give her a figure worthy of the red carpet.
Zoo officials believe the eye condition that helped Heidi's rise to stardom could be the result of excess weight.
She's already lost about a pound and can even grip things with her tail again, but it may be some time before we know if her eyes will ever go back to normal.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jn_brojrfNY&feature=related[/media]
Story link with pictures: http://www.aolnews.com/2011/02/15/heidi-the-hotshot-cross-eyed-opossum-to-make-oscar-picks/
The googly-eyed marsupial isn't up for an award herself, but Oscar-watchers are going to make a trip to visit her at her home in Germany's Leipzig Zoo, where she will offer up her Academy Awards picks as part of Jimmy Kimmel's pre-ceremony show Feb. 27.
If you can't bring the opossum to the Oscars, you've got to bring the Oscars to her.
Hollywood and the Academy Awards -- here I come, reads an entry on Heidi's official Facebook page, where she has more than 300,000 fans. But I stay in Leipzig zoo and the producers come to me. Great deal.
And since there's no better place to see and be seen than the Oscars, Heidi is already on a diet to help give her a figure worthy of the red carpet.
Zoo officials believe the eye condition that helped Heidi's rise to stardom could be the result of excess weight.
She's already lost about a pound and can even grip things with her tail again, but it may be some time before we know if her eyes will ever go back to normal.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jn_brojrfNY&feature=related[/media]
Story link with pictures: http://www.aolnews.com/2011/02/15/heidi-the-hotshot-cross-eyed-opossum-to-make-oscar-picks/
Can't say I understood a lot of that...
