Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
Word is that this week’s winners of the Academy Award for Best Song—Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, stars of the Irish indie film Once—didn’t just get a golden statuette.
They also got a congratulatory SMS from none other than Irish rocker/social activist Bono of U2, not long after the duo’s onstage victory.
“A busker who plays the Oscars, that’s the poetry,” the text message reportedly said. Once is about a struggling Irish street musician who collaborates with a Czech pianist/singer too poor to buy her own piano.
