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# Steve Pond to Discuss Oscars Backstage Stories at Santa Monica Library
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/022206-story/
- Published: 2006-02-22T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T17:17:39.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Entertainment, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Daily Press staff*

The Santa Monica Public Library will present a pre-Academy Awards celebration this weekend.

On Sunday, Feb. 26, from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the Martin Luther King Jr. Auditorium, Steve Pond, Los Angeles Times’ “Oscar Beat” columnist and author of the book “The Big Show: High Times and Dirty Dealings, Backstage at the Academy Awards,” will speak.

Pond has been writing about the entertainment industry for more than 25 years at publications such as Premiere, the Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone and The Washington Post. He will be discussing his motivations for writing a book on the Oscars, as well as sharing backstage stories from the most significant entertainment event in Hollywood. A book signing will follow.

Audience members also will have the opportunity to win memorabilia related to some of this year’s nominated films in a raffle prize drawing.

For more information about this free public program, contact the Santa Monica Public Library at (310) 458-8600 or visit the library’s Web site at www.smpl.org. Samohi wants your books

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on February 22, 2006.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/022206.pdf?ref=smdp.com)