GOLDEN RASPBERRY AWARDS
The Golden Raspberry Awards often shortened to the Razzies, is an award ceremony in recognition of the worst in film. Founded by American copywriter and publicist John J. B. Wilson in 1980, the annual Razzie Awards ceremony in Los Angeles precedes the corresponding Academy Awards ceremony by one day. The term raspberry in the name is used in its irreverent sense, as in “blowing a raspberry”. The awards themselves are in the form of a “golfball-sized raspberry” which sits atop a Super 8 mm film reel, the whole of which is spray painted gold. The first Golden Raspberry Awards ceremony was held on March 31, 1981, at John J. B. Wilson’s living room alcove in Los Angeles to honor the worst in film of the 1980 film season. The 35th ceremony was held on February 21, 2015. (More from Wikipedia)
Fergie Frederiksen has enjoyed a long, prosperous and highly varied career in music. After he left Trillion, Frederiksen was involved with a disco movie called Can’t Stop the Music, featuring Village People. Can’t Stop the Music is notorious as the first recipient of the Golden Raspberry Award (“Razzie”) for Worst Picture of the Year; in fact, Razzies founder John J. B. Wilson got the idea for the Razzies after reading of a double billing of that movie with Xanadu, a film of the same time period that featured Olivia Newton-John.
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