Mario's ONANtiad at the I.-Day gala — "Thanks everybody and I hope you…"
‘Thanks everybody and I hope you like it,’ is what he said this year, with Pemulis behind him making a show of putting a maraschino on top of the small twizzle of Redi-Whip that O. Stice had sprayed on the top of Mario’s head-mount Bolex H64, which counts as a hat
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The gala's hat mandate, satisfied: the camera is so much a part of Mario's head that Redi-Whip and a maraschino on the Bolex count as a hat. The auteur's eight-word artist's statement is the whole speech.