The LA Times update on the news that Jean-Luc Godard is set to receive an honorary Academy Award (thx MKJ):
More than a week after the motion picture academy announced it would give an honorary lifetime achievement award to Jean-Luc Godard, the aging enfant terrible of French cinema managed to respond with a handwritten note, in French of course, saying that--his schedule permitting--he might actually show up later this year to accept the award.