FLASH! What is the most famous piece of sculpture in the entire world?

Oh, you might say it is the Venus de Milo, the Statue of Liberty, Michelangelo’s Pietà or Rodin’s “The Kiss.” But no, according to our press-agent-PR-expert-extraordinaire Peggy Siegal, it is the Oscar! 

Coming Monday, we will present the divine Peggy’s Oscar report for 2009, which will bow at the same time in New York’s exclusive Avenue magazine. 

Peggy worked on every single one of the Oscar-nominated movies from last year. As she describes her office’s participation in the Academy Awards race, Peggy writes: “The studios thought of us as Switzerland.”

I have said before that our pal Peggy, a self-styled expert on everything new, celebrity-wise and star-ridden, is the freshest voice on the movie scene. She knows everyone and where all the bodies are buried. She told me weeks in advance exactly who would and who should win the Oscars. And her writing is fresh and authentic. She had seen Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s work early on and she told Brad they would both be Oscar nominated. She writes: “Brad Pitt didn’t know whether to thank me or call security.”

She also reports in her coming Oscar piece about contender Mickey Rourke being asked to remove his sunglasses at a certain event. He said to one female photographer, “Show me your tits!” Peggy opines: “And this is why he will never win an Oscar!”

I have always loved Peggy’s impressions as an expert and observer of celebrity. I like even better her complaint as a writer who has to put up with being over-edited. She sniffed at Avenue’s hand on her manuscript: “Why, they wouldn’t let me describe Barbra Streisand’s little Maltese dog as ‘fat.’ I had to change it to ‘adorable.’”

Wait until Monday, April 6, and read Peggy’s Oscar report, written for Avenue and for wOw in its entirety.