IT HAS A REPUTATION OF OVER THE TOP GLITZ, GLAMOR AND ALWAYS RUNNING LATE. PERHAPS THAT'S WHY THE ORGANIZERS OF THE OSCARS CHOSE TO PRESENT LEGENDARY STAGE AND SCREEN ICON LAUREN BACALL WITH HER GOLDEN STATUETTE NEARLY FOUR MONTHS EARLY BEFORE THE CEREMONY. THE 85 YEAR OLD ACTRESS RECEIVED THE AWARD FOR HER LIFE'S WORK AT THE PRIVATE BLACK TIE GALA ATTENDED BY TOM HANKS, KIRK DOUGLAS AND STEVEN SPIELBERG. BUT THE DINNER, WHICH WAS HELD TO SAVE TIME AT THE TELEVISED VERSION OF THE CEREMONY, STILL WENT ON FOR OVER THREE HOURS. BACALL SAID OF HER HIGHLY COVETED PRIZE: "I CAN'T BELIEVE IT", ADDING THAT SHE WAS GLAD TO BE ALIVE. 'SOME OF YOU ARE SURPRISED, AREN'T YOU?', SHE SAID TO THE 600 GUESTS AT THE GRAND BALLROOM ABOVE THE KODAK THEATRE IN LOS ANGELES. HER LONG-TIME FRIEND KIRK DOUGLAS SAID HE'S BEEN FRIENDS WITH BACALL FOR OVER 60 YEARS AFTER SHE TURNED DOWN HIS ROMANTIC ADVANCES. HE SAID: "SHE'S A PUSSYCAT AND SHE HAS A HEART OF GOLD." ONE OF THE GREATEST SCREEN SIRENS OF THE 1940s AND 1950s, BACALL MADE HER SCREEN DEBUT IN THE CLASSIC 'TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT'. SHE WENT ON TO MARRY HUMPHREY BOGART AND TO STAR IN MORE THAN 30 FILMS, INCLUDING 'THE BIG SLEEP' AND 'KEY LARGO'. SHE WAS JOINED AT THE CEREMONY BY HER AND BOGART'S ADULT CHILDREN LESLIE AND STEPHEN HUMPHREY.
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