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obligatory Oscar post
I just have to say...this morning MSNBC was just blasting the Oscars. They were boring, unglamorous, and Chris Rock in particular was horrible. I don't feel any special fondness for the show yet these comments still bothered me.
The Oscars are ALWAYS boring. I didn't even watch most of them this year. But at least this time they had the decency to contain it in a mere four hours instead of six. I don't care about awards shows themselves. I feel I get my fill from hearing who the winners are the next day; I have no need to see their painfully slow progress to the stage or their drawn out speeches thanking long lists of people I've never heard of. And I am disgusted to no end with the constant criticism of how people look or who they are wearing. Only in Hollywood do people wear their shallowness with such pride (I was most appalled with the TV Guide Channel, who gave Melissa Rivers a computer doodle screen and encouraged her to do things like draw enormous circles and arrows around actresses' cleavage, along with the word "Wow!" if they REALLY rated. What a terrible, terrible idea).
Chris Rock picked on everyone and *GASP* made a joke about the president. How DARE he? a) I remember Billy Crystal doing his share of poking fun at many glitterati, including the president. Maybe it's more objectionable if a black man does it. b) I heard Rock's president joke. Maybe the protestors were so offended because most of what he said was true. c) Jon Stewart makes jokes about the president every day, and I heard a statistic that most young people prefer to get their news from him (myself included). Lighten up, people.
The nastier comments were that Hollywood was a "self-referential" group and largely out of touch with the common folk of America. In this vein a viewer wrote in complaining that Passion of the Christ got snubbed. I saw the movie. It was powerful and moving, but just because it has to do with Jesus doesn't mean it is automatically award-worthy. Besides, I thought Mel did it for the love of his faith, not for Oscar recognition. And it's no secret that Hollywood is run by Jews and liberals so it's hardly surprising it doesn't exactly uphold the Red State values (if those are what they are referring to when they say "common folk"). It is in the middle of Californication. We have Hollywood, you Redsies have Dollywood. Deal.
I think I'm done.
The Oscars are ALWAYS boring. I didn't even watch most of them this year. But at least this time they had the decency to contain it in a mere four hours instead of six. I don't care about awards shows themselves. I feel I get my fill from hearing who the winners are the next day; I have no need to see their painfully slow progress to the stage or their drawn out speeches thanking long lists of people I've never heard of. And I am disgusted to no end with the constant criticism of how people look or who they are wearing. Only in Hollywood do people wear their shallowness with such pride (I was most appalled with the TV Guide Channel, who gave Melissa Rivers a computer doodle screen and encouraged her to do things like draw enormous circles and arrows around actresses' cleavage, along with the word "Wow!" if they REALLY rated. What a terrible, terrible idea).
Chris Rock picked on everyone and *GASP* made a joke about the president. How DARE he? a) I remember Billy Crystal doing his share of poking fun at many glitterati, including the president. Maybe it's more objectionable if a black man does it. b) I heard Rock's president joke. Maybe the protestors were so offended because most of what he said was true. c) Jon Stewart makes jokes about the president every day, and I heard a statistic that most young people prefer to get their news from him (myself included). Lighten up, people.
The nastier comments were that Hollywood was a "self-referential" group and largely out of touch with the common folk of America. In this vein a viewer wrote in complaining that Passion of the Christ got snubbed. I saw the movie. It was powerful and moving, but just because it has to do with Jesus doesn't mean it is automatically award-worthy. Besides, I thought Mel did it for the love of his faith, not for Oscar recognition. And it's no secret that Hollywood is run by Jews and liberals so it's hardly surprising it doesn't exactly uphold the Red State values (if those are what they are referring to when they say "common folk"). It is in the middle of Californication. We have Hollywood, you Redsies have Dollywood. Deal.
I think I'm done.