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Oscar Ratings Hits Seven-Year Low, Viewership Worst Since 2009
Deadline Hollywood ^ | 2/23/15 | Dominic Patten

Posted on 02/23/2015 12:19:32 PM PST by Enlightened1

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To: dfwgator

That’s true.


81 posted on 02/23/2015 2:50:40 PM PST by Fledermaus (The GOP is dead to me! McConnell and Boehner can drop dead!!)
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To: ExNewsExSpook

Based on how she looked in her dress, she’s more than compensated with the catering.


82 posted on 02/23/2015 2:53:54 PM PST by Fledermaus (The GOP is dead to me! McConnell and Boehner can drop dead!!)
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To: RayChuang88

Blockbusters are mostly juvenile fare these days. Transformers, The Hunger Games...


83 posted on 02/23/2015 3:02:36 PM PST by Borges
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To: Enlightened1

It got more viewers than the State of the Union show.

“The gross average audience of 13 networks airing President Barack Obama’s speech puts viewership at 33,299,172. That’s down from the 33.5 million that tuned in for the 2013 speech for its lowest showing since 2000. (President Bill Clinton’s final address in office averaged 31,478,000.)”


84 posted on 02/23/2015 3:26:57 PM PST by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: Enlightened1

Dang did I miss it too ? What was it?


85 posted on 02/23/2015 4:33:14 PM PST by Recompennation
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To: Enlightened1
I watched “Hart to Hart” TV movie marathon reruns on the Hallmark Movie & Mystery Channel. Lots better than the Oscars Show.
86 posted on 02/23/2015 4:37:36 PM PST by MasterGunner01
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To: Enlightened1

I guess half the country doesn’t want to watch a left-wing circle jerk on national television.


87 posted on 02/23/2015 4:38:11 PM PST by Colonel_Flagg (You're either in or in the way.)
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To: angry elephant

I’m older than all of you, and don’t have dementia-——— but—— What’s an Oscar? (Heehee)


88 posted on 02/23/2015 4:39:52 PM PST by Exit148 (Explanation)
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To: Enlightened1; GeronL; Slings and Arrows; MeshugeMikey

2009’s Oscar broadcast celebrated the films of 2008 ——> Bush’s fault.

Therefore this must be Bush’s fault too.


89 posted on 02/23/2015 6:51:33 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: a fool in paradise

Bush and the JOOS!!


90 posted on 02/23/2015 6:52:50 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
And to think I missed Doogie Bowser in his underwear.......

He may be out on Hollywood and Vine hustlin' if you really need to catch a glance.

91 posted on 02/23/2015 6:53:53 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
I’ve always heard homosexuals are,,shall we say, exhibitionists in some ways. Would anyone else have done this if not a homosexual, or if not for shock value? Was he showing off his bod to homosexual viewers and friends of his?? What the heck??? I’m too young to remember but have to believe the Oscars were not this way in 1960,or 1970.

Didn't a streaker run onstage at the Oscars in the 1970s?

92 posted on 02/23/2015 6:55:20 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: Borges

I like music but the music I like is rarely ever nominated for a Grammy. Even when the artists are nominated, it’s an insult.

Brian Wilson finally completed SMiLE and the only bit of that production was Mrs. O’Leary’s Cow (a noisy dirge thing) which was up for ‘best instrumental’. Feh.

Liking movies is not linked with caring about the Oscars.


93 posted on 02/23/2015 6:58:09 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: dfwgator

>>The gays already have the Tony Awards, can’t they leave the rest alone?

No.

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2010/05/the-homophobia-of-jack-paar.html

Fairies and Communists by Jack Paar

There used to be a time when it looked like the Communists were taking over show business. Now it’s fairies. They operate a lot alike, actually; both have a tendency to colonize. Just as there used to be no such thing as one Communist in a play or movie, now there is no such thing as one fairy. Where you find one, you usually find a baker’s dozen swishing around. I had a little game I used to play when I was an actor in Hollywood, back in the days when Communists or Communist sympathizers were nearly as plentiful in the film capital as yes-men. If I spotted someone in a picture who was a Communist or leftist, I could usually pick out several others. They always came in sets. Now I play it a different way. When I hear that some fairy is producing or directing or acting in a play, I can often name some of the rest of the cast, even if I’ve never heard it. But Communists and fairies do differ in some respects. The Hollywood Communists had their “Unfriendly Ten,” who refused to testify before a Congressional Committee, but the fairies are overfriendly. They do say no occasionally. “When a fairy says no,” Alex King has observed, “he almost throws his back out of joint.” The poor darlings, as they sometimes call themselves, are everywhere in show business. The theater is infested with them and it’s beginning to show the effects. “The New York theater is dying,” the late Ernie Kovacs complained recently, “Killed by limp wrists.”

The dance is a mecca for the gamboling third sex, which prompted Oscar Levant to observe that “ballet is the fairies’ baseball.” The movies have long been a happy hunting ground for them, and now they’re starting to take over television. No TV variety show seems complete without a group of fairy dancers leaping about with balloons.

George Jean Nathan wrote long ago, “What we need is more actors like Jack Dempsey. Jack may not be much of an actor but his worst enemy cannot accuse him of belonging to the court of Titania.” Alas, things have been getting worse ever since.

The increasing emasculation of our stage seems to stem in part from the influence of actors from England, where homosexuality is rampant in the theater. Kenneth Tynan, the British critic, has acknowledged the growth there of the theatrical phenomenon known as “camp” whose distinguishing feature, he says, is a marked inclination toward the dainty, the coy and the exuberantly fussy. “High comedy in England is nowadays hostage in the camp of camp,” he lamented. “With each new season its voice gets shriller and its blood runs thinner.”

Formerly playwrights were writing plays about fairies and now they’re writing plays for them. There was a wonderful scene in Peter Pan when Mary Martin turned and asked the audience if they believed in fairies and they answered with an affirmative roar. I began to get worried when the cast started drowning out the audience.

Not only have homosexuals taken over a leading role in the theater, but the theme of homosexuality is becoming increasingly prominent on the stage as witness Advise and Consent, Compulsion, The Best Man and Tea and Sympathy, some of which have been produced on both the stage and screen. Recently, not one but two versions of the life of Oscar Wilde were showing in New York.

A half century ago Wilde was jailed and disgraced in England for “The love that dared not speak its name,” yet today actors found guilty of the same offense become not only famous but honored. One of England’s most noted actors and a popular American male singer have both been convicted of homosexuality without it adversely affecting their public lives or careers...


94 posted on 02/23/2015 7:00:12 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: Enlightened1

A gay guy in his underwear on a stage in front of millions of people. They think that is entertainment... somewhere.

He was on the Kelly Ripa & Michael show the next day. Kelly loves gay guys. Whenever I have a day off and turn on the show at 9am pst she has some guest that sets off my gaydar.


95 posted on 02/23/2015 8:38:58 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: minnesota_bound

Just throwing this in - Kelly Ripa
http://revart.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/11/18/y_kellyripa31.jpg


96 posted on 02/23/2015 9:04:57 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I was thinking that nomination of AMERICAN SNIPER for the Best Picture might encourage more viewers to watch OSCARS this year...I do not think that happened...

Many viewers, rightly, concluded that AMERICAN SNIPER will not win the Best Picture award...Therefore, they did not bother watching the show...


97 posted on 02/24/2015 12:04:58 AM PST by L.A.Justice
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To: Borges

The last figure I heard was that 92 million people are not in the labor force. It would seem to me that perhaps half of that number are women. Had Arquette been sincere, she would have commented about the terrible state of the economy and the hardships it imposes on women. The ultimate equal pay is zero dollars for women and zero dollars for men.


98 posted on 02/24/2015 8:01:48 AM PST by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: a fool in paradise

The Grammys are unworkable. Too many categorizes that are completely random. The Oscars and Tonys are logistically feasible.


99 posted on 02/24/2015 8:05:55 AM PST by Borges
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