Posted on 02/27/2017 2:31:21 PM PST by drewh
Does the PWC fellow have Russian ancestry?
Oh, and each participant gets a nice gift bag with stuff valued at around $100,000. And then they bitch about the government not doing enough for the poor.
Wonder what his career plans were for after PWC? Because...tomorrow.
More to the point, why don't they write "Best Picture" or "Best Actess" on the card itself. This would have immediately tipped off Beatty that there had been a mistake and the error could have been corrected without the chaos that resulted.
Humans make errors. That is a fact of life. When you want a human process to run smoothly you have to do whatever you can to eliminate the likelihood of mistakes. The designers of this process bear more of the blame than those carrying out the process.
I think the goal here is to keep everyone talking about the stupid Oscars for as long as possible. Get those blog hits up, keep everyone buying the tabloids and watching the dumb entertainment coverage on the boob tube.
Exactly. That’s why it might have been planned.
It was shaping up to be one of the most boring, non-eventful Oscars ever, until......
The Pricewaterhouse accountants name wasn’t Steve Harvey by any chance?
30 years, hmmm. Ready for retirement. Pushing him out.
So, Pricewaterhouse looked through their personnel and found one person who is close to retirement, have quietly offered him a compensation package if he would be the scapegoat.
Just speculating outloud.
I don’t care about the Oscars or Hollyweird, and I’m actually glad that Beatty and Dunaway made fools of themselves, but I don’t have a shred of sympathy for Cullinan, either (if he is indeed the guy who handed over the wrong envelope). The guy had one itty bitty simple task, to hand over the correct envelope. Whatever he was doing to distract himself, tweeting or ogling actresses (or actors), he screwed up one of the simplest tasks a human can perform for pay. I’m sure he earns a lot more than most humans do. He is a major league screw-off, period.
As for Beatty & Dunaway, ofc they screwed up too, but they are actors paid to read lines put in front of them. Put the wrong material in front of them and they WILL likely go off the rails. The main fault lies with the person who had a simple task to put the correct material in front of them, and who put the wrong material in front of them.
Indeed, he must be. He ignored his job to tweet about The President’s bowel movements and ruined and increasingly awful Oscars ceremony. Hope he is fired.
And I hope the Oscars is taken off tv and consigned to a private event the way it was in the 1930s.
Haha. Guy is the laughing stock of the world cause he just couldn’t put his friggin phone down.
Look at me!! Look at me!! Look how popular and important I am!
According to a newsblip on the radio, 1 million fewer viewers this year than last year.
“I’m going to take a WAG and say that I think we may have...
FOUND... THE... REPUBLICAN!!!
Yayy! Whoopie! (applause) “
So accurate I couldn’t even laugh at it.
Actually, Beatty is not a fan of Bill Clinton - he came out against him during the Lewinski fiasco.
I thought he was the only one to handle this disaster with any good-humor and charm. Confused charm, no doubt, but charm. And poor Faye! She fled for her life.
The La La Land producer was most charmless, grabbing the letter out of Beatty’s hand in a most rude fashion while screeching that they had given out the wrong prize.
Not exactly David Niven, Cary Grant or Audrey Hepburn.
-PJ
Thanks - you rate “expert” on acronyms, then
:-). Anyway, too much Oscars content today for me. I’ll drop out here.
Good job and may God bless you always
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