These were carefully co-ordinated opening salvos for Hillary!’s presidential run—Setting various narratives that she will flog, ad nauseum, in the months ahead.
Which may explain why the Doogie Awards saw the worst audience ratings since Brian Williams’ home movies.
I watch the oscars to see barely clothed bimbos, certainly not to listen to the pseudo intellectual ramblings of third grade dropouts.
Anyone who watches for any other reason is merely fooling themselves. It boils down to a popularity and influence contest; art, good sense, good acting, directing and producing have very little to do with who gets an award.
Clint Eastwood didn't get an oscar, but is receiving an even better award - nearly $500 Million in box office receipts.
Mencken on actors, from Prejudices Second Series below. I love the description of actors: “ awalking artificiality, strutting dummy, thematic catalogue of imbecilities!”
“The Cerebral Mime Of all actors, the most offensive to the higher cerebral centers is the one who pretends to intellectuality. His alleged intelligence, of course, is always purely imaginary: no man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night. That nonsense enters into the very fiber of the actor. He becomes a grotesque boiling down of all the preposterous characters that he has ever impersonated. Their characteristics are seen in his manner, in his reactions to stimuli, in his point of view. He becomes a walking artificiality, a strutting dummy, a thematic catalogue of imbecilities.”
Incidentally Truman Capote thought them a dumb lot also. Capote on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson
Carson: “Oh c’mon, you can’t mean all actors are stupid?”
Capote: “Yes, I mean all actors are stupid.
Carson: “Well, what about Jill St. John? She supposedly has an IQ of 140.”
Capote: “That’s easy. She’s a terrible actress.”
I’m old enough to remember Vanessa Redgrave reciting an anti-Zionist screed while accepting an Oscar, and getting roundly booed. Then Paddy Chayefsky came on to present one and smacked her butt down, saying how he ‘was tired of Oscars being platforms for political screeds’-and got a standing o. How times have changed.
I don’t watch award shows with the exception of CMA’s and I only watch that one because I enjoy the music. But think about it. These award shows are designed to give a bunch of attention seekers awards voted on by other attention seekers. “Let’s pat ourselves on the back”. That’s why I don’t care. I don’t watch them.
I have a very good solution to the problem of pontificating actors at awards ceremonies on tv. I never watch them.
C.J.: They sent me two turkeys. The most photo-friendly of the two gets a Presidential pardon and a full life at a children's zoo. The runner-up gets eaten.
Bartlet: If the Oscars were like that, I'd watch.