Donald
Posted on 03/09/2006 12:55:51 PM PST by blitzgig
I cannot remember a time when, in the days after the Academy Awards show, it was not criticized, and even blasted. It's an American tradition. Everyone enjoys saying it was too long and the acceptance speeches were interminable, or it was too tight and they kept rudely cutting off the acceptance speeches. Everyone has complaints about the political tendentiousness of the speeches, clips and jokes. Everyone makes fun of the vulgarity and air of self congratulation.
And everyone is right.
Which, of course, you know. In the days after Oscar, the one old saying everyone in Hollywood keeps remembering over and over is, "Everyone has two businesses, his own and show business."
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Which gets us to George Clooney, and his work. George Clooney is Hollywood now. He is charming and beautiful and cool, but he is not Orson Welles. I know that's like saying of an artist that he's no Rembrandt, but bear with me because I have a point that I think is worth making. Orson Welles was an artist. George Clooney is a fellow who read an article and now wants to tell us the truth, if we can handle it.
More important, Orson Welles had a canny respect for the audience while maintaining a difficult relationship with studio executives, whom he approached as if they were his intellectual and artistic inferiors. George Clooney has a canny respect for the Hollywood establishment, for its executives and agents, and treats his audience as if it were composed of his intellectual and artistic inferiors. (He is not alone in this. He is only this year's example.)
And because they are his inferiors, he must teach them.
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She put into words what i was thinking about this just the other day great read thanks
No problem. She's great.
Peggy BUMP!
George Clooney is such a tool. He's against racism! Yeah!
Donald
LOL! I loved that episode.
No, sorry, it was the Moops!
Lol.
Isn't that what Hollywood people do?
Pretend to be somebody important and smart.
Yes, it is. The sad part is they can no longer tell fact from fiction.
You mean they're believing their own lies?
Are they Democrats, by any chance?
Cosmo Kramer - Assman!
Jimmy's gonna get Kramer!
Well said. Maybe Peggy has stopped digging.
MEL: Excuse me, Jerry Seinfeld?
JERRY: Yeah.
MEL: My name's Sanger, mel Sanger. I drive that truck out there.
JERRY: Oh, the Yoo Hoo? I love Yoo Hoo.
MEL: It's a fine product. Anyway I saw you on the Tonight Show a couple of weeks ago. I was watching the show with my son Donald. He's got this rare immune deficiency in his blood. Damnedest thing. Doctors say he has to live in a plastic bubble. Can you imagine that? A bubble.
JERRY: That's nice!
LOL @ Hemoglobin!
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