Posted on 02/28/2011 7:41:48 AM PST by SeekAndFind
One of the wire services reported that the Oscars show Sunday night was aiming to be younger and hipper. The producers succeeded - which was what made the Oscars stink. Actually, "younger and hipper" has been arresting the Oscars for more than a few years - just as it's been retarding American popular culture since the 1960s.
Watching last night's Oscars, one is reminded a bit of Anthony Burgess' classical novel, A Clockwork Orange. It begs the question: "Where have all the adults gone?"
Viewers were treated to a long train of twenty-something and thirty-something actors and actresses making sophomoric jokes, using some profanity, and - predictably - making political points to pander to liberal causes or unions, which seemed to be last night's cause célèbre.Sex was also standard fare, which one would expect adolescents to want. That none of these young and hip performers snapped gum on stage was a little surprising.
Once upon a time, Hollywood was populated by actors and actresses of stature. Men like Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart, James Stewart, John Wayne, Paul Newman, Clint Eastwood and Steve McQueen. Women like Joan Crawford, Elizabeth Taylor, Audrey Hepburn, Greta Garbo, Bette Davis, Claudette Colbert, and Faye Dunaway.
Don't know who these performers are? Checkout Turner Classic Movies. It's a good place to start. Take a look at Hollywood before Zeke and Luther came to town and took over things.
Viewers did get to see 94-year-old Kirk Douglas ogle Anne Hathaway for yucks. So much for having a Hollywood legend treated with respect. But, then, aren't leering old men cool?
Will adults ever take back American popular culture? Good question. Don't know. At least "The King's Speech" won for Best Picture, along with three other Oscars. So, maybe, there's hope after all. Maybe there are adults crying to be freed from Hollywood's adolescent prison.
Grownups taking back American culture - high and low - would be a very healthy thing for the nation.
James Franco had to be high. No other explanation. What a contrast between the whooping adolescent clotheshors Anne Hathaway and the stupefied Franco. That was about the only entertainment last night other than seeing his Royal Firthness receive his just rewards. Wait...there was Hope and Crystal. I bet most of the audience wanted him to stay.
James Franco had to be high. No other explanation. What a contrast between the whooping adolescent clotheshors Anne Hathaway and the stupefied Franco. That was about the only entertainment last night other than seeing his Royal Firthness receive his just rewards. Wait...there was Hope and Crystal. I bet most of the audience wanted him to stay.
People dumb enough to watch Obama TV deserve to be treated like the morons that they are.
Simple solution - pull the plug and opt out of Obama TV. Quit The Matrix.
How does last night’s big winner, (The King’s Speech) tie into that?
That’s why it was my last one....
Seems they started that a while back with Boogie Nights, Showgirls, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, etc.
I'm finding the Charlie Sheen scandal to be unsettling.
1) His show is about a debauched substance abuser who sleeps with strange women. How amusing!
2) I've seen very little of it, but the "humor" seems pretty pornographic. How amusing!
3) Charlie makes headlines by trashing hotels while cavorting with porn stars. How amusing!
Now, CBS claims to be pulling the plus because Sheen has "gone too far". I would not be surprised if he gets a raise, the show comes back, and is even more extreme. There seems to be a real effort to make porn mainstream. The reaction "against" Sheen could end up being a force "for" the pornification of TV. Hey, it's Amusing!
RE: I don’t recall seeing any other movies he has done.
Man, you should see him at his prime — an excellent actor, playing such diverse roles as Vincent Van Gogh ( LUST FOR LIFE ), a boxer ( THE CHAMPION ), a movie producer ( THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL ) and a cowboy in the genre of John Wayne ( LONELY ARE THE BRAVE ).
He was nominated for best actor at least 4 times if memory serves me right, but NEVER WON ( well he finally got his due when the Oscars gave him a Academy Honorary Award “for 50 years as a creative and moral force in the motion picture community” when he was close to 80).
Everything. The Golden Age of Hollywood was enabled because they had a monopoly on distribution and a closed shop that allowed a monopoly pricing structure. So did newspapers, TV and magazines.
All information distribution (print, audio and video) has become a commodity with much more competition than before.
No doubt much trash will be produced, but then the next "Casablanca" might come from someone who produces the movie on a Mac in his garage.
Confirmed: The King’s Speech Was Filmed at the Same Location as a Gay Porn
On Tuesday, some fairly “incriminating” photos were released to the Internet showing that perhaps The King’s Speech was shot in the same location as a gay porn movie. It has been fairly well documented by the British press that the scenes in Lionel Logue’s (Oscar nominee Geoffrey Rush) office were shot at 33 Portland Place in London, but was that address used by adult film director Jonno when he shot Snookered? Movieline contacted Jonno to inquire about where and when the production was filmed.
Where's Johnnie Carson or Bob Hope when you need them?
That’s grasping at some pretty thin straws. Sound stages are for rent, same as a live theater. Anyone with the money can rent them.
Until writers understand the concept of “begging the question”, they should stop using the phase. Whenever I encounter examples of such sloppy writing and thinking, I quit reading - the person obviously has nothing to tell me...
On that, we can agree. Perhaps one of the culprits is the demographic of the audience - which is IIRC about 25 years old or thereabouts. Fifty years ago, I suspect it was much older and the type movies made then reflected that audience.
However, being an Air Force vet and a fan of fighter jets, I did enjoy the real-life footage of the planes in the dogfighting scenes.
Never seen a father and son look more alike than Kirk and Michael Douglas.
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