Posted on 02/28/2013 7:31:33 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Despite solid ratings for Sunday's 85th annual Academy Awards, host Seth MacFarlane is catching a lot of flak for his crude jokes about women, Jews, Abraham Lincoln and most notably, actresses' boobs.
In a musical number titled "We Saw Your Boobs," MacFarlane pointed out actresses who have bared all on-screen — often during emotionally-charged or rape scenes. Women both in the audience and watching at home were offended by the song, calling it crass and inappropriate. We spoke with Elizabeth Cantillon, film producer and executive vice president of production at Sony who was in the audience at the Dolby Theater Sunday night, who tells us she and her colleagues were outraged:
I was with a number of women in the movie business who were shocked that that's what the Academy Awards chose to emphasize when really what we should be doing is promoting growth to our business and what's great about our business.
You're talking about the great American actresses, you're talking about Angelina Jolie and Meryl Streep. People who have had long and successful careers, have won awards, and objectifying them and it's not right — even if you're trying to be humorous it's identifying a select group and picking on them for ridicule. Which I would think, with the history of the Academy and people who are contributors in Hollywood, that wouldn't be okay.
Even if it had been hilariously funny, I don't know that that should be the source of comedy on a show that is meant to promote our business around the world. These women are international stars, that's their business, they're important businesswomen as well as artists and that's key to success in our business and appreciating them.
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The only thing that didn’t work on the show was the WAY TOO LONG Captain Kirk skit. The rest was pretty good.
He didn't SHOW the boobs (although the multi-million-dollar productions did, and numerous webpages catalogue them, and PR firms hyped the movies for public viewing). Maybe someone would show false "offense" at the actresses, who showed their boobs, for money, with full knowledge in advance that their boobs would be seen by as many people as they could induce to see the film.
“No that would be Whoopi Goldberg.”
When was that? I can’t remember. I believe it was the last time I watched the thing.
I just remember South Park showing Whoopi hosting the awards, and the only thing she would say over and over was “Republicans are stupid”, with the crowd laughing every time.
“You can use the word : VAGINA in the title of a play with nary a peep, and not use the word Boobs?”
Anyone beside me wholly fed up with the annual re-run of “Vagina Monologues” in your college campus communities?
Gutfeld’s book is great. I reccommend it to everybody.
watch me expose myself on film to millions of people. me me me me. pay me millions of dollars.
don’t ever comment about me exposing myself for millions of dollars to millions of people. well, only comments i’ll really like.
what would have been extra great was if he snuck in some photos of alec baldwin, bloomberg, biden, mikey moore...into the ‘boobs’ tribute.
and they’re upset we’re not dumb enough to believe their fake outrage.
i believe there’d be a lot of guys laughing. some beaming with a little pride.
Those names came straight from the Ian Fleming books.
Here's to all the losing works of art, from Lincoln to Amour.
To the disappointed actors wondering what they dressed up for.
Now the real performance start, with phony smiles at the ball.
Here's to the losers, bless them all!Here's to nominee Quvenzhané, lift up that little head.
You'll be at the future Oscars, when the rest of us are dead.
You have all Tom Cruise's talent and you're equally as tall!
Here's to the losers, bless them all!Oh, Bradley Cooper! Get your chin off the floor.
Here's your silver lining: You'll do Hangover 4!
And the Best Supporting Actress nominees who lost to Anne Hathaway: Amy Adams, Jacki Weaver, Sally Field and Helen Hunt...
Hathaway took away your Oscars, don't you think that girl's a... dorable?
Notice the rhyme that didn't rhyme?
I did.
-PJ
And here’s the lyrics to ‘We Saw Your Boobs’
(Please don’t show this to your kids, supervise them well )
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We saw your boobs
We saw your boobs
In the movie that we saw, we saw your boobs.
Meryl Streep, we saw your boobs in “Silkwood”
Naomi Watts’ in “Mulholland Drive”
Angelina Jolie, we saw your boobs in “Gia”
They made us feel excited and alive.
Anne Hathaway, we saw your boobs in “Brokeback Mountain”
Halle Berry, we saw them in “Monster’s Ball”
Nicole Kidman in “Eyes Wide Shut”
Marisa Tomei in “The Wrestler,” but
We haven’t seen Jennifer Lawrence’s boobs at all.
We saw your boobs
We saw your boobs
In the movie that we saw, we saw your boobs.
Kristen Stewart, we saw your boobs in “On the Road”
And in “Monster” we saw Charlize Theron’s
Helen Hunt, we saw them in “The Sessions”
And Scarlett Johansson, we saw them on our phones.
Jessica Chastain, we saw your boobs in “Lawless”
Jodie Foster in “The Accused”
Hilary Swank in “Boys Don’t Cry”
Penelope Cruz in “Vanilla Sky.”
And Kate Winslet in “Heavenly Creatures” and “Jude”
And “Hamlet” and “Titanic”
And “Iris” and “Little Children”
And “The Reader”
And whatever you’re shooting right now.
We saw your boobs
We saw your boobs.
-PJ
Hehehehe...
I remember seeing Halle Berry on some show talking about her moving that was out (Monster’s Ball?) and at the end she grasps her breasts with both hands and said something like, “...and you get to see these!”
I’m sure she’s on the list of outraged great American actresses.
Hehehehe...
I remember seeing Halle Berry on some show talking about her movie that was out (Monster’s Ball?) and at the end she grasps her breasts with both hands and said something like, “...and you get to see these!”
I’m sure she’s on the list of outraged great American actresses.
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LOL!
I can’t believe where my mind went when I read your post:
“Halle Berry’s Boobs” is a most excellent tongue twister, say it 3 times rapidly without messing up. LOL!
I bet the web traffic at the Mr. Skin site went bonkers after that number.
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