Posted on 02/24/2018 8:34:10 AM PST by EdnaMode
The folks behind the Academy Awards are starting to figure out that most Americans don’t want to hear left wing political lectures from movie stars. Ratings for other recent awards shows have been disastrous and they don’t want a repeat of that.
The New York Times reported:
In This #MeToo Moment, Academy Awards Want to Spotlight the Films
“We want to make it as entertaining as possible — reverential and respectful but also fun and emotional,” said Jennifer Todd, one of the lead producers of the Academy Awards, which will be hosted for the second year in a row by Jimmy Kimmel. “The Oscars should be a spectacle. Fun and funny and great performances.”
“It should also be a giant commercial for the movie business, which we all need to keep going,” Ms. Todd said, noting that the show would emphasize the 90th anniversary milestone…
Attempts to keep the Oscars on the sunnier side reflect ratings concern inside ABC and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Most people watch award shows for the glamour. Whenever stars use the platform to support progressive causes and make political statements, large numbers of viewers turn the channel, according to academy insiders, who cite minute-by-minute Nielsen data for past shows…
A Grammys-level drop would be a disaster. The Oscar telecast is a big business, generating roughly 80 percent of the academy’s $136.3 million in annual revenue.
The bad news for them is that it’s probably already too late to save the Oscars.
The damage has been done already and people are tuning out Hollywood.
Everyone in Hollywood knows “Fame is fleeting.”
Many of the biggest stars ended up in the horror genre films to get a paycheck-—like Academy winner Joan Crawford starring in “Berserk” about a three-ring circus murderer.
The buzz now is fading pol Hillary Clinton has been approached by a proto-slasher giallo film company called “Has-Beens in Horror.”
Hillary is being groomed to star in the long-awaited remake of the blockbuster film,”Naked Zombies on Capitol Hill.”
The macabre plot revolves around an incestuous mother-daughter-tale, about a (cough) political party plagued with murders, money laundering and tax evasion.
That reminds me.....Bill Clinton will play a memorable cameo named Money-Talks Madoff.
Hillary had been reluctant to sign until she was told Lanny Davis will direct.
Donna Brazile needed a paycheck so she was hired as a “diversity pick”. She will play a CNN newscaster who is brutally murdered by a disgruntled news watcher.
I am not a liberty to release the murder scene details....but I will say it involves printers’ ink and a newspaper-folding machine.
Smokey and the Bandit. 77.
Only one I watched was Dunkirk, and that was historically highly iffy . . . although it was interesting to watch.
I have absolutely no desire to watch the Oscars.
Good - starve the beast!
“I probably wouldn’t watch anyway, but Jimmy Kimmel hosting seals the deal.”
The only thing worse for me would be if Stephen Colbert was hosting.
Good point. It was a lot more fun watching the Oscars when the nominated movies performed better at the box office.
No politics, eh? I guess Meryl will not be doing her devout reading of “The Hollywood Creed-—what all Hollywood really believes. (hat tip Michael Kelly)
Hollywood believes President Bill Clinton. And has always believed him. Hollywood believed it when Clinton said he had never been drafted in the Vietnam War and believed him later when Clinton said he had merely “forgotten to mention” that he had been drafted in the Vietnam War.
Hollywood believed him when Clinton he said he hadn’t had sex with Gennifer Flowers and believed him later, when Clinton reportedly said he did bed her down.
Hollywood believes the president did not rent out the Lincoln Bedroom to celebrities, did not sell access to himself and the vice president to hundreds of well-heeled special pleaders and did not supervise the largest, most systematic money-laundering operation in campaign finance history, collecting more than $ 3 million in illegal and improper donations.
Hollywood believes that Charlie Trie and James Riady were motivated by nothing but patriotism for their adopted country.
Hollywood believed President Clinton when he conceded that his administration mistakenly obtained the FBI files of more than 300 people, including many top Republicans and believes it was the result of a “completely honest bureaucratic snafu” involving security clearances.
Hollywood believed Clinton’s chief of staff, Leon Panetta, when he told reporters that “obviously a mistake was made” and apologized to the people whose FBI files wound up at the White House. Hollywood believed Clinton when he said “I completely support” what my COS Panetta said about the affair.
Hollywood believed Vice President Gore when he said that he had made dunning calls to political contributors “on a few occasions” from his White House office, and believed him when he said that, actually, “a few” meant 46.
Hollywood devoutly believes in no controlling legal authority....but not for Nixon or Trump.
Hollywood believed Bruce Babbitt when he said that the $286,000 contributed to the DNC by Indian tribes opposed to granting a casino license to rival tribes had nothing to do with his denial of the license. Hollywood believed the secretary when he said that he had not been instructed in this matter by then-White House deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes.
Hollywood believed him when he said later that he had told lobbyist and friend Paul Eckstein that Ickes had told him to move on the casino decision, but that he had been lying to Eckstein.
Hollywood agreed with the secretary that it is an outrage that anyone would question his integrity.
Hollywood firmly believes in the “Clinton Standard” of adherence to the nation’s campaign finance and bribery laws, enunciated by the president on March 7, 1997: “I don’t believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I had changed government policy solely because of a contribution.”
All of Hollywood’s accomplished wordsmiths noted with approval the use of the word “evidence” and also the use of the word “solely.”
Hollywood believes, as Clinton does, that it is proper to change government policy to address the concerns of people who have given the president money, as long as nobody can find evidence of this being the “sole” reason.
Hollywood believes president Clinton lived up to his promise to preside over the most ethical administration in American history that indicted former agriculture secretary Mike Espy did not accept $35,000 in illegal favors from Tyson Foods and other regulated businesses.
Hollywood believes that indicted former housing secretary Henry Cisneros did not lie to the FBI and tell others to lie to cover up $250,000 in blackmail payments to his former mistress.
Hollywood believes that convicted former associate attorney general Webster Hubbell was not involved in the obstruction of justice when the president’s minions arranged for Hubbell to receive $ 400,000 in sweetheart consulting deals at a time when he was reneging on his promise to cooperate with Kenneth Starr’s Whitewater investigation.
Hollywood believes, as Harvey Weinstein does, that Paula Jones is a cheap tramp who was asking for it, that Kathleen Willey is a cheap tramp who was asking for it, and that Monica Lewinsky is a cheap tramp who was asking for it.
Hollywood firmly believes Monica Lewinsky was “just fantasizing” in her 20 hours of taped conversation in which she reportedly detailed her sexual relationship with the president and begged Linda Tripp to join her in lying about the relationship and that any gifts, correspondence, telephone calls and the 37 post-employment White House visits that may have passed between Lewinsky and the president are evidence only of a platonic relationship.
Hollywood believes, as all casting directors do, that such innocent intimate friendships are quite common between middle-aged married men and young single women, and also between presidents of the United States and White House interns.
Hollywood sees nothing suspicious in the report that the
president’s intimate pal, Vernon Jordan, arranged a $40,000-per-year job for Lewinsky shortly after she signed but before she filed an affidavit saying she had not had sex with the president.
Nor do the investigative reporter read anything into the fact that the ambassador to the United Nations, Bill Richardson, visited Lewinsky at the Watergate to offer her a job.
Hollywood authors and screenwriters believe the instructions Lewinsky gave Linda Tripp informing her on how to properly perjure herself in the Willey matter simply wrote themselves.
Hollywood believes, as does Hillary, that The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Newsweek, Time, U.S. News & World Report, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, PBS and NPR are all part of a vast right-wing conspiracy to get the saintly Clintons.
Jimmy Kimmel has become as sanctimonious and insufferable as that whacko actor
Shia LaBeouf.
Too little, too late. They've already shown their hand in the past and have screwed the pooch. Anyone think they've changed? Nope.
Besides, who wants to support evil, pedophile, anti-american, hateful perverts?
What's not to love?
Start by firing Jimmy Kimmel. But still too late.
As a rule, viewers don’t return to the shows they’ve dropped.
I’ll watch till Jimmy Kimmel arrives with armed security, scolds me for not paying his kid’s medical bills and for owning a gun, and then I can go to bed thankful for being put in my place by a sanctimonious multi-millionaire.
I choose seinfeld
I’m hoping for a tribute to classic shooting scenes starting with The Wild Bunch.
There are no Movie Stars left in my opinion, at least not still acting. Once upon a time Stars didn't use their celebrity to push extremist political views.
Simply having Kimmel host it automatically makes it political.
guilty on all counts. BTW I think it was 900 FBI files.
Two things are guaranteed: 1) It will by hyper-political, and; 2) The ratings will dive.
“It should also be a giant commercial for the movie business, which we all need to keep going,”
Yeah, a business that produces a vile product that insults most of its intended customers.
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