Posted on 02/10/2020 8:38:59 PM PST by Enterprise
Come friendly bombs and fall on Hollywood, it isn’t fit for doing good. Another year, another dreadful Oscars, another round of moral lectures from the beautiful people. It’s all so tiresome. The only reason most people pay attention to these irritating award ceremonies is precisely so that they can be irritated.
So there was a vegan theme at this year’s Academy Awards. So the show had no host. So Brad Pitt is angry about impeachment. So someone said ‘workers of the world unite’. So Joaquin Phoenix is mad (in all senses) about what mankind is doing to the animal kingdom. So Natalie Portman, in what she called ‘my subtle way’, had the names of the women directors who weren’t nominated for awards sewn into her dress.
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Where’s Ricky Gervais when we need him?
"Ricky Gervais criticizes Oscar speeches that 'lecture everyday, hard working people'
The ancient Romans had the correct view on actors, they considered them degenerate, immoral, and beneath contempt.
Bump!
With many of these actors today, the Romans would have been dead on correct. In the past, agents and studios had more control over actors and they basically told them to shut up. They knew that the actors could ruin their careers and the profit line of the studios if they public knew and heard how stupid they were.
That is basically what Hitchcock thought of actors.
Same thing with athletes. Then came free agency.
And HOW! Some of the athletes reveal that they are not only sub literate, but they have no real understand of the events upon which they pontificate. I sometimes do feel embarrassed for them. But then I remind myself of how much they make, so it entitles them to be publicly ignorant.
recall as a kid watching a national convention, probably around 1968 or 72 they interviewed Elizabeth Taylor and even I could tell she was an idiot, dad said, thats why they read what other people write.
Too bad. She was such a beauty!
Hollyweird makes movies for the Chinese market now, which is one reason that these marxist stooges feel free to trash the U.S.
Harvey Weinstein: “Hollywood has the best moral compass, because it has compassion.”
Funny the very people who make their living imitating others are telling us the real time actors in real life what to think
I know of no one who pays attention to the Insipid, Shallow Hollyweird Elite.
“I’m Giacomo, Giacomo, my fame before me rings. King of jesters, and jester of kings!”
Most actors barely made it to their high school diplomas. Sad that so many people think their opinions are informed.
Not one of them has ever had a straight boogie, so they are not credible in the least
“The pellet with the poison is in the vessel with the pestle.
The Chalice from the palace is the brew that is true!”
(Later)
Hawkins: I’ve got it! I’ve got it! The pellet with the poison’s in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true! Right?
Griselda: Right, but there’s been a change. They broke the chalice from the palace.
Hawkins: They broke the chalice from the palace?!
Griselda: And replaced it with a flagon.
Hawkins: A flagon?
Griselda: With the figure of a dragon.
Hawkins: Flagon with a dragon.
Griselda: Right.
Hawkins: But did you put the pellet with the poison in the vessel with the pestle?
Griselda: No! The pellet with the poison’s in the flagon with the dragon! The vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true!
Hawkins: The pellet with the poison’s in the flagon with the dragon; the vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true.
Griselda: Just remember that.
I realized that I am supporting hollywood by having a movie package on my tv that its mostly the old movies I watch, especially the westerns on Encore. and getting Starz for Outlander. So, story wise, “Once upon a time in Hollywood” is actually a decent movie?
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