Posted on 02/11/2020 7:23:31 AM PST by NRx
Back when the Oscars had some class and largely stayed away from politics. (Bob Hope loved political jokes but they were never mean and he took shots at both parties.) Sadly, today the Oscars has become the greatest collection of flakes outside of the cereal aisle at the supermarket.
Nice clip. Thanks!
Worst is the In Memoriam segment which didn’t mourn some pretty beloved film entertainers. Tim Conway, who earned more in his day for Disney than any of the big winners this year, was not even mentioned.
FTR Alec Guinness won for his role in The Bridge on the River Kwai. Both Lancaster and Douglas might well have been piqued at being snubbed that year given they both turned in some of their best ever performances.
Yet they did include film legend Kobe Bryant.
Amazing that English was Kirk Douglas’s second language. Grew up speaking Yiddish.
By the way, RIP, you old rake.
That was funny.
I thought they said Tony Gwynn at 1st and thought “there was an actor named same as the great baseball player??”
Then they showed him in the audience I I realized they said Tony Quinn. Always knew him and Anthony Quinn.....which was probably really Antonio Quionnez in real life.
Love it
Great post! Thanks. As a singer I was very impressed they both could sing. :D Impressive Kirk son has nothing on him when it comes to handsome. What a class act publicly these men were.
Burt Lancaster was a big time liberal atheist who refused to work with conservatives and turned down the lead role in Ben Hur because of the Christian content. He also refused to play Harry Callahan in “Dirty Harry” because he considered the character to be a fascist.
I remember Burt narrated a war series called “The Unknown War” which presented WWII from the Soviet perspective.
That’s the nice thing about ‘then.’ Actors didn’t feel it necessary to inform us about their politics.
Hollywood has always been very liberal, nothing new. Today’s actors are just more vocal about their Leftism.
I understand why they did Kobe, so recent. And he did somehow win an Oscar.
But to leave out Tim Conway. That was wrong.
More than rake. Hate to be disrespectful but someone made me aware of what he did to Natalie Wood at 16. And it was violent and cruel.
Rumor based on a part he played in Midway.
A lot of us suffered really demeaning behaviors in the bad old days just to try to do our jobs. (btw, I heard some disgusting stories from a friend who is a costume designer in H-wood. Really turned me off the movie business.)
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