Posted on 02/01/2006 2:38:50 AM PST by jimbo123
"Brokeback Mountain" and a slew of other arty, less-widely seen Oscar-nominated flicks are expected to take the polish off ABC's ratings for the Academy Awards this year.
With no big-budget films like "Titanic," "Gladiator" or "Lord of the Rings: Return of the King" in this season's crop of nominees, ABC may be staring down the barrel of one of the lowest-rated Oscar telecasts in recent memory when it airs on March 5, say TV-industry analysts.
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Chances are I will be watching either Hockey or college basketball while this stuff is on :)
Gotta have my sports. It's just about all I watch.
What about "Walk the Line?" Johnny Cash was a devout Christian as well as a tough SOB. And while Truman Capote was definately a homosexual, the movie isn't about that element of his life...it's not like he tried to hide it too hard.
I don't think Heath Ledger should beat out Joachin Phoenix or Phillip Seymour Hoffman for Best Actor, nor do I think the movie was better than the previously mentioned flics (nor was it better than "A History of Violence") But, since Terrence Malik is hated by a large assortment of Hollywood, Brokeback will probably win for cinematography and best adapted story, and stuff of that nature.
$51 million? That's it?! The way the media portrays "Brokeback Mountain" it's the greatest blockbuster since "Gone With The Wind".
Oscar was
Yes, it means you are metrosexual. Not quite gay, but not quite straight either.
Everything related to the Gay agenda is tuned out. Do you want your kids to watch a bunch of perverts, as role models, from Hollywood? They want society to decay.
I found it odd as well. But nobody really saw Cinderella Man, which is strange, considering how well received it was by critics and that the story was about the trials of one family, as well as the developing America of the 30's.
But if you're going to make a feel good movie I guess it has to be about a half-retarded man with the greatest run of luck in the history of mankind.
That is a really good idea...though I can't think of that many off hand--but surely there has to be at least a few days' worth.
That's a good point. Four hours of slow music and congratulating.
Truman Capote made no effort, at least as an adult, to hide his homosexuality. In fact, even by todays standard, he would be considered a unrepentant flaming queer ... Barny Frank would look straight by comparison.
Philadelphia was an excellent movie and Hanks deserved his award.
CS Lewis wasn't Catholic, he was Anglican.
Yeah, I don't know why I wrote "Catholic"; Tolkien and Chesterton were Catholic...either way, he was definately was a "Christian" writer by the time he got around to writing that trilogy.
No problem. All the kool-aid drinkers on the brink of suicide after the cancelation of the west-wing restroom and the artistic garbage called commander in chief will put down their granola bars and click over to the dubachery awards.
And, once again I mispoke. The Narnia books were not a trilogy, instead consisting of "sept parties". The trilogy was his Ransom Trilogy.
I tuned out a loooooong time ago.
I don't even know what channel on my dial is ABC.
Absolutely a Christian. In fact, he was one of the greatest Christian minds of the 20th Century. :-)
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