Posted on 01/05/2008 5:51:55 PM PST by seanmerc
Clooney boycott threat to OscarsJohn Harlow THE Hollywood star George Clooney is being credited with inspiring an actors’ boycott against film award ceremonies that threatens to reduce next weekend’s Golden Globe Awards to a shambles and is jeopardising the most important event in the Hollywood calendar, next month’s Oscars.
This weekend the Screen Actors Guild announced that the 70 actors shortlisted for awards at the Globes will not be attending the ceremony in sympathy with scriptwriters who have been on strike for two months.
Officially, television network NBC, which splits millions of advertising dollars with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, organiser of the Globes, says the show will go on. Both bodies said on Friday they were in “an extremely difficult position” and would try to woo the actors back.
Behind the scenes NBC is split between those who are in despair seeking to salvage the festival and those raging at the “disloyalty” of actors.
Special ire is reserved for Clooney, 46. “We know Clooney is a major force behind this decision. He has been earbashing others who may have been willing to cross picket lines,” said one NBC executive.
Sources close to Clooney have laughed at the image of “Red George” as a strike-organiser. “He does not earbash, he is far too easy-going for that,” said a business associate.
Remember when the baseball players bit the proverbial hand which fed them?
My, my What the movie stars don’t know!
( was that a simpson character that said that? )
I don’t watch the Oscars. I haven’t in many years. I doubt I will notice the difference.
Go ahead georgie boy just stay in your villa in Italy, because no body gives a rat’a rear end what you do & or think!
this should humble the “stars” when there is no outcry and no one misses the Oscar show. ha.
Yawna dawna ding dong
>>Oh my! Whatever will we do?<<
This puts the pressure exactly where they want it - on the studios - they care about awards shows. The actors will still get the awards they just won’t be there and I don’t give a damn whether they show up or not.
NOOOOOOO!!!!
I will boycott too. I would have anyway, because I never watch it, but now I can feel even more smug about it.
He has no talent. He has his ‘click’. They all sit it out... What an idiot. Laughable of course but pompous and offensive by any measure of speculation.
If Clooney isn’t there, I just might sit down and watch this year.
Few outside people are going to be outraged or even give a tinker’s damn.
I’m willing to bet a few Tinseltown execs have long memories...
The only thing I can think of to say about this sounds a lot like WHO THE HELL CARES?
I’ve been boycotting the Oscars for years. Maybe Clooney will cause them to have a Broke Back.
That just means more time with his boyfriend.
no loss, the show will go on with or without the idiot.
sniff
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