REGINA KING POWERWALK ???????
Posted on 04/25/2021 10:28:32 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
The 93rd Annual Academy Awards were always going to look a little different than past years due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
In the opening moments, last year's Best Supporting Actress winner, Regina King, grabbed a statue from outside of Los Angeles Union Station and strode inside in full power-walk mode, while the names of all the night's presenters — including Ocean's star Brad Pitt — popped up onscreen like the opening credits of a blockbuster motion picture. It was the producers' way of driving home the message of a PSA that played before the ceremony: "The Big Screen Is Back."
King did steal the show's opening moments with a non-quite monologue that referenced current events and explained the evening ahead. "It has been quite a year, and we're still smack dab in the middle of it," the director the thrice-nominated One Night in Miami said, before discussing a subject that was upmost in people's minds. Not the pandemic, but the recent outcome of the closely watched George Floyd trial that resulted in former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin being found guilty of second and third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.
"I have to be honest: If things had gone differently this past week in Minneapolis, I might have traded in my heels for marching boots," King said about that verdict, urging viewers at home not to click away at the mere mention of something political. "I know many of you want to reach for your remote when you feel Hollywood is preaching to you, but as the mother of a Black son who fears for his safety, no fame or fortune changes that."
And that intro is how a true King does it.
(Excerpt) Read more at aol.com ...
Haven’t watched them in years so interesting to see they have only gotten worse.
REGINA KING POWERWALK ???????
You won’t see many masks because most of it is virtual. I’m hoping they beat the record for lowest rated awards show in history.
The Oscarreds.
95% of the commercials were black actors
Sid and Marty Kroft are designing dresses for Oscar night now?
Last week they said that the attendees would be putting their masks on during the commercial breaks. Because that’s what Covid-19 agreed to, a bit of a truce I guess.
Oscars 2021 tortured viewers for more than 3 unbearable hours
https://nypost.com/2021/04/26/oscars-2021-tortured-viewers-for-more-than-3-unbearable-hours/
She does care commercials for Cadillac. Wonder how the car company feels about her now....
care should be car
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“I have to be honest: If things had gone differently this past week in Minneapolis, I might have traded in my heels for marching boots,” King said about that verdict, urging viewers at home not to click away at the mere mention of something political. “I know many of you want to reach for your remote when you feel Hollywood is preaching to you, but as the mother of a Black son who fears for his safety, no fame or fortune changes that.”
If I had watched it, which I didn’t, this is as far as I would gave gotten. The only thing correct about this statement is I would have reached for the remote.
Wouldn't have gotten any further . . . PATHETIC!
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“They talked, and talked, and talked, and when we finally reached the In Memoriam, beloved lost Hollywood royalty like Sean Connery, Boseman, Ennio Morricone, Carl Reiner, Christopher Plummer and Cloris Leachman were sped through like an afterthought.”
Sometimes that’s the best part of the show. I used to watch the Oscars just for that segment but for the past several years I just look it up on the web later. Here it is;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRbfMvLO118
No applause or time for it. By the time one could start clapping they move on the next actor.
One of the most 1984-esque lies of modern times is telling us how beautiful these people are when they are really quite horrid.
What rubbish! It used to be the thing, now it’s just a thing, easily forgotten.
LOL, listening to my morning radio station.
Two presenters tried so hard to put lipstick on that pig of a show. They ran through programming on other channels, all dogs.
They tossed to the traffic guy, who I understand recovered from some serious illness. He has zero PC circuits stopping him from saying whatever is on his mind.
Traffic dude admits he watched less than 10 minutes from the start, and could not stomach what he viewed so he turned off the TV.
Can’t have folks remembering great movies from years ago and comparing to the current crap they offer up
Chinese Communist head Xi (center) in LA schmoozed Hollywood bigwigs and their errand boys, Chris Dodd and then-VP Joe Biden....
In this 2012 photo, President Xi Jinping, (then CCP vice president), speaks with then-LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa while Jerry Brown, then governor of California, watching a game between the Lakers and the Suns at Staples Center. At top right is Jeffrey Katzenberg, then-CEO of DreamWorks Animation, who used his ties to California politicians — and to then-VP Joe Biden — to lobby Xi for Hollywood's access to the Chinese market. (Allen J. Schaben/LAT)
NOTE WELL: Former US Senator Chris Dodd is Biden's best friend.......and is especially well-connected. After swimming in The Swamp, in 2011 Dodd then went to Hollywood to become the Motion Picture Association of America chairman— Hollywood's top lobbyist — representing the six major studios.
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How "man of the people" Joe Biden won friends, votes and donations in Hollywood
by helping money-hungry movieland studios get their movie productions into China
By EVAN HALPER, LA TIMES STAFF WRITER , JULY 18, 2019
WASHINGTON — When then-Vice President Joe Biden hosted Chinese leader Xi Jinping for a five-day diplomatic blitz in 2012, a Hollywood Democratic mega-donor kept popping up with them. There was Jeffrey Katzenberg, then the head of DreamWorks Animation, dining alongside Xi, the then-vice president of China, at a State Department welcome lunch in Washington. And there he was again, standing just behind Xi, then-Gov. Jerry Brown and then-Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa at a Lakers game in Los Angeles. And there was Katzenberg hanging out in a nearby hallway with Disney CEO Robert Iger to provide last-minute counsel as Biden closed a deal in which China committed to considerably expand its market for American films.
On the final day of Xi’s visit, Dreamworks announced Xi had signed off on the company’s own deal — the launching of Oriental DreamWorks, a $330-million joint venture with Chinese companies to develop and distribute animated films in China.
Several of the candidates vying for the Democratic presidential nomination have significant support in Hollywood — Katzenberg, for example, has kicked in $2,800 each to 14 of them already — but none has as long a history of delivering for the industry as Biden. His deep ties to studio executives and decades-long advocacy for their agenda has helped cement Biden’s support even as it may also open him to criticism for too cozy a relationship with big donors.
CIRCA 2019 Candidate Biden is returning to Hollywood this week for another round of fundraisers, including the second Biden event co-hosted by Katzenberg and leaders of several major studios. Biden’s first Southern California fundraiser, which Katzenberg co-hosted in May, netted more than $700,000 in one night.
“Joe Biden was our champion inside the White House,” said former Sen. Christopher Dodd, who went to Hollywood and led the Motion Picture Assn. of America for much of the Obama era. “There is no question about it. Even before Joe Biden decided to run, I would get calls and have conversation with the major studio figures, with them saying, ‘You tell Vice President Biden 100% we want him to run.’ This wasn’t waiting around to see who would do well in polls.”
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