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[majordivit]

Why the hell did she have to make it a racial issue!!!???? Sidney did it earlier and I can guarantee should Denzel win, we will hear it again and again and again. It's growing a bit thin and a complete turn off

Don't you know the script by now? They have been complaining for years about first not getting nominated for an award , then not winning the award. Now they win it they tell us that the door was closed all these years and that they should have won awards long ago. They built this country. We just used them... They will never be happy. Next year it will be a black director that doesn't get award and they will complain and will go on and on and on and on and on and on..it's like having a cancer...

[Ganymede]

Ditto!

[gg188]

The Ashcroft story about covering the statue was not true???

I read the piece but lost the link. Photographers were twisting themselves into pretzels to make absolutely sure that in every photograph of Ashcroft they made sure they got the breasts of the statue in the background, like teen boys on the school newspaper pulling one over on the principal or something, yukking it up after school with the homeboys----"HAHAA-----we got the naked titties in the picture with Ashcroft!!! HAHAHA!!!!" I mean, it was something right out of "Animal House" or one of those brain-dead, lowest-common-denominator teen movies. Obviously there was no need to photograph JANET RENO with some other woman's naked breasts in the same picture with her---nothing new or novel there. What would the big deal be?

The only responsible thing the new adults in Washington now could do was put a curtain back-drop up for the photography sessions because they couldn't exactly tell the cameramen what angles to take pictures from, nor could they expect or suggest that these "journalists" act like mature professionals and cut the crap. Ashcroft was too tempting of a target---to tweak this man of the religious right by picturing him with the naked breasts of a woman in the same frame....what a hoot!!! (to a 13 year old or equivalent, I mean.)

[hole_n_one]

Uh oh............

[christine]

When will blacks become just people?

best question of the year! ;)

[rintense]

And the winner is...

Denzel Washington

[mafree]

Hattie McDaniel won a best supporting actress award. Halle is the first Black to win best actress.

[Restorer]

I have two Black parents and she has one, but I consider her no less Black than I am.

Just curious. Are you then a proponent of the "one drop rule?" Are you familiar with its unsavory history?

My father was half Swede and half German, but he didn't identify as a Swede and ignore his German mother.

[mel]

Uma Thurman is going to fall out of that dress

[RummyChick]

okay here we go....will the racist card be played again

[ozaukeemom]

See, you are right, AGAIN!!

[rbmillerjr]

dude the point is not beauty, any guy or woman would admit she is striking,,,,,,but she is a blithering idiot playing the race card......i demand intelligence in my women,,,,,,,errrr my wife.

[jhofmann]

"I love my life" -- why does it always have to be about Julia?

[the irate magistrate]

That was the idiotic babe that was putting on the stupid crying act a few minutes ago..

[rintense]

Her performance was the best so, yes. I am glad she won.

[TexasNative2000]

I stand corrected.

[Moonmad27]

It's not the supposed historical significance that impresses me. For months this has been thought of as a done deal according to the Oscar buzz out here in LA, not because of the quality of her performance but because Berry desperately wanted an Oscar for some film, any film, and campaigned strenuously for it. The historical significance only showed up recently in the Oscar talk when the voting began; who could vote against her in that case?

[StarFan]

Oh no! Here we go again -- two birds in one night. Sheesh.

[Mo1]

Your doing good tonight