Posted on 02/27/2005 9:54:03 AM PST by Hillary's Lovely Legs
They have no privacy, they have endless worries about their next job, they have to obsess about their appearance.
Sometimes I really do think about feeling sorry for them. Then I think again. They simply forgot to read the fine print before they took the path to celebrity status.
I wouldn't speculate on that since it didn't happen, and Clint has said he doesn't glorify it.....you may think Hollywood does but I don't think Clint does....did you see Schindler's List......do you think it glorified killing Jews just cause the director or producer chose the film, no, but becuase the WHOLE story was compelling......I don't say you have to like the end, but speculating on Clint's motives is just that.....speculating ......
Yeah that's true.
Borges, man, what a beautiful night this was!
The 77th Oscar ceremony was, on the whole, spectacular. Coming in at a tight (for the Oscars, that is) three hours or so, producer Gil Cates managed to fit in not one but TWO moving tributes, a few surprisingly good songs (who knew such a beautiful song came from such a loathsome film as the Motorcycle Diaries?), an often hilarious opening stand-up act by Chris Rock (though I could have done without the Bush-bashing, the ONLY Bush bashing of the entire night I might add to the naysayers here on FR), a few wonderful acceptance speeches by the winners, AND a hilarious little "presentation" by the animated costume designer from the Incredibles.
The Academy voters may not have made any MAJOR surprises tonight, but their top selection showed that their minds, hearts, and taste were all in the right place tonight.
Everything was as it should be, I think.
The two Best written films of the night, Sideways and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, won the two Screenplay awards, and I let out a whoop of joy whenever the absolute genius Charlie Kaufmann won an Oscar for his mind-bending Eternal Sunshine script.
I would have preferred Virginia Madsen win for Sideways instead of Cate Blanchett in the Aviator, but who can deny the wonderful feeling they got when Morgan Freeman, one of our greatest living actors, FINALLY won his golden man, for his riveting work as the one-eyed ex-boxer in Million Dollar Baby? Somebody tell me why Morgan isn't getting paid the twenty million per film that Adam Sandler and Cameron Diaz are. Who deserves it more than he?
Jamie Foxx and Hilary Swank for Best Actor and Actress? Hell yeah! Foxx makes you sing out loud with the power and passions of brother Ray Charles, and Hilary Swank is so perfect in MDB that I can't even imagine another actress with the role of Maggie Fitzgerald.
And when the effortlessly engrossing, deeply realistic (the first time I saw it I forgot I was even watching a movie), and devastatingly moving (I still can't stop thinking about the ending...) Million Dollar Baby took home the Best Picture prize, I fely like little David had slew the mighty, grandiose giant that was the Aviator through nothing but the sheer force of it's beauty, not to mention a little great word of mouth.
Sorry, Marty. Lord knows you deserve a boatload of little golden statuettes (and you should have won for Goodfellas, Raging Bull, and GONY), but I just can't fault the Academy for going with Clint Eastwood this year. Damn, but MDB was good! And it WAS Clint's "baby" after all. So much care went into crafting MDB, yet so little BS that Eastwood deserves the Oscar for making the film as muscular and powerful as Maggie's left jab. The Aviator's not the one, Mr. Scorsese. Maybe next year...
In fact, I feel so damn good right now that I think I'll just send this one post off to you, turn off this computer that I just turned on in the first place and go right to bed happy, leaving my loaded mailbox of friendly-fire venom for another day.
Keep on "Kicking against the pricks" for me Borges, and to movie fans all over the world I say: THIS WAS YOUR NIGHT, and I hope you enjoyed it.
Goodnight.
"Clint plays a troubled believer. Hardly anti Catholic."
How is it NOT anti-Catholic when he MURDERS his trainee????
I am astounded that people cannot see this simple fact!
Ed
no....in the end the Indian guy smothered Jack Nicholson with a pillow after his lobotomy......it wasn't glorifying the act....it was following the story line like the book. Seems like even conservatives here get too PC also...too many seeing "dead people"
I think a lot of men who cheat on their wives love their wives.
They just can't resist or the wife is out to lunch.
I would guess more men cheat than leave their wives from what I've seen in almost 50 solar orbits.
As for the gals...used to be most of them cheated looking to leave.
It's expensive to leave one's wife and rough on the spawn.
I do know wives who have lost interest and don't mind discretion if properly compensated. That would be the jaded view.
Oh well...what do I know.
Well, it IS late -- I get MY wires crossed when I'm tired myself.
I think we are psychically connected, because I almost lost it watching House of Sand and Fog. It was relentlessly miserable, and I can deal with that, but it has to be for something more important than just saying "American people suck sometimes!" The whole episode with the shooting was another of those "Gimme a break" moments. This was two hours of nonstop pointless misery, and at the end I wanted to ask the director when I could come over to his house and talk about how miserable life was for two hours and ruin HIS evening.
a nice gift for all who do wrong knowing it's wrong.
i used to be rather blessed with that talent myself.
"I think a lot of men who cheat on their wives love their wives."
What?
haha.....do you see "dead people" too.....just cause a film ends the way the story was written doesn't mean it glorified it.....Schindler's List killed alot of Jews, do you think they were glorifying it??????
I think you have it about right, but I don't know much either.
I bet you that I am about as un-PC as any FReeper and I see a few on this thread that will vouch for that.
But FR has veered left on the culture war since 9-11-01 and Rathergate ....both big FR membership bumps.
They love their wives but are sometimes slave to their erections when they have them for other wimmin.
What I said dear.
They love their wives but they cheat anyhow.
This stems from Torie's compartmentalization post upthread.
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