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Life Not Beautiful for ABC's Oscars (Dinosaur Media DeathWatchâ„¢)
Ad Week ^ | February 16, 2009 | Anthony Crupi

Posted on 02/16/2009 4:54:32 AM PST by abb

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To: scrabblehack
There’s no Bush to grandstand against this year. ____________________________ $5 says you're wrong.
61 posted on 02/16/2009 9:12:07 AM PST by Joan Kerrey
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To: GOPJ

Why watch a bunch of naifs, liberal whine and cheese patrons congratulate themselves on their anti-American films? I could care less about them and their hatred. I pray ABC tanks in the ratings and no one watches this show of idolatry .


62 posted on 02/16/2009 10:08:46 AM PST by phillyfanatic ( iT)
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To: abb

Are they still handing out those expensive SWAG bags to the stars who announce? When are they going to realize we want our actors to be mysterious and standing up and giving political statements is a huge turnoff to half the country.


63 posted on 02/16/2009 10:09:18 AM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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To: abb

I’m watching just to see Hugh Jackman. Everyone else can piss off.


64 posted on 02/16/2009 10:09:48 AM PST by rintense (Go Israel!)
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To: GOPJ

I hope Slum Dog beats out all the big-name movies for the oscar...


65 posted on 02/16/2009 10:09:58 AM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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To: SkyPilot

Yaaaaaeeeeeeccccchhhhh! Did you have to post THAT here? ***shudder***


66 posted on 02/16/2009 10:17:44 AM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: abb

I thought the oscars was this weekend

I was busy watching PBS remake of Oliver Twist on masterpiece theater classic


67 posted on 02/16/2009 10:50:34 AM PST by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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To: RJS1950
The last time I remember watching even part of the Oscars was in 1975 when the morons got up and praised the Khmer Rouge as the “true liberators” of Cambodia.

Seriously? I was only 4 then. But I used to work with some Cambodian guys...the stories they told of the Khmer Rouge were something hideous.

Is there a murdering Communist thugocracy that liberals DON'T like?

68 posted on 02/16/2009 12:07:46 PM PST by Claud
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To: abb
In recent years, I haven't seen most of the movies nominated. But this year, I happened to have been friends with a movie critic who let me watch screener DVDs with her, so I can actually have an informed opinion. And here it is:

"Doubt" was probably my favorite of the movies that got major nominations, but I don't think it's nominated for best picture. "Slumdog" was really good, and of the ones nominated, it's definitely the most deserving to win, even though I didn't like it as much as a lot of people apparently did. I liked "The Wrestler" better, but again, it wasn't even nominated. "Frost/Nixon" had excellent performances and was more sympathetic to Nixon than I expected, but could've been a made-for-TV movie. "Benjamin Button" has excellent cinematography, amazing special effects, and otherwise no reason to exist. It's an overlong script with boring, cliched, one-dimensional characters who live through an extraordinary situation and yet have absolutely nothing interesting to say about it. It's like "Forrest Gump" with all the humor, insight and originality removed and replaced with a completely unwarranted sense of self-importance. "Milk" is the only one I haven't seen, but I assume it will win everything because it's about a real-life homosexual leftwing political activist who was murdered for being gay. If the voters can stop having orgasms long enough to mark their ballots, it's a sure winner.

If the nominators had any taste or sense, "Slumdog" and "The Wrestler" would be the only movies mentioned above that I've seen that were nominated for Best Picture. Maybe "Doubt," but that's doubtful.

69 posted on 02/16/2009 1:06:51 PM PST by HHFi
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70 posted on 02/16/2009 1:50:31 PM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: Joan Kerrey
There’s no Bush to grandstand against this year. ____________________________ $5 says you're wrong.

There'll be plenty of speeches offering homage to our new President...a new day has dawned, etc.

Collectively, they're not nearly as wise as my 6 YO son, who said on Friday, "how come Barack Obama had to be elected the first black president, when there are so many other black men who would be better presidents?"

71 posted on 02/16/2009 1:55:44 PM PST by Night Hides Not (Don't blame me...I voted for Palin!)
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To: Milhous; sionnsar

http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/2009/02/those_times_p-i_sucking_sounds.php
Those Times, P-I Death Rattles

http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=a99bf9c2-ea49-4acd-a06a-8ed7415311e5
MSM, RIP

http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=a4e2aafc-cc92-4e79-90d1-db3946a6d119
Goodbye to the Age of Newspapers (Hello to a New Era of Corruption)

http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=426c08c4-93ac-434b-b45c-a1f0b28013a3
The Morgue

http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=08947a22-9d7c-4a7a-8962-4d22e18420d3
Anchors Away


72 posted on 02/16/2009 2:30:48 PM PST by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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To: phillyfanatic
It'll be boring - and leftist. It always is...

Hollywood can sell sex to 14 year old boys and violence to the world's lowlifes... and we're suppose to be impressed?

I'm looking forward to computer generated "actors"...

73 posted on 02/16/2009 2:50:42 PM PST by GOPJ (A person who will lie for you, will also lie against you.)
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