Posted on 02/22/2015 10:10:33 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Edited on 02/22/2015 10:27:26 AM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Hollywood (United States) (AFP)
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Thank goodness I’ve never watched the Oscars in my life (Ok, maybe it might have been playing in the background when I was a kid and not paying attention), because you’re right, and my blood pressure couldn’t take it. It will be bad enough reading all the breathless paeans to their stupidity post-Oscar.
If they want this done on percentage of population instead of merit, then they’re in for some frustration now that Hispanics outnumber them.
I have a strong feeling that Hollywood is tired of black people. For many years now they have endured “the obligatory black people” in films, and even those used as “somebody for the villain to kill” have become trite.
Importantly, black people all used to be stereotyped as street thugs and gang bangers, but then a whole group of black actors broke out, each in their own individual typecasting. That is, if a production wants a particular type of character, they may have only one black actor to choose from. A different choice, and they get a completely different character.
Only a few white actors can get away with this, and first they must demonstrate they are flexible enough to play radically different roles, before they settle down into, for example, Jack Nicholson, who always plays Jack Nicholson.
Black actors need to evolve into something new. Hollywood is just tired of what they currently are.
Hmmmm.
Separate but equal. Where have I heard that before?
Don’t they have Black Entertainment awards? How come no whites are allowed there? Isn’t that discrimination?
When that time comes....change the rules again.
Regarding your comment
” I’d love to see the protest.
WE GOT THE SHAFT!”
Lyrics for the song Shaft:
Shaft
Song by Isaac Hayes
Shaft
Who’s the black private dick
That’s a sex machine to all the chicks?
(Shaft!)
You’re damn right
Who is the man
That would risk his neck for his brother man?
(Shaft!)
Can ya dig it?
Who’s the cat that won’t cop out
When there’s danger all about
(Shaft!)
Right on
You see this cat Shaft is a bad mother
(Shut your mouth)
But I’m talkin’ about Shaft
(Then we can dig it)
He’s a complicated man
But no one understands him but his woman
(John Shaft)
Why don’t they just give every actor an award for just participating——like some youth sports do?
This makes as much sense as trying to balance the awards based on race.
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We had the USA channel on, in our den, last night. I walked through and saw previews for a show “Glory”. (I think it’s an older movie about a black regiment of the Civil War.)
It looked like a great movie and cast....Denzel Washington (who won an Oscar, for his role), Morgan Freeman, Matthew Broderick...
I was actually going to record/watch until they pre-empted it with a current message from one of the black actors (from the original movie). He said (ad-libbing..don’t recall verbatim) “This movie is even more important, today, because today we STILL have prejudices and racism, in this country”. Changed the channel and turned off the TV, right then and there.
Why not remind viewers of the important role these brave soldiers played? What value they were to the war? No...he focused on TODAY’S racism and prejudice.
LOL, Black people fooled into thinking Oscars actually mean something
“How do you become a Member of the Academy? Do you submit an application? Do you just pay dues? Are you appointed? Do you have to “rush” it like a fraternity?”
Don’t know. Hopefully it’s easier than becoming the Pope. Last time there was an opening for that, they asked me when was the last time I went to church. When I replied “In a previous incarnation” they didn’t even want to see my resume.
They have no shame.
Asians are too busy educating themselves and working to have time for trivial things like The Oscars.
Why waste time on marches when you can earn another degree.
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How about new, special Oscar categories, like "Black Best Black Actor In An Otherwise All-White Drama"?
Good recommendation ...
Look homeward, Angel.
from 2002:
> “He should be on his third Oscar by now, and that might not be enough,” Roberts raved in the current Newsweek magazine in a profile of Washington. The two starred together in 1993’s “The Pelican Brief,” and Roberts, 34, considers him “the best actor of this generation, hands down . . . I cannot absorb living in a world where I have an Oscar for Best Actress, and Denzel doesn’t have one for Best Actor.”
[Julia Roberts Speaks Up for Denzel]
Expect a change next year. It will happen.
I should have identified the book.
It's about Robert Smalls, and it's title is "Yearning to Breath Free" -- by Billingsley.
Happy reading!
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