and this outrage from 1996.
Oscars? Really? We’re trying to save the free world here and you post film award ‘oddities’? I’m kinda offended.
They’ll do it again on Sunday when they give the Best Actor to that French guy instead of Gary Oldman.
and this outrage from 1996.
I don’t think I’ve watched an Oscar show for 20 years. Maybe 30 years. I’m not sure.
They used to be given to the most influential Hollywood insiders or their candidates. Now, they are almost purely political. Those few movies that are worth seeing almost never win anything.
Julia Roberts, Gwyneth Paltrow, Charlize Theron...
Brilliant stars, not great actors...
I couldn't agree more. Everything about Forest Gump was wretched. It was so ridiculous I couldn't even sit through it, and left after the first hour.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN0xK6bgQkQ
Story:
With help from his friends, a Memphis pimp in a mid-life crisis attempts to become a successful hip-hop emcee.
That this disgusting filth won wide acclaim and an Oscar is proof that the Libs have turned America into a cesspool.
Thanks, thanks, thanks for posting this! (Do I sound like an Oscar recipient?)
Everyone, go to the link and watch Steve Lawrence and Sammy Davis’ routine, it’s great!
They are two of my all time faves, OddLane you really made my day with this thread! (I saw Steve & Edie in Las Vegas, still sooooo happy I did that!)
And the story is good too, I remember the Snow White debacle, it seems they didn’t get permission from Disney, I think that is pretty well a Cardinal Sin in Hollywood, and it was really bad too!
What a great post, I’ll be playing that vid for hubby tomorrow before the show.
Once again this year we’ve seen NONE of the movies!
All you had to know about The Academy was when The Passion wasn’t nominated for Best Picture..it’s one of the greatest works of art the past 20 years.
That's number one.
The Oscars would be watchable if it was an hour long show. Ditch most of the categories where there is little interest. Have a separate luncheon for them like they do for other technical awards. Announce them quickly and move on. Have a couple of production numbers and do at most a dozen awards (probably less) quickly and efficiently. A 3 to 4 hour marathon where you stay up past midnight in the eastern time zone is no longer on my schedule. I will read about it the next morning.