NAZI propagandist Leni Riefenstahl was honored and Joan Rivers was stiffed. Very telling of Hollyweird's politics. Same as when they sat on their hands as Elia Kazan was honored.
Posted on 02/22/2015 8:26:18 PM PST by Steelfish
Hollywood's major studios can stay in business making movies that make no money because they have 100 years of back product (85 years of talking, alone) that they can sell on DVD, show on pay-tv (cable), license to broadcast tv, license for advertising, etc. BILLIONS of dollars every year from works that should have lapsed into the public domain decades ago.
Any upstart studio that hopes to enter the market does not have this luxury and must be more responsive to the ticket buying public, boycotts, etc. And that is IF you can even secure distribution to the theater chains for your truly independent film.
It's called a monopoly and it used to be prohibited but Big Media pwns the Democrat party and lobbies the GOP as well.
NAZI propagandist Leni Riefenstahl was honored and Joan Rivers was stiffed. Very telling of Hollyweird's politics. Same as when they sat on their hands as Elia Kazan was honored.
Gay for pay. There is still a casting couch in Hollyweird and it goes AC/DC.
Too bad Richard Pryor wasn't still alive to fill him in.
Without prison sentences, what would rappers do to show they have ‘street cred’?
What year did NAZI propagandist Leni Riefenstahl join the Academy?
http://articles.latimes.com/2004/mar/08/entertainment/et-counterpunch8
Shaking his head over Oscar nod to Nazi auteur
March 08, 2004|Doug McIntyre
“She [Riefenstahl] was there because she was an artist and she’s gone. She had a greatness to her and she had amazing longevity.” So said producer Sid Ganis, a vice president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, in the New York Daily News. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer was more specific: “She was a genius, and her movies were innovative and still copied today.... When I was making commercials years ago, I remember one where the director stole directly from ‘Triumph of the Will.’ “ And Sir Elton John said it for the ages: “Yes, Hitler was evil [but] ... she was a great filmmaker, and as an artist myself, I think she deserved to be there.”
...The academy can’t acknowledge everyone who dies in a given year. The names of more than 400 notables, I’m told, were submitted to the academy for inclusion in the “In Memoriam” tribute. Ganis’ comment to the New York Daily News is telling: “There was no special debate whatsoever in the decision to include her on the list.”
If you don't tow the party line, you are out of work.
What films did Maya Angelou make?
There are probably more Americans with DWI charges on their records now than under Prohibition as well.
Not all comparisons can be made strictly on numbers but it sounds good as a tweet or bumpersticker.
They honored leni?
Oh My.
She ‘directed’ one movie (and one tv episode) after she became famous during the Clinton error.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0142231/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_1
Her name had become buzzworthy.
She certainly wasn’t KNOWN as a director.
And she was in Roots (a tv-play)
Poetic Justice
How To Make An American Quilt
Madea’s Family Reunion
HARDLY a notable acting career worthy of recognition.
My voting rights are compromised every time a Democrat stuffs a ballot box with fraudulent votes. Dead voters, more people registered in a district than even live there, absentee voters who weren’t the ones who filled out the card...
Mandela told South Africans to get an ID, get registered, and go vote.
Nothing racist about providing proof of identity for each ballot cast.
Have you seen the Grammys’ spoken word category? Conservatives need not apply.
There IS a blacklist in Hollywood. It isn’t discussed in academia or the media.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Spoken_Word_Album
I saw on another thread they left out Harold Ramis too.
She wrote a screenplay for Georgia, and directed something called Down in the Delta. In both instances it was supposed to be some “first” for a black woman whose first name starts with “M” or something like that.
Joan Rivers acted in a couple dozen films. Some were ‘silly’, but not all.
You're in good company. That global warming blowhard, alBore, got an Oscar for his lying, falsified documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, since proven to be a big hoax. Apparently one doesn't have to do anything to get these awards except to be on the left side of the political fence.
Congratulations for your non-achievement award. We know you’re not the first scientist who colonized Mars, but you did stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night, right?....Didn’t you?
Proudly displayed on my mantle as we correspond..
And Yes, it was delightful.... :):)
I painted a bathroom while listening since it seemed no big deal to me.
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