How Gay Will Oscar Go?

LA Weekly ^ | 2/1/06 | Nikkie Finke

[SoFloFreeper]

Given that it's Oscar time, I nominate the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for Best Bunch of Hypocrites. That’s because this year’s dirty little secret is the anecdotal evidence pouring in to me about hetero members being unwilling to screen Brokeback Mountain. For a community that takes pride in progressive values, it’s shameful that Hollywood’s homophobia may be on a par with Pat Robertson’s.

Despite the hype you’re reading in the press and on the Internet about Brokeback, with its eight nominations, being the supposed favorite to take home the Best Picture Oscar on March 5, Crash could end up winning. The issue isn’t which film is better. The issue is more like which movie was seen by the Academy. Frankly, I find horrifying each whispered admission to me from Academy members who usually pose as social liberals that they’re disgusted by even the possibility of glimpsing simulated gay sex. Earth to the easily offended: This movie has been criticized for being too sexually tame. Hey, Academy, what are you worried about: that you’ll turn gay or, worse, get a stiffie by just the hint of hunk-on-hunk action?

[hsalaw]

in-the-cellar ratings because of the celeb polemics, the lack of blockbusters among the nominees, host Jon Stewart bitch-slapping Dubya, Dick Cheney and parent company Disney’s CEO Bob Iger.

Somebody gets it.

[MadCharity]

[coffee260]

"Sodomy On the Range".

ROTFLMAO

[Carl LaFong]

Or, Joan and Melissa Rivers will be interviewing gerbils.

[TheForceOfOne]

How Gay Will Oscar Go?


I hear Big Gay Al will host the show.

[Spok]

All five films nominated for best picture have politically correct themes. Hollywood, like the MSM, has abandoned all priorities for the political agenda. It's the nature of the left to place the 'cause' above all else, including morality and decency, as it can then justify lies, murder and torture. For a refresher, see 'Dr. Zhivago'.

[Billthedrill]

Oh, I dunno...this gay?

[mel]

Let's get original here for a change, that line has been used repeatedly :)

[Jim Noble]

For a community that takes pride in progressive values, it’s shameful that Hollywood’s homophobia may be on a par with Pat Robertson’s

Interesting way to put it.

What exactly about sodomy makes it a "progressive value"?

[popdonnelly]

"Who's Oscar?"

Hollyweird's excuse to throw a big party for itself.

[Richard Kimball]

There's a good marking point calculating the insanity of this author. The author implies that there is something wrong with people who don't want to watch homosexual sex.

[massgopguy]

What's going to be more annoying, the hoopla after it wins, or the Mydolfest when it loses?

[TChris]

I have an uncle named Oscar. Perhaps it is time to give him a call!

[Old Professer]

I wonder if Nikkie is a likkie or a stikkie?

[longtermmemmory]

This is "la" damage control to IMPLY the homosexual porn film will not reaaaaaaly win.

The nomination alone killed oscar and replaced him with "othcar"

[harpu]

"How Gay Will Oscar Go?"

EXCUSE ME but that would be; "How Gay Has Oscar Gone?", followed-up with the 2nd question; "Who Gives a RATS ARSE but those in Hollyweird?!?"

[Brett66]

I now view all of these awards to be basically an award to how gay and/or PC a film is.

[LexBaird]

In related news, doctors in Los Angeles are reporting high incidence of a new medical syndrome. Symptoms include severely deteriorated shoulder joints, blood loss, spontaneous lobotomization, and secondary lips and noses growing on the back of the skull.

It is believed to be caused by simultaneously patting your own back, having a bleeding heart, an "open" mind, and two-faced hypocrisy.

Doctors suspect that the "Celebrity Syndrome" is closely related to "Moore's Malady", except the sufferers display anorexia instead of extreme obesity.

[Lizavetta]

Hey, Academy, what are you worried about: that you’ll turn gay or, worse, get a stiffie by just the hint of hunk-on-hunk action?

Or that they'll feel the same revulsion as if they were watching mother-son 'action'.

I suspect that's the third option that no one will admit.

[COBOL2Java]

Who's Oscar?

I think he was the baby in "Ghostbusters II"...