Posted on 02/21/2009 10:09:12 AM PST by AJKauf
De-gayify. Oscar wants to rebuild its viewership and it hires as its producer … the guy who made Dreamgirls? If there’s anything Oscar desperately needs, it’s to get rid of its showstopping (i.e., funstopping) song-and-dance numbers. No disrespect to our gay brothers and sisters, but perhaps they can be persuaded to watch even without those excruciating Broadway interludes. And if there were as many gay folks in the country as Oscar seems to think, then gay-themed movies (Brokeback Mountain, Milk, Batman and Robin) would do a lot better at the box office....
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Keitel is the chief on the US version of Life on Mars. I bailed on it quickly, though, when the lead started whining about Gitmo and saying how the ‘60s protesters were “right.”
Oh, and not watching the academy awards, per usual. I will try my damndest to not see the stupid headlines all night, either. I never understood how entertainment awards warrant breaking news status, but if I open my browser to Yahoo! news, it’ll be there all night. Most years, I can get by without ever knowing who or what won at all.
I'm lucky to be "mature" enough to have watched the Academy event in the golden days. This is when Oscars were awarded to great film stars who swept to the podium in all their beauty, handsomeness and vivid dramatic presence.....Betty Davis, Joan Crawford, Rita Hayworth, Ingrid Bergman, Tyrone Power, Errol Flynn, Charleton Heston, Ronald Coleman. Rex Harrison.......you couldn't take your eyes off them.
I don't even know half the male and female scrags who will "star" in this year's ceremonies, but at any rate, I won't be watching anyhow. Too long and tedious.
I'm always interested in the winners, of course, for several reasons, but I can get that info from FR.
One can't live in the past, but in certain categories, one CAN live there in reverie......and as far as film-making is concerned, I DO live in the Golden Age of movies.
Leni
I miss the anti-American rants during the Oscars. They at least made the show interesting and humorous to watch and gave us celebs to laugh at. Nowadays, everyone keeps their radical, left-wing screeds to themselves during the awards ceremony.
I imagine this year will be an Obama love-fest.
“I have to own an M-1 Garand.”
...I’m in the market for an M-14 right now....they’re hard to get....Clinton destroyed half of them and the other half have been reissued to the Iraq/Afganistan war....everybody appreciates the knockdown power of a Winchester .308 round.....here’s some Garand prices for you:
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http://www.gunsinternational.com/WWII—1943-M1-Garand-Springfield-Armory.cfm?gun_id=100067475
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I have no interest in the Oscars...they give awards to stupid movies that no one in their right mind would want to watch. I hear slum dogs are some such crap will win this years...not even an American movie. Most of the time, I have not even heard of the movies up for an Oscar. I will watch 24...have not seen the latest episode I tivoed....Oscars=no interest.
Wasn’t that show called Crackers? I loved that show...watched it every week on BBC. I like Prime Suspect as well.
It is on the M-16 form factor and has better ballistics than the 7.62 / .308 at more then 600 meters!
As far as the Garands you linked to, they are GREAT looking rifles, but I don't want one a “pretty” one. I want an excellent mechanical condition weapon, but I want one that went to war.
President Bartlet: If the Oscars were like that, I'd watch.
Are you referring to the Nazi photographer? That was Leni Riefenstahl.
Most people in Tinsletown only watch the Oscars and other such programs to see who has had a face life or body lift or whatever. At least that was what was told to me several years ago by a Beverly Hills matron.
There is a wonderful grassroots lobbying organization that has been pressuring for a la carte television for a long time, the Parents Television Council.
According to Wikipedia, the Parents Television Councilwith a stated goal to "promote and restore responsibility to the entertainment industry", ...seeks to inform parents of television programs or other entertainment products that it considers beneficial or harmful to the development of children through such publications on its website including reviews, research reports, and online newsletters. Campaigns run by the Council include allowing subscribers to select and pay for only the cable channels that they prefer to watch, holding advertisers accountable for the television programs that they sponsor, and trying to keep children from watching television content they deem to be harmful and negative.
Over the years, the PTC has launched several campaigns in response to perceived "indecency" on television programs. Such campaigns have also involved filing complaints with the FCC, with the PTC succeeding on a few occasions. The PTC has generated the majority of complaints over perceived indecent television content, whether through letter-writing complaints or indecency complaints filed with the FCC.
Parents Television Council was started by the first Tonight Show host, Steve Allen, and was run for a number of years by William F. Buckley's nephew, Brent Bozell, who is head of the invaluable Media Research Center and its NewsBusters site.
PTC has scored many victories with advertisers and the FCC, but it's an ongoing battle. I've been a PTC supporter for a dozen years. It is well worth sending them a donation every so often to get their newsletter in the mail, which often contains petitions you can send back to the FCC or your local television stations -- lobbying made easy. You can also check them out online.
And this wonderful guy as presenter:
I love that show...I bet I missed some episodes...hmhm, my birthday is coming up!
A betting site on the web is discussing the odds of how many times Obama will be mentioned at this year's Hollyweird ego-orgy.
Thank you for the information! I’m going to check the PTC website out. I wonder if they might be of help in the upcoming battle against the “fairness” doctrine.
Let's hope they will be on it; but they do depend on donations, and are so far focused on making content safe for family viewing. That alone is a constant, uphill battle.
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