Oscar's inconvenient truths: Never let the facts get in the way of winning an award

New York Post ^ | February 22, 2009 | Kyle Smith

[EveningStar]

Tonight's Oscars will celebrate only-in-the-movies fantasy figures like Wall-E and the Joker . . . and Harvey Milk and Richard Nixon. Even when Hollywood is dealing with documented reality, it can't resist turning it into a cartoon.

[EveningStar]

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[A_Former_Democrat]

Gee, is anyone watching?

[EveningStar]

I haven’t watched the Oscars in many years.

[jp3]

I’m watching Patton on AMC and FReeping:)

[Ballygrl]

Positively absolutely NOT!

I have no desire to see these dumb, dim witted, uneducated, naive, un-american, dangerous fools celebrating anything, especially celebrating their narcissistic selves and lauding all over Obama.

[sionnsar]

Gee, is anyone watching?

This is on teeheevee, right? No. Never have, never will.

[goodnesswins]

We watched Wall-E recently ($1 thru Redbox)....didn’t like it much...

[PERKY2004]

Not watching. Not caring. Not missing anything!

[Ancient Drive]

thanks dude. I was planning on watching Paton as well.

[shadeaud]

It took me 22 minutes to say enough is enough. What crapola. I was hoping NBC would have grabbed the ‘’honor’’ of broadcasting this junk so I could watch Desperate House wives but now I have to settle for Andy Griffin

[Ancient Drive]

Didn’t the movie fee like one of those environmentally correct crap shoots?

[Twink]

We’re sort of watching. Channel surfing but on it now. They take themselves and their entertainment work so seriously.

[CaptRon]

I am watching only because I have seen every NCIS episode several times. However, I have to say that I thought Hug Jackman was excellent. The musical number made fun of Hollywood, though not excessively.

There was an earlier thread here kind of denigrating Jackman. I have never seen or heard of him being political (not to say that he hasn't, I just haven't heard him do it). But he was called talentless. He is not. I watched him play Curly in Oklahoma a few years ago, and he was terrific. Don't let his role as Wolverine in the X-Men movies fool anyone. He showed he could sing and dance tonight, and some of the dances could not have been easy.

[Ballygrl]

Ugh! it figures, I was changing the channel when some guy won for the Harvey Milk movie! :rolleyes:

[Twink]

Just saw that too. Ugh. Did you hear his speech? Yuck.

[jeffc]

We watched Wall-E recently ($1 thru Redbox)....didn’t like it much...

Awww, really? My kids liked it. The WALL-E robot was very well portrayed with human characteristics (loved the part where he was just sitting there waiting for EVE to come back to life, distractedly banging his tractor-foot against the other - just a bored human would do to while away the time).

[goodnesswins]

Oh, I liked WALL-E....but, it got slow...but, can see how kids would love it.

[goodnesswins]

I meant I liked the ROBOT, Wall-E

[Ballygrl]

Yes, I wanted to hear what the fool was going to say and of course he pushed his agenda, or should I say, he shoved his agenda down the throats of his captive audience.