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  • Come On, How Hard Can It Possibly Be to Make a Good Awards Show?

    09/24/2013 6:33:19 AM PDT · by Bender2 · 23 replies
    Vulture.com ^ | 9-23-13 | Margaret Lyons
    Come On, How Hard Can It Possibly Be to Make a Good Awards Show? By Margaret Lyons Sing a song, dance a jig, tell a joke. Repeat. How hard can it possibly be to put together an awards show that is festive and not excruciating? Apparently harder than we think, given how the last few years have gone. While picking a good host is definitely part of engineering a good awards show, it's not the whole ball game — Neil Patrick Harris is a good host, certainly, but last night's Emmys left something to be desired. So here's a...
  • Hollywood Is Desperate

    09/23/2013 8:37:57 AM PDT · by Shout Bits · 84 replies
    Shout Bits Blog ^ | 9/23/2013 | Shout Bits
    At last night's 2013 Emmy Awards, actor Don Cheadle offered a rambling salute to the power of TV. Starting with Walter Cronkite's emotional reporting of Pres. Kennedy's assignation and moving on to other touchstones of leftist history, Cheadle argued that TV is the binding force of modern society. TV tells society what to feel, how to think, and what is OK to express openly. TV is the vanguard and constitution of all that is worthwhile. Cheadle's eyes tracked the teleprompter as if in disbelief of the propaganda he was required to spew. Far from an assertion of dominance, Cheadle's speech...