tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post3669826845825563321..comments2024-03-28T15:13:26.906-05:00Comments on Althouse: I thought that Oscars mixup was some kind of political performance art.Ann Althousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comBlogger185125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-2837381904703847342017-02-28T20:19:54.961-06:002017-02-28T20:19:54.961-06:00Stopped watching the Oscars after sitting through ...Stopped watching the Oscars after sitting through the production number for Live and Let Die and squirming with embarrassment on behalf of everyone involved (it didn't win, The Way We Were did; that song sucks, too). <br /><br />But this year I was out of town visiting family and staying in a hotel, so the Oscars were on in the bar. As I awaited my Manhattan, I watched Mel Gibson going on and on and on, but inaudible. I watched his female companion (wife, girlfriend, daughter?) looking about as bored as it is possible for a human being to do. Right then I decided I'd better take my Manhattan up to my room and rent Dr Strange (not nominated for anything). That was the right call. A fun, weird psychedelic flick with much better acting than I expect from a comic book. Benedict Cumberbatch is perfectly cast, as is Mads Mikkelson, the go-to OTT villain of the moment, and a bald Tilda Swinton as the guru. Lotta blue eyes there.<br /><br />And my brother and sister, on opposite ends of the political spectrum, thought the petting zoo was sweet. EMyrthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05754760101298461402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-82563865311830114002017-02-27T20:37:32.562-06:002017-02-27T20:37:32.562-06:00Settle down, boys.Settle down, boys.Jon Ericsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05548597217632737704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-27051429007087577272017-02-27T20:26:30.267-06:002017-02-27T20:26:30.267-06:00AReasonableMan said... [hush][hide comment]
...<i>AReasonableMan said... [hush][hide comment]<br /><br /> Michael K said...<br /> Oscars are way over hyped. One of my college room mates had Clark Gable's Oscar for "It Happened One Night."<br /> Gable gave it to him.<br /><br /> FullMoon said...<br /> Really?<br /> Looks like L.A. Times got this story wrong:</i><br /><br /> <b>Fact checking the bullshitters, the end of the internet as we know it.</b><br />Naw. He believed his room mate. May make him wonder what other interesting things from the past are not as they seem?FullMoonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07541560904252155570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-72329559961457968512017-02-27T20:23:42.971-06:002017-02-27T20:23:42.971-06:00Michael K said...
Oscars are way over hyped. One ...<i>Michael K said... <br />Oscars are way over hyped. One of my college room mates had Clark Gable's Oscar for "It Happened One Night."<br />Gable gave it to him.<br /><br />FullMoon said...<br />Really?<br />Looks like L.A. Times got this story wrong:</i><br /><br />Fact checking the bullshitters, the end of the internet as we know it.<br />Beloved Commenter AReasonableManhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14139261862363663232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-9108164046201094562017-02-27T19:30:19.636-06:002017-02-27T19:30:19.636-06:00Michael K said... [hush][hide comment]
In th...<i>Michael K said... [hush][hide comment]<br /><br /> In the future, "La-La Land" will self-identify as an Oscar winner.<br /><br /> There is a long list of should-have Oscar winners.<br /><br /> When was the last time someone watched "Shakespeare in Love?"<br /><br /> Oscars are way over hyped. One of my college room mates had Clark Gable's Oscar for "It Happened One Night."<br /><br /> Gable gave it to him.</i><br /><br />Really?<br />Looks like L.A. Times got this story wrong:<br /><br />"The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences had sued to keep Gable's Oscar off the auction block, but a judge Friday ruled that the academy did not give proper notice of the hearing to Christie's and did not notify Gable's son, John, also named as a defendant.<br /><br />The academy claims that, two years before his death in 1960, Gable signed a standard contract giving it first right to buy the statuette for $10 if it was ever sold. Christie's claims the signature on the agreement was a fake.<br /><br />Ursula Hermacinski, the Christie's vice president who took the winning bids for both the Oscar and the script over the telephone, declined to identify the victorious bidder.<br /><br />"I think the buyer is thrilled--pretty, pretty thrilled," she said.<br /><br />The $607,500 included a "hammer price" of $550,000 plus the auction house commission."<br />FullMoonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07541560904252155570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-28853713964853950222017-02-27T19:16:47.096-06:002017-02-27T19:16:47.096-06:00Or instead of faking it, or break the habit of rea...Or instead of faking it, or break the habit of reading what someone else wrote come hell or high water,<br /><br /><br />thinking on your feet and ASS-U-ME,<br /><br />One of the 2 idiots could have said this is the award for best actress. Could someone please ....Seeing Redhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00338495289040972548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-55129595836326231212017-02-27T19:07:01.903-06:002017-02-27T19:07:01.903-06:00Or instead of faking it, or break the habit of rea...Or instead of faking it, or break the habit of reading what someone else wrote come hell or high water,<br /><br /><br />thinking on your feet and ASS-U-ME,<br /><br />One of the 2 idiots could have said this is the award for best actress. Could someone please ....Seeing Redhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00338495289040972548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-74839319088239195142017-02-27T18:47:09.893-06:002017-02-27T18:47:09.893-06:00No one seems to suspect that the prankster might n...No one seems to suspect that the prankster might not be Warren, Jimmy, or the accounting stiffs from PwC. Isn't the obvious person of interest Faye Dunaway? She gets her hands on the wrong envelope and manages to switch it with the correct one Warren has while they are both backstage. Being the man, he of course insists on carrying the envelope out on stage and opening it. He even tries to read it, but when he balks, even after some subtle and not so subtle prompting from her, Faye quickly reads it herself. And then she is gone.<br /><br />You're so vain<br />You probably think this prank is about you<br />You're so vain,<br />I'll bet you think this prank is about you<br />Don't you?<br />Don't you?<br /><br />Faye Dunaway for President!Left Bank of the Charleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04494310302328322830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-78717834374997616892017-02-27T18:31:05.683-06:002017-02-27T18:31:05.683-06:00"It's telling that something like this ha...<i>"It's telling that something like this happens and many many people believe it was conspiracy."<br /><br />Trump derangement syndrome. Ahem. I find it fascinating though, like a big Rorschach test. All the human behaviour that goes into a mistake like this, and the analysis of it, is interesting.</i><br /><br />It's not just that, but also that people have become very suspicious that what they are seeing is contrived, fake, pre-planned. This is especially true with Hollywood, where one assumes that no one really ever goes off script (well, except for Mel Gibson). The immediate reaction is <i>fake.</i> That's probably a bad sign for Hollywood. Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18030715219103215749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-59831205551221995602017-02-27T16:55:28.255-06:002017-02-27T16:55:28.255-06:00the black performers had been forced to hand over ...<i>the black performers had been forced to hand over their Oscars to the white performers</i><br /><br />The symbolism is incongruent with the emotional appeal to [class] diversity. And without Catastrophic Anthropogenic Immigration Reform (e.g. refugee crises), they can't afford to lose any more of the domestic dependent demographic.n.nhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04252447117532342957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-82199390871503846132017-02-27T16:50:35.244-06:002017-02-27T16:50:35.244-06:00PriceWaterhouseCooper: You Had One Job.
A mana...PriceWaterhouseCooper: You Had One Job. <br /><br />A managing partner gave the wrong envelope to Beatty. 3 minutes before he posted a celebrity pic of Emma Stone to twitter. <br /><br />Distracted tweeting. Don't celebrity tweet and audit? Aren't they an accounting firm? <br /><br />wwwwhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12496803959998366843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-65252845039154096822017-02-27T16:49:53.432-06:002017-02-27T16:49:53.432-06:00Beatty was honest when he stated that the Oscars a...Beatty was honest when he stated that the Oscars are a venue for liberal elites to express the truth... in their opinion. The Press has a similar mandate, albeit in a different mode of entertainment. Anyway, they should do a poll to assess their effectiveness. Observation suggests that the entertainment industry has overexploited the fake reality segment and their credibility.n.nhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04252447117532342957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-69796682447256906292017-02-27T16:38:39.996-06:002017-02-27T16:38:39.996-06:00In the future, "La-La Land" will self-id...<i>In the future, "La-La Land" will self-identify as an Oscar winner.</i><br /><br />There is a long list of should-have Oscar winners.<br /><br />When was the last time someone watched "Shakespeare in Love?"<br /><br />Oscars are way over hyped. One of my college room mates had Clark Gable's Oscar for "It Happened One Night."<br /><br />Gable gave it to him.Michael Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18127450762129879267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-90255454440884885112017-02-27T16:11:12.114-06:002017-02-27T16:11:12.114-06:00Trump has weighed in.
At last!
http://www.thehil...Trump has weighed in.<br /><br />At last!<br /><br />http://www.thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/321415-trump-oscars-focus-on-politics-led-to-best-picture-snafuSammy Finkelmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05105012664741556033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-54168434644236000042017-02-27T15:38:33.110-06:002017-02-27T15:38:33.110-06:00Titus: "BTW-Faye Dunaway does not rule Hollyw...Titus: "BTW-Faye Dunaway does not rule Hollywood."<br /><br />True. It' more like a Tammany Hall or mafia "Commission" arrangement.<br />Dragohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04079148433908004715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-9225974896146553442017-02-27T15:37:32.878-06:002017-02-27T15:37:32.878-06:00Day After the Oscars Hollywood Pitch...
I attende...<i>Day After the Oscars Hollywood Pitch...</i><br /><br />I attended one of those "a conversation with..." events featuring Vince Gilligan. He said his pitch for <i>Breaking Bad</i> was "I'm gonna take this guy from Mr. Chips to Scarface." Best pitch ever. <br />SukieTawdryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07219517365750894110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-33794379090363694072017-02-27T15:27:05.158-06:002017-02-27T15:27:05.158-06:00Earnest Prole said...The only thing better than th... Earnest Prole said...<i>The only thing better than this fiasco is if the mistake had gone the other way and the black performers had been forced to hand over their Oscars to the white performers.</i><br /><br />I hadn't thought about it, but you're right. Wouldn't that have been something!SukieTawdryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07219517365750894110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-37155391164261543882017-02-27T15:22:23.754-06:002017-02-27T15:22:23.754-06:00BTW-Faye Dunaway does not rule Hollywood. Her car...BTW-Faye Dunaway does not rule Hollywood. Her career never recovered after Mommie Dearest.Titushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06593014816206957874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-60130297425104881012017-02-27T15:19:00.840-06:002017-02-27T15:19:00.840-06:00Neither Dunaway nor Beatty were wearing glasses wh...Neither Dunaway nor Beatty were wearing glasses which I'm sure both need. I was surprised when I read they were the presenters for Best Picture and wondered if this year is some sort of <i>Bonnie and Clyde</i> milestone and, what do you know, it is-- the 50th anniversary.<br /><br />Anyhow, this is just too funny and a deserved poke in the eye of the pretentious, aren't we wonderful Hollywood crowd. Didn't know anything about <i>Moonlight</i> and read that it's the story of a black Cuban gay drug dealer. Since it checks all the right boxes, how could it lose??!SukieTawdryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07219517365750894110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-77601920270938766012017-02-27T15:17:58.925-06:002017-02-27T15:17:58.925-06:00"It's telling that something like this ha..."It's telling that something like this happens and many many people believe it was conspiracy."<br /><br />Trump derangement syndrome. Ahem. I find it fascinating though, like a big Rorschach test. All the human behaviour that goes into a mistake like this, and the analysis of it, is interesting.Snarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17307871260632554312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-13043724267799749122017-02-27T15:13:21.388-06:002017-02-27T15:13:21.388-06:00No worries. In the future, "La-La Land"...No worries. In the future, "La-La Land" will self-identify as an Oscar winner.BADuBoishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13636112468577949243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-59862327984537718562017-02-27T15:07:22.480-06:002017-02-27T15:07:22.480-06:00It's telling that something like this happens ...It's telling that something like this happens and many many people believe it was conspiracy.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18030715219103215749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-81803895636402178952017-02-27T14:55:59.963-06:002017-02-27T14:55:59.963-06:00buwaya and Snark--thanks! I figured as much.buwaya and Snark--thanks! I figured as much.Brandohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06219319435229314554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-28119028401045597982017-02-27T14:53:11.108-06:002017-02-27T14:53:11.108-06:00The history of accounting firm involvement is kind...The history of accounting firm involvement is kind of interesting. Apparently in the early Oscar years there wasn't the same kind of secrecy and security - the results were given to media beforehand with an embargo on publishing until after the ceremony. The LA Times (I think) ignored the embargo one year and from then one it was a highly secure and secret operation with the involvement of a third party firm.Snarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17307871260632554312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-24521389012331696872017-02-27T14:47:58.795-06:002017-02-27T14:47:58.795-06:00"Also, why does the Academy need a major acco..."Also, why does the Academy need a major accounting firm like PWC to count ballots?"<br /><br />For appearances sake (the process being blessed with the appearance of professionalism and probity), also its effectively a commercial for PWC. buwayahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02388691837737324814noreply@blogger.com