THE STINKIN' OSCARS

So, Michael Moore is inviting the recently retired Fidel Castro to accompany him to this years biggest award show.
Which reminds me-


This has gotta be my 5th consecutive year of skipping The Academy Awards. This won’t be a rant, trust me. I could soapbox forever on this but I tend to hate myself when I look at those posts later and I wanted to write about something else. So, I’ll just list the reasons why below and you can jump ahead.

1. We should not make movies compete in a contest against each other for substantial gain. And there is substantial gain for Oscar box office. The Oscars is just another tense long running reality show.

2. Hollywood often picks movies just to show how liberal it is. (See CRASH)

3. Comedy is never ever rewarded.

4. “It’s a celebration of film! “ Why is film so special? Do we throw a celebration for cars & trucks? Do we celebrate the medical profession? And if we do why not televise them? The Oscars is a celebration of CELEBRITY. There’s a reason they reward most of the technical stuff on a separate night. If it was a celebration of film, don’t you think those hard working guys would be lifting their statuettes at the big party with everyone else.

5. It’s mostly about how much tit can poke through a $10,000.00 gown and get away with it.

I say I’m skipping The Oscars, but I do keep tabs on it. Since the TIVO age this has become very easy to do, of course. If the wheels go flying off a presenter (as they often do) then I do want to have immediate access. So, I will park myself on the internet and play a game until I’m notified such a beautiful moment has taken place.

Watching someone fall apart in front of millions is a curious experience for me; I often must walk completely out of the room, just barely within earshot of the telecast and ask for play-by-play from whomever may still be watching in the other room.
Thank God I stopped watching before I married or my wife would have zero respect for me.
When the very frail Betty Davis took the stage many years ago and attempted to recreate her “Fasten your seatbelts.” speech, I nearly departed for the airport and changed my identity it was so tense.