In article <080320102305445378%bubba@nowhere.edu.invalid>,
Professor Bubba wrote:
> In article ,
> Anim8rFSK wrote:
>
> > In article ,
> > "Scurvy Dog" wrote:
> >
> > > "CliffB" wrote in message
> > > news:766d6ba5-0234-4c5c-90b9-d405707c054f@z4g2000yqa.googlegroups.com...
> > > > Or just the usual sentimental nods and pet cause feel-good picks?
> > >
> > > Any relation between getting an Oscar and deserving such is purely
> > > coincidental.
> > > Mo'Nique - puhlease!!!!!
> >
> > Her speech about "this proves the award is for performance and not
> > politics" was pretty amazing, as was the cutaway of Sam Jackson rolling
> > his eyes and whistling in amazement.
>
>
> The "politics" seems to have referred to internal Academy stuff,
> especially campaigning for awards, and not political life in general.
You're probably right. In trying to find the Oscar rules to see what
the Hurt Locker producer did wrong (apparently he broke two rules, no
negative campaigning, and no mentioning the competition - "Vote for Hurt
Locker" is okay, "Vote against Avatar" is not, I found several vague
references to some sort of rules violation by Mo'Nique as well, which
they decided not to deal with 'til after the awards. But of course this
makes her even more wrong; it's all about the politics.
> I still wonder why "thank you" wasn't good enough, though.
>
> My biggest problem was with Barbra Streisand and her pompous "The time
> has come" bullshit and pregnant pause when she announced the winner for
> Best Director. Bigelow deserved to have her name read out loudly and
> quickly. That it was an important moment was obvious, although I guess
> to a scenery-chewer like Streisand, nothing can be *too* obvious.
Does anybody believe that Striesand hadn't been told the winner? And
did she really have to give the "Who will win this time, a Black or a
Woman or one of those white men (ptui)" speech that for God's sake the
damned announcer had ALREADY given?
--
As Adam West as Bruce Wayne as Batman said in "Smack in the Middle"
the second half of the 1966 BATMAN series pilot when Jill St. John
as Molly as Robin as Molly fell into the Batmobile's atomic pile:
"What a terrible way to go-go" |
