Oscar, Oscar, Oscar
Fastidious Felix Unger of TV’s “The Odd Couple” fame often expressed his frustration with his slovenly roomie Oscar Madison by sighing, “Oscar, Oscar, Oscar,” a frustration that could just as well apply to the Academy of Motion Picture Awards for its blatant liberalism and tireless adherence to politically correctness.
I, for one, don’t give a tinker’s damn who or what wins an Oscar at the 84th Academy Awards of Merit festivities on Sunday.
Not that it matters but no one seems to know the derivation of the term “Oscar.” What does matter is that the Academy Awards show is meaningless except insofar as it is probably the most vivid example of American shallowness, exalting movie stars to the level of demigods as exemplars of the best America has to offer the world and featuring some of the most superficial, most vapid human beings on the planet applauding themselves.
Let’s face it, actors and actresses gain fame and fortune by pretending they are someone else, mostly by acting as if they were whores or roues, or confused wives or philandering husbands, or by portraying average people caught up in life’s angst.
All that pretending eventually warps minds.
Nowadays, with some exceptions, few films depicting normality are contenders for Oscars and fewer actors and actresses nominated for acting awards are depicted as normal nor are they normal in real life. That is, unless you consider normality widespread use of illegal substances, bed-hopping, multiple marriages, and out of wedlock pregnancies as normal.
Is it any wonder movie-going has fallen off drastically or that American culture is slipping down the toilet with Hollywood as a role model?
Tinseltown’s elitists tend to choose as winners of Best Actor Awards people who reflect their own prejudices and leftist political views and pick the Best Picture on the same bases.
Years ago, Hollywood produced outstanding motion pictures, . . .(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=14508.)
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Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Weeping, Whooping Whoopi
Weeping, Whooping Whoopi
Leftists-liberals-progressives are a spoiled bunch.
They’re not necessarily spoiled as in the old joke in which a young girl passes by a couple of old dudes and one says, “That’s my granddaughter” and the other asks, “Is she spoiled?” and the first old dude says, “Nah, she just smells that way” but leftists-liberals-progressives are nonetheless spoiled.
They may also smell bad but their chief issue nowadays is that they’re so accustomed to commoners and the mass media supplicating themselves on their altar that any real or assumed departure from that supplication is deemed insurrectionist.
Take Whoopi Goldberg. Personally, I’ll pass on taking Whoopi anywhere, anytime, and in any circumstances but, sad to say, the Whoopster is perturbed. She’s rather p*ssed that she was overlooked in an article by Manohla Dargis and A. O. Scott that cited several black Oscar winners over the last 71 years but which didn’t mention her.
What Goldberg didn’t factor into her complaint was that she may be a celebrity of sorts thanks to Hollywood affirmative actions which led to her starring role on “The View” but the bottom line is that she is still a vulgar, offensive, sad excuse for a woman, qualities she regularly exhibits on television.
However, before examining Whoopi’s poorly-disguised racist rant–against the New York Times, no less!–let’s review the record of black entertainers in America.
Back in 1996, black agitator Jesse Jackson decided that the entertainment industry was shortchanging African Americans, as I think they were known then, and compared their treatment to Jews in Nazi Germany. Graciously, he made no reference to gas chambers.
Jackson composed “An Open Letter to the Entertainment Community” to air his many grievances . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3646)
Leftists-liberals-progressives are a spoiled bunch.
They’re not necessarily spoiled as in the old joke in which a young girl passes by a couple of old dudes and one says, “That’s my granddaughter” and the other asks, “Is she spoiled?” and the first old dude says, “Nah, she just smells that way” but leftists-liberals-progressives are nonetheless spoiled.
They may also smell bad but their chief issue nowadays is that they’re so accustomed to commoners and the mass media supplicating themselves on their altar that any real or assumed departure from that supplication is deemed insurrectionist.
Take Whoopi Goldberg. Personally, I’ll pass on taking Whoopi anywhere, anytime, and in any circumstances but, sad to say, the Whoopster is perturbed. She’s rather p*ssed that she was overlooked in an article by Manohla Dargis and A. O. Scott that cited several black Oscar winners over the last 71 years but which didn’t mention her.
What Goldberg didn’t factor into her complaint was that she may be a celebrity of sorts thanks to Hollywood affirmative actions which led to her starring role on “The View” but the bottom line is that she is still a vulgar, offensive, sad excuse for a woman, qualities she regularly exhibits on television.
However, before examining Whoopi’s poorly-disguised racist rant–against the New York Times, no less!–let’s review the record of black entertainers in America.
Back in 1996, black agitator Jesse Jackson decided that the entertainment industry was shortchanging African Americans, as I think they were known then, and compared their treatment to Jews in Nazi Germany. Graciously, he made no reference to gas chambers.
Jackson composed “An Open Letter to the Entertainment Community” to air his many grievances . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3646)
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