Last night was the Academy Awards. The Oscar for best insignificant narcissist goes to…some insignificant narcissistic. Who the hell cares? Not me. To save the environment in 2010, here is my barely altered recycled column.
While Iraqis were voting in another election that again vindicated President George W. Bush, the imbeciles in our media were focused on gaudy outfits, red carpets, and ever pious millionaires pretending they cared about ordinary Americans. They were too busy bashing Sarah Palin to comment on the John Edwards sex tape. Perhaps some of them are on the tape. Charlie Sheen had no comment.
(The Bush comment was to see what liberals would try to hijack this thread that has nothing to do with him. Cherry pickers love doing that.)
As for me, I spent the weekend in Orange County at the California Republican Assembly 75th Anniversary Convention. There were no Hollywood celebrities present. It was excellent. I got to meet politicians that make decisions that affect many people. In other words, I prefer to talk to people that actually matter.
This morning I drive to Palm Springs for an event with Congresswoman Mary Bono Mack. Tonight I am on a redeye to South Florida for Spring Break. Why? Because I can. You wish you could. There will be no celebrities infecting my air.
Sarah Palin was on Jay Leno a few days ago. I do not have to watch the Oscars to know that several leftist parasites on society will make fun of her having notes on her hand. That is called being “edgy,” if edgy is defined as stale jokes in front of a supportive idiotic audience.
My rental car did get home in time to watch some of the Oscars, which of course I did not do. It was bade enough that “Desperate Housewives” was preempted. Fox News had reruns. Thankfully the NFL Network had the NFL Combine. Normally I do not watch that, but it was not the Oscars.
I was debating whether or not to put on the last 10-15 minutes of the broadcast with no sound on, like I do with the ninth inning of the seventh game of the World Series when there are two outs.
I am sure tomorrow I will read whether or not Bill Clinton showed up to play the saxophone while John Kerry gushes about the heart and soul of America in a building filled with people that have neither. I wonder if the John Edwards sex tape won for best documentary. The Oscar’s are even more leftist, boring and long winded than an Obama health care speech, although it is close.
Some say it is unfair to indict every person in Hollywood. After all, like Palestinians and liberals, why blame the 20% of entertainment industry that are not drenched in toxicity? After all, 80% is not a majority. Oh, wait. Yes, it is.
The reason why the industry is so disgusting is because left wing politics long ago replaced quality.
The first thing that all Academy voters should be required to do is sign an oath that they watched every movie that they voted on. If they are caught paying their relatives or others to watch the movies and report back to them, their voting privileges should be permanently revoked.
The Oscars are boring, predictable, and disgusting. Voters have a formula for what they like.
One way to get nominated is to play a homosexual. In fact, it cannot be any homosexual. It must be a homosexual activist, and the activist must be a hero. If it is played by a left-wing activist, all the better. Personally I would like to see a movie made about Sean Penn. A conservative actor would play him, and make sure to show the part where he engages in domestic violence against his wife and assaults cameramen. For “dramatic effect,” he can be shown praising Alec Baldwin while a tape runs of Baldwin verbally abusing his daughter. I personally thought “Milk,” was a movie about lactation. After all, the same people that praise the “Vagina Monologues” as “groundbreaking” must have thought that a movie about breast milk would be “courageous.”
Another way to get nominated is to play somebody that is dying from a politically correct disease. AIDS is a good choice. Cancer is not. After all, many homosexuals and drug users get AIDS. In fact, to really stir the emotional pot, the person has to suffer from discrimination, either from an evil corporation, vile Republican, or both. The exception to the cancer rule will be the El;izabeth Edwards life story, where she will be cast as the innocent victim.
Another option is to play a retard or a “handicapable” person. It works. After all, they are politically correct. Whether overcoming a physical or mental illness, provided that the story tilts leftward, it will do fine. Anti-war activists injured in battle make great Oscar nominees.
When the academy runs out of generic movies of leftists as heroes, the next option is to find an evil conservative villain. The actor playing the lead role should have a hostile attitude in real life towards Republicans. Barring that, anything that attacks Republicans works. I mean, “Frost-Nixon” is a movie that takes place three years after Nixon resigns in disgrace. Talk about kicking the dog while he is down. Listening to a conservative bellow, “I told you I didn’t want to take any questions on Watergate!” makes Academy voters cream their undies.
The last step is to ignore the movie altogether and find somebody that died “tragically” and “way too young.”
Look, the “Batman” movie was outstanding. It should have gotten nominations in every major category. Yet the movie was politically conservative. That is a non-starter for the Academy. Also, the snobs at the Academy would not think of deigning to let a “comic book” movie win where it counts.
Why should that matter? “The Dark Knight” was a stunningly brilliant movie that should have given Oscar nominations to Morgan Freeman (Lucius), Michael Caine (Alfred the Butler), Christian Bale (Batman), and especially Aaron Eckhart (Harvey Two-Face). Another almost certainty behind Eckhart should have been Gary Oldman (Commissioner Gordon). Michael Caine has been praised in the past by the Academy, but that was for playing the lead role in a movie that pushed a pro-choice activism on abortion. The movie was marketed as a sweet movie about children in an orphanage, but the agenda was clear.
Yes, Heath Ledger deserved a nomination. He was excellent as well, although not as brilliant as Oldman or Eckhart. Yet he got the nomination because he died too young, and tragically. The Academy said this loudly.
Forgive me, but Heath Ledger was a dumb (redacted) who killed himself, either accidentally or in a suicide. That must not have any impact on the voters. If anything, it cheapens his nomination because had he lived, he would have been worthy of a nomination anyway.
I am tired of people who die this way being glorified, whether it be Janis Joplin, Jimmy Hendrix, Curt Cobain, or Heath Ledger. This should have no bearing on Emmys, Grammys, or Oscars.
When all else fails, foreign love stories are the answer. In fact, anything foreign appeals to the Academy.
Whether it be Asians Crouching about tigers and dragons, or some people from India falling in love, foreign lovers are all the rage. If there is no love story, political activists are a global sensation. One year it is Irish revolutionaries. The next year it is Tibet.The less the story matters in the real world, and the fewer the number of people that watch it, the greater the chances for a nomination.
The worst part of this fiasco is the self-congratulatory left-wing blather. Yet in very tough economic times, the Academy tries to scale things down. They then congratulate themselves on how spectacular they are at scaling things down.
For those that want a recap from the California Republican Assembly Party Convention, that will occur this week.
For those that need a recap of events at the NFL Scouting Combine, there is a fabulous website.
For those that truly care about the self-indulgent spoiled brats that make up the Academy, just walk outside. There will be people bent over just enough to treasury the aroma of their own rumpuses. If that does not work, follow the trail of cocaine powder.
(Monique is exempt from criticism. My bizarre fascination with her still burns. If she ever says anything political I will add her to my list of yummy bouncies in the spring. She was is one plus size bag of beauty.)
At least the event is over with. Now the industry can get back to its day job, putting out left-wing crap and calling it art.
eric
And out of that whole mess giving tribute to the talents we lost this year they completely forgot about Farah Fawcett who died an agonizing painfull death.But made damn sure Miley got to show her dress get to read a little
I don’t see how having yet another election in Iraq vindicates Bush’s decision to go there in the first place. Is an election in Iraq worth about 4,300 Americans killed? Over 30,000 seriously injured? Countless lives turned upside down? So far, we’ve spent over $700,000,000,000 on that war alone, not including regular military spending and other peripherals. Does an Iraqi election vindicate that? Is the Maliki government, which seems sure to win again, really a vindicating result of all this?
I don’t see it.
And what the heck is this fascination with Batman? For Christ’s sake, you’re not a kid! It wasn’t that good of a movie. It dragged on waaaaaay too long, with waaaaaay too much teen-angst “darkness.” That said, it wasn’t a bad movie. A lot of thrills and fun and emotion. But not some all-time great film. I wouldn’t rank it up there with The Godfather or the original Star Wars.
I don’t watch stuff like the Oscars either. It bores me. Actors are pure ego personified. Think about it, though – who else would, or could, be an actor? You pretty much have to be a walking ego to be an actor. To any performer, really. That’s why I miss performing music. It sated my ego. I’m actually working to get back into now, as matter of fact. I have a pretty big ego myself. But you really have to. You can’t get up and speak, or sing, or play an instrument in front of people unless you have a heck of an ego. The timid introvert is a rare thing in the performance biz. There have been very few sucessful performers who were wallflowers as well. Even those performers who are shy or hermitish in their personal lives, can not be that way when it comes time to perform or promote themselves. So yeah, the Oscars are a display of pointless unabashed ego. Duh. What else would you expect? That’s why I don’t watch them.
Your, like most conservatives, main objection to the Hollywood bunch seems to be that they’re “liberal” or that they take on “liberal” causes or pander to “liberal” tastes. That may be true. Liberals go to the movies, I guess. I think most actors realize that they’re pretty lucky people. It’s another requisite attribute – big egos and luck. You really need both to get ahead in the performance biz. I think they realize how lucky they have it and so they feel like they have to give back. That’s fine. I have no problem with that. Better that than be yet more corporatist pawns. Lord knows we have quite enough of them in America today. I think also there’s that ol’ Colbert axiom, “Reality has a well-known liberal bias.” If you’re going to make films that touch people, get them thinking and feeling, keep their attention, then you have to show them something they can relate to. Good guys and bad guys and all those in middle. Moral and ethical conundrums. The real unease of the gray-area that is most of life.
So if these things happen to seem to have a “liberal” bent, what does that tell you?
I guess there’s three things you really need to be a sucessful performer: ego, luck, and a liberal sense of things. I think most performers have these three attributes.
JMJ
“I don’t see how having yet another election in Iraq vindicates Bush’s decision to go there in the first place. Is an election in Iraq worth about 4,300 Americans killed? ”
yeah, because the more democracy spread amonst the middle east will prevent that much more lives being lost in the future. Bushs actions have yet set forth another movement true to humanity.
Those men and women that volunteered to go there knew exactly what it was they were fighting for.
They knew they were dying for the right reasons.
Whether you like it or not.
Thats all we needed was another dictatorship hell bent on killing anyone for whatever warped reasons let loose upon the people.
Look at it this way, how many would be getting their heads whacked off right now for placing the wrong vote ?
Imagine the middle east continuing the way it has been. How many more “IRANS” do we have to watch in action before we realize the threat to the world ?
Jersey.
Watching a bunch of liberals so lofty and elevated on themselves gives me a choice between laughing my a$$ off or puking.
Which can cause choking
Did anyone catch that joke by one of the MCs regarding “Inglorious Bastards”? In the movie, the SS man ( the guys with the black uniforms, black boots, death’s head on their hats and SS marks on their arm), says something about him being a hunter of Jews.
The joke was, if so, he hit the “motherload here”.
Of course few got it, but Im sure the thousands of posters here did,
the audience was filled with my people.
But this is Hollywood.
BTW, not all entertainers and certainly most technicians behind the scenes are NOT Jewish. Like Jerry Lewis among dozens of others, many Hebrew
based movie people are intermarried, raising their children NOT as Jews, but something in-between agnostics and Hindus.
I am reminded of Mel Gibson ( is he a liberal) who maligned my people
after being stopped by a Jewish law enforcer..while drunk. He made some
remark about his being Jewish (how did he know, did he check his vitals?).
Virtually no Hollywood type condemned Mr. Gibson, leaving it to the
rabbis.
Mel Gibson’s movie, The Passion of the Christ was criticized for it’s focus on the crucifixion event, which has always been downplayed., the resurection far more salient in Christian theology.
Hollywood is about selling tickets and I frankly thought this Award year
was one of the better ones. The guys all dressed in tux. and the women
were finely dressed, but nothing too elaborate.
Look, these are talented people, whether left or right. Let’s give them
credit where credit is deserved. Personally I don’t care much about their
off screen antics..if they are abusive to their wives or children..join
that part of America society.
A close friend the other day told me about an incident when he was
pre-teen., involving another pre-teen ( decades ago). She was raped by her brothers beforehand.
Just another day at the ranch I suppose.
I go to movies to be entertained. If the movie is political, I generally
avoid it. I like sci-fi. I lust for sci-fi. I see all the sci-fi movies. I don’t much care about the actors private lives. Batman was okay, but
for children. I liked Land of the Zombies..and thought it was entertaning,
especially the violent scenes. There was no sex in the movie., darn.
I will see The Crazies when at Blockbuster.
I thought Inglorious Bastards was the best movie of the year. I
especially liked “Apache” and The Hammer’s parts. The end of the movie
made me cry, real tears. I loved it so. The director should have gotten
the Academy Award. The Hurt Locker has been criticized for being
too sensational..few bomb squad members put their live on the line as portrayed in the movie.
But the “Bastards” movie was sheer fantasy, and Tarentino admitted to same many times.
Also, 7-8 nerdy Jews brutalizin the NAZI soldiers..oh come on.
However, a review of Jewish partisans during WW2 (30,000
in Poland), reveals they were not a nice bunch of boyscouts.
Compared to what the NAZIs did, these “Inglorious” bunch of
guys were pussycats.
Look, Hollywood has had, and still has a large group of
Conservatives.
Lets let them act, direct, produce, write and make the movies..and
go out and enjoy.
If Hollywood finances liberal candidates for office, so be it.
It’s called freedom of speech (passed by the Supreme Court
recently).
Hey guys, I was informed that the RJC (Republican Jewish Coaltion)
had a get together, and George Bush showed up, along with Mr Cantor
and other Republican leaders.
Bush told the crowd he was impressed with Israel, when he went there
and flew over the West Bank. He wanted then, and still wants a 2 state solution, with both side living in peace and harmony. He marveled
at Israel’s accomplishments. He stressed that Israel has every right to defend itself.
Mr. Obama, who is the worst President since Grant, started off on the wrong foot with Israel and the Palestinians. He pressured Israel to commit
national suicide, and it balked. He is beginning to understand that
the 100 year old conflict will not be resolved any time soon (they have been talking for 20 years, to one another).
Now, the US is meddling by acting as go-between in new talks.
W/O US pressure on either or both, nothing will change. If Biden
pressures Israel, Bibi will tell politely where to go. If he pressures
Abbas (Fatah), the Pales will tell Obama where to go.
Is there an answer? Yes! Either move all the Jews to Canada or
move all the Palestinians to Russia. They have the land guys.
Israel could relinquish it’s 400 nukes, 700 warplanes, 10,000 tanks,
thousands of Popeye Rockets and Jerichos, thousands of smart bombs,
clusters and cruise missiles. In effect, Canada would become a world
power..with the talents of the newly arrived Jews.
Oh, and it give Canada it’s drone planes..just revealed., in case Canada
wants to bomb Buffalo.
Of course, if the Jews leave Israel, the Pales will inherit all that desert.
Well, Micky, you could always do like me and just not watch it. Egos are like trees that fall in the woods – it doesn’t matter if they make a sound if no one’s listening. ;)
JMJ
“I am reminded of Mel Gibson ( is he a liberal) who maligned my people
after being stopped by a Jewish law enforcer..while drunk. He made some
remark about his being Jewish (how did he know, did he check his vitals?).
Virtually no Hollywood type condemned Mr. Gibson, leaving it to the
rabbis.”
What??? Is he a liberal??? No “Hollywood type condemned” Gibson??? Dan, I don’t know what rock you live under, but Gibson was universally lambasted for his disgusting behavior. He had to drop out of the scene for a couple of years. Gibson comes from a radical pre-Vatican II “Orthodox Catholic” family out of Australia. The guy’s a loony, and everyone knows it. Jews and gentiles alike tore Gibson a new one for his rant to the cops.
JMJ
Oh, and if there was any doubt that the Jesus Chainsaw Massacre was an anti-Semitic propaganda film, Gibson’s antics should have cleared that right up! Like I always remind Eric – be careful with those “Christian” “friends” of yours…
JMJ
“Is there an answer? Yes! Either move all the Jews to Canada or
move all the Palestinians to Russia. They have the land guys. ”
Send the palis back to their indigenous origins, or blow them up before their big brother blows up Israel
Rahms got some explaining to do.
Talking politics naked in the shower with Eric Massa.
Can anyone say “implosion”
Boy, Chicago politics at its finest here.
Dems are blowin it, bust out the popcorn
Good for Rahm. He smelled a rat and help exterminate it. The Dems have to clean house if they want to stay in power. I wish they had something on guys like Lieberman and Stupak.
JMJ
Yeah well, looks like the rats are getting outta hand ?
you sound like you really care about the countrys healthcare but more like a spitting match ?
God forbid children be born
Rahm didnt help exterminate anything.
The guy was on his way out one way or another. Rahms just pumping up his chest. Useless sack o …
I’m not a huge fan of Rahm’s politics, but I will say this: he is one effective bulldog of a Blue Dog. He scares the p!$$ out of Republicans. That’s why they keep whining about him.
JMJ
He scares the pi$$ outta nothing but dead fish.
hes a punk b*tch walking up to a guy in a shower naked sticking his finger in his chest.
Is it true ?
ya know what ? Havent heard much from Rahm lately !
This is all equalization for the Brown Mass. vote.. typical Cheecago style strong arm politics and Massa aint going down quietly, why should he ? Whats he got to lose ?
Do the math.
Your party is self imploding under its incompetent weight upon itself.
Healthcare by the 18th ?
Bring it on… you guys wont see a decent seat for years