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Departments => Movies and TV => Topic started by: Spriggan on March 24, 2003, 04:11:49 AM
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Well i wasn't realy excited for this years oscars but I was very happy to see Spirited Away win for best animated.
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Will anyone hate me if I tell you that I think the Oscars are a waste of time even for people who glorify wasting time?
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Not me
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Did you guys see Michael Moore's speech (Winner for Best Documentary "Bowling for Columbine")? He went into an extremely harsh tirade about Pres. Bush and was booed by the entire audience. Considering how most of the Hollywood types are against the war, you can imagine that he was WAY over the top to be booed off the stage.
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The Truth about Bowling for Columbine (http://www.hardylaw.net/Truth_About_Bowling.html). A good read.
Also, the fat mans speech is in mp3 format here (http://people.ku.edu/~bag/mooreoscars.mp3)
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Also, if any of you watched the oscars, what did you think of everybody's cryptic comments? It seemed as though the presenters had been told in no uncertain terms that they couldn't be political, so they tried to say things without coming right out. I found it extremely comical. I also thought that Susan Sarandon (who is very Anti-Bush and Anti-IraqWar) looked exceptionally pissed off when she came out to present. I can only imagine that somebody had threatened her with something.
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I cut and pasted this story from a list of Roger Ebert's past Oscar highlights. I think it's awesome:
Laurence Olivier won an honorary Oscar in 1979, and gave a speech so dramatic you could hear a pin drop. The camera cut to Jon Voight, in the audience, and you could read his lips: "Wow."
The next day, as it happened, I went to interview Michael Caine, who told me he had received a call that morning from Olivier: "He wanted to know what I thought of his speech. I said, 'Magnificent--but what did it mean?'
"Larry said: 'Exactly, dear boy! Utterly meaningless. I'm afraid I went up at the crucial moment and forgot everything I intended to say, so I just fell back on the old Shakespearean actors' tactic, where you mumble something about life and death and being off to Salisbury, and hope you can get close enough to the wings to hear the prompter.' "
So great an actor was Olivier, however, that he sold the speech convincingly, and his listeners, convinced they had heard something profound, demanded the transcript. Then they puzzled over it.