Brokeback stars to join Academy

[slayers_creek_oth]

Cool!  Thanks for posting Vic..

[Mikaela]

I wish they'd decline. Oh, how I wish that! And tell the AMPAS on my behalf, if not on their own, to just go **** themselves.



I just *had* to say that. I know it's petty and pathetic, but I had to. Feeling all better now.    Of course they won't decline, perhaps they even (God forbid!) feel honoured; - it's important to their carreers to join that group of pompous imbeciles important and talented industry peers.
 

[ednbarby]

Ah, Mikaela...  Have I told you lately that I love you?

[David]

Well,  if they don't join, then some people will say its a case of sour grapes.   

So maybe its better to take the "If you can't beat em join em" attitude.   

[ednbarby]

Well,  if they don't join, then some people will say its a case of sour grapes.   

So maybe its better to take the "If you can't beat em join em" attitude.   

I hear you there.  I'm just concurring with Mikaela's whole They Can Go F*** Themselves sentiment.  But in all practicality, of course they have to accept.

[adrian]

   Whatever the reason, I'm glad that the Academy is flushing out some of the old and replenishing with a younger, more open minded group.  And who knows, maybe it's the Academy's way of apologizing for the outcome of March 4th? 

   For what it's worth......

[Shakesthecoffecan]

I think I would be tempted to turn down the invite, but in the long run I think it would be a positive thing to join.

[nakymaton]

I think they should join...

...but Heath should give Matilda some crayons and let her scribble on the ballot, then send it in as if it's a vote.

Can't be worse than all the rumored non-watching that went on.

[JT]

I agree that they should join, although I still feelin' bitter about the outcome of the awards.  I think I'm going to throw up thinking about that Oscar.

[ednbarby]

I agree that they should join, although I still feelin' bitter about the outcome of the awards.  I think I'm going to throw up thinking about that Oscar.

I hear that.  And I very nearly did that night.  For sheer intensity of rage in a short timespan, nothing in my life beats what I felt when Jack opened that envelope and uttered that word.  I'm not being facetious when I say I now understand what it is to experience temporary insanity.  If there had been anyone in my living room directly (even partially) to blame for that result at that moment, I might have killed him.  Or sure as hell I would have tried.  I did do some very serious and permanent damage to a couple of inanimate objects.