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The Academy trying to prove it's not homophobic?
ednbarby:
It figures. I've been saying for *years* that they should tap Ellen Degeneres to host the Oscars. And *now* they do it. As my 12th grade Physics teacher said the day Tom Simbari threw up all over his desk while he was giving a lecture on momentum, that's just perfect. :P
I don't care if Jesus Christ hosts the show. Or even Jake. Naked. I won't be watching it. Ever again.
A part of me is sad I'll miss Ellen hosting it. Another part of me is sad that she even accepted the gig knowing full well (and she must) that, as you've all said, it's damage control disguised as the obvious common sense choice of the best person on the planet for it, which she has always been. But most of me is just sad that those rat bastards did what they did last year and are still largely getting away with it.
And you may or may not have heard it here first, folks, but here's my prediction for nominee and very likely winner of the Best Supporting Actor Oscar this year - Steve Carell, in "Little Miss Sunshine," for playing a gay man (and a liberal professor one at that) who only *talks* about being gay but who never kisses another man or *gasp* has implied anal sex with one.
Screw the Academy and the horses they rode in on.
adrian:
I will never watch it.
I wish we could send Ellen postcards or letters expressing how we feel. I don't know if she is aware of how the awards show and its obvious homophobia had affected us, and for that reason, there will be fewer viewers. It probably won't make a difference, but maybe she could address it in one of the many interviews she'll have between now and then.
A member of another forum said that we should get one of the LA movie theaters, maybe the Aero Theater in Santa Monica, to run BBM on the very night of the academy awards (small a's) broadcast! Wouldn't that be a hoot?!
Adrian
adrian:
--- Quote from: ednbarby on September 08, 2006, 08:41:21 pm ---I don't care if Jesus Christ hosts the show. Or even Jake. Naked. I won't be watching it. Ever again.
--- End quote ---
Jake . . . . . . . . naked?? Hmmm. That's a tough one ednbarby. I might have to think that one over. ;)
ednbarby:
--- Quote from: adrian.delmar on September 08, 2006, 09:07:57 pm ---Jake . . . . . . . . naked?? Hmmm. That's a tough one ednbarby. I might have to think that one over. ;)
--- End quote ---
OK, in that case, maybe, just maybe, I'd check out the hosting highlights on youtube after the fact. But that wouldn't be the same as actually watching it, would it? ;)
Flashframe777:
Not watching the Oscars until the Irving Thalberg goes to Heath Ledger for his portrayal of Ennis Del Mar, and the academy delivers a formal apology for discriminating against Brokeback Mountain and gay people in the film industry.
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