The Oscars is an anachronism that has outlived its time. Long gone are the glory days of Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Katherine Hepburn, Paul Newman and Rod Steiger. Gone are great hosts of the past- Bob Hope, Johnny Carson and Billy Crystal. In their stead are discount hosts such as Jimmy Kimmel, Seth MacFarlane and Wanda Sykes.
Gone is the class and dignity, replaced by woke quotas.
Starting with 2024 films, your project can’t even be considered for a Best Picture Oscar unless it meets a set of diversity targets of the kind you’d normally expect to see credited to the Oberlin Freshperson Student Social-Justice Initiative & Sustainable Vegan Hemp Co-Operative. Good news, whoever staged that Rob-Lowe-meets-Snow-White dance number: You’re now the second-most embarrassing thing ever associated with the Academy Awards.
To boil down the long, complicated new rules: To be eligible for best picture, a film has to check two out of four boxes. One is to represent glorious 21st-century American diversity in its casting (a problem if your movie is set in, say, pretty much any other time and place); another is to have two minorities or women as heads of departments; another is affirmative action in the marketing and distribution departments.
The current “stars” use the platform to shove their views down your throat:
“It has been quite a year, and we are still smack dab in the middle of it,” King opened. “We are mourning the loss of so many… and I have to be honest, if things had gone differently this past week in Minneapolis, I may have traded in my heels for marching boots.”
That was her reaction to the 2021 verdict of former police officer Derek Chauvin for his responsibility in the death of George Floyd which led to nationwide protests and riots in 2020.
Don’t like it? Up yours.
“Now, I know a lot of you people at home want to reach for your remotes and you feel like Hollywood is preaching to you,” she continued. “But as a mother of a black son, I know the fear that so many live with, and no amount of fame or fortune changes that. Ok?”
Tyler Perry:
“My mother taught me to refuse hate…just refuse hate. Don’t hate anybody.”
Travon Free (whoever the hell he is):
“Today, the police will kill 3 people,” and so on, every day he claimed before later adding, “Please don’t be indifferent to our pain.”
A long-time writer for the Oscars weighed in:
“The latest wrinkle,” he said, “is the woke madness…they’re so crazed and they’re eating their own, you know, they’re just eating their young and nuts. It’s just nuts.”
He suggested that the hosts now are the back benchers for those who want nothing to do with the program, knowing how miserable the ratings were going to be.
This year’s woke clown show was a doozy. Chris Rock went off-script to make a joke about Will Smith’s wife Jada Pinkett Smith. Smith was enraged and stormed the stage to slap Rock.
Pathetic. It’s all pathetic. This year’s ratings were higher than last, but these antics ought to fix that. The Oscars have evolved into a mockery of nights past. Maybe next year nominees could determine the winners in a cage fight or better yet, kill it off entirely.
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Except for liberals being foolish.
So, Mrs. Smith can screw other men, but Will draws the line at poking fun at her shaved head? Poking JOKES at her (instead of appendages) is going too far. Yeah… OK.
I still think it could be fake and now that Smith has apologized to Rock, he won’t have to worry about any disciplinary action (as if he did anyway) so it won’t be necessary to actually admit it was just a publicity-generating stunt. Or, maybe one of those who either joined in or applauded Hollywood not only attacking Trump, but attacking his immigrant wife and family (including his young son) is so thin skinned that they take offense when a mild joke is aimed in THEIR direction.
Either way, I’ve already expended more energy on the subject than all of them put together are worth.
Pretty sure it’s stage.
But otherwise, the Left is suddenly pivoting to “men should be masculine and defend women” since the start of the Ukraine War. Bill Maher, a classic beta-male, is even promoting it.
This is just more hollywood propaganda since they know they went too far.
Expect your trans kids to start dressing normally, soon.
A Bitch slap?, no 5 star frog splat, over the top rope toss to a concrete floor, the old pile driver, I guess they dont have folding chairs. He would have murdered Don Rickles.
Hours before the oscar slap ” I don’t give two craps what people feel about this bald head of mine. Cuz guess what? I love it.”
Staged.
Notice the GLOBAL coverage. No one watched this tripe anymore.
He got best actor. Seated up front. Walks casually, classic stage slap, nothing about it is real.
Don’t give them attention.
Will Smith gives Chris Rock an open handed slap and walks away. Gee, what was to come next? Meeting at the clearing in the woods at dawn standing twenty paces apart? A slap? Jeeze, that’s what women do. If you’re going to take revenge, a quick right cross is the move to make.
So Will Smith, who’s wife has apparently done her spread eagle trick for half of California, and has had no problem with humiliating him over it, takes revenge like a sissy and will never be remembered for the Oscar but will be remembered for “the slap” and his obnoxious foul mouth. What role models those two are for their children who will grow up rich, privileged and mentally screwed up.
Who still bothers to watch these liberal rigged award shows anymore? we want wate our time watching these over paid bunch doing big game of Lets Pretend for big cash awards and award of bald naked man with a sword named Oscar
Spurwing, I don’t watch them but everyone in the TV world was talking about “the slap” and taking one side or another.
Frankly, I think all those pompous asses should go broke. They spew their social justice b/s and does nothing for anyone from their own bank account. Where are all the Will Smith Children’s Clinics?