I have one comment. I think that the Best Picture clips were better when they used to be short scenes from the films rather than these mash-ups that they do now.
Other than that I can’t really comment much about them because I missed them for the FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE! I attended a concert by The Cleveland Orchestra on Sunday night. Since the orchestra was utterly FABULOUS, I don’t feel bereft of anything. I did see the last few awards. The nominees were all in pretty good company this year. Some outstanding pictures. You people in Cleveland are lucky to have that wonderful orchestra. They played a great program at the Menuhin Festival here, including the Tchaikovsky 5th Symphony which was a tour de force. An orchestra of that dimension ----- is the highest - fi there is. Kirby On Mar 4, 2014, at 12:34 PM, Channing Thomson <channinglylethom...@att.net> wrote: > What's Alf? On a more serious note, I felt the reaction to Kim Novak was > painful and cruel and left me feeling down for a couple of days. I didn't > like the overall tone of the Awards this year. I'd like to see a little more > focus on film history and the people that made the industry great as well as > a return to it being presented as an Academy and not a celebrity roast. > Channing Thomson > > On Mar 4, 2014, at 9:29 AM, Scott Burns <s...@columbus.rr.com> wrote: > >> There was a time when the Academy celebrated the magic of the movies, both >> past AND present. That’s clearly not the case these days. The only “salute” >> to Hollywood’s past was the Oz tribute—but they didn’t think enough of >> Garland’s offspring to even bring them up on stage. Couldn’t the last >> surviving Munchkin, Jerry Maren make an appearance? Nothing against Pink, >> but what relevance to Oz did she have? Major missed opportunity Academy! >> >> It seemed to me that no one in the audience even recognized Kim Novak >> (please no plastic surgery jokes). No standing ovation for this star of the >> 50’s/60’s? There’s no excuse for anyone in the movie biz not having ever >> seen “Vertigo” or “Picnic.” >> >> And no tribute to Shirley Temple? Come on. Even those members of “new >> Hollywood” must have watched a few Temple films when they were growing up. >> Of course my beef about classic stars goes beyond the Oscars. Entertainment >> Weekly puts Phillip Seymour Hoffman on the cover when he kills himself via a >> drug overdose, yet arguably the biggest star of the 1930’s gets no mention >> on the cover at all? She did get 2 pages inside, but I was surprised they >> gave her even that much space. >> >> Even when I was in my 20’s and watching the Oscars, I always enjoyed seeing >> the classic stars who had dropped out of the limelight. I enjoyed the >> honorary Oscar presentation and even the Jean Hersholt award …now such >> honors have been moved off the Oscar telecast completely. >> >> Not to diss the younger generation, but the world did exist before you were >> born and there are people and events worth knowing about. I work with some >> people who’s pop culture knowledge only reaches back as far as the “Alf” TV >> show in the 1990’s. Scary!!! >> >> Scott >> MoPo List Owner >> >> >> >> >> From: MoPo List [mailto:mopo-l@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU] On Behalf Of Zeev Drach >> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2014 9:47 AM >> To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU >> Subject: Re: [MOPO] The Oscars - a slave to sentiment? >> >> My instinctive reaction re modern “stars” is the same as yours, but after >> thinking a moment you realize that for a good chunk of viewers, if not the >> majority, Robert De Niro IS an old-time star! Anybody prior is a vaguely >> familiar. All this means is that some of us, like you yourself suggested, >> are getting really old! >> >> Zeev >> >> >> >> From: MoPo List [mailto:mopo-l@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU] On Behalf Of Bruce >> Hershenson >> Sent: March 4, 2014 8:14 AM >> To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU >> Subject: Re: [MOPO] The Oscars - a slave to sentiment? >> >> One thing I am certain of is that if you are a fan of the "Ellen" TV show, >> then you surely liked the Oscar telecast. And if you like watching people >> pat themselves and their peers on the back, you were surely in hog heaven. >> >> I know I am getting really old, because I think the modern "stars" can't >> hold a candle to the stars of the 1920s to 1960s. >> >> I always hated those "production numbers". I would SO rather see old-time >> stars, and not just given a second and then shuffled off stage. How about >> clips of classic movies that DON'T last three seconds each? >> >> >> On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 6:47 AM, Tommy Barr <tommymb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I know it’s not really about posters, but I haven’t read anything here about >> the Oscars, so I wondered if any others share my puzzlement over exactly >> what the criteria for ‘best film’ is? Apart from the big one 12 Years A >> Slave won 2 other Oscars, while Gravity won 7 awards, including best >> director. Surely that must be a win on points for Gravity? Ellen joked that >> either 12 Years would win or else the Academy was racist, and I suspect that >> the Afro-American dimension did, in fact, contribute to the end decision. >> Racism does not necessarily have to express itself as hatred, but it is not >> particularly edifying to see it expressed in a patronising way either. I was >> saddened to see the great actor Sidney Poitier trundled out to receive what >> was, given the occasion, something like a pat on the head for his career and >> being the first black actor to win an Oscar for Best Actor, and am I being >> in overly critical in the Academy then having Will Smith present the Best >> Film award? There is no doubt that Hollywood, like the rest of the USA, can >> have its conscience tugged when it comes to the treatment of the >> Afro-American community. Birth of a Nation is hardly an advert for >> multi-cultural harmony, and movies like the Marx Brothers A Day At The Races >> have scenes which sit uncomfortably with present day attitudes. Maybe the >> Academy felt some atonement was due for the failure of The Color Purple to >> win any awards? 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