March 8, 2010

As I noted yesterday, last night was the night of the Academy Awards. There was nothing worthwhile on television so we watched it.

It went on from 8 o'clock through midnight. There is so much time wasted that the whole thing could have been done in one hour.

But I guess self adulation needs time.

The whole show is a sham.

First of all these people hate each others' guts. When the winner walks up to the podium to accept the award the cameras always show the ones who lost applauding happily and smiling. Like they are so glad the other person won.

I am sure they wish that person would drop dead before he reached the podium. All this I love you crap they dish out is fake.

Don't forget these people are actors. Actors know how to act and show false emotions.

Second thing is that some of the nominated pictures were shown about a year ago. People already forgot about them, they are already being sold on CDs and being played on airplanes. There are so many pictures released that most of them don't stay up more than a few weeks.

It's interesting that it takes about six months to produce a movie and after about three weeks it's history! And, most of them don't even make the three week mark.

Acting in movies is not an art. The perfect example is Gabourey Sidibe. This young lady was picked out of anonymity and under good direction and coaching provided an outstanding performance.

I'm sure she never went to acting school and did not study the Lee Strasberg method. And doesn't get paid millions of dollars for a few weeks of work.

These so called stars were sitting there in their borrowed clothes and borrowed jewelry and were all convinced that they are God's gift to the American film industry.

With the right clothes and make up anybody can be made to look stunning. There were several mediocre looking actresses who happened to look quite good because of the way they were dressed and the way they were made up.

I find it interesting that the men's hairdo looks like mine when I get up in the morning. I can't see what is attractive in a messed up head of hair. Zach Efron looked like he just got out of bed with that hair of his. And this supposed to be cool?

Maybe I am showing my age, but I do prefer the nice clean cut look versus the "elegantly" bum look. Even if they wear five hundred dollar jeans they are still jeans.

Christopher Plummer is one of the great old actors. I am sure he never goes out into the public unshaven, with messed up hair and in jeans.

But, he is last of a dying breed: good actors.