My readers know that I’m not a huge fan of Hollywood. I’ve always called the Academy Awards show the “monster truck rally” of liberal Hollywood. It’s literally the epitome of liberal elitism and self-congratulatory pablum. I tune-in only hoping to see starlets trip on their gowns as they grace the stage with their presence and begin thanking the world for manifestly nothing.
FoxNews.com has an excellent take on it called Americans Tuning Out Oscar. (Funny—they call it the “auto show” of the Hollywood industry).
[…] Actor and political commentator Ben Stein recalls sitting in an airplane as his fellow passengers discussed this year’s contenders.
“Hardly any of us had seen any movies recently. And somebody said, ‘When I go to movies, they rub me the wrong way so badly, it’s as if I was having a root canal.’ They just don’t get what Americans are thinking about, they just don’t get it,” Stein said.
One possible explanation is that Americans understood and loved blockbusters like “Titanic” and the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy. Without such hits as nominees, audiences lose interest in the worldwide telecast and — more significantly — the movies themselves.
“One perfect example that we see right now is the way the critics are touting films like ‘Vera Drake,’” Hirsen said. The film, by acclaimed British director Mike Leigh, is about a cleaning lady who performs in-house abortions in 1950s England.
“I mean, what’s that about?” Stein asked. “To an enormous number of Americans, abortion is murder … what does Hollywood think they’re doing?”
Another controversial nominee is Clint Eastwood’s “Million Dollar Baby,” which touches on the topic of mercy killing and is, in Hirsen’s estimation, “out of touch with mainstream America.” […]
This year’s Oscars are being hosted by Chris Rock, who I blogged about previously upon hearing that he’d said…
“Abortion, it’s beautiful, it’s beautiful abortion is legal. I love going to an abortion rally to pick up women, cause you know they are f**king,” Rock said during his club routine.
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