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(Well, all since 1967, when I was 7 years old.)
It was also in terms of theactual awards among the most disappointing.
NotCrashorOut of AfricaorChariots of Firedisappointing.
(Even Nicholson knew that was nuts.)
And they were virtually all mistakes.
How Far is Hollywood From Achieving Equality?
Let me get this out of the way.
(You cant see the acting in what she does, though its poetically heightened at every turn.
)Laurie Metcalfplayed Lady Birds mom with all her nerves exposed.
But thats what you do during awards shows.
You pick sides where there shouldnt be sides.
The evening got off on an exhilarating note, maybe the best of anyOscarsever.
was stuck with four people discussing the clothes, but no one disagreeing and no one dissing.
), but they seemed only marginally less disgusted than the celebrities from whom hed fled.
The diminutive Seacrest was no match for the towering Michael Strahan, who was killing it for ABC.
This year, there was grace.
There was the pride of inclusiveness.
Sciorra lost many years dealing with her trauma and we lost many great performances.
But she is still younger than I am.
Right-wing viewers surely found the presenters and recipients self-congratulatory, which they werent.
A bone was thrown to them: a montage that celebrated the troops.
Invading the theater across the way was a much less labored set piece than last years lame tour-bus prank.
Plummer was a good sport but was probably thinking, Fuck this.
that my qualms about all that dispersed light inBlade Runner 2049dissipated like the fog.
Approximately 500,000 people broke Google searching for the terminclusion rider,but well be talking about it for years.
Maybe the OED will make it the term of the year.
Did anyone else think Gal Gadot was good enough to co-host the Oscars with Kimmel next year?
Have I mentioned that del Toro the fourth Mexican winner for directing in five years is a mensch?
But it has collectively taken the first step: admitting that there is a problem.
And it has taken the second step: expressing a passionate desire to be kind and generous and inclusive.
Now if those people can just work on their taste in movies …
