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Well, first things first: The Host Evidently, Family Guy Seth McFarlane grossed out so many people with his potty-mouth humor last year that Academy producers decided to overcompensate with the plain-vanilla humor Ellen DeGeneres is famous for. Which is why they were probably as shocked as her fans were when she went rogue just seconds into… Read more.
With all due respect to critics and members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (the Academy), how much a film makes, not whether it wins an Oscar, is the generally recognized measure of its success. Especially considering that winning an Oscar is more the result of crass political campaigning than any assessment of… Read more.
I’m on record stating rather emphatically how much I detest the Annual Academy Awards telecast. Because I have little regard for preening, pampered poseurs showing off their borrowed frocks and bling-bling as a prelude to a three-hour show – only six minutes of which anyone really cares about (i.e., the time it takes to present… Read more.
I appreciate all the attention The Academy Awards give to good but relatively unseen films like The Tree of Life. Unfortunately, with all due respect to critics and members of the Academy (of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences), how much a film makes, not whether the Academy awards it an Oscar, is the generally recognized… Read more.
