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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Are we putting in our nominations for next year's host? I love Jon, but if he's not available, I nominate Kathy Griffin. Think about it - she loves Hollywood, the celebs, the whole bit and she's an insider but she doesn't take it too seriously. Also, she's hysterical.
I agree with the fundamental point Cinta is making. Down with tightassed-ness, up with taking risks!
why hide the nipples with tape? nipples are fun and sexy and feminine and make a woman look stupendously wonderful. If women knew what the sight or silhouette of a nipple does for men, they would not hide them so much.
...Don (Knotts), Darren (McGavin) and Dennis (Weaver) all should have been mentioned as their deaths happened several days ago and the makers of the memorial reel should have had enough time to edit them in. However, in the case of Jack "Oliver" Wild it was probably too late to make the cut. I was SO LOOKING FORWARD TO the scene in which McGavin, as the Old Man in "Christmas Story," looks lovingly on that leg lamp...
The cutoff date has to be something other than 12/31/05 since Sean Penn was mentioned and he died this year.
And yes, Lauren Bacall's bit was difficult but I think the all time award for dissing a Hollywood legend has to be Bette Davis' final Oscar appearance...to painful to even think about.
"Cintra Wilson is the author of "A Massive Swelling: Celebrity Reexamined as a Grotesque, Crippling Disease and Other Cultural Revelations," the novel"
Wouldn't this be akin to hiring King "I can't stand soccer" Kaufmann to do an in-depth expose on soccer?
I hope Oscar decides to start breathing again soon. I hope America decides to be actually free again, too, instead of just loudly congratulating itself for having freedom while slowly and sneakily cutting more and more small parts off of it.
This is such a sad thing to read after a hateful abusive rant.
Who would DARE to be free around you, Cintra?
Only people who already agree with you about everything, because anyone else would be inviting abuse.
I like how the author assumes babykilling is 1)something great and wonderful that everyone should do again and again,and 2) is ever going to go away in places like CA and NY. Perhaps she missed that part where even an overturning of Roe wouldn't outlaw abortion.
But hey, assumptions be assumptions. Don't worry, sweetie, you'll always be able to commit murder there.
And Stewart was better than what she's letting on.
This was the unfunniest article yet by Cintra (OK, just the latest. That Nancy whatever piece of crap was worse).
After years of tuning in to her Oscar bashing with glee, I was disappointed to see that she had obviously written most of the article ahead of time, even acknowledging she had her "awards" not inspired by the event, but already written, just waiting to fill in the blanks. When it didn't fit, she filled the gap with whining over why her pre-fab didn't fit, rationalizing it with the supposedly unapproachable plea for less conservatism.
The Salon audience deserves more than templated work, and clever ditties that are mangled to poorly fit.
The Oscars were conservative and boring, but the preachy complaining is even more so. Someone "castrated" Cintra as she worked up a juicy wad of spittle for the tongue-kiss of death: writing as boring and uninspired as the Oscars.
It is hard to believe this is the same person who wrote "A Massive Swelling", which was a great book. She looks too young to be so formulaic and burnt-out already!
Wilson's just another witch who's talkin' ship
Cintra must have missed Robert Altman's speech. Near the end of a pretty boring, standard thank-you, he said that he was living on borrowed time, because he'd had a heart transplant about 10 years ago. Then he said that the donor was, he thought, a 39-year-old woman. Obviously the woman is now dead, so the transplant must have been pretty tragic for the donor and her family. Did Altman mention this? No! He didn't thank her or her family, didn't even mention her name! He just crowed that now he would be around for a long time! It was an awesomely horrible moment, and definitely put a capital "N" in Narcissicist. Thank you, Robert Altman.
.....and she fashioned a tight noose and hung herself.
Let's see, the fact that she did write most of it before the show was aired was evident. She couldn't come up with anything new so she recycled all the "awards" she wanted to give away...speaking of giving it away, that was proof enough she had her whole schtick canned before airtime.
Someone else already snipped the tiny paragraph wherein she actually referred to the awards show, begrudgingly admitting "there were some solidly good movies." Hollywood is so glad you took the time to notice, Cintra.
She also outs herself for the no-talent she is with her last paragraph:
"I would like to thank Ms. Camille Paglia for adding a whole lot of wit and intelligence to the podcast and for expertly negotiating my torrents of profane blathering. That podcast was a lot of fun and everything -- but in the end, it was like trying to jump-start a dead whale: There was no imposing life on the subject, and after a while, the putrid goo just got everywhere."
"Torrents of profane blathering," indeed. Oh, I see. It's the Oscar's fault your podcast (and article) sucked because they sucked. So if they were good (and they were) then none of your torrents of profane blathering would have made any sense, either, now would it, Cintra?
So we gave you all the rope you needed and you hung yourself. Good riddance.
Salon, you guys really, really suck. You can keep this stupid [bleep]ing website. What a waste.
I have to admit, I wasn't going to read her article at all. The article last week where she interviewed/defended her friend demonstrated that she doesn't really have anything of quality to add. However, once I read the headline about Jon Stewart bombing, then read the letters about the file date of the article being LAST FRIDAY, I decided to see what her issue with the show was.
The Oscars aren't ever a thrilling, shocking show. I've been watching them my whole life. Its just a fun night to pretend we all are involved in the film industry, which we're not. Which Cintra Wilson is not.
I'm not sure what show she was watching, but I suspect she just thinks its hip and cool and edgy to criticize Jon Stewart.
I don't understand why Salon feels that she has something useful or worthwhile to say. THats what I'm concerned about. I'd also like Salon to explain why her article was so non specific and filed 2 days before the event occurred. That would be great to know.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
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