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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Cintra Wilson must be a totally obnoxious jerk of a girl.She was so foul-mouthed and nasty that I think she must be an absolute intelectual basket case. She was so rotten that I thought she must be some sort of raunchy, doped-up, true loser guy. Sad to say I wasted a couple of minutes reading her sinfully bad screed.
Did you know the word 'gullible' isn't in the dictionary, Michael?
I'll wait while you go check.
Oh, and while you're out, stop and get a quart a milk, a loaf of bread, and a sense of humor, you moron.
Thanks.
Regarding your note on how sanitized all the star behavior was, I can tell you firsthand that is because they were kicking anyone who might act the least bit entertainingly out of the parties, and those people did not get Oscar tickets. It makes me long for the days when a crazy star was a source of much amusement. These days you don't have to wonder what they'll do next...you already know it will be some yawnworthy combination of patting each other on the back, ass kissing, and politically correct remarks. Bleah. Next year, I hope someone throws a party with Anna Nicole Smith, Gary Busey, Faye Dunaway, Sean Young, Kirstie Alley and everybody else whose personality hasn't been scared out of them by their publicist -- and I hope I get an invite to that one.
Jon Stewart is a national treasure. He is the streamside peppermint by a mountain stream amidst the hydrogen sulphide fumes of a neo-facsict state. I don't know which montage I loved more: the Good Night Good Luck piece, or the fruitcake cowboy sequence. Genius. All those closeted republikan chafing sounded like constipated crickets.
Leonard Berstein is turning in his grave. On what planet does this song even rate a nomination? I go to the movies,love the movies and love good music no matter what the genre. I know the contenders were not that strong, but what the F--k is up with the academy? That crap gets an Oscar? They should have bleeped the whole damn thing except I couldn't understand it or the winners (drugs or poor english skills?) Sorry, didn't mean to insult drugs that way. Cuss away, you won't offend ... but don't insult my intelligence by saying that award was merited.
Just in case anyone is keeping track, please add my vote to this column being way off. I liked Jon Stewart, I think he was quite comfortable, I found the lack of narcissism a pleasant surprise, and I thought Reese's niceness was geniune and charming. And this from the middle of LA no less. I guess the evening didn't match the diatribe you had in your head, so you just wrote it anyway?
Tom Martin:
Are you a first-year polsci major? If you sincerely believe that that was the real Jon Stewart and not some completely pussified version of him then you are either some left-wing authoritarian completely lacking in critical analysis skills or you have an underdeveloped sense of the world around you - I would err on the side of the former.
I agree that Jon Stewart is a national treasure, you nitwit. ("...because he is the public twin of our private dialogue or because he is the embodiment of an antidote for everything that many of us can agree is wrong with most news media outlets." Do you even understand what that means?)
Last night, however, he was more a hybrid of Billy Crystal and Tom Brokaw. Please give me just one example of something he said that would have made the "republikans" chafe?
Tom Martin meet reality. Reality, Tom Martin.
Cheers.
Living in the red state of Tennessee, this blue dot was encouraged by the Oscars. No it was not in your face--but Clooney's early speech and the very presence of Brokeback felt good. Crash is an excellent movie with a theme of the complexity of bigotry. It is not a simple problem.
ASmith
She looked totally wierd and her song was awful. That's when I turned it off and was feeling so bad for jon I could watch not longer.
129 letters so far on the Oscars. 51 on the issue of impeaching buschco. Time to take Belushi's advice and start drinking heavily.
Stewart's point was that the Scorsese/Mafia inequity is absurd, not wonderful. Irony? Sarcasm? Ring a bell?
And, Salon -- please. This is what you put up for an Oscars review? After this and that Nancy Nobody piece, I'll be skipping all articles with the Wilson byline, thanks.
Wow, I expected a lot more from Salon than that. What a whiny, ridiculous diatribe. Did your animated short not get nominated or something?
Quoting from page 10:
The 3 D's...
[snip]...
The cutoff date has to be something other than 12/31/05 since Sean Penn was mentioned and he died this year.[snip]
-- Anonymous
Um... Are we talking about the Sean Penn who was married to Madonna at one point? "I Am Sam" Sean Penn?
He's alive on the IMDB. Did I miss something?
did no one inform you that the oscars are actually (gasp!) totally irrelevant? to everything that goes on in this world? and so it makes little difference what jon stewart did or didn't do?
what was he supposed to do? sit behind a desk and do a bit about the election? that would have really worked the crowd, let me tell you.
oscar night is about hollywood jerking its collective self off. the host is there to be unassuming. i expected a fair amount of backlash regarding his performance, because nothing an oscar host does is right, unless they're bob hope. but what i want to ask people is just what the hell was he supposed to do that would have satisfied you? my suspicion is that you wanted a mini daily show. unfortunately, the best place for jon to do the daily show is on the daily show, so instead he did this weird thing called 'hosting the oscars', and he did a fine job of hosting the oscars, stupid as that gig may be.
p.s.
something to keep in mind--this article (and my response)? means as much as the oscars do.
keep on rocking in the free world!
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