Loony twonies
It seems like the Oscar after parties are getting more talked about than the Oscars. Today on the View Sherri Sheppard bragged that she had been to two Oscar parties. The second one had cost 25 000 per admittance ticket. Sherri went on to reassure the audience that "I didn't pay for that". I guess that Barbara Walters really does have some deep pockets! Ordinary people too were either hosting or attending Oscar Parties. I even had my own personal Oscar Party Celebration. I won't say how it went but I will say that this morning I tried to pay a shop keeper for a $4.15 purchase by asking if I could give him 3 twonies and 15 cents he could give me back a twonie in change. Why don't you just give me 2 twonies and 15 cents?" he replied.Loony Town
As for the main event, the verdict is in on last night's Academy Awards ceremony, and that is that they sucked. Opinion is vaguely approving of Sarah Jessica Parker's dress & hair. People also seem mildly pleased that the smug James Cameron got taken down a peg or too. In this case schadenfreude may seem justified since only his ego got damaged, and he has 100's of millions to console him. Apart from that the award show was bland and inoffensive, though very slick. Sacha Baron Cohen's Avatar sketch was taken out, since James was gonna get his comeuppance in due course. Also Tiger Wood's jokes were explicitly forbidden. Follywood is packed full of philandering husbands who don't want o be reminded what drain their hard won lucre is eventually going to disappear down. So the affair was bland and unentertaining.
Is the cracker factory running out of cheese?
Entertainment didn't always used to be this way. Long ago, back in the days when the industry still lacked anything like production values people gathered around their TV to watch fare they seemed to enjoy. It was often offensive and more than occasionally entertaining. It's tempting to say that part of the charm of the period was that the entertainment business had still retained some innocence, but that business has never been innocent. Not since the days when the snake offered to make Eve a star by putting her in a movie about an apple (The snake was either Cecil B Demille or Louis B Mayer, and Eve was either Greta Garbo or Ingrid Bergman and had to work briefly as an escort to gasngsters - accounts vary.). Let's just say that it was still genuinely and unintentionally cheesy, & they don't make stuff like that anymore unless they do it on purpose. So here now is a blast from that past, from the days when entertainment didn't advertise that it had lost it's soul. Perhaps it hadn't yet realized that.
