The suspense is finally over. The Oscars are on tonight in all their glory.
Too bad.
When the writer's strike threatened to reduce tonight's Academy Awards show to a rehash of old movie clips, I thought finally there might be an Academy Awards Show worth watching.
Never has a show been so celebrated and yet so consistently boring as the Academy Awards. In fact, all entertainment awards shows are dull as hell. Rich, spoiled celebrities giving each other awards, is hardly the making of an entertaining evening.
Yet people watch. They watch actors who are seemingly brilliant at acting in movies, go live on a stage and screw up their four lines.
Maybe actors aren't so brilliant when they can't do 20 takes. Maybe we all could be just as good at acting if we were pampered, coached, lauded and allowed to do something over and over again until we got it right.
In the real world, you get just one take.
But then again, we all know actors don't live in the real world.
Too bad.
When the writer's strike threatened to reduce tonight's Academy Awards show to a rehash of old movie clips, I thought finally there might be an Academy Awards Show worth watching.
Never has a show been so celebrated and yet so consistently boring as the Academy Awards. In fact, all entertainment awards shows are dull as hell. Rich, spoiled celebrities giving each other awards, is hardly the making of an entertaining evening.
Yet people watch. They watch actors who are seemingly brilliant at acting in movies, go live on a stage and screw up their four lines.
Maybe actors aren't so brilliant when they can't do 20 takes. Maybe we all could be just as good at acting if we were pampered, coached, lauded and allowed to do something over and over again until we got it right.
In the real world, you get just one take.
But then again, we all know actors don't live in the real world.
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