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SteveS Offline
#1 Posted: Tue, Mar 18 2003, 7:00 PM EST
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The Oscars are scheduled for this coming Sunday ... there's a certain amount of talk that if war comes, as it appears it will, that the Oscars might be postponed ... there's also a certain amount of scuttlebutt going around that if war has begun, but the Oscars DO go on, that there will be a fair number of the participants who will want to use their stage to state their personal anti-adminstration views ...

My take on that is that while this is a free country and they are entitled to have and express any view they like, to make public statements that are not supportive of the US at a critical time is just plain wrong ...

I am going on record as saying that I will boycott the works of any actor, actress, director or producer who uses that forum in that manner and am asking the rest of you to join me in that boycott ... and unlike Alec Baldwin's promise to leave the country if GWB were elected, I WILL follow through
efm Offline
#2 Posted: Tue, Mar 18 2003, 8:01 PM EST
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They can rant and rave all they want for all I care. They just might have an exaggerated view of their importance. It's amusing to me how the Oscar show always claims a billion viewers. Wishful thinking. A billion would be 1 out of every 5 or 6 people in the world. You couldn't find that percentage in California who watch the Oscars. No way is there a billion people in the world ever even heard of the Acadamy Awards.
rwestcot Offline
#3 Posted: Tue, Mar 18 2003, 10:39 PM EST
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It should be important for them to remember that for one thing, that there are parts of the world where the possibility of winning an award for acting or entertaining is completely inconceivable, let alone attainable. It should also be noted that those who do wich to use the stage for protest, should realize that there are many parts of the world where these people would be beaten offstage and imprisoned, rather than booed and forced to do B movies and celebrity golf tournaments for the rest of their lives.
jreddoch Offline
#4 Posted: Wed, Mar 19 2003, 1:36 AM EST
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All good points, gentlemen. At least listening to deluded, self-important actors rant might make the Oscars more entertaining than it usually is.

My concern lies with the troops in harm's way. I just hope the shooting part of this war is over fast.
eleltea Offline
#5 Posted: Wed, Mar 19 2003, 2:48 AM EST
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Wake me when it's over.
xrundog Offline
#6 Posted: Wed, Mar 19 2003, 4:30 AM EST
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Anything other than "Thanks for the award. And thanks to everyone who helped me get it"! would be pompous and self important. I am hoping there is something good on the discovery channel.
jd1 Offline
#7 Posted: Wed, Mar 19 2003, 6:52 AM EST
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Ditto xrun; I'll be out on the back patio with an Antano and a cognac and hoping that at the same time, a few people in the military will have a few minutes to enjoy one of the smokes I sent.
plabonte Offline
#8 Posted: Wed, Mar 19 2003, 7:15 AM EST
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Sorry Steve. I can't join you in your boycot. I could care less about the oscars or any other such award show. Therefore I won't be watching it and I'll have no idea who to boycot.

I watch movies for the movies. Not for who is in them. However, if you were to make a list of any such actors/actresses who bad mouth my country....
Penguin13 Offline
#9 Posted: Wed, Mar 19 2003, 7:55 AM EST
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JD - Thanks to you, I think I'll join you on that thought ;)

KC
Charlie Offline
#10 Posted: Wed, Mar 19 2003, 8:07 AM EST
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I am with JD and Penguin on this one!

Prediction, Richard Gere has been added to presenters (why?) and I will predict that he will go and on about the "unjust" war and USA invading Iraq!

He will be booed!

Charlie
efm Offline
#11 Posted: Wed, Mar 19 2003, 9:37 AM EST
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The Oscars show is really a big infomercial for Hollywood. I can take it or leave it.

I haven't watched the Oscars since David Letterman hosted and just died on stage. Mostly it gets BORING when the winners thank fifteen different people I never heard of.
gerber Offline
#12 Posted: Wed, Mar 19 2003, 1:02 PM EST
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Although I love movies and am an admirer of the art of acting, I just can't bring myself to watch the Academy Awards. There is just something obscene about this most opulent of public fawning and self-congratulatory attention given to people who are already among the most elite, visible, and highly paid in the world. While I don't begrudge them their opportunity for yet more public exposure, I am also very happy that I don't have to share in it. All the more so in light of the probability that this year's love-fest of the rich-and-famous will feature much unsolicited political posturing. No thanks!! I can't imagine a worse use of my time.
Spiny Norman Offline
#13 Posted: Wed, Mar 19 2003, 1:15 PM EST
Joined: 09-04-2002
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Well said.

Very few of them, (and that includes many that lean to the right), can manage their own affairs. Why would anyone take their consule on any matter of importance.
jjohnson28 Offline
#14 Posted: Wed, Mar 19 2003, 1:23 PM EST
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Rarely watch the Awards anyway,other than a few snipetts here and there and rarely if ever even go to see a movie any more.Same sh_t different players for the most part.
echo4alpha Offline
#15 Posted: Wed, Mar 19 2003, 1:53 PM EST
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Hello all. New to the board. If the war starts, I for one will be watching CNN, (along with millions of others)praying for our brave men and women out there, instead of watching the academy awards. Come to think of it, who won't be glued to CNN? The pompous and clueless can have their evening all to theirselves as far as I'm concerned. They make their living ACTING, while our troops make their living DOING. Thanks for hearing me out.
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