- The Black Eyed Peas and Lady Gaga were two of the big winners at this year's Grammys.
- Avatar won the Golden Globe for Best Picture.
- There are now ten nominees in the Academy's Best Picture category. (yikes. they're not even pretending anymore.)
- One of them was Blind Side (!!).
- Sandra Bullock won for her role in Blind Side. That was a Lifetime Movie the courier accidentally dropped off at the AMC.
- Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize (to be clear, this is not me hating, at all. let's just be honest with ourselves. the man basically apologized for winning.)
- And now The National Enquirer is under consideration for a Pulitzer Prize. I'm not joking.
The National Enquirer. And Pulitzer Prize. In the same sentence.
Ok so, to recap, this puts
- The Black Eyed Peas and Ra Ra GaGaGaGa on par with :: Stevie Wonder, The Beatles, David Bowie, Herbie Hancock
- Sandra Bullock on the same level as :: Katharine Hepburn, Jessica Tandy, Meryl Streep, Marion Cotillard
- The National Enquirer potentially in the same discussion as :: JFK, Toni Morrison, Robert Frost, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Cormac McCarthy
I worked 15 hours today, through the Oscars, ironically, working on the marketing for a film that I think and hope will get an Oscar nomination or two. Feature film marketing pays my mortgage and pays for this wifi connection. I love what I do. I think trailers can be moving, beautiful works of art, sometimes better than the feature itself. [not that I have contributed a 'work of art' of my own yet..] Award shows should recognize artistic excellence, not help sell units of mp3s or movie tickets or magazines. Leave that to us. If they just stuck to what they're supposed to do, the rest would take care of itself, and the shows would become relevant and respectable again.
Sidenote - I'm really happy that Hurt Locker beat out Avatar for Best Picture and the other five. However, I wonder if the fact that the majority of Academy voting members saw the films on their home televisions in 2D had any influence on their votes.
If you think about it there are lots of stories in the National Inquirer that mimic some of Faulkner's characters - sad stories and hardened tragic characters from the south...
ReplyDeleteEnquirer, I meant.
ReplyDeleteYou nailed it. The Grammys aren't an award show as much as they're a giant commercial for the labels to make some more cashola. Gaga and BEP have Grammys, but who doesn't? Oh, only The Who, Bob Marley, The Four Tops, The Supremes, Diana Ross, Buddy Holly and Queen. How DARE YOU try and discount the legitimacy of the Grammys!
ReplyDeletefellow nanook: absolutely. Faulkner's characters, and Adam Sandler's character in The Waterboy. The Enquirer draws from a rich literary lineage.
ReplyDeletezack: nothing is sacred nowadays. other than lovely lady lumps in the back and in the front.