This is a town that celebrates its view as an open-minded, all welcoming, moral leader in the fight for whoever the hell the victims are this week, but yet it took them about 75 years before they gave the best actress award to a black woman. Way to stay ahead of the curve there Tinseltown! You’ve now caught up to 1970′s Alabama!

No longer are awards given on merit, but on a political philosophy. How could Penn not win for Milk? It’s about a gay, San Francisco liberal! The only thing that would’ve made him a lock, is that if Milk was autistic or mentally challenged.

It reminds of that scene in Bowfinger when Eddie Murphy’s A-List character says that white people get awards for being retarded and blacks get it for being slaves. Get me a role as a retarded slave! Hollywood is so predictable, and is a slave to their small, narrow ideals.

The Oscars are the equivalent of masturbating, cuddling with yourself and telling yourself what a wonderful lover you are.

Excuse for a second…I have to go take a Sean Penn and wipe my Michael Moore. Be back in a few minutes.

Made me laugh.

I swear he sounded like he’s about to come out of the closet. What a drama queen, as if he ever did anything truly courageous. HAHA. And he just had to make it a political thing didn’t he?

Mickey Rourke appeared to be really good in the clips I saw. He was excellent in Rumblefish, and I don’t doubt he has talent.

So what it comes down to is this: if both actors gave a good performance, who do you choose? In the British BAFTAs they picked Mickey Rourke. In America they picked Milk.

Was it politics that made the difference?

Boycott Hollywood, hit them where it hurts. and let them go masturbate at the moon.

workingforpigs on February 24, 2009 at 12:21 AM

Was never enamored of actors in general…they never affected my pay grade. But, I can affect their pay grade. So can a lot of others. Haven’t been to a movie theater since Pearl Harbor came out, and only then because a friend asked my opinion on what some were calling major inaccuracies in the movie…a row of Fletcher-class destroyers being attacked by Japanese Zero’s…and quite a few more.

If a decent flick is on TV…fine. if there is good DVD out there (Ice Age, Ice Age II, for example…”Skrat” the poor schlemiel squirrel is a metaphor for my own life…)I might rent it frrm netflix…but put cash in the hands of most of the Hollyweird crowd? Nope.

“Get hollywood where it hurts, in their wallets. Stop going to the movies and stop renting their filth on pay per view. Yep.

Get hollywood where it hurts, in their wallets. Stop going to the movies and stop renting their filth on pay per view.

It’ll be an expensive bust…W is no longer President and the topic is so, like, yesterday.

Q: Who gave him an award, and for what?

And for our more “progressive” conservative friends here who hate when one equates gay sex with child molestation, let me preemptively say that the point is, a generation ago, gay sex was illegal and looked upon as shamefully as sex with children. It’s just taken a generation of pop-culture, etc. to push something down our throats, despite no evidence to support it as being “natural”. Who’s to say that in 50 years we won’t be called “bigots” and “haters” for refusing to believe that some adults are naturally attracted to children?

(This is the part where you guys say “but gay sex is between 2 consenting adults)

What is an adult? 18? Well, that’s the law… though age of consent is lower in some states. But the point is, the law used to outlaw sodomy too. Also, why just “2″ consenting adults? Why limit it to 2?

At any rate, we’ve seen increasing evidence that kissing cousins can have children with no increased issues, compared to unrelated couples. When do we demand rights for them?

And here’s another thing I’ve been wondering recently. The case against incest has always been the whole retarded children thing… So what about homo-incest? 2 sisters want to get down? 2 brothers? I demand rights for these oppressed peoples!!!

Bottom line – think people! The fact that we have 2 genders with uniquely designed reproductive organs isn’t a coincidence, no matter how much you try to trick yourself in to denying common sense so that you can accept your gay uncle or friend or coworker.

I think he meant to say “eloquent”, but Penn’s not very eloquent.

jgapinoy on February 23, 2009 at 7:52 PM

Well, take Uhbama away from his teleprompter and he isn’t very eloquent either.

Exit question: Why is it that Hollywood’s ability to influence the culture is not only acknowledged but celebrated by the industry when that influence is salutary, but denied and dismissed as conservative scapegoating when it isn’t, e.g., in glamorizing violence and teen promiscuity?

I’d say it goes even a step beyond that. Hollywood is the embodiment of everything that liberals criticize in our nominally capitalist system – nepotism, ego trips, the casting couch, and a pay scale the antithesis of egalitarian where there is little justification for the salaries that biggest names earn.

If liberals weren’t so oblivious to everything outside of their carefully crafted narrative they might actually want to do something about the fact that their primary media organ celebrates hypocrisy.

OT: I just heard we’re getting the Phil Valentine Show to replace BillO on our 6-9PM slot. Anybody familiar with him?

hawkdriver on February 23, 2009 at 3:57 PM

I’ve been in the Nashville area after escaping from LA one year ago and picked up on Valentine right away. He and Beck are both on while I’m driving home from work and his show usually wins out in my car. Common sense conservative without the Beck drama. He also writes a Sunday column in the Tennessean that’s aways a good read. He deserves national exposure. You’ll enjoy him.

Penn is pleased America elected an “Elegant” President.

I think he meant to say “eloquent”, but Penn’s not very eloquent.