And the Oscar Goes to... The Pretend Competency of the Media-Political Complex

Oh, boy. They gave Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway the wrong envelope -- they gave them a duplicate envelope containing the best actress winner, Emma Stone for La La Land. Faye Dunaway apparently ignored the "Emma Stone" at the top and read the Best Picture as La La Land.

These people have done this before. Shouldn't they have realized the Best Picture card shouldn't have the name of an actress on it?

At any rate, the Price Waterhouse accountants then had to come out and tell them that La La Land had lost, and Moonlight had won.

It was awkward:

Update: Clownshoes on.

Producer "devastated" after the #Oscars mistakenly used her photo in the "In Memoriam" segment https://t.co/IqcBI23gHo pic.twitter.com/d9YJmJD5uS
— Variety (@Variety) February 27, 2017

I think what happened there is that the woman named did in fact die, but they ran the photo of a living woman.

Posted by: Ace at 11:49 AM

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1 itz a haaaaard job

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at February 27, 2017 11:43 AM (CPk08)

2 2nd's?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 27, 2017 11:44 AM (NBHj5)

3 They won't be thrown in jail because of white privilege!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 27, 2017 11:44 AM (vur0q)

4 These people thing they can tell us what to do when they can't even run their own awards show.

Posted by: Hope at February 27, 2017 11:45 AM (7wyDO)

5 Think of every stereotype about how stupid Hollywoodheads are.

Halve that level of intelligence.

Your average H'wood type is even dumber than that.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, keeper of the Deplorable Unicode Character at February 27, 2017 11:46 AM (9krrF)

6 AND they did not mention Robert Vaughn, Guy Hamilton, or Garry Handling in the In Memorium segment... Vaughn was nominated for an Oscar in 1959. Plus, they used the wrong picture for one of the women who died. SO glad I didn't watch this - and after all the political bloviating this past year I may never watch another awards show again.

Posted by: Joseph Dickerson at February 27, 2017 11:46 AM (LDV7V)

7 RIP Chet.

Posted by: Benji Carver at February 27, 2017 11:46 AM (OD2ni)

8 I have 0 fucks to give. I do have a bag of dicks they can eat.

Posted by: USNtakim at February 27, 2017 11:47 AM (hMqvx)

9
And the best picture goes to...who really gives a shit

Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 27, 2017 11:47 AM (493sH)

10 Derp

Posted by: Tilikum KAW at February 27, 2017 11:47 AM (uhftQ)

11 Wait... is Price-Waterhouse a Chicago firm?
Did the voters for the Oscars have to provide ID?
Was the voting rigged?

So many troubling questions.

Posted by: Concerned at February 27, 2017 11:47 AM (ZO497)

12 And first goes to....
Damnit.

Posted by: Eggo at February 27, 2017 11:48 AM (Wd0WT)

13 I'm hearing it suggested that the Old Oscar Insiders wanted, veddy much, for their dahling LaLa to take it all, but were faced with dour necessity in Ghey Black Film, and contrived this little nastiness, letting the masque slip as 'twere, as a sort of in-joke for their own amusement. Here you go...Boy.

I'd be even more delighted to find evidence of that, than a mere screwup.
Because that's just how nasty-minded these half-percenters really are, when the DeMille Close-Up lights are off.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at February 27, 2017 11:48 AM (H5rtT)

14 trump
trump
trump

deport
deport
deport

Posted by: Original Jake at February 27, 2017 11:49 AM (VBsKP)

15 Envelope hander outer is a hard job!

Posted by: Hamilton at February 27, 2017 11:49 AM (sCjDS)

16 You had one effing job!

Posted by: Diogenes at February 27, 2017 11:49 AM (0tfLf)

17 i tried to watch it. gave up after only 5 minutes. when the HOST started with the preaching, i baled out.

they have nothing i want to hear or see.

Posted by: WaldoTJ (in Texas) at February 27, 2017 11:49 AM (M1MpJ)

18 I felt Trump should have had a better tweet to respond, something like "and these are the people that want to run the country? Sad!"

Posted by: Maritime at February 27, 2017 11:49 AM (uAO9M)

19 I pooped my pants. What time is bingo?

Posted by: Warren Beatty at February 27, 2017 11:50 AM (OD2ni)

20 This made me smile. So satisfying seeing them up there looking like the fools they are. Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of dickheads.

Posted by: deplorable Jewells45 at February 27, 2017 11:50 AM (zRZaJ)

21 ...I've always viewed the Oscars as equivalent of KFC employee of the month; except Tamiqua doesn't get fabulous swag or to make 10 x's her salary the next month...

Posted by: pahound at February 27, 2017 11:50 AM (r/l80)

22 More good news:

Apparently, the broadcast is looking at a 9 year low for ratings.

Yay! More selective appeal!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 27, 2017 11:50 AM (vur0q)

23 Well, at least they didn't call Miss Columbia.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 27, 2017 11:50 AM (0tfLf)

24 has anyone even seen any of these movies?

that were nominated

Posted by: Original Jake at February 27, 2017 11:51 AM (VBsKP)

25 They're a legend in their own mind.

Posted by: GnuBreed at February 27, 2017 11:51 AM (xpfRn)

26 Everyone deserves a participation Oscar.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 27, 2017 11:51 AM (oVJmc)

27 17 i tried to watch it

Why?

Posted by: Bat Chain Puller at February 27, 2017 11:51 AM (Yi9Gb)

28 Hahahahahahaha! Heard about this, just saw the clip. Oh, gawd! I can't breathe. They were so deep into their thank you'd.

Posted by: Russkilitlover at February 27, 2017 11:52 AM (YkSLe)

29 I almost wished I had seen the botched Best picture announcement.... Almost...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 27, 2017 11:52 AM (O2RFr)

30 What do you expect? The only skill any of these lickspittles have is to read whatever somebody (usually somebody smarter than them, btw) puts in front of their nose.
There is no processing going on.
Except when it comes time to lecture us on how we should live.
Fuck them all.

Posted by: LGoPs at February 27, 2017 11:52 AM (t8gnY)

31 I didn't watch. Did they make up for not giving out enough unearned participation trophies last year by overcompensating and giving half of the awards to the 3% of the eligible candidates that just happened to be Filmmakers of Color?

Posted by: Moron Robbie at February 27, 2017 11:52 AM (/f1mm)

32 I've always viewed the Oscars as equivalent of KFC employee of the month; except Tamiqua doesn't get fabulous swag or to make 10 x's her salary the next month...
Posted by: pahound
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Maybe a parking spot, marked 'Employee of the Month'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 27, 2017 11:53 AM (ZO497)

33 24 has anyone even seen any of these movies?

that were nominated

Hacksaw Ridge.... It was really good... Never heard of Moonlight...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 27, 2017 11:53 AM (O2RFr)

34 Couldn't happen to a more despicable bunch of self-righteous douchebags.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 27, 2017 11:53 AM (VV72c)

35 Karma's a bitch. That is all I kept thinking watching this as it happened. All the plastic surgery anesthesia has evidently affected brain cells in Warren Beatty that he couldn't think to ask did he get the wrong card. Then he hands it to a woman so he won't be the one announcing it wrong. And they make fun of Trump? All the pious sanctimony in one room where they parade the little people through like animals in a zoo. If they had even a speck of common sense they would realize how Trump won. And ratings are down from last year.

Posted by: dixiegal88 at February 27, 2017 11:53 AM (skqYQ)

36

Moonlight: Isn't this the story of Obama?

{or however the aoshq style guide for that meme goes}

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 27, 2017 11:53 AM (ODxAs)

37 Hey, Oscars...lots of blah, blah,, blah categories but really, You had ONE job!

Posted by: Russkilitlover at February 27, 2017 11:53 AM (YkSLe)

38 The Russians hacked the Oscars!

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 27, 2017 11:53 AM (SIY7D)

39 Beatty and Dunway wanted to advertise for their new movie.

Bonnie and Clyde: Grand Theft Oscars as the two aging bank robbers break out of the retirement home they've been hiding for one last stab at immortality.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 27, 2017 11:53 AM (VOH2j)

40 Actors read lines... they don't write lines... they don't make sense of lines.... Hell, most of the time they probably don't even understand the lines...

They read lines.... that's their entire Job...

They read the Lines they were given...

They had ONE Job, and they did it!

/facepalm

Posted by: Don Q. at February 27, 2017 11:53 AM (qf6WZ)

41 Yeah, made it thru the first few bits and parts, but after the 1,494th Trump/Social justice comment, I bailed.
Missed the only good part of the show, I see.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at February 27, 2017 11:53 AM (MINbv)

42 31 I didn't watch. Did they make up for not giving out enough unearned participation trophies last year by overcompensating and giving half of the awards to the 3% of the eligible candidates that just happened to be Filmmakers of Color?
Posted by: Moron Robbie at February 27, 2017 11:52 AM (/f1mm)

Yes, big time.... Cue the Hispanic shrieking that they were left out...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 27, 2017 11:54 AM (O2RFr)

43 Hacksaw Ridge.... It was really good... Never heard of Moonlight...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 27, 2017 11:53 AM (O2RFr)

I never heard of it until this morning either. I guess it has nothing to do with Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepard

Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 27, 2017 11:54 AM (493sH)

44 Maybe next year they will invite me to read off the winners.

Posted by: Ron Burgandy at February 27, 2017 11:54 AM (qXFhJ)

45 Even if they were handed the wrong card, would it really have taken a lot of brain power between two Hollywood vets that have spent a lifetime in the industry to figure out an Actresses Name on the card for the "Best Picture" award was an obvious mistake?

But no, I guess in that situation you just wing it and become the butt of jokes for the rest of your life.

Posted by: Maritime at February 27, 2017 11:54 AM (uAO9M)

46 One fucking job comes to mind.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 27, 2017 11:54 AM (voOPb)

47 hey you dumbfucks in Hollywood, us hicks in flyoverville will buy tickets to movies too if you didn't stomp on us all the time

I did like Deepwater Horizon and Hacksaw Ridge

Central Intelligence with Duane Johnson was fun too

Posted by: Original Jake at February 27, 2017 11:54 AM (VBsKP)

48 I think one of us has infiltrated Price Waterhouse.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 27, 2017 11:54 AM (PY9jH)

49 Those Hollywood people, they are wicked smaaart and tell us how to think...and then this.

It is tragically funny

Posted by: Lizzy at February 27, 2017 11:55 AM (NOIQH)

50 #YourBetters preening and failing.

What's not to like?

Posted by: kallisto at February 27, 2017 11:55 AM (nNdYv)

51 42 31 I didn't watch. Did they make up for not giving out enough unearned participation trophies last year by overcompensating and giving half of the awards to the 3% of the eligible candidates that just happened to be Filmmakers of Color?

Posted by: Moron Robbie at February 27, 2017 11:52 AM (/f1mm)

Yes, big time.... Cue the Hispanic shrieking that they were left out...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 27, 2017 11:54 AM (O2RFr)

The tragic part is that they don't understand why THIS is what they should be attacking.

Posted by: Moron Robbie at February 27, 2017 11:56 AM (/f1mm)

52 I watched little bits and pieces, like driving past a car crash.

Best part of what I saw was Jimmy Kimmel ripping MATT DAMON! over "The Great Wall."

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 27, 2017 11:56 AM (PY9jH)

53 45 Even if they were handed the wrong card, would it really have taken a lot of brain power between two Hollywood vets that have spent a lifetime in the industry to figure out an Actresses Name on the card for the "Best Picture" award was an obvious mistake?

But no, I guess in that situation you just wing it and become the butt of jokes for the rest of your life.

Posted by: Maritime at February 27, 2017 11:54 AM (uAO9M)

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Apparently, Beatty did figure it out.

But, the card for Best Picture doesn't just have the movie's name on it, it also contains the names of the producers.

Dunaway could have glossed over the name, thinking that it was just something she'd have to read afterwards, and skipped right to the name of the film. She's not much in the spotlight anymore either, so there could have been some level of anxiety messing with her ability to concentrate as well.

Still, funny to see them screw up and make the whole industry look bad.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 27, 2017 11:56 AM (vur0q)

54 Apparently Emma Stone was wearing a Planned Parenthood pin on her gown.
UGH.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 27, 2017 11:56 AM (NOIQH)

55 Maybe next year they will invite me to read off the winners.
Posted by: Ron Burgandy
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Sorry. They've already been in touch.

Posted by: Max Headroom at February 27, 2017 11:57 AM (ZO497)

56 #YourBetters preening and failing.

Yes. They tell Us rubes that We are against diversity and inclusiveness as they are driving off in their limos to their invitation only parties and their gated mansions...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 27, 2017 11:57 AM (O2RFr)

57 Those people are dumber than a box of high-grade owl shit.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at February 27, 2017 11:57 AM (sF/De)

58 54 Apparently Emma Stone was wearing a Planned Parenthood pin on her gown.
UGH.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 27, 2017 11:56 AM (NOIQH)

====================

I'm sure she'll donate tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars to the organization herself once federal funds are cut off.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 27, 2017 11:57 AM (vur0q)

59 Imagine if the best actress was for a movie not even nominated and Warren and Faye announced best picture for something like "Dr. Strange"?

Posted by: Serious Cat at February 27, 2017 11:57 AM (Uy6ri)

60 Accountants naturally assume that other people are sufficiently competent to read in full. Obviously they weren't used to dealing with washed-up actors.

Posted by: joncelli, Professor of Grievance Studies at February 27, 2017 11:58 AM (RD7QR)

61 Bogart and Bacall, lecturing Amerika at the Party's beck and call, outside the McCarthy hearings.

'Twas ever thus, and yes they were always that dumb.
A few big producers used to think patriotism was good business. They'd come from Old Country, then from NJ to Cal, and felt like outsiders who'd better be nice to the natives. Not so much, any more. That's the only difference.
David Mamet wrote quite a bit on this, not long after he quit writing for Rolling Stone.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at February 27, 2017 11:58 AM (H5rtT)

62 Did you see Matt Damon applauding?

Posted by: Matt Damon at February 27, 2017 11:58 AM (5wSNN)

63 No Escape with Owen Wilson was a good movie too.

can't believe it was made how non PC it was.

Posted by: Original Jake at February 27, 2017 11:58 AM (VBsKP)

64 35....spot on comment.

Maybe every awards ceremony they should have a march of the peasants, just to show how down with the little people they are. Gah.

Posted by: Russkilitlover at February 27, 2017 11:58 AM (YkSLe)

65 Still, funny to see them screw up and make the whole industry look ~~bad~~ even stupider.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Edited

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 27, 2017 11:58 AM (ZO497)

66 Oscars so black you can now call them the BET awards

Posted by: NCKate at February 27, 2017 11:58 AM (CVz3a)

67 22 More good news:

Apparently, the broadcast is looking at a 9 year low for ratings.

Yay! More selective appeal!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 27, 2017 11:50 AM (vur0q)

Couldn't happen to nicer people.

BTW, horde; we need an oscar to our credit. All we need is to write the story of some xgender 12 year old whose feelings were hurt when xhe tried to use the girls bathroom and some girl whose daddy taught her to be mean to people laughed at xis weiner.

And then how by loving re-education that same mean girl came to understand the wrongness of her ways, and even helped her Trump-voting daddy realize he was really gay. And maybe black.

Posted by: TexasDan at February 27, 2017 11:59 AM (yL25O)

68 Willowed:

184 Oh, now I get it, Moonlight is the story of Barack Obama.

No wonder it won.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk

You have to imagine that there is a cosmic fuck ton of narcissists in hwood that are seriously pissed off that a nothing movie like this won. $25 million in box office receipts took best picture?

Srsly?

Posted by: rickb223 at February 27, 2017 11:59 AM (ph+ut)

69 65 Still, funny to see them screw up and make the whole industry look bad even stupider.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Edited
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 27, 2017 11:58 AM (ZO497)

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I approve.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 27, 2017 11:59 AM (vur0q)

70 "I never heard of it until this morning either. I guess it has nothing to do with Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepard"

Heh. To think, Cybil Shepard was pissed that ABC cast some nobody named Bruce Willis as her co-star.

Posted by: Benji Carver at February 27, 2017 11:59 AM (OD2ni)

71 Those people are dumber than a box of high-grade owl shit.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at February 27, 2017 11:57 AM (sF/De)

Box of high-grade owl shit: Hey! There's no reason to be so nasty to us

Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 27, 2017 11:59 AM (493sH)

72 >>I did like Deepwater Horizon and Hacksaw Ridge

I liked DWH - what did you think of the John Malkovitch character not having any lines after all hell breaks loose? Was wondering why, maybe because the real-life guy was in the middle of being prosecuted when the movie was being made, or some other legal reason?

Posted by: Lizzy at February 27, 2017 11:59 AM (NOIQH)

73 Jordan Horowitz - if that's the guys name, is a class act, well done for him at what must have been a heartbreaking moment.

Nevertheless, I don't really care.

I remember growing up when the adults had oscar parties - dressing up formally, clustering around a small TV.

Now it's meh.

Posted by: Lurker primus at February 27, 2017 11:59 AM (KqW7d)

74 48 I think one of us has infiltrated Price Waterhouse.

Hope Solo won?

Posted by: wooga at February 27, 2017 11:59 AM (3I7wr)

75 Fucking up a wet dream comes to mind.

Posted by: redenzo at February 27, 2017 11:59 AM (5wSNN)

76 Envelope please. And the Lifetime Achievement Award for Booger Eating is:

Meryl Streep

Let's see what the judges had to say in their comments.

"Powerful, moving"
"World-Class"
"Now I'm hungry for green nuggets"
"With panache, baby!"
"She can pick my nose any time"
"Is there anything she cannot do with perfection?"
"Fuck, I'm out of Xanax"

Posted by: GnuBreed at February 27, 2017 11:59 AM (xpfRn)

77 Huffpo had LaLa Land with a 99% chance of winning best picture.

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at February 27, 2017 12:00 PM (oGRue)

78 Guy you using now - Warren Beatty. I can do this for you.

You know, de envelopes? I can do better, cheaper. Okay?

Pay me cash. Off book, no taxes. Si?

Posted by: Jose from Oaxaca at February 27, 2017 12:00 PM (3OAG2)

79 BTW, horde; we need an oscar to our credit. All we need is to write the story of some xgender 12 year old whose feelings were hurt when xhe tried to use the girls bathroom and some girl whose daddy taught her to be mean to people laughed at xis weiner.

And then how by loving re-education that same mean girl came to understand the wrongness of her ways, and even helped her Trump-voting daddy realize he was really gay. And maybe black.
Posted by: TexasDan at February 27, 2017 11:59 AM (yL25O)

======================

Either the antagonist father breaks down, crying, in an effort to find redemption, or he's unapologetic and gets his just desserts at the end.

Which would the Oscar voters like more?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 27, 2017 12:00 PM (vur0q)

80 Huffpo had LaLa Land with a 99% chance of winning best picture.

Too "blond."

Posted by: It's me donna at February 27, 2017 12:00 PM (O2RFr)

81 When Kimmel paraded the unwashed tourists through the front of the room, encouraging them to "touch the Oscars!" my jaw dropped. The excited "nobodies" were grabbing the stars' hands giddily. The look and fake smile on Meryl Streep's face was priceless.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 27, 2017 12:00 PM (PY9jH)

82 I used to think it was my imagination. Not anymore. Elite polits and media are showing facial signs of inbreeding. Of course we all know they're mentally inbred but now I'm seeing it physically.

Posted by: Corona at February 27, 2017 12:01 PM (6zJAh)

83 some other legal reason?
Posted by: Lizzy at February 27, 2017 11:59 AM (NOIQH)

my guess is legal, all of it

Posted by: Original Jake at February 27, 2017 12:01 PM (VBsKP)

84
BTW, horde; we need an oscar to our credit. All we need is to write the story of some xgender 12 year old whose feelings were hurt when xhe tried to use the girls bathroom and some girl whose daddy taught her to be mean to people laughed at xis weiner.

And then how by loving re-education that same mean girl came to understand the wrongness of her ways, and even helped her Trump-voting daddy realize he was really gay. And maybe black.
Posted by: TexasDan at February 27, 2017 11:59 AM (yL25O)

Nah.... the story of the trials and tribulations of Rachael Donnetz...

We can call it... 'The Catcher of the Lie'...

Posted by: Don Q. at February 27, 2017 12:01 PM (qf6WZ)

85 >>You have to imagine that there is a cosmic fuck ton of narcissists in
hwood that are seriously pissed off that a nothing movie like this won.
$25 million in box office receipts took best picture?

Doubt it - it was a message movie with an all-black cast, about a homosexual/against 'toxic masculinity', etc. They love those kinds of films regardless of box office.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 27, 2017 12:01 PM (NOIQH)

86 On the one hand, I feel sorry for Beatty and Dunaway, two octogenarians put in a tough position that would required improv skills that even a 40-year-old performer would have found tough to live up to. OTOH, their Bonnie & Clyde was horrid milestone in the country's decline, so it's fitting that they'll be forever associated with this gaffe.

Posted by: Schaeffer at February 27, 2017 12:01 PM (EjIr0)

87 Even if they were handed the wrong card, would it really have taken a lot of brain power between two Hollywood vets that have spent a lifetime in the industry to figure out an Actresses Name on the card for the "Best Picture" award was an obvious mistake?

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Look, we're trained to read fuckin words on a piece of paper. It's all we ever dooooo

Posted by: Faye D at February 27, 2017 12:01 PM (oGRue)

88 Rush is going to have a ball with this

Posted by: random ~~lurker~~ commenter at February 27, 2017 12:01 PM (+tRIN)

89 PriceWaterhouseCoopers - big CPA firm charged with all facets of Oscar balloting and companies financials including Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.

So they can't manage one of these tasks. Sleep tight Wall Street.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 27, 2017 12:01 PM (jxbfJ)

90 Apparently, Beatty did figure it out.

But, the card for Best Picture doesn't just have the movie's name on it, it also contains the names of the producers.

Dunaway could have glossed over the name, thinking that it was just something she'd have to read afterwards, and skipped right to the name of the film. She's not much in the spotlight anymore either, so there could have been some level of anxiety messing with her ability to concentrate as well.

Still, funny to see them screw up and make the whole industry look bad.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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I wouldn't say he "figured it out"

The "best actress" card has Emma Stone's name most prominently listed at the very top in big letters.

The idea that "Emma Stone" would appear in big, bold letters instead of the name of one of the films nominated is something you would hope a veteran Hollywood mogul could figure out was a mistake.

The cards themselves aren't supposed to be cue cards to help them with their introduction, they simply name the category winner and the film they were in.

Posted by: Maritime at February 27, 2017 12:02 PM (uAO9M)

91 I saw one movie last year: Hacksaw Ridge. We went in November on election night instead of watching returns. Got home and found that Trump was winning and Hillary would not be President. Great night!

Posted by: Cosda at February 27, 2017 12:02 PM (dGMyT)

92 Honestly, I'd rather 'Jen' do a guest post about her Menses.

Posted by: garrett at February 27, 2017 12:02 PM (NXfyF)

93 Pathetic, ridiculous fucking clowns, the lot of them.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at February 27, 2017 12:02 PM (97XyN)

94 My FB feed is clogged with whatever plausible excuses can be found for everyone involved. Same folks vilifying the antisemitic impulses of the VP for tweeting a 15-pixel Nicaraguan flag thinking it was the Israeli flag.

Posted by: Slo-Pitch Whiffer at February 27, 2017 12:02 PM (5JlYa)

95 95% of Hollywood could DIAF and I would not have a single shit to give.....

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at February 27, 2017 12:02 PM (jjaLl)

96 La LA Land won the popular vote

Posted by: Bigby's Typing Hands at February 27, 2017 12:02 PM (cJ6SU)

97 If I cared, I'd find it appalling, or funny. As I don't, it's like hearing about distant galaxies colliding.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 27, 2017 12:02 PM (MZcWR)

98 So, a professional actor and actress screwed up their lines.

LOL....

Posted by: Jen at February 27, 2017 12:02 PM (cWhln)

99 81 When Kimmel paraded the unwashed tourists through the front of the room, encouraging them to "touch the Oscars!" my jaw dropped. The excited "nobodies" were grabbing the stars' hands giddily. The look and fake smile on Meryl Streep's face was priceless.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 27, 2017 12:00 PM (PY9jH)

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Reminds me of something that apparently happened in the Middle Ages:

During the sign of peace at Catholic mass, the unwashed masses were allowed to go up to the rich lords and ladies and physically embrace them. This was not something that the lords and ladies enjoyed. So, they started passing around an icon of Mary (I think) that everyone kissed instead.

"Don't touch us. God!"

I'm sure Hollywood would love the comparison. And I'm not being sarcastic.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 27, 2017 12:03 PM (vur0q)

100
40 Actors read lines... they don't write lines... they don't make sense of lines.... Hell, most of the time they probably don't even understand the lines...

They read lines.... that's their entire Job...

They read the Lines they were given...

They had ONE Job, and they did it!

/facepalm

Posted by: Don Q. at February 27, 2017 11:53 AM (qf6WZ)

They have been known to blow lines

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 27, 2017 12:03 PM (voOPb)

101 I think Egg McMUffin should have won the Oscar.

Posted by: Bill Kristol at February 27, 2017 12:03 PM (OD2ni)

102 In another sign of why we need to Make America Great Again - we see that our Horeywood "betters" can't even keep themselves stepping on their dick when they are preening themselves for another night of "How great am I" accolades.

Glad I watched Walking Dead instead.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 27, 2017 12:03 PM (jxbfJ)

103 You had one job!

Can they not read? How hard is it to write on a card BEST PICTURE

and below that
SCOOBY DOO'S BALL RASH

Jeez these fucks are dumber than a bag of tube socks

Posted by: FredB at February 27, 2017 12:03 PM (c5sfq)

104 Warren is walking around with his 30 pound face.

Posted by: redenzo at February 27, 2017 12:03 PM (5wSNN)

105

We've substituted Folger's Instant Winner for the real winner. Let's see what happens...

Posted by: Mrs. Olson at February 27, 2017 12:03 PM (NBHj5)

106 I was channel surfing and happen to stop on the show just as that asshat was reading the letter from the Iranian dude. I learned that my country's immigration policy was "inhuman." This from a friggin' Persian.
Odd...I don't see any lines of folks waiting to get into Iran.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 27, 2017 12:04 PM (0tfLf)

107 87

Fake lives

Posted by: A deplorable dude in MI at February 27, 2017 12:04 PM (5Uq5D)

108 90
I wouldn't say he "figured it out"

The "best actress" card has Emma Stone's name most prominently listed at the very top in big letters.

The idea that "Emma Stone" would appear in big, bold letters instead of the name of one of the films nominated is something you would hope a veteran Hollywood mogul could figure out was a mistake.

The cards themselves aren't supposed to be cue cards to help them with their introduction, they simply name the category winner and the film they were in.
Posted by: Maritime at February 27, 2017 12:02 PM (uAO9M)

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He was telling Faye that it was the wrong name on the card. He probably figured it out.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 27, 2017 12:04 PM (vur0q)

109 Yeah, there's nothing more exciting than having the Best Picture award announced by some fucking accountants.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 27, 2017 12:04 PM (uSlc8)

110 That's not their only fuck up of the night.

Their In Memoriam used the photo of a living Australian producer for a dead costume designer.

Posted by: buzzion at February 27, 2017 12:04 PM (z/Ubi)

111 https://tinyurl.com/zeupaqs

__________________________

Attacks on Top Trump Adviser Gorka a Product of Obama Admin Holdovers, Targeted Leaks

Posted by: EVLINC! at February 27, 2017 12:05 PM (y3aQB)

112 There's this theory that the most memorable movie NEVER wins and years later people are still watching and discussing the film that didn't win. I know there are exceptions to every rule but this one seems eerily accurate.

Posted by: Max Power at February 27, 2017 12:05 PM (QCc6B)

113 Beatty and Dunaway both knew that La La Land was a movie about white people doing white people stuff, and that Moonlight was a movie about black people doing black people stuff.

Sheesh.

Posted by: General Zod at February 27, 2017 12:05 PM (Bdeb0)

114 So, they started passing around an icon of Mary (I think) that everyone kissed instead.

+++

Cool. Wish they'd go back to that

Posted by: Bigby's Typing Hands at February 27, 2017 12:05 PM (cJ6SU)

115 I'm sure Hollywood would love the comparison. And I'm not being sarcastic.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 27, 2017 12:03 PM (vur0q)

The sign of peace was introduced in the 20c. I can't recall when, maybe 25 - 30 years ago. Def not in the liturgy when I was a kid.

Posted by: kallisto at February 27, 2017 12:05 PM (nNdYv)

116 The gift bags had $100,000 worth of swag apparently

Did the ladies get $78,000?

Posted by: Lurker primus at February 27, 2017 12:05 PM (KqW7d)

117 I liked DWH - what did you think of the John
Malkovitch character not having any lines after all hell breaks loose?
Was wondering why, maybe because the real-life guy was in the middle of
being prosecuted when the movie was being made, or some other legal
reason?

Posted by: Lizzy at February 27, 2017 11:59 AM (NOIQH)

I would have liked to see the movie go longer into the rest of the story, sort of like Sully did. The movie was great, but the ending seemed kind of abrupt.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at February 27, 2017 12:06 PM (jK8Z7)

118 109 Yeah, there's nothing more exciting than having the Best Picture award announced by some fucking accountants.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 27, 2017 12:04 PM (uSlc

======================

As someone who would start watching the Oscars again if it were a celebration of movies instead of a celebration of Hollywood, I can say that I'd be MORE likely to watch with accountants reading the winners.

I'm most likely in the minority on that one, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 27, 2017 12:06 PM (vur0q)

119 #NotMyLaLaLand

Posted by: Corona at February 27, 2017 12:06 PM (6zJAh)

120 I learned that my country's immigration policy was "inhuman." This from a friggin' Persian.

Wake me up when we start chucking immigrants off tall buildings at a faster rate than Iran does with gays.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 27, 2017 12:06 PM (uSlc8)

121 It doesn't matter who wins. We all lose.

Hopefully this kills all the stupid Beatty should run shit we hear every season. Guess they'll be pushing Clooney instead for the next 20 years.

Posted by: Chupacabra at February 27, 2017 12:06 PM (pRtaC)

122 That's not their only fuck up of the night.

True, they all showed up.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at February 27, 2017 12:06 PM (YEelc)

123 Hacked!

Posted by: Faye Dunaway at February 27, 2017 12:06 PM (97XyN)

124 "Don't touch us. God!"

I'm sure Hollywood would love the comparison. And I'm not being sarcastic.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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And, the smell of those people is awful.

Posted by: Harry Reid at February 27, 2017 12:06 PM (NBHj5)

125 115 I'm sure Hollywood would love the comparison. And I'm not being sarcastic.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 27, 2017 12:03 PM (vur0q)

The sign of peace was introduced in the 20c. I can't recall when, maybe 25 - 30 years ago. Def not in the liturgy when I was a kid.

Posted by: kallisto at February 27, 2017 12:05 PM (nNdYv)

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It wasn't actually the sign of peace, but a medieval equivalent.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 27, 2017 12:06 PM (vur0q)

126 And the winner is...My Little Pony!

Posted by: One Job To Do at February 27, 2017 12:07 PM (vtcmf)

127 Their In Memoriam used the photo of a living Australian producer for a dead costume designer

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They're both active democrat voters

Posted by: Bigby's Typing Hands at February 27, 2017 12:07 PM (cJ6SU)

128 Best advice I ever got, from a wise old man: "Hollywood is comprised of men who had their lunch money taken as boys and lucky women one distastrous career choice away from starring in porn. Treat them all accordingly."

Posted by: occam's brassiere at February 27, 2017 12:07 PM (cCsPW)

129 He was telling Faye that it was the wrong name on the card. He probably figured it out.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

The person breathing The easiest today?

Steve Harvey.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 27, 2017 12:07 PM (ph+ut)

130 Moonlight as Best Picture is a joke. They really could not beclown themselves any more if they tried. It was an amateurish production that when it's over you're like, that's it ? Then again, same with Manchester by the Sea. For which Casey Affleck inexplicably won best actor. Unreal.

I guarantee they'll look back on the 2017 Oscars as a distinct low point.

Posted by: deadrody at February 27, 2017 12:07 PM (W15tP)

131 BTW, horde; we need an oscar to our credit. All we need is to write the story of some xgender 12 year old whose feelings were hurt when xhe tried to use the girls bathroom and some girl whose daddy taught her to be mean to people laughed at xis weiner.

And then how by loving re-education that same mean girl came to understand the wrongness of her ways, and even helped her Trump-voting daddy realize he was really gay. And maybe black.
Posted by: TexasDan

Btw, Warren Beatty's daughter is like that wrestler. She takes hormones, got her boobs removed, and looks and sounds like a dude. But she's still into guys, so she screws gay guys. The ultimate fag hag.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 27, 2017 12:07 PM (W8bn5)

132 Wake me up when we start chucking immigrants off tall buildings at a faster rate than Iran does with gays.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 27, 2017 12:06 PM (uSlc

You're thinking of ISIS.

Iran just hangs them from construction cranes at public intersections.

Posted by: hogmartin at February 27, 2017 12:07 PM (8nWyX)

133 Hey. HEY.
Is OSCARS.

Anyone recall who Warren Beatty's sister is?
Bet he'll get it right...in the next life.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at February 27, 2017 12:07 PM (H5rtT)

134 hey

Rush asked for a recount....

Posted by: Original Jake at February 27, 2017 12:07 PM (VBsKP)

135 124 "Don't touch us. God!"

I'm sure Hollywood would love the comparison. And I'm not being sarcastic.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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And, the smell of those people is awful.
Posted by: Harry Reid at February 27, 2017 12:06 PM (NBHj5)

=====================

"Oh, my God. Did you seriously use perfume that costs less than $500 an ounce? What are you? A barn animal?"
-Meryl Streep, voice of the people

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 27, 2017 12:07 PM (vur0q)

136 121 It doesn't matter who wins. We all lose.

Hopefully this kills all the stupid Beatty should run shit we hear every season. Guess they'll be pushing Clooney instead for the next 20 years.
Posted by: Chupacabra at February 27, 2017 12:06 PM (pRtaC)

Only if all voters get to slap him around the way Brolin did in Hail, Caesar!.

Posted by: joncelli, Professor of Grievance Studies at February 27, 2017 12:08 PM (RD7QR)

137 Maybe there should be a special prosecutor, to find out whether Donald Trump and the Russians were responsible for naming the wrong movie as Best Picture.

We all need answers.

Posted by: George W. Bush at February 27, 2017 12:08 PM (3OAG2)

138 He was telling Faye that it was the wrong name on the card. He probably figured it out.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

______

I guess you really want to defend Warren Beatty's honor?

I'd say both of them failed to figure out an actresses name on the best picture card meant they had the wrong card. If he "figured it out" he just let the whole thing happen without doing anything until the technical team came up on stage and told everyone.

Posted by: Maritime at February 27, 2017 12:08 PM (uAO9M)

139 The sign of peace was introduced in the 20c. I can't recall when, maybe 25 - 30 years ago. Def not in the liturgy when I was a kid.

Posted by: kallisto at February 27, 2017 12:05 PM (nNdYv)

It was a 70s or 80s bad idea. It isn't in the Tridentine (Latin) Mass

Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 27, 2017 12:08 PM (493sH)

140 Sooper jeenyusses!

Posted by: Insomniac at February 27, 2017 12:09 PM (0mRoj)

141 Nobody is happier than Steve Harvey.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at February 27, 2017 12:09 PM (k/STn)

142 Oscar winning movie with scathing commentary that will zoom right over Hollyweird's pointy heads?

Xir fur decides that some media personality that is like a cross between Ted Nugent and Rush Limbaugh is unfit to own any pets. So they kidnap the pet parrot. Hilarity ensues as the parrot has memorized many of its owner's trademark slams. So Xir is constantly confronted by these attacks and finds itself trying to argue with the parrot.

Not sure how to end this story.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 27, 2017 12:09 PM (VOH2j)

143 And, the smell of those people is awful.
Posted by: Harry Reid at February 27, 2017 12:06 PM (NBHj5)

Not if you steam the old flaperoos regularly, IYKWIM.

Posted by: Gwyneth Paltrow at February 27, 2017 12:09 PM (uSlc8)

144 THE RUSSIANS HACKED THE OSCARS!!!!

Posted by: EVLINC! at February 27, 2017 12:09 PM (y3aQB)

145 Reminds me of something that apparently happened in the Middle Ages:

During the sign of peace at Catholic mass, the unwashed masses were
allowed to go up to the rich lords and ladies and physically embrace
them. This was not something that the lords and ladies enjoyed. So, they
started passing around an icon of Mary (I think) that everyone kissed
instead.

"Don't touch us. God!"

I'm sure Hollywood would love the comparison. And I'm not being sarcastic.

Who made that up? Chick?

Posted by: dagny at February 27, 2017 12:09 PM (Mc+44)

146 >>I learned that my country's immigration policy was "inhuman." This from a friggin' Persian

And got a lecture on migrants and a wall from a privileged 2nd generation Mexican actor.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 27, 2017 12:09 PM (NOIQH)

147 I was about 2 minutes into the clip when I thought, "I don't care about this sh*t or these people." And then I clicked out of it.

Posted by: Lady in Black - LONG LIVE THE SCALP WEASEL at February 27, 2017 12:10 PM (+FSld)

148 Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 27, 2017 12:07 PM (W8bn5)

I didn't ask, but you told us anyway.

Man.

Some days, I just want someone to stop the planet so I can get off.

Posted by: TexasDan at February 27, 2017 12:10 PM (yL25O)

149 When Kimmel paraded the unwashed tourists through the front of the room, encouraging them to "touch the Oscars!" my jaw dropped. The excited "nobodies" were grabbing the stars' hands giddily. The look and fake smile on Meryl Streep's face was priceless.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 27, 2017 12:00 PM (PY9jH)

They're all for "the people" except when it actually means doing anything for or with the people

Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 27, 2017 12:10 PM (493sH)

150 144 THE RUSSIANS HACKED THE OSCARS!!!!
Posted by: EVLINC! at February 27, 2017 12:09 PM (y3aQB)

Eeeediots! Get better password than "password"! BWAhahahahaha!

Posted by: Vlad Putin, l33t haxxor at February 27, 2017 12:10 PM (RD7QR)

151 It was a 70s or 80s bad idea. It isn't in the Tridentine (Latin) Mass
Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 27, 2017 12:08 PM (493sH)

I once killed a man with a Tridentine.

Posted by: Insomniac at February 27, 2017 12:10 PM (0mRoj)

152 Can someone explain the Steve Harvey references?

Posted by: Russkilitlover at February 27, 2017 12:11 PM (YkSLe)

153 there's a little update.

Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 12:11 PM (8rNrN)

154 I once killed a man with a Tridentine.
Posted by: Insomniac at February 27, 2017 12:10 PM (0mRoj)

It's the homicide method recommended by four out of five dentists surveyed.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 27, 2017 12:11 PM (uSlc8)

155
And got a lecture on migrants and a wall from a privileged 2nd generation Mexican actor

++

Something something free milk and a cow

Posted by: Bigby's Typing Hands at February 27, 2017 12:12 PM (cJ6SU)

156 Apparently Emma Stone was wearing a Planned Parenthood pin on her gown.
UGH.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 27, 2017 11:56 AM (NOIQH)

Too bad her mom wasn't a member.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at February 27, 2017 12:12 PM (aMlLZ)

157 137 Maybe there should be a special prosecutor, to find out whether Donald Trump and the Russians were responsible for naming the wrong movie as Best Picture.

We all need answers.
Posted by: George W. Bush at February 27, 2017 12:08 PM (3OAG2)

Saying a movie about White People, won over a movie about Black People???

RAAAAACIST!!! It must be Steve Bannon's doing!

Posted by: Don Q. at February 27, 2017 12:12 PM (qf6WZ)

158 I guarantee they'll look back on the 2017 Oscars as a distinct low point.
Posted by: deadrody
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A lot you know. I will paint it as a consequence of the angst/fear created by the election, which was stolen by Trump.

Posted by: Ben Mankiewicz at February 27, 2017 12:13 PM (ZO497)

159 I will agree to wear a Fruit of the Loom designer pocket tee. For one meelion dollahrs.

Posted by: Meryl Streep at February 27, 2017 12:13 PM (97XyN)

160 Operation SAPPER undermining elite cultural authority proceeds apace.

Posted by: melanerpes at February 27, 2017 12:13 PM (ZD0Qq)

161 The Russians hacked the Oscars!
posted by: Ignoramus

Price Waterhouse Putin, stock symbol PWP, opened higher today in early trading

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at February 27, 2017 12:13 PM (ZFUt7)

162 Meh. Oscars mean nothing these days. They're either a belated "yeah, we've ignored you all these years, but now that you're almost dead, here's a trinket" award (see John Wayne) or a pat on the back to whatever the ruling zeitgeist is (see Moonlight).

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 27, 2017 12:13 PM (X6fMO)

163 But #Caring.

And virtue signaling.

And how courageous.

And Kimmel with his snarky snark.

Posted by: Les Kinetic at February 27, 2017 12:13 PM (U6f54)

164 154 I once killed a man with a Tridentine.
Posted by: Insomniac at February 27, 2017 12:10 PM (0mRoj)

It's the homicide method recommended by four out of five dentists surveyed.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 27, 2017 12:11 PM (uSlc

Nevergiveup recommends AK-47, is fifth dentist.

Posted by: Vlad Putin, l33t haxxor at February 27, 2017 12:13 PM (RD7QR)

165 "139 The sign of peace was introduced in the 20c. I can't recall when, maybe 25 - 30 years ago. Def not in the liturgy when I was a kid.

Posted by: kallisto at February 27, 2017 12:05 PM (nNdYv)

It was a 70s or 80s bad idea. It isn't in the Tridentine (Latin) Mass"

I sometimes go to Mass during the week at a chapel near my office run by Opus Dei. The priest skips the Sign of Peace. I feel bad for unaware people that are turning to shake hands as he is starting the Lamb of God

Posted by: Benji Carver at February 27, 2017 12:13 PM (OD2ni)

166 yep, Tridentine.

Posted by: 2 of the 3 Dentists surveyed. at February 27, 2017 12:13 PM (yV4wg)

167 The whole thing was fake. Done intentionally to generate interest and a way for those who watched to say to those who didn't "look what you missed! It was sooo exciting/funny/dramatic..." These people believe there is no such thing as bad publicity. More people know who Steve Harvey is after his similar mistake than knew who he was before. His face is on numerous internet memes with that theme. It's all just buzz.

Posted by: wtp at February 27, 2017 12:13 PM (EsHMF)

168 I'd say both of them failed to figure out an
actresses name on the best picture card meant they had the wrong card.
If he "figured it out" he just let the whole thing happen without doing
anything until the technical team came up on stage and told everyone.

Posted by: Maritime at February 27, 2017 12:08 PM (uAO9M)

He did have the presence of mind to give it to Dunaway to say the wrong thing. Then, a few minutes later, to come back onstage and try to make an explanation. Now, it would have been better to say, "Hey, I think we got the wrong envelope," and get the right envelope, but he spazzed. However, there is no evidence that Dunaway had any clue what was going on.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at February 27, 2017 12:14 PM (jK8Z7)

169
2018 Oscars

And the winner of the Hispanic Oscar goes to...

And the winner of the Black Oscar goes to...

And the winner of the Gay Oscar goes to...

And the winner of the White Oscar goes to...Fck Whitey!

Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 27, 2017 12:14 PM (493sH)

170 Yeah, the 2nd generation Mexican lecturing us about "NO WALLS!" probably left in his limo, attended an after party or two, and arrived home in the wee hours in his gated, walled compound.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 27, 2017 12:15 PM (PY9jH)

171
I guarantee they'll look back on the 2017 Oscars as a distinct low point.
Posted by: deadrody at February 27, 2017 12:07 PM (W15tP)

....

Here's hoping!

Posted by: The Artist, Best Picture, 2012 at February 27, 2017 12:15 PM (5JlYa)

172 Steve Bannon should be fired for the disastrous mix-up in the Best Picture at the Academy Awards.

This kind of thing never happened during the Obama Administration.

It is our sacred constitutional duty to demand that President Trump hold people responsible.

Posted by: The MSM at February 27, 2017 12:15 PM (3OAG2)

173 I think what happened there is that the woman named did in fact die, but they ran the photo of a living woman.
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Well, I was watching TWD, so it seems natural to me.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 27, 2017 12:15 PM (NBHj5)

174 138
I guess you really want to defend Warren Beatty's honor?

I'd say both of them failed to figure out an actresses name on the best picture card meant they had the wrong card. If he "figured it out" he just let the whole thing happen without doing anything until the technical team came up on stage and told everyone.
Posted by: Maritime at February 27, 2017 12:08 PM (uAO9M)

====================

Defend his honor!!!!

No, man. It's just reading a situation. You seem to want to disregard inconvenient elements of the narrative your creating, while I'm just trying to say, "Wait...it's not quite like that."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 27, 2017 12:15 PM (vur0q)

175 Nice thing about Oscar night is their major faux pax will forever be remembered, while all their political grandstanding will be worth less than a commercial break.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 27, 2017 12:16 PM (jxbfJ)

176 It was a 70s or 80s bad idea. It isn't in the Tridentine (Latin) Mass
Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 27, 2017 12:08 PM (493sH)

I recall being old enough to look around at my friends with a look of: this is really corny/awkward.

The JamesMadison anecdote sounds like a mash-up of modern liturgy with a sprinkling of relic veneration thrown in.

Posted by: kallisto at February 27, 2017 12:16 PM (nNdYv)

177 Yeah, the 2nd generation Mexican lecturing us about "NO WALLS!" probably left in his limo, attended an after party or two, and arrived home in the wee hours in his gated, walled compound.

I'm planning a speaking tour of Mexico where I will inform the natives in detail of their shitty national culture.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 27, 2017 12:16 PM (uSlc8)

178 Not sure how to end this story.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 27, 2017 12:09 PM (VOH2j)

It ends with a big reveal that there is no parrot, and the protagonist has been a ghost the whole time.

Sorta Harvey meets Sixth Sense.

Posted by: TexasDan at February 27, 2017 12:16 PM (yL25O)

179 31 I didn't watch. Did they make up for not giving out enough unearned participation trophies last year by overcompensating and giving half of the awards to the 3% of the eligible candidates that just happened to be Filmmakers of Color?
Posted by: Moron Robbie at February 27, 2017 11:52 AM (/f1mm)
--------------------------------
Why, yes, they did!
To be fair, it's hard to say whether the "Moonlight" voters were all about teh Black or teh Ghey, but, hey, it still works.
And half of the acting awards went to blacks.

Okay, they did pass up Ruth Negga* for best actress and Denzel for best actor. They COULD have made it a black sweep. So there is still room for improvement!

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 27, 2017 12:16 PM (Nox3c)

180 I am still astounded that a group of actors and directors decide to give each other awards, and produce a show about it, and expect people to watch it. Could there be any more pointless exercise in ego?

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at February 27, 2017 12:16 PM (7ZVPa)

181 but they ran the photo of a living woman.

If she'd just get in the cart....

Posted by: IP at February 27, 2017 12:16 PM (yV4wg)

182 Warren Beatty is so vain. I bet he thought the Oscars was about him.

Posted by: occam's brassiere at February 27, 2017 12:17 PM (cCsPW)

183 I was channel surfing and happen to stop on the show just as that asshat was reading the letter from the Iranian dude. I learned that my country's immigration policy was "inhuman." This from a friggin' Persian.
Odd...I don't see any lines of folks waiting to get into Iran.

Posted by: Diogenes

I feel like America is trapped inside the abused girlfriend mentality. We try to be friendly and accommodating to these idiots who don't deserve it, and they smack us and yell at us and tell us how awful we are.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 27, 2017 12:17 PM (W8bn5)

184 Nice thing about Oscar night is their major faux pax will forever be remembered, while all their political grandstanding will be worth less than a commercial break.

Yeah. Would have been even better if they'd announced 'Midnight Cowboy' as the winner.

Posted by: JEM at February 27, 2017 12:18 PM (TppKb)

185 Wrong photo for the dead chick?

They're all dead to me anyway.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at February 27, 2017 12:18 PM (sxDSr)

186 182
Warren Beatty is so vain. I bet he thought the Oscars was about him.

Posted by: occam's brassiere at February 27, 2017 12:17 PM (cCsPW)

What am I, a clown in your coffin?

Posted by: Mick Jagger at February 27, 2017 12:18 PM (jK8Z7)

187 I think what happened there is that the woman named did in fact die, but they ran the photo of a living woman.

#DeadCostumeDesignersMatter

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 27, 2017 12:18 PM (uSlc8)

188 >>172
Steve Bannon should be fired for the disastrous mix-up in the Best Picture at the Academy Awards. Posted by: The MSM at February 27, 2017 12:15 PM (3OAG2)

Trump hasn't even apologized for the Oscars screwup yet, and he probably never will, the uncultured jackass.

Posted by: General Zod at February 27, 2017 12:18 PM (Bdeb0)

189 What is this "Oscars" they speak of?

Posted by: Thinks he's Archer at February 27, 2017 12:18 PM (gbWkA)

190 It ends with a big reveal that there is no parrot, and the protagonist has been a ghost the whole time.

Sorta Harvey meets Sixth Sense.

Posted by: TexasDan at February 27, 2017 12:16 PM (yL25O)

How about a dead parrot?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 27, 2017 12:18 PM (493sH)

191 https://tinyurl.com/zm68yp7

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Terrorist On Harley Davidson VS. A-10 Warthog (VIDEO)

Posted by: EVLINC! at February 27, 2017 12:18 PM (y3aQB)

192 George C. Scott definitely agreed, Vashta.

Posted by: Chupacabra at February 27, 2017 12:19 PM (pRtaC)

193 Presdent Obama should have gotten an Oscar fro brest Presdent ever. He is 1000 times better then this idiot Tromp whoo could mess up a wet dream !!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Mary Clogginstien from Brattleboror, VT at February 27, 2017 12:19 PM (WmgTn)

194 So now all of Hollywood, most especially the team behind the fake best picture, as well as Price Waterhouse and the producers of the Oscars, now know what it's like to be the target of Fake News.

Well done.

Posted by: shibumi, a rational single white female and kitteh servant at February 27, 2017 12:19 PM (J5mC3)

195
Warren Beatty at least had the presence of mind to say nothing.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at February 27, 2017 12:19 PM (ZFUt7)

196 I managed to catch Viola Davis receiving an Oscar and crying and carrying on like she was being awarded for curing cancer.

Jeebus, these people.

I flipped back and forth between all kinds of crap, trying to fall asleep.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 27, 2017 12:19 PM (PY9jH)

197 The only 2 movies I'm planning on seeing this year is Fast and Furrious 8 and the Baywatch remake, because great boobs....

Posted by: Original Jake at February 27, 2017 12:19 PM (VBsKP)

198 152 Can someone explain the Steve Harvey references?
Posted by: Russkilitlover at February 27, 2017 12:11 PM (YkSLe)

Ben Roethlisberger, please pick up the white courtesy phone. Paging Ben Roethlisberger.

Posted by: TexasDan at February 27, 2017 12:19 PM (yL25O)

199 187 I think what happened there is that the woman named did in fact die, but they ran the photo of a living woman.

#DeadCostumeDesignersMatter
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 27, 2017 12:18 PM (uSlc

======================

"Not if they're white. The only reason people care about this is because the woman was white. It's just another example of how racist our country is. I hate this place so much. Why no, I have never investigated moving to another country, why do you ask?"
-Very smart college student who's struggling with their core classes but acing that gender studies course

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 27, 2017 12:19 PM (vur0q)

200 Steve Harvey screwed up the 2015 Miss Universe Pageant winner announcement.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 27, 2017 12:20 PM (ph+ut)

201 152
Can someone explain the Steve Harvey references?

Posted by: Russkilitlover at February 27, 2017 12:11 PM (YkSLe)

He hosted Miss Universe and named the wrong chick the winner....they had to take the crown off her head, which I guess is even worse than snatching a statue from someones hand......

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at February 27, 2017 12:20 PM (jjaLl)

202 Why did President Trump not watch the Oscars this year? He watched it in past years.

Did he have advance knowledge that the Best Picture award would be sabotaged, and he wanted to distance himself from it?

What did President Trump know, and when did he know it?!

#TrumpKnew

Democracy Dies in Darkness

Posted by: The Washington Post at February 27, 2017 12:20 PM (3OAG2)

203 Well, to be fair, Warren Beatty had already fucked everyone and half the inanimate objects in Hollywood, so the only thing left for him to bone was this award announcement.

Posted by: Sharkman at February 27, 2017 12:20 PM (dTmdP)

204 And the presidential election of 2016 goes to...

Posted by: General Zod at February 27, 2017 12:20 PM (Bdeb0)

205 The only 2 movies I'm planning on seeing this year is Fast and Furrious 8 and the Baywatch remake, because great boobs....

Posted by: Original Jake at February 27, 2017 12:19 PM (VBsKP)

In today's PC world Baywatch might be trannys

Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 27, 2017 12:20 PM (493sH)

206 https://tinyurl.com/hebh7c9

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Large Mirror Brought Out Onto Oscars Stage Gets Resounding 6-Minute Standing Ovation

Posted by: EVLINC! at February 27, 2017 12:20 PM (y3aQB)

207 167 The whole thing was fake. Done intentionally to generate interest and a way for those who watched to say to those who didn't "look what you missed! It was sooo exciting/funny/dramatic..." These people believe there is no such thing as bad publicity. More people know who Steve Harvey is after his similar mistake than knew who he was before. His face is on numerous internet memes with that theme. It's all just buzz.
Posted by: wtp at February 27, 2017 12:13 PM (EsHMF)

They're not clever enough to come up with this.

Posted by: buzzion at February 27, 2017 12:20 PM (z/Ubi)

208 Who watches this stuff or gives a shit?

Maybe if Faye and Warren did a cage match with knives I would watch. But even then- would there be any loser?

Posted by: Marcus T at February 27, 2017 12:20 PM (gjdGN)

209 >>Can someone explain the Steve Harvey references?

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE STEVE HARVEY ANNOUNCED THE WRONG WINNER AT THE MOST RECENT MISS UNIVERSE CONTEST.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at February 27, 2017 12:20 PM (NOIQH)

210 "He's not dead, just resting he is!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 27, 2017 12:21 PM (VOH2j)

211 207
They're not clever enough to come up with this.
Posted by: buzzion at February 27, 2017 12:20 PM (z/Ubi)

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Yeah, I'm going to go with stupidity and carelessness over genius on this one.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 27, 2017 12:21 PM (vur0q)

212 I'm with comment number 167.

Posted by: Denny Crane! at February 27, 2017 12:21 PM (vsTPt)

213 >>>21 ...I've always viewed the Oscars as equivalent of KFC employee of the month
Posted by: pahound at February 27, 2017 11:50 AM (r/l80)

Ha!

Posted by: m at February 27, 2017 12:21 PM (3jGss)

214 I had other things to do. My toenails needed to be clipped.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 27, 2017 12:21 PM (gjdGN)

215 There goes PriceWaterhouse mansplaining again. So much hate!

Posted by: meh at February 27, 2017 12:22 PM (bsDXW)

216 Well, to be fair, Warren Beatty had already fucked everyone and half the inanimate objects in Hollywood, so the only thing left for him to bone was this award announcement.
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They are paid to read and look pretty.

That's ALL.

I'd say "neck down only" but they still have to read and make sure their makeup is on, so that's not completely accurate.

Posted by: shibumi, a rational single white female and kitteh servant at February 27, 2017 12:22 PM (J5mC3)

217 You seem to want to disregard inconvenient elements of the narrative your creating, while I'm just trying to say, "Wait...it's not quite like that."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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The narrative is Hollywood actors are complete idiots, that's what I'm going with.

If you see the actual cards, the first line on them in big bold letters is the winner. Not really hard to understand that "Emma Stone" was not a film nominated for Best Picture. But somehow Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty decided to just shit their pants.

Posted by: Maritime at February 27, 2017 12:22 PM (uAO9M)

218 >>> When Kimmel paraded the unwashed tourists through the front of the room, encouraging them to "touch the Oscars!" my jaw dropped. The excited "nobodies" were grabbing the stars' hands giddily. The look and fake smile on Meryl Streep's face was priceless. Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 27, 2017 12:00 PM (PY9jH)

That was one of the few bits I actually liked during the ceremony. The surprised tourists were all adorable, especially the engaged couples and the honeymooners. And I enjoyed how uncomfortable most of the celebs in the audience looked at being so near the unwashed plebes, loool.

Denzel and Gosling handled it best. The others, bwahaha.

Posted by: LizLem at February 27, 2017 12:23 PM (hvf9s)

219
Yeah, I'm going to go with stupidity and carelessness over genius on this one.
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Oscars VICTIM of FAKE NEWS!!!

Posted by: shibumi, a rational single white female and kitteh servant at February 27, 2017 12:23 PM (J5mC3)

220 I was hoping Trump would do something that would shit in their cereal for Oscar night, but he didn't have to. They fucked themselves.

Posted by: josephistan at February 27, 2017 12:23 PM (7HtZB)

221 Funniest part? Other than the five people who watched the show, most people are only know about this because the MSM put it on every major rag and webzine

Posted by: Marcus T at February 27, 2017 12:23 PM (gjdGN)

222 So the Muslim lady who just had to resign from her job at the NSC because of Trump's terrible anti-muslim policies was..... get this..... a political appointee who willingly took a lesser civil service position during the transition.

http://tinyurl.com/h4qoq6g

Its known as 'burrowing' and there's probably hundreds of such left wing operatives who did this at the end of Obama's term

Posted by: McCool at February 27, 2017 12:24 PM (lWCRE)

223 217
The narrative is Hollywood actors are complete idiots, that's what I'm going with.

If you see the actual cards, the first line on them in big bold letters is the winner. Not really hard to understand that "Emma Stone" was not a film nominated for Best Picture. But somehow Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty decided to just shit their pants.

Posted by: Maritime at February 27, 2017 12:22 PM (uAO9M)

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Got it.

No matter what actually happened, it only matters that Hollywood look as bad as possible.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 27, 2017 12:24 PM (vur0q)

224 https://tinyurl.com/zm68yp7

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Posted by: EVLINC! at February 27, 2017 12:18 PM (y3aQB)

Aloha Snackbar!

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 27, 2017 12:24 PM (PY9jH)

225 But there are a few Best Picture winners we talk about today: Deer Hunter and Patton immediately spring to mind.

Posted by: Chupacabra at February 27, 2017 12:24 PM (pRtaC)

226 I think the real news is that there was a movie about Obama this past year and it didn't win.

Posted by: TexasDan at February 27, 2017 12:24 PM (yL25O)

227 And the winner is...Emma Stone, Baby Parts!

Posted by: One Job To Do at February 27, 2017 12:24 PM (vtcmf)

228 It's all look-see pidgin

Posted by: Thinks he's Archer at February 27, 2017 12:24 PM (gbWkA)

229 That was one of the few bits I actually liked during the ceremony. The surprised tourists were all adorable, especially the engaged couples and the honeymooners. And I enjoyed how uncomfortable most of the celebs in the audience looked at being so near the unwashed plebes, loool.

Denzel and Gosling handled it best. The others, bwahaha.

Posted by: LizLem at February 27, 2017 12:23 PM (hvf9s)

There was an odd moment when one guy kept saying, One of these days Alice, BANG! ZOOM!

Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 27, 2017 12:24 PM (493sH)

230 "Feb 27 ABC's broadcast of The 89th Academy Awards on Sunday night drew a 22.4 overnight rating, according to Nielsen data released by the Walt Disney Co unit. The 22.4 rating is down 4 percent from last year's show, which ended up translating to 34.4 million, the third-lowest rated since 1974."

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 27, 2017 12:25 PM (B+qrE)

231 And the winner is.....MATLOCK!

Posted by: Warren and Faye, Who Used to be Big, BIG Stars at February 27, 2017 12:25 PM (qJhUV)

232 225 But there are a few Best Picture winners we talk about today: Deer Hunter and Patton immediately spring to mind.
Posted by: Chupacabra at February 27, 2017 12:24 PM (pRtaC)

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Deer Hunter...overrated comic book of a movie.

Ugh.

Now, The Greatest Show on Earth. That's one that people talk about endlessly to this very day.

Wait...sorry...I mixed that up. The Greatest Show on Earth was when people should have stopped caring about the Oscars.

How Green Was My Valley winning over Citizen Kane was bad enough, but The Greatest Show on Earth...ugh...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 27, 2017 12:26 PM (vur0q)

233 I think it was a genuine screw up rather than an attempt to get publicity and yes, Warren Beatty should have been able to to figure it out and say, "I got the wrong card here."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 27, 2017 12:26 PM (fDdVG)

234 If I touched Meryl Streep's hand I would have to cut it off like Brad Pitt did to that chic in World War Z.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 27, 2017 12:26 PM (gjdGN)

235 Forget it, Faye. It's Tinseltown.

Posted by: occam's brassiere at February 27, 2017 12:26 PM (cCsPW)

236 Straightforward from here:

1. Special Prosecutor appointed for Oscars
2. Bannon indicted
3. Trump impeached
4. President Hillary

Posted by: Sally Kohn at February 27, 2017 12:26 PM (3OAG2)

237 Some days, I just want someone to stop the planet so I can get off.
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Maybe they could spin it back a bit - 80s or 90s would work for me.

Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at February 27, 2017 12:27 PM (4bKiB)

238 I agree publicity, it got people talking about what was roundly considered an overlong yawnfest.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 27, 2017 12:27 PM (39g3+)

239 FFS, the movie about what it's like growing up poor, black, and gay was ALWAYS going to win. What is wrong with these people? Dementia, I guess.

Posted by: steve walsh at February 27, 2017 12:27 PM (NpU7V)

240 I'd have killed for "one of us" at Price Waterhouse to have put "13 Hours" in the envelope for Best Picture.

Oops!

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 27, 2017 12:27 PM (PY9jH)

241 Next year everyone gets an Oscar...made of gold plated pot metal...Suitable to put over the fireplace.

Posted by: Colin at February 27, 2017 12:27 PM (ec2s9)

242 https://tinyurl.com/zm68yp7

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Terrorist On Harley Davidson VS. A-10 Warthog (VIDEO)

Posted by: EVLINC! at February 27, 2017 12:18 PM (y3aQB)

I spend a lot of time piecing them suckers back together, but that's one Harley that was great to see blow the fuck up.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at February 27, 2017 12:27 PM (aMlLZ)

243 We did it!

Posted by: The Russians at February 27, 2017 12:27 PM (fZgzB)

244 The Beatty/Harvey comparison is not exactly apples to appples.

Beatty had the wrong card.

Harvey had the right card.

Posted by: WisRich at February 27, 2017 12:27 PM (hdpay)

245 >>So the Muslim lady who just had to resign from her job at the NSC
because of Trump's terrible anti-muslim policies was..... get this..... a
political appointee who willingly took a lesser civil service position
during the transition.

Did you read her column? SHe joined the WH staff doing community outreach type stuff straight out of GW (undergrad) in 2011 and the Ben Rhodes hired her for her NSC position in 2014.

What qualifications did she have other than being a muslim immigrant? Srsly, was Obama's entire NSC staffed with people with *zero* national security experience???

Posted by: Lizzy at February 27, 2017 12:28 PM (NOIQH)

246 Just as long as Hollywood didn't screw up Guardians of the Galaxy 2 I'll be okay with them for a temporary period. Serve me monkey boys.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 27, 2017 12:28 PM (XNNr5)

247 These are the people that deign themselves smart, capable, and important enough to tell the rest of us how to live our own lives.

And they can't read a fucking piece of paper right.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at February 27, 2017 12:28 PM (KUaJL)

248 Too bad it wasn't Joan Crawford who screwed up. Her daughter could have added another chapter to Mommy Dearest.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 27, 2017 12:28 PM (gjdGN)

249 FFS, the movie about what it's like growing up poor, black, and gay was ALWAYS going to win. What is wrong with these people? Dementia, I guess.

Posted by: steve walsh at February 27, 2017 12:27 PM (NpU7V)

In many ways the story of Obama

Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 27, 2017 12:28 PM (493sH)

250 240 I'd have killed for "one of us" at Price Waterhouse to have put "13 Hours" in the envelope for Best Picture.

Oops!
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 27, 2017 12:27 PM (PY9jH)

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Futurama did it best.

"Instead of any of the five nominees. I'm going to give this to Calculon."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 27, 2017 12:29 PM (vur0q)

251 >>>Producer "devastated" after the #Oscars mistakenly used her photo in the "In Memoriam" segment <<<

Uh, devastated?!

Shouldn't the producer be thrilled that she's actually, you know, not dead?

Posted by: an indifferent penguin at February 27, 2017 12:29 PM (r6Z+k)

252 Faye and Warren had a senior moment.

Posted by: PBJ1515 at February 27, 2017 12:29 PM (vE0cL)

253 All they had to do is read the WHOLE #~*%} CARD!!!

Someone somewhere in the Hall of Idiocy would have realized that Emma Stone had already won one award, ans said hold it, you got the wrong card.

Posted by: rd at February 27, 2017 12:29 PM (iT57s)

254 "235 Forget it, Faye. It's Tinseltown."

Chinatown was on TV last week. I forgot that you see Faye's boobs.

Posted by: Benji Carver at February 27, 2017 12:29 PM (OD2ni)

255 Who's laughing now, bitches?

Posted by: Steve Harvey at February 27, 2017 12:29 PM (7HtZB)

256 I guarantee they'll look back on the 2017 Oscars as a distinct low point. Posted by: deadrody at February 27, 2017 12:07 PM (W15tP)

There were a lot of clips of past winners during the show, good reminder of how terrible most of the dreck coming out of Hollywood is now.

Posted by: LizLem at February 27, 2017 12:30 PM (hvf9s)

257 251 >>>Producer "devastated" after the #Oscars mistakenly used her photo in the "In Memoriam" segment

Uh, devastated?!

Shouldn't the producer be thrilled that she's actually, you know, not dead?
Posted by: an indifferent penguin at February 27, 2017 12:29 PM (r6Z+k)

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"Devastated"

It means that she can now claim a victim card.

She's probably pretty stoked.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 27, 2017 12:30 PM (vur0q)

258 Beatty had the wrong card.

...but shut up and tossed Faye under the bus.

Posted by: IP at February 27, 2017 12:30 PM (yV4wg)

259
Yeah, Faye Dumbaway is completely free of responsibility. Warren Beatty should have mansplained the error to her.

The little woman just got all excited. You know how women get.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at February 27, 2017 12:30 PM (ZFUt7)

260 but they ran the photo of a living woman

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Which they passed around for everyone to kiss

Posted by: Bigby's Typing Hands at February 27, 2017 12:30 PM (cJ6SU)

261 You should give us control of the economy and your own personal lives, because we won't fuck it up like you will.

Posted by: Hollywood at February 27, 2017 12:30 PM (X7E8f)

262
I am not dead!!!

Listen, you bastards. You better get this fixed right right now!!!

I....I'll....I'll sue. Yeah, that's right. I'll. Sue.

For emotional distress.

If you don't-

*looks down at name in posted by section*

Godammit!!!

You fuckers!

I! AM! NOT! DEAD!

If I ever get my hands on you fucking fuck fucking fuckers, I'm gonna-

YAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!1111!

Posted by: Zombie Janet Patterson at February 27, 2017 12:30 PM (9q7Dl)

263 151. That you, Humungus?

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at February 27, 2017 12:30 PM (lutOX)

264 What a CF.

I did not see a minute of the Oscars, instead caught the Cubs Indians game on MLB, and Dateline about some crazy kidnapping. Glad I missed it, from the comments here this morning and last night.

Really thought Hacksaw Ridge, Patriots Day, and Deepwater Horizon were all good. Surprised there doesn't seem to be much, if any, love here for Patriots Day.

Posted by: RM at February 27, 2017 12:31 PM (U3LtS)

265 As someone on Reddit put it, Hollywood wants to tell us how to run our lives and they can't even run one awards show?

Yeah yeah I posted that comment on the art thread, but it bears repeating.

Posted by: LizLem at February 27, 2017 12:31 PM (hvf9s)

266 And these are the people who think they can give everyone else tips on how to run things.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 27, 2017 12:31 PM (SRKgf)

267 242 https://tinyurl.com/zm68yp7

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Terrorist On Harley Davidson VS. A-10 Warthog (VIDEO)

Posted by: EVLINC! at February 27, 2017 12:18 PM (y3aQB)

I spend a lot of time piecing them suckers back together, but that's one Harley that was great to see blow the fuck up.
Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at February 27, 2017 12:27 PM (aMlLZ)

Uneasy Rider?

Posted by: Don Q. at February 27, 2017 12:31 PM (qf6WZ)

268 250 240 I'd have killed for "one of us" at Price Waterhouse to have put "13 Hours" in the envelope for Best Picture.

Oops!
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 27, 2017 12:27 PM (PY9jH)

======================

Futurama did it best.

"Instead of any of the five nominees. I'm going to give this to Calculon."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 27, 2017 12:29 PM (vur0q)

"He's reading the wrong card. What do we do?"

"Just ignore it like they did with Marisa Tomei."

Posted by: josephistan at February 27, 2017 12:31 PM (7HtZB)

269 258 Beatty had the wrong card.

...but shut up and tossed Faye under the bus.

Posted by: IP at February 27, 2017 12:30 PM (yV4wg)
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Why is Beatty taking the heat. He was the one that knew something wasn't right. Dunaway made the announcement.

Posted by: WisRich at February 27, 2017 12:31 PM (hdpay)

270 For no good reason, other than I like the quote -- Spotted at a booth at a gun show:

Tricia Croney, owner of Pretty Hunter, stood at her booth filled with repurposed bullets turned into jewelry. Over the top of her booth is a quote in black cursive lettering on a pink background. It's from Annie Oakley: "I ain't afraid to love a man. I ain't afraid to shoot him either."

I nominate this quote for an Oscar.

Posted by: GnuBreed at February 27, 2017 12:31 PM (xpfRn)

271 Let me tell you why I will never, ever watch these idiots again:

They left ABE FRIGGING VIGODA out of last year's in memoriam segment.

Assholes.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 27, 2017 12:32 PM (B+qrE)

272 266 And these are the people who think they can give everyone else tips on how to run things.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 27, 2017 12:31 PM (SRKgf)

Not to mention how the Election was Stolen!!!!!

Posted by: Don Q. at February 27, 2017 12:32 PM (qf6WZ)

273 My initial gut reaction in the moment was: "oh how fucking staged."

I back off that a little bit overnight, but this morning, I gotta say the publicity conspiracy theory seems quite reasonable.

We're living in a world where precision and dignity of ritual has been traded for snark and emotional provocation in all things.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at February 27, 2017 12:32 PM (3Vlkn)

274 Russia switched the cards in the envelope, planting the wrong card for Best Picture

Breitbart staffers were almost certainly involved

Posted by: Louise Mensch at February 27, 2017 12:32 PM (3OAG2)

275 I spend a lot of time piecing them suckers back together, but that's one Harley that was great to see blow the fuck up.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at February 27, 2017 12:27 PM (aMlLZ)

Uneasy Rider?

Posted by: Don Q. at February 27, 2017 12:31 PM (qf6WZ)

Achmed, we harley knew ye.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 27, 2017 12:33 PM (PY9jH)

276 They should have put The Oscars in the "in memoriam" section.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 27, 2017 12:33 PM (gjdGN)

277 I recall being old enough to look around at my friends with a look of: this is really corny/awkward.
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There is a scene in 'Death in Bruswick' where Sam Neill, who hasn't attended church in some years, goes with his mother. After a few minutes, He turns to her and says, "Mother, what have they done to the Mass?"

A good and amusing dark comedy, btw.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 27, 2017 12:33 PM (ZO497)

278 Uneasy Rider?

Tiny Pieces Rider.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 27, 2017 12:33 PM (B+qrE)

279 Does Beatty even know he's still alive?

Posted by: Marcus T at February 27, 2017 12:34 PM (gjdGN)

280 This is the beauty of the internet. No need to sit through 3 hours and 49 minutes of preening idiocy. Just get on the net and watch the train wreck in two minutes.

I heard that Dunaway ran for the hills and Warren had to try to clean up. She was the one who blew it.

Posted by: Mathers/Meremortal at February 27, 2017 12:34 PM (3myMJ)

281 Ghost Rider

Posted by: Bigby's Typing Hands at February 27, 2017 12:35 PM (cJ6SU)

282 279 Does Beatty even know he's still alive?
Posted by: Marcus T at February 27, 2017 12:34 PM (gjdGN)

So long as little Warren can rise to the occasion, he will still consider himself alive.

Posted by: joncelli, Gobsmacked Rage Monkey and Crossbowman at February 27, 2017 12:35 PM (RD7QR)

283 ...I would have to cut it off like Brad Pitt did to that chic in World War Z.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 27, 2017 12:26 PM (gjdGN)

Speaking of being fairly amused by a book and turning the movie off five minutes in...

Posted by: Moron Robbie at February 27, 2017 12:35 PM (/f1mm)

284 Somewhere, Dan Quayle quietly laughs.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 27, 2017 12:36 PM (ZO497)

285 like I gives an ittchy rat's ass.

Fuck the Left and Hollywood

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 27, 2017 12:36 PM (KlI/a)

286 Actors read lines... they don't write lines... they don't make sense of
lines.... Hell, most of the time they probably don't even understand the
lines...

This.

I loved it when Obama welcomed himself to Norway.

"Welcome to Norway, Mr. President."

"You're reading the wrong speech off the teleprompter, dumb ass."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 27, 2017 12:37 PM (SRKgf)

287 How many homeless could be fed for the price of one of those dresses ?

Posted by: Mortimer, FINISH HER! at February 27, 2017 12:37 PM (qU2ch)

288 Talking Dead should include that producer in their "In Memoriam" section.

She'll be devastated that she looks worse than some of the walkers.

Posted by: an indifferent penguin at February 27, 2017 12:37 PM (r6Z+k)

289 Aren't these people supposed to be professionals? They can't even pull off an award show for show people about show business. Assclowns and bimbos.

Posted by: Fritz at February 27, 2017 12:37 PM (2Mnv1)

290 Funny part? They actually think most people give a shit what they say.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 27, 2017 12:37 PM (gjdGN)

291 Heh. According to Newbusters, Chris Cuomo threw a hissy fit on Twitter over his trannies in girls' bathroom comments.

Speaking of drama queens.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 27, 2017 12:37 PM (PY9jH)

292 @280: "I heard that Dunaway ran for the hills and Warren had to try to clean up. She was the one who blew it."

She disappeared like a ghost, and when cornered later in the evening, she kept giving the same flat refusal to any questions: "I'm not going to speak about it."

Posted by: Walter Freeman at February 27, 2017 12:37 PM (3Vlkn)

293 And I still don't want to see "La La Land" because I think maybe they should have gotten actuals singers and dancers to play the parts.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 27, 2017 12:37 PM (fDdVG)

294 So Xir is constantly confronted by these attacks and finds itself trying to argue with the parrot.

Not sure how to end this story.

Posted by: Anna Puma

The rightful owner passes by the house one day by accident and hears his parrot. Xir, who has been driven to drink by it, has tripped, hit his head, and is unconscious. The man takes his parrot, dials the ambulance and leaves. It ends with the now recovered Xir muttering to himself about how heartless and murderous conservatives are, when he wanders into a no go zone by mistake. He walks by a pet store and hears a parrot squawk "Allahu Akbar!" shortly before the owner emerges and shoots him to death.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 27, 2017 12:37 PM (W8bn5)

295 Participation Oscars all 'round....everybody's a winnah!

Posted by: BignJames at February 27, 2017 12:37 PM (x9c8r)

296 286 Actors read lines... they don't write lines... they don't make sense of
lines.... Hell, most of the time they probably don't even understand the
lines...

This.

I loved it when Obama welcomed himself to Norway.

"Welcome to Norway, Mr. President."

"You're reading the wrong speech off the teleprompter, dumb ass."
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 27, 2017 12:37 PM (SRKgf)

He also once introduced the Prime Minister of Ireland to the Prime Minister of Ireland.

Posted by: josephistan at February 27, 2017 12:38 PM (7HtZB)

297 Ahh.. you seen one Aussie.. they all look alike!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at February 27, 2017 12:38 PM (so+oy)

298 Extremely Sad: Volunteers Have To Rescue Dogs, Puppies Abandoned By Protesters At DAPL Camp

They left tons of garbage, burnt people with fires and even puppies. Unbelievable.

Weasel Zippers

Fuck the Left

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 27, 2017 12:38 PM (KlI/a)

299 Why is Beatty taking the heat. He was the one that knew something wasn't right. Dunaway made the announcement.

QFT.

Beatty tried to show Dunaway that he had been given the wrong card and Dunaway blurted out the name of the film on it, ignoring Emma Stone's name.

Dunaway is the fool here.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at February 27, 2017 12:38 PM (ul9CR)

300 "It later emerged that Beatty had been handed the incorrect envelope by one of the PwC auditors responsible for counting and verifying the votes."

Some PwC guy is getting his rear end tore up right about now.

Posted by: RM at February 27, 2017 12:38 PM (U3LtS)

301 Speaking of Beatty, besides Bonnie and Clyde, HeavenCan Wait once once nominated for Best Picture.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 27, 2017 12:39 PM (XNNr5)

302 176---The JamesMadison anecdote sounds like a mash-up of modern liturgy with a sprinkling of relic veneration thrown in.
Posted by: kallisto at February 27, 2017 12:16 PM (nNdYv)
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Not likely.
More like a silly anachronistic tale he heard from someone who knows nothing about Catholic liturgy or the Middle Ages.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 27, 2017 12:39 PM (Nox3c)

303 I loved it when Obama welcomed himself to Norway.

"Welcome to Norway, Mr. President."

"You're reading the wrong speech off the teleprompter, dumb ass."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 27, 2017 12:37 PM (SRKgf)

I'd forgotten about that hilarious hot mess. Lol.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 27, 2017 12:39 PM (PY9jH)

304 267
242 https://tinyurl.com/zm68yp7

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Terrorist On Harley Davidson VS. A-10 Warthog (VIDEO)

Posted by: EVLINC! at February 27, 2017 12:18 PM (y3aQB)

I spend a lot of time piecing them suckers back together, but that's one Harley that was great to see blow the fuck up.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at February 27, 2017 12:27 PM (aMlLZ)

Uneasy Rider?

Posted by: Don Q. at February 27, 2017 12:31 PM (qf6WZ)

Raining warheads on their foreheads.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 27, 2017 12:39 PM (jxbfJ)

305 Speaking of Beatty, besides Bonnie and Clyde, HeavenCan Wait once once nominated for Best Picture.

Reds, too.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 27, 2017 12:39 PM (B+qrE)

306 302 Not likely.
More like a silly anachronistic tale he heard from someone who knows nothing about Catholic liturgy or the Middle Ages.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 27, 2017 12:39 PM (Nox3c)

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It came from my mother who's a Catholic writer/blogger.

I trusted her.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 27, 2017 12:40 PM (vur0q)

307 You can party for days on Cocaine, but over time it really does a number on you if you keep using it. Especially if you use Heroin alot too.

Posted by: Agent Cooper at February 27, 2017 12:40 PM (1zARK)

308 I loved it when Obama welcomed himself to Norway.

"Welcome to Norway, Mr. President."

"You're reading the wrong speech off the teleprompter, dumb ass."
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 27, 2017 12:37 PM (SRKgf)

He also once introduced the Prime Minister of Ireland to the Prime Minister of Ireland.

Posted by: josephistan at February 27, 2017 12:38 PM (7HtZB)

That just shows how super duper smart he is. Just like the super duper Commiewood geniuses.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 27, 2017 12:40 PM (493sH)

309 Some PwC guy is getting his rear end tore up right about now.
Posted by: RM at February 27, 2017 12:38 PM (U3LtS)

In other words, the casting couch.

Posted by: josephistan at February 27, 2017 12:40 PM (7HtZB)

310
"Welcome to Norway, Mr. President."

President Ron Burgundy.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 27, 2017 12:40 PM (B+qrE)

311 And yet they're entirely qualified to dictate immigration standards.

*snicker*

Posted by: Crom's Dirty Underpants at February 27, 2017 12:41 PM (xudgf)

312 305 Speaking of Beatty, besides Bonnie and Clyde, HeavenCan Wait once once nominated for Best Picture.

Reds, too.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 27, 2017 12:39 PM (B+qrE)

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Reds is a great portrait of the breakdown of idealized communism into the awful reality.

I'm not sure if Beatty meant it that way, but that's how I saw it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 27, 2017 12:41 PM (vur0q)

313 No way a milquetoast movie like La La Land wins during Black History Month when there is a black oppression movie up for the same award.

Posted by: Jaimo at February 27, 2017 12:41 PM (9U1OG)

314 Somewhere, Dan Quayle quietly laughs.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.

I could have made the same Quayle mistake. I read the Brit economic magazine 'The Economist' for half a decade. It thoroughly screwed with my ability to spell.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at February 27, 2017 12:41 PM (ZFUt7)

315 Show business kids. Waste of oxygen.

Posted by: freaked at February 27, 2017 12:41 PM (VtEJm)

316 Why don't we put her in charge?!

Posted by: Pvt Hudson at February 27, 2017 12:41 PM (ppsLd)

317
A Russian attack Quokka switched the envelopes!

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 27, 2017 12:42 PM (XWkhW)

318 What a stupid time to be alive.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at February 27, 2017 12:42 PM (RFeQD)

319 How Green Was My Valley winning over Citizen Kane was bad enough, but The Greatest Show on Earth...ugh...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 27, 2017 12:26 PM (vur0q)

**sidelong smile, knowing this will get under TJMs skin**

I'm not going to hold a brief for How Green Was My Valley, but really, can't we all agree Kane insists upon itself?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 27, 2017 12:42 PM (X6fMO)

320 I'm not sure if Beatty meant it that way, but that's how I saw it.

I'm absolutely effing certain he didn't mean it that way. "If only the right commies were in charge..." That kind of thing.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 27, 2017 12:42 PM (B+qrE)

321 "309 Some PwC guy is getting his rear end tore up right about now."

Lucky!

Posted by: Shep Smith at February 27, 2017 12:43 PM (OD2ni)

322 >>>A Russian attack Quokka switched the envelopes!

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 27, 2017 12:42 PM (XWkhW)<<<

Dy-no-mite!

Posted by: Jimmy "J.J." Quokka at February 27, 2017 12:43 PM (r6Z+k)

323 I don't begrudge them their money. Heck, if I could pull in millions playing make believe, I'd do it in a heartbeat. I don't even get riled up anymore about their blatant hypocrisy because the whole lot of them seem to be severely emotionally damaged. They are to be pitied at best, and mocked at worst, but never taken seriously any more than I take the drunkest person in the bar seriously. I'm just happy that their bubble isn't my bubble.

Posted by: kathysaysso at February 27, 2017 12:44 PM (43OZ6)

324 320 I'm not sure if Beatty meant it that way, but that's how I saw it.

I'm absolutely effing certain he didn't mean it that way. "If only the right commies were in charge..." That kind of thing.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 27, 2017 12:42 PM (B+qrE)

Like how "The Wire" wasn't meant to illustrate what happens to a great American city when democrats run it for generations

Posted by: josephistan at February 27, 2017 12:44 PM (7HtZB)

325 319
I'm not going to hold a brief for How Green Was My Valley, but really, can't we all agree Kane insists upon itself?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 27, 2017 12:42 PM (X6fMO)

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Its...under...my...SKIN!!!!!

Actually, I mostly just don't think How Green Was My Valley is very good at all.

Also, I know you meant it tongue in cheek, but I really don't understand what the "insists upon itself" is supposed to mean.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 27, 2017 12:44 PM (vur0q)

326 320 I'm not sure if Beatty meant it that way, but that's how I saw it.

I'm absolutely effing certain he didn't mean it that way. "If only the right commies were in charge..." That kind of thing.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 27, 2017 12:42 PM (B+qrE)

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I guess I saw it more broadly, as in communism as an ideal is incompatible with reality, and here's a tragic case study.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 27, 2017 12:45 PM (vur0q)

327 Someone somewhere in the Hall of Idiocy would have realized that Emma Stone had already won one award, ans said hold it, you got the wrong card.
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They don't get paid to think.

IF this was not staged (and there is a good chance it was) Beatty knew something was wrong, so he handed the ball to Dunaway.

Dunaway did her job: she read the card.

As for "something might be wrong here" that was not in the teleprompter. If it's not in the teleprompter and not on the card, they won't say it.

Just doin' their job folks. Readin' the teleprompter, readin' the cards.

Posted by: shibumi, a rational single white female and kitteh servant at February 27, 2017 12:46 PM (J5mC3)

328
Fuck you, Scorsese. Ordinary People ROCKS, not like that stupid Raging Bull flick.

Posted by: Robert Redford at February 27, 2017 12:46 PM (XWkhW)

329 Univision senior anchor Jorge Ramos declared on Friday that the United States belongs to Latino migrants, emphatically stating to a Spanish-speaking audience that it is our country, not theirs.

Yeah no, fuck you

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 27, 2017 12:46 PM (KlI/a)

330 I didn't watch but this is straight up hilarious. God they're all so smug and to see them with a carton of egg on their faces is delicious.

Posted by: Lauren at February 27, 2017 12:47 PM (pWcf4)

331 How Green Was My Valley winning over Citizen Kane was bad enough,

True but the far superior sequel to HGWMV,

"How Green Was My Quokka"

got screwed out of the Oscar for Best Picture 2 years later.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 27, 2017 12:47 PM (9q7Dl)

332 So the Left cheered the honorable country and gov of Iran last night. Fuck you, go live there assholes

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 27, 2017 12:47 PM (KlI/a)

333 But under than that they really stuck it to that dictator Drumpf right?

Posted by: steevy at February 27, 2017 12:47 PM (r/0kC)

334 They were all drunk.

Posted by: Ed Anger at February 27, 2017 12:47 PM (TJx8f)

335 I have a new post up - my reviews of movies that ended up snagging Os Oscarslink in nic

also, scroll down for the free SF book

Posted by: @votermom @vm at February 27, 2017 12:47 PM (Om16U)

336 @324: "Like how "The Wire" wasn't meant to illustrate what happens to a great American city when democrats run it for generations"

I thought it was meant to illustrate that you shouldn't ignore young kids lurking in alleys and killing random cats 'cause they'll inevitably shoot you when you're trying to buy some cigarettes, but everyone has their own unique takeaway, I guess.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at February 27, 2017 12:47 PM (3Vlkn)

337 Actors read lines... they don't write lines... they don't make sense of
lines.... Hell, most of the time they probably don't even understand the
lines...

heh, heh I liked that part in Anchorman when they screwed around with his teleprompter and he went ahead and read it anyway

http://tinyurl.com/pp9wcot

Posted by: McCool at February 27, 2017 12:48 PM (lWCRE)

338 Univision senior anchor Jorge Ramos declared on Friday that the United States belongs to Latino migrants, emphatically stating to a Spanish-speaking audience that it is our country, not theirs.

That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works.

Posted by: blaster at February 27, 2017 12:48 PM (tewYv)

339 they gave them a duplicate envelope containing the best actress winner, Emma Stone for La La Land.

So there were two cards with Emma Stone's name not just one. Was one behind a grassy knoll?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 27, 2017 12:48 PM (493sH)

340 331 How Green Was My Valley winning over Citizen Kane was bad enough,

True but the far superior sequel to HGWMV,

"How Green Was My Quokka"

got screwed out of the Oscar for Best Picture 2 years later.
Posted by: naturalfake at February 27, 2017 12:47 PM (9q7Dl)

"Quokka Roll High School" was a fun movie

Posted by: josephistan at February 27, 2017 12:48 PM (7HtZB)

341 "La la land" was just fucking poop. Every time I hear "Emma Stone" I think poop

Posted by: Derbererd at February 27, 2017 12:49 PM (qu9pj)

342 Thank me. What can Hollywood get right?

Posted by: wth at February 27, 2017 12:49 PM (HgMAr)

343 emphatically stating to a Spanish-speaking audience that it is our country, not theirs.

Molon Labe Jose...

Posted by: IP at February 27, 2017 12:49 PM (yV4wg)

344 Univision senior anchor Jorge Ramos declared on
Friday that the United States belongs to Latino migrants, emphatically
stating to a Spanish-speaking audience that it is our country, not
theirs.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 27, 2017 12:46 PM (KlI/a)
So they're to blame for all the fuck ups!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 27, 2017 12:49 PM (SRKgf)

345 Also... when I heard this happened, I actually thought it was a joke.

IRL, not a joke, put probably a PR stunt.

Posted by: shibumi, a rational single white female and kitteh servant at February 27, 2017 12:49 PM (J5mC3)

346 i haven't watched an awards show since before we had a family. so, about forty years. i'm not missing anything. just a bunch of cornholers. don't need it.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 27, 2017 12:49 PM (KP5rU)

347 So, Mel Gibson gets drunk and spouts some anti-Semitic insults and is blackballed for years from Hollywood.

Iran repeatedly states they are going to wipe the "stinking rotting corpse of Israel" off the map and they are celebrated by Hollywood.

Sounds about right.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at February 27, 2017 12:50 PM (vg8iE)

348 They're all a bunch of Digme's.

Posted by: wth at February 27, 2017 12:50 PM (HgMAr)

349 >>> And I still don't want to see "La La Land" because I think maybe they should have gotten actuals singers and dancers to play the parts.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 27, 2017 12:37 PM (fDdVG)

They had John Legend do a medley of the two songs from La La Land, not the actual main actors that sang the songs. Which tells you all you need to know, lol. At least Amy Adams sang her own song from Enchanted the year it was nominated.

Gosling had to learn piano and jazz from scratch from his role, I still think he did an impressive job with that, despite the singing and dancing.

I also laughed that Manuel Miranda lost out on an Oscar for Best Song and the coveted EGOT to a white guy. He'll get it eventually. But I am amused for now. He HAD to insert Hamilton style rapping before the Moana song came on that he helped write, because of course he did. The girl that sang the Moana song was impressive, hope she gets some Broadway in her future.

Posted by: LizLem at February 27, 2017 12:50 PM (hvf9s)

350 The only reason I'm surprised La La Land DIDN'T win is b/c media loves nothing so much as celebrating itself. It's like how postmodernist art critics make every art piece (or "text" as they call them) into the artist's deliberate or unintended metaphor for the artistic process, or how TV shows like 30 Rock or The Newsroom hang on for seasons longer than they should have b/c they're about the PROCESS of making TV. La La Land is about Hollywood making Hollywood movies, which is why everyone in Hollywood loves it.

I guarantee you the only reason it lost is b/c Moonlight was about and by a black homosexual. After last year's #OscarsSoWhite kerfluffle, the Academy got spooked. That doesn't mean Moonlight ISN'T a better movie than La La Land; I haven't seen either of them, or any of the other nominees for that matter, so I don't know. But again, knowing media's masturbatory love of telling its own story, even if it were the WORST movie of all those nominated, in ANY OTHER YEAR, La La Land would have won.

Just not after last year.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit & Vaginassassin, aka Beth at February 27, 2017 12:50 PM (4df7R)

351 313 No way a milquetoast movie like La La Land wins during Black History Month when there is a black oppression movie up for the same award.

Posted by: Jaimo at February 27, 2017 12:41 PM (9U1OG).

No kidding. This oppression crap EVER going to end? Not only movies but TV. Saw a documentary on a 'mixed income' housing development in Chicago that failed for all the usual entitlement reasons but the view was 'Oppresssion!'.. 'Victims!' Just one big cop out.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at February 27, 2017 12:50 PM (sxDSr)

352 Univision senior anchor Jorge Ramos declared on Friday that the United States belongs to Latino migrants, emphatically stating to a Spanish-speaking audience that it is our country, not theirs.

You know who else went around declaring the right to the sovereignty of other countries?

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at February 27, 2017 12:51 PM (ZFUt7)

353 How did we let Putin get so much power in the world, next he will turning all the traffic lights green in all directions. Watch the chaos then.

Posted by: Colin at February 27, 2017 12:51 PM (ec2s9)

354 9:20 PM EST - the odds of Hollywood not stepping on its dick while skewering Trump tonight are currently 89%

10:45 PM EST - the odds of Hollywood not stepping on its dick while skewering Trump tonight are currently 94%

12:15 AM EST - the odds of Hollywood not stepping on its dick while skewering Trump tonight are now 0%

Posted by: fivethirtyeight.com at February 27, 2017 12:51 PM (3OAG2)

355 "Quokka Roll High School" was a fun movie

Posted by: josephistan at February 27, 2017 12:48 PM

I thought they were pushing it a bit using Quokka Round the Clock in the soundtrack, though.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 27, 2017 12:51 PM (p+Wdc)

356 I would really like to know why the Oscars' producers do not consult with Turner Classic Movies when composing the "In Memoriam" segment. Turner Classic Movies does an excellent job at the end of the year with their "TCM Remembers" segment.

Posted by: I Be That Chick at February 27, 2017 12:53 PM (S/qwI)

357 **raises Marsupial's Eyebrow**

All you candy ass jabronis better stop making fun of us, or we'll lay the smack down with the Marsupial's Elbow!

Do you smellllll-ellll-elllllll-llllllll what The Quokk... is cooking?!

Posted by: The Quokk at February 27, 2017 12:53 PM (r6Z+k)

358 Trump to propose 'historic' increase to military budget
will slash funding at DOS and EPA

Cue the liberal outrage and comparisons to Hitler

http://tinyurl.com/zs3gl6r

Posted by: McCool at February 27, 2017 12:53 PM (lWCRE)

359 "347 So, Mel Gibson gets drunk and spouts some anti-Semitic insults and is blackballed for years from Hollywood.

Iran repeatedly states they are going to wipe the "stinking rotting corpse of Israel" off the map and they are celebrated by Hollywood.

Sounds about right."

You are talking about the people that celebrate a director who anally raped a 13yo girl.

Posted by: Benji Carver at February 27, 2017 12:53 PM (OD2ni)

360 So here's part of what Moonlight was about (from Wikipedia):

One night, Chiron has a dream in which Kevin has sex with a woman in the backyard. On another night, Kevin visits Chiron at the beach near his house. While smoking a blunt, they discuss their ambitions in life and the nickname Kevin has given Chiron, "Black." After a charged moment, the boys kiss and Kevin gives Chiron a handjob.

No wonder it won.

Posted by: Lickmuffin at February 27, 2017 12:53 PM (f+E6d)

361 356 I would really like to know why the Oscars' producers do not consult with Turner Classic Movies when composing the "In Memoriam" segment. Turner Classic Movies does an excellent job at the end of the year with their "TCM Remembers" segment.

Posted by: I Be That Chick at February 27, 2017 12:53 PM (S/qwI)

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TCM is a channel for people who actually love movies.

The Oscars is a show for people who love Hollywood.

These two groups intersect surprisingly rarely.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 27, 2017 12:54 PM (vur0q)

362 EPA workers spend $15 k in government money on gym memberships.

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/258400/

Posted by: steevy at February 27, 2017 12:54 PM (r/0kC)

363 Savage says it is just a trade show that they turned into a big deal. He did a rant about how garbage men could have the same thing, award for cleanest truck, most on time, etc. But somehow the world is supposed to revolve around these overpaid actors and their whacky politics.

Who funds all this Hollywood leftist propaganda anyway? I mean the people do to a degree, but the people don't push the leftist narratives that always get the best ratings from reviewers. The people didn't pick Moonlight.

Posted by: illiniwek at February 27, 2017 12:55 PM (YMJtx)

364 353 How did we let Putin get so much power in the world, next he will turning all the traffic lights green in all directions. Watch the chaos then.
Posted by: Colin at February 27, 2017 12:51 PM (ec2s9)

IIRC, at one point Cuba (I think it was) decided that "red" should mean "go" (because Communism = progress; you know, the typical brain-dead leftist symbolism) and "green" should mean "stop." (I guess "yellow" meant "go get some egg rolls," or something.)

The results were predictable, and the policy was soon reversed.

IDK if this actually true, or an urban legend, but it's stupid enough and characteristic enough of leftist thinking to be the former.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 27, 2017 12:55 PM (/Fqcw)

365 In honor of the collective intellect present at this Symphony of back-pattery, I fired up Dead Space in the 'ol X-Box and kilt me some necromorphs.

Posted by: Sensible Chuckle at February 27, 2017 12:56 PM (zbr4I)

366 >>>So, Mel Gibson gets drunk and spouts some anti-Semitic insults and is blackballed for years from Hollywood.

Iran repeatedly states they are going to wipe the "stinking rotting
corpse of Israel" off the map and they are celebrated by Hollywood.

Sounds about right.
Posted by: bicentennialguy at February 27, 2017 12:50 PM (vg8iE)<<<

Mel or his fans won't cut your head off. Iran and it's fans will.

Posted by: The Quokk at February 27, 2017 12:56 PM (r6Z+k)

367 363 Savage says it is just a trade show that they turned into a big deal. He did a rant about how garbage men could have the same thing, award for cleanest truck, most on time, etc. But somehow the world is supposed to revolve around these overpaid actors and their whacky politics.

Who funds all this Hollywood leftist propaganda anyway? I mean the people do to a degree, but the people don't push the leftist narratives that always get the best ratings from reviewers. The people didn't pick Moonlight.
Posted by: illiniwek at February 27, 2017 12:55 PM (YMJtx)

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Movie studios.

And until people stop going to see Transformers movies in the theater, Hollywood will continue to give no shits about your opinion of them.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 27, 2017 12:56 PM (vur0q)

368 Once again, Warren and Faye are shot to pieces at the end of an agonizingly bad salute to ill-gained fortune.

Posted by: Slo-Pitch Whiffer at February 27, 2017 12:56 PM (5JlYa)

369 One night, Chiron has a dream in which Kevin has sex with a woman in the backyard. On another night, Kevin visits Chiron at the beach near his house. While smoking a blunt, they discuss their ambitions in life and the nickname Kevin has given Chiron, "Black." After a charged moment, the boys kiss and Kevin gives Chiron a handjob.

No wonder it won.

Posted by: Lickmuffin at February 27, 2017 12:53 PM (f+E6d)

This is an Obama biography?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 27, 2017 12:56 PM (493sH)

370 One night, Chiron has a dream in which Kevin has sex with a woman in the backyard. On another night, Kevin visits Chiron at the beach near his house. While smoking a blunt, they discuss their ambitions in life and the nickname Kevin has given Chiron, "Black." After a charged moment, the boys kiss and Kevin gives Chiron a handjob.

Isn't this also Obama's story ?

Posted by: McCool at February 27, 2017 12:56 PM (lWCRE)

371 >>> I guarantee you the only reason it lost is b/c Moonlight was about and by a black homosexual. After last year's #OscarsSoWhite kerfluffle, the Academy got spooked.

I kept wondering what would have happened had it been reversed, if they had Announced Moonlight first but then La La Land had actually won, and they had to snatch the trophies away from an excited black crew. BLM riots in the LA streets...

Posted by: LizLem at February 27, 2017 12:57 PM (hvf9s)

372 @350: "After last year's #OscarsSoWhite kerfluffle, the Academy got spooked."

You'd never know hispanics outnumber blacks in this country by watching television or movies.

#OscarsSoBlackAndWhite

Posted by: Walter Freeman at February 27, 2017 12:57 PM (3Vlkn)

373 Savage says...

Posted by: illiniwek at February 27, 2017 12:55 PM (YMJtx)

The savage Weiner?

Posted by: Derbererd at February 27, 2017 12:57 PM (qu9pj)

374 NOODles.

Posted by: VA GOP Sucks at February 27, 2017 12:57 PM (PFy0L)

375 Well played QuietMan

Posted by: McCool at February 27, 2017 12:57 PM (lWCRE)

376 I heard that Robert Vaughn was left out of the memorial segment.
Hope that's not so. He was an Oscar nominee for Best Sup Actor once and can't be dismissed as purely a TV guy.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 27, 2017 12:57 PM (Nox3c)

377 371, I don't think BLM would riot over a ghey movie....

Posted by: JoeF. at February 27, 2017 12:59 PM (7uYFy)

378 Both Beatty and Clooney, faces made for the movies, brains made for riding the special bus all the way through high school.

Posted by: West at February 27, 2017 12:59 PM (1Rgee)

379 Somehow it will become Trumps fault or a symbol of the Trump election.

Posted by: obsidian at February 27, 2017 01:00 PM (ARK2U)

380 One night, Chiron has a dream in which Kevin has sex with a woman in the backyard. On another night, Kevin visits Chiron at the beach near his house. While smoking a blunt, they discuss their ambitions in life and the nickname Kevin has given Chiron, "Black." After a charged moment, the boys kiss and Kevin gives Chiron a handjob.

Pretty hard to believe two million people paid $12 a piece to watch that.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at February 27, 2017 01:00 PM (ZFUt7)

381 Gosling had to learn piano and jazz from scratch from his role, I still think he did an impressive job with that, despite the singing and dancing.
--

Has this been covered here?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS5p4M08jJs

It's the Voice of Archer playing jazz piano with professionals, but without actually having learned to do it. Cracked me up for a good minute.

Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at February 27, 2017 01:00 PM (4bKiB)

382 There are more important things to discuss than silly Hollywood...

anyone have a full length pic of Melania's dress from the Governor's ball last night??

Posted by: LizLem at February 27, 2017 01:00 PM (hvf9s)

383 371
I kept wondering what would have happened had it been reversed, if they had Announced Moonlight first but then La La Land had actually won, and they had to snatch the trophies away from an excited black crew. BLM riots in the LA streets...
Posted by: LizLem at February 27, 2017 12:57 PM (hvf9s)

That would have been awesome.

Posted by: rickl at February 27, 2017 01:00 PM (zoehZ)

384 "After a charged moment, the boys kiss and Kevin gives Chiron a handjob. No wonder it won. Posted by: Lickmuffin

right, cuz last year was too white.

But the real story is that if you are raised by a crackhead mom and your mentor is a drug dealer, you might go gay, if given a hand at an impressionable time.

In the sequel his identical twin brother is raised by two mentally healthy blacks and the twin becomes a brain surgeon, hetero-married and with four well-adjusted children. ... it could happen.

Posted by: illiniwek at February 27, 2017 01:01 PM (YMJtx)

385 I guarantee you the only reason it lost is b/c Moonlight was about and by a black homosexual. After last year's #OscarsSoWhite kerfluffle, the Academy got spooked. That doesn't mean Moonlight ISN'T a better movie than La La Land; I haven't seen either of them, or any of the other nominees for that matter, so I don't know. But again, knowing media's masturbatory love of telling its own story, even if it were the WORST movie of all those nominated, in ANY OTHER YEAR, La La Land would have won.

Just not after last year.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit & Vaginassassin, aka Beth at February 27, 2017 12:50 PM (4df7R)

A thousand times this! And while Moonlight was marketed as a young black boy needing a father figure (with a drug dealer filling that role), it was really about a young black boy having a homosexual experience with a friend and then coming to terms with and embracing homosexuality. Believe me, this was to make it acceptable in the black community.

Posted by: I Be That Chick at February 27, 2017 01:01 PM (S/qwI)

386 Loved the expressions on the pompous libs faces. I think we just got a photo of how they all looked election night.

Bwahahahaha.

Incompetent bloviating buffoons. Loved it.

Posted by: ChristyBlinky,Deplorable Infidel Queen at February 27, 2017 01:01 PM (fq4ih)

387 Wait, are you guys saying that Moonlight is about a young boy from a broken home turning gay after being molested by a pedophile?

Posted by: @votermom @vm at February 27, 2017 01:04 PM (Om16U)

388
I didn't see LLL or ML but I'm pretty sure they are both ghey.

Along with all the cast and crew.

Posted by: Rex Reed at February 27, 2017 01:04 PM (PMMaP)

389 Alfred Hitchcock never won an Oscar. Cary Grant never won an Oscar.

Robert Mitchum never won on Oscar, and I think that's because he never made a movie where he buzzed around in the sky in a home-made bee-costume. Performers should take note so that his tragedy is not their tragedy as well.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 27, 2017 01:06 PM (MZcWR)

390 378 Both Beatty and Clooney, faces made for the movies, brains made for riding the special bus all the way through high school.
Posted by: West at February 27, 2017 12:59 PM (1Rgee)

In fairness, most actors don't make it all the way through high school.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 27, 2017 01:06 PM (/Fqcw)

391 "Univision senior anchor Jorge Ramos declared on Friday that the
United States belongs to Latino migrants, emphatically stating to a
Spanish-speaking audience that it is our country, not theirs."

Then they will be paying the reparations bill to their African American brothers, right?

Posted by: Ripley at February 27, 2017 01:06 PM (1BQGO)

392 A thousand times this! And while Moonlight was marketed as a young black boy needing a father figure (with a drug dealer filling that role), it was really about a young black boy having a homosexual experience with a friend and then coming to terms with and embracing homosexuality. Believe me, this was to make it Obama acceptable in the black community.

Fixed for accuracy.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 27, 2017 01:07 PM (ph+ut)

393 And these are the people who want to tell Trump how to run the free world.

Posted by: Dang at February 27, 2017 01:07 PM (8b+oT)

394 377
371, I don't think BLM would riot over a ghey movie....

Posted by: JoeF. at February 27, 2017 12:59 PM (7uYFy)

Hollywood BLM would.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit & Vaginassassin, aka Beth at February 27, 2017 01:09 PM (4df7R)

395 Also, I know you meant it tongue in cheek, but I really don't understand what the "insists upon itself" is supposed to mean.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 27, 2017 12:44 PM (vur0q)

Frankly, I don't, either. It's a Family Guy joke before Seth McFarland turned into an asshole.

I personally find Kane very cold, though that is perhaps what Welles wanted. It's a very stylized movie, and could almost be a Mercury Theater of the Air production. It's glossy, it has powerful moments and the nugget of a moral, but in the end, I find it to be the sort of movie that appeals more in the abstract than in the actuality.

I hate the term "bucket list," but to me, Kane was made for it. "OK, I've seen that. I don't have to go back to it any more."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 27, 2017 01:09 PM (X6fMO)

396 With a name like Moonlight you know its going to be hella gay

Posted by: Derbererd at February 27, 2017 01:10 PM (qu9pj)

397 Moonlight got most of the super delegate votes.

Because although all animals are equal, some animals are more equal than others.

Posted by: George Tirebiter at February 27, 2017 01:10 PM (/zyrl)

398 Realy starting to sound like I didn't miss anything. Whew.

Posted by: ScoggDog at February 27, 2017 01:13 PM (AuISE)

399 Univision senior anchor Jorge Ramos declared on Friday that the United States belongs to Latino migrants, emphatically stating to a Spanish-speaking audience that it is our country, not theirs.

Yeah no, fuck you

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 27, 2017 12:46 PM (KlI/a)

No shit, last I heard the pilgrims didn't come over on the cinco de mayflower.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at February 27, 2017 01:13 PM (aMlLZ)

400 395 Frankly, I don't, either. It's a Family Guy joke before Seth McFarland turned into an asshole.

I personally find Kane very cold, though that is perhaps what Welles wanted. It's a very stylized movie, and could almost be a Mercury Theater of the Air production. It's glossy, it has powerful moments and the nugget of a moral, but in the end, I find it to be the sort of movie that appeals more in the abstract than in the actuality.

I hate the term "bucket list," but to me, Kane was made for it. "OK, I've seen that. I don't have to go back to it any more."
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 27, 2017 01:09 PM (X6fMO)

======================

Hoping you're still here.

Part of the problem you have may be the Kane character himself. He's not terribly likable, nor is he supposed to be.

It's a portrait of a broken man who'd been given everything to succeed but still had an emptiness in his soul he could never fill.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 27, 2017 01:15 PM (vur0q)

401 " La La Land' still has a path to Best Picture. The votes from lighting and sound and other technical precincts haven't been tabulated yet...

Posted by: JoeF. at February 27, 2017 01:15 PM (7uYFy)

402 Warren Beatty is so old he remembers when Hollywood loved the commies and he won an Oscar for Reds.

He probably boffed this because he was in a hurry to get to the after-party so he could schtoop Shirley MacLaine.

Posted by: Strelnikov at February 27, 2017 01:15 PM (fi5nC)

403 Wait, are you guys saying that Moonlight is about a young boy from a broken home turning gay after being molested by a pedophile?

+++

Shut your mouth!

Posted by: Milo at February 27, 2017 01:15 PM (cJ6SU)

404 test

Posted by: Mathers at February 27, 2017 01:17 PM (3myMJ)

405 From what I've heard, the music from La La Land
was mediocre. Was anyone leaving theater humming
the songs - I doubt it. That killed any chance I would see
it, and I'll watch an average Indian movie (Bollywood etc)
if music is special -hasn't happened much in last 15 years
unfortunately.

Posted by: Glenn John at February 27, 2017 01:17 PM (LilNs)

406 Jorge Ramos and his blue-eyed Iberian Celtic face can eat a bag of dicks. They can have the US when they give back Mexico to the Indians....

Posted by: JoeF. at February 27, 2017 01:17 PM (7uYFy)

407 Moonlight got most of the super delegate votes.

Must have. With only $25 million in box office receipts, no one saw it.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 27, 2017 01:18 PM (ph+ut)

408 Nood

Posted by: rickb223 at February 27, 2017 01:20 PM (ph+ut)

409 "I think what happened there is that the woman named did in fact die, but they ran the photo of a living woman."

If she was "devastated", imagine how the dead one feels.

Posted by: Dirks Strewn at February 27, 2017 01:29 PM (kfcYC)

410 The Real Winner?

Steve Harvey.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at February 27, 2017 01:31 PM (0IaIs)

411 13 I'm hearing it suggested that the Old Oscar Insiders wanted, veddy much, for their dahling LaLa to take it all, but were faced with dour necessity in Ghey Black Film,...Posted by: Stringer Davis

Thanks for the warning. "Shaft" is the gheyest black film I want to see.

Posted by: Dirks Strewn at February 27, 2017 01:32 PM (kfcYC)

412 "There's Pure Chaos in The Kimmel Administration!"--
The Washington Post
Democracy Dies on Rodeo Drive

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at February 27, 2017 01:35 PM (0IaIs)

413 I would like to discuss Nicole Kidman's seal clapping.

Did she fear for her manicure? Are her hands deformed? Is it due to Scientology?

Posted by: ChristyBlinky,Deplorable Infidel Queen at February 27, 2017 01:40 PM (fq4ih)

414 Jorge Ramos and his blue-eyed Iberian Celtic face can eat a bag of dicks. They can have the US when they give back Mexico to the Indians....
Posted by: JoeF. at February 27, 2017 01:17 PM (7uYFy)

Ramos should learn a few Mayan and Aztec dialects, so he can stop speaking that awful European language of conquistadores and oppression, Spanish.

Posted by: JuJuBee at February 27, 2017 01:45 PM (dargh)

415 Didn't watch even one second of this racist show - the Black Oscars.

Didn't watch any second of the BLM Super Bowl either.

Fuck them.

Hard to believe there are any suckers dumb enough to still watch but there are still a few.

Posted by: BOSCARS at February 27, 2017 01:48 PM (03xNs)

416 First HRC losing..Bwhahahahahahahahahaha!! Then Trump Inaugurated among the tears of the left. Bwhahahahahaha! ....Then Trump nominations getting approved despite the p-hatted illegal immigrant minority and whatever floats your boat marches..Bwhahahahahahaha!...now hollywood really craps it up on live TV..BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! I don't know if I will survive this glorious and hilarious time in America..BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

Posted by: RGallegos at February 27, 2017 01:53 PM (Y4Xzf)

417 Some idiot will probably make a movie about the the comic/tragic 2017 Oscars and it will get 14 Oscar nominations.....only to lose to a the smash hit "Jorge Ramos Goes To Washington" directed by Quentin Tarantino. It's a revenge movie, in the style of "Inglorious Bastards" about what could have happened if Hillary Clinton had won that presidential election in 2016.

Posted by: CoolHandLuke at February 27, 2017 02:14 PM (ZeVko)

418 People still watch this crap?

Posted by: KentAllard at February 27, 2017 02:26 PM (TQw9b)

419 It is actually PriceWaterhouseCoopers (or more commonly referred to as PwC) and not Price Waterhouse. In the late 90's Price Waterhouse merged with another CPA firm to become PwC.

Posted by: Chappy at February 27, 2017 02:58 PM (uyH4e)

420 I told you this was going to be GREAT!!!!

Posted by: Flounder at February 27, 2017 03:52 PM (EKutk)

421 Steve Harvey was more gracious and decent. If he hosted the Oscars next year, I might watch.

And then again, I have a really hard time caring...

Posted by: Gork at February 27, 2017 05:43 PM (9JDsW)

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