DEAR DAN -- STOP TAKING THE FUN OUT OF MY OSCARS: A writer for the WaPo finds Awards Show Necrology applause-o-meters to be tacky, writing, "It's like a high school graduation ceremony but with dead folks. . . .What is the harm in adding a little line after the teleprompter patter: 'Please hold applause till the end'? The rest of the ceremony is competitive. Let's not extend that competition to the hereafter."
Make no mistake: we're measuring the applause and will be making our predictions. Robert Altman has to be the favorite, with Jack Palance and James Brown (Blues Brothers, Rocky IV) fighting it out for runner-up.
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