The Oscars, or Time to Watch Paint Dry
Tonight is that awards show of awards shows, the Academy Awards. This is the award given to those who their peers consider as having delivered the performance of a lifetime, or rather the previous ten months, really.
Fred Astaire never won.
Marilyn Monroe never won.
Peter O’Toole never won.
Cary Grant never won.
Some may have received the Lifetime Achievement Award for “sticking around long enough”. But they never won a competitive award. And that’s what counts to those myopic, fishbowl-living, Brown Derby-styling celebutardic actors. Frankly, I like to call it the Meyer Awards. Let’s face it: it’s a bunch of weenies full of bologna.
It’s too bad I gave up booze for Lent. It would have been a nice drinking game every time someone brought up some libtardic talking point in their winning speech 
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The Oscars are like the American Medical Association. We’re led to believe a majority quorum of peers is leading in showing excellence, when the actual small percentage of peers is only led by politics and their egos.
“Fred Astaire never won.
Marilyn Monroe never won.
Peter O’Toole never won.
Cary Grant never won”
Yeah, but Woody Allen won, Jamie Foxx won, Sean Penn won.
So, in so many years the Oscar is like the Nobel Peace Prize: those who have worked for it and deserve it have no chance to receive it, but no talent hacks can and will receive it because they are politically correct. How else can you explain the above and explain Barak Obama, Yasser Arafat, the IPCC and Al Gore, Jimmy Carter, and Nelson Mandela? I’m surprised the Nobel committee did not award the Peace Prize to Idi Amin or Pol Pot, or Ho Chi Minh.
The only Actor in that list is O’Toole. Paul Scofield won but didn’t show up to collect. But the Oscars are no longer about anything but Hollywood group think. If I ran a movie house, I’d have been furious that the best picture award was presented by a person who wants to prohibit my customers from eating popcorn! The Academy could do worse. Ahnold needs work.
Just remember…it’s a bunch of people who get together and congratulate themselves.
BTW….I think “Argo” IS a great movie!!
“Skyfall” kicked ass!!
I didn’t realize Peter O’Toole never won.
He’s one of my heroes. I want to be him when I grow up.
He has more cool in his nose hairs than everybody at last night’s back-pat-athon.
Don’t forget the Affirmative Action Oscars when Denzel’s Oscar was sullied by Halle Berry’s.
She’s the black Jeniffer Aniston.
O’Toole lost to Gregory Peck (great actor in hs own right)in 1963 when his tour de force performance in “Lawrence of Arabia” (hands down Best Actor Award if there ever was one) lost to the first politically correct choice -- “To Kill a Mockingbird.” It was the year of the Civil Rights Bill and Atticus Finch, civil rights lawyer was Lefty Academy preferable to T.E. Lawrence’s legendary exploits in Saudi.
Hollywood surrendered any pretense that their “awards” were about acting, tacitly admitting in 1963 that it was all about agenda. And, with few exceptions, has been SOP with them ever since.
O’Toole holds the record for Best Actor nominations with eight.