Posted 6:39 PM by Gene

Here is why the Os-CARS® no longer work: It was a big ceremony for big people. At least all those big people excused all the lunkheaded winners. But the big people slowly vanished, increasingly exposing their successors as very little people, and the winners as ever more lunkheaded; and where regardless of production numbers some taste came naturally to the big people the very little people tried to invent it and merely showed they had no taste (remember Rob Lowe and Snow White?); so the A-ca-de-my® has now opted to shrink the proceedings with the ever-increasing danger of turning them into just another TV show* -- an odd thing in that all but the industry's most stalwart toadies must admit the biz became TV a long time ago, and that's part of why, whatever the show's many faults, the biz and the Os-CARS® are now so irreversibly little.

*Think the long-overdue reduction of the Best Song category to a medley -- and that is too much exposure. (And incidentally we found this twaddle from TVGuide.com that makes us wonder why the owners couldn't have deep-sixed the whole property when they had the chance. The dimwit mentions only two songs before 1965, and one, "Moon River", he calls a "masterpiece." Ladies and gentlemen, we have found an Academy Award®-winning definition for the word DORK.)

P. S. at 8:53 p. m. Moving the Os-CARS® up to January won't make them less of a joke. Getting tentpoles among the nominees may make them more of a joke.

P. P. S. at 9:12 p. m. Ann of The Daily Kaplan turns ac-TING into nuclear physics. When will all the hacks' accreting garbage finally become an environmental concern?

"[T]hey're not just in the now, they're in the now of the now."

And your horse-and-buggy business is in the THEN OF THE THEN.