Posted 5:53 PM by Gene

I pledged to hold my peace on the Os-CARS® but Dick "GUNS CAUSED COLUMBINE!!!!!!" Corliss came up with an idea: Make the votes public.

Methinks Dick thinks if you-know-who had been in it might have helped our SYNERGY.

And bringing up former SYNERGISTS, when MR. MELLERDRAMMER writes, “I see the Oscars as a long, boring, idiotic joke. The awards are about politics and prejudices and have next to nothing to do with the quality of film-making. I’m braced for another less-than-stellar gay movie to win”, in the back of his head he wouldn't mind it winning, for an idiotic joke of a reason. Better to be honest about it than cute, but if MR. MELLERDRAMMER weren't cute he wouldn't be MR. MELLERDRAMMER.

I believe we've seen more Os-CAR® jackassery from news hacks this last week than ever.

P. S. And yes, even The Econowiz had to weigh in:

What viewers will see on Sunday night is an industry talking to itself.

Think of a rag all the CEOs pay all that money for not reading so they can show it off on their desks coming up with THAT!

Of course the 'Wiz could have gone one step further -- it could have mentioned all the Os-CAR® debaters engaging in verbal onanism.

More onanism at six minutes before HIS-TORY: Os-CAR® Central™ goes into the whole female-uglification-for-an-award gag, and more than one commenter calls the piece sexist. (One or two commenters also call it SYNERGY.) We say it is not sexist to bemoan the lack of memorable faces in the biz, because it cuts both ways. Who is Gary Cooper? (And no, it's not that twerp D'Antonio, or whatever his name is.)

Neither is it sexist to note that we highly doubt MM, Liz, Sophia, Audrey, Barbara Stanwyck, Jennifer Jones, Irene Dunne, and the other goddesses had to uglify themselves to be artistically acceptable. (Although we would note Mary Pickford did uglify herself for Stella Maris in 1918, but that was well into her career, and she also played a woman who looked like Mary Pickford.)