I didn't watch the Oscar telecast last night. I've paid enough attention to movies to realize that the best movies don't usually win the awards. Too many bad movies have won. There is too much movie business politics that go into choosing a winner.
It also seems lately that the movies take second place to the fashion. With the writer's strike hitting the Golden Globes and other award shows this year it seems as if the gnashing of teeth is more about the loss of the red carpets than the show themselves. After all, the award shows still announced the winners to a collective yawn. Who cares?
I noticed last night when flipping TV channels the inanity of the red carpets. The slow walk, the posing and preening for the cameras and photos, and the dumb 'interviews' of the 'stars' walking the red carpet. It may be because I am a guy that I feel this way. I noticed the men on the red carpet seemed to only linger in this walk because they were walking with a woman. The women seemed to enjoy the attention. They would stand and slowly turn slightly this way and that so everyone could see them and get a photo of them in their dresses. In their interviews they would quickly mention the designer of their free dress and who loaned their jewelery, then get back to basking in the attention. It was all about them and they wanted to make it last.
I've heard that Hollywood is like high school, and the academy awards is like the high school prom. So true! Everyone who has great memories of high school and of the prom raise your hand. Uh, huh. I thought so. There is much more to ones life than high school and the prom. I would pity the Hollywood stars and their silly award shows more if they didn't take it so seriously and if the 'fashion' people and others didn't spend so much time obsessing over it. Get a life people!
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