Grouchy Oscar...

From Drudge Report:

ABC'S AIRING OF OSCARS PLUNGES TO 25.4 RATING/37 SHARE, ACCORDING TO OVERNIGHTS, DOWN FROM LAST YEAR'S RECORD-LOW SCORE OF 29.1/47. UNBELIEVABLY, LAST MONTH'S 'JOE MILLIONAIRE' REACHED HIGHER SHARES IN SOME MARKETS, DEMOS THAN OSCARS. FINAL RATINGS AVAILABLE LATER. CONTROVERSIAL AIRING OF SHOW AT HEIGHT OF WAR EXPERIENCED NIELSEN STRESS ON NEARLY EVERY LEVEL. 'IT WAS A DIFFICULT SITUATION... WE ARE GLAD IT IS BEHIND US,' SAID TOP NETWORK SOURCE... MORE...

I'm finding it hard to care. The Oscars are always about celebrities celebrating their own bloated self-importance. Haven't we been subjected to them enough these last few months in the run up to the war?

I mean the only remotely interesting thing about last night's Oscars was Michael Moore:



not because I agree with him, but because he delivered on what I expected him to do- use the ultimate PR opportunity to push and shove and slander and rant, which was a 30 second version of all of his movies and TV shows. Entertaining stuff as opposed to the rest of the drivel last night.

I like it when people are true to themselves, even opportunists such as Moore, who will probably NEVER win an Oscar ever again. It's in his nature: I would've been disappointed if he hadn't used the audience to denounce President Bush. I'm surprised they didn't cut his microphone and go to commercial.

What I found troubling was the "love-in" that the actors and film-makers were having with child-raping scum Roman Polanski.

It seems that many believe that art trumps criminal behaviour, because many in attendance believed that it was a real shame that Polanski couldn't attend to collect his reward. Again it seems that because someone creates great cinematic art (subjective: I haven't seen The Pianist so I don't know if it's "art") we should ignore the fact that he's a child-raping piece of crap that should still do jail time.

When I first heard he was guilty of statutory rape I thought there might have been more to the story, like he got caught by the age limit like Renton in Trainspotting but no; he was (and probably still is) a predator that hunted a poor naive girl. For a full reminder of what this bastard did click here.

The real shame is those trained seals that call themselves "artists" couldn't take a stand and boo this loser. I guess being "anti-child-raping scum" isn't as popular in Hollywood as being "anti-war."