2017 Oscars

I saw that screw up myself (only saw La La Land instead of Moonlight, so I picked La La Land.)

 

"Bonnie and Clyde" were ambushed again at last night's Oscars. Dunaway and Beatty were movie gods to me in their prime. Don't want to hear any "0ld" talk from people too young to know. Rent the full movie.

 

Arthur Penn's masterpiece, maybe best film of the 60s.

 

I tweeted about my dog during a Nats game. Then she wound up on the Oscars

 

Twitter is actually used for legitimate and socially positive purposes. I've been after my wife to start Tweeting the movies she sees again. She's seen 60 films in the theater so far this year.

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aren't the envelopes locked up though until the moment they are handed to the presenters? they get sealed and locked up i thought and no one sees them until they presenter is given it out of a locked case

 

I agree...that was worse but I suspect some will disagree. No excuse for that.

 

The word is that "PWC" stands for "Problems With Cards."

 

So they didn't replace PWC this year with lowest bidder Joe-Bob's Discount Accounting, slogan "You Can Count On Us"?

 

Jimmy Kimmel Reveals What Really Went Down During That Oscars Gaffe.

 

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So... it was the Stage Mgr that got impatient and jerked the card from Beatty, and Kimmel was assuming that the that jerked card was going to be given to him to read... but Horowitz intercepted that card, and read it to audience himself.

Now who's the Jerk??

 

Here's Kimmel's monologue from Monday night explaining what happened...



I love Kimmel's line: "It was the weirdest TV finale since LOST!"

Jimmy Kimmel Responds to Epic Oscars Fail: ‘It Was the Weirdest TV Finale Since ‘Lost’ (Watch)

 

60 so far?! Yes, she should definitely put all that viewing to good use and post some mini-reviews. Very cool.

 

I think Sharpies and Post-Its are a great idea. Two sets of anything would make me nervous. The real mystery is how this hasn't happened before. (Of course, in the pre-social media years, the person holding the cards was probably actually paying attention.)

 

The NYT mentions another possible problem:

Anyway, for a senior accountant, this should have been manageable. But tweeting during his important task at the show, that's inexcusable. Maybe he thought the hardest part was over (the whole voting procedure in the months before) and tweeting behind the scenes pictures with the stars was a sort of personal celebration for a job well done.

I guess we won't be seeing him at the Oscar's again. And may that be a lesson to everyone. Never forget the basics

 

lol, true, I seem to remember bits with them showing up to the Oscars with briefcases attached to their wrists with handcuffs. maybe its that new guy "coopers" that has attached himself to the firm

 

Got that right.

The logical thing to do would have been to *turn that bloody envelope around and check the "title"* - but logical behaviour in Hollywood obviously isn't something they got a lot anymore nowadays it seems ....

 

Making "texting" part of your job can have devastating circumstances.

 

The category is even mentioned on the bottom of the card itself . At least it was for "Best Picture", but I suppose it's the same for the other categories.

Though maybe difficult to read for elderly people who need reading glasses but are too proud to wear them on stage.

 

If you are too vain to wear your glasses, you can't read that - may they should print it bigger AND on top ?

 

If the Academy was so desperate to award a "black movie" for "PC" reasons, why pick "Moonlight" if it's as terrible as you believe? Why not pick one of the 2 other "black movies" nominated?

Oh wait - I know: because "Moonlight" was a better movie!

 

Choosing movies based on race is...well...racist.