Awkward times to applaud at the Oscars®

[shereads]

Ouch! Is it proper to applaud when someone's death is mentioned? Katherine Hepburn, the woman some of us want to be when we grow up; Gregory Peck who created the most real American hero, Atticus Finch. It's painful to hear the embarrassed semi-applause; are we celebrating their deaths? Why not whistles, foot-stomping and catcalls? Shouldn't we "boo" the deaths of our film heros?

Even worse is the popularity-ranking-by-applause that occurs during the annual Dead Hollywood Celebrities montage: Atticus Finch's courtroom speech gets an appropriate amount of applause, Elia Kazan, even Buddy Hackett and Buddy Epsen get applause, but they're intermingled with poor departed souls who have to be cringing in their graves when the applauding crowd goes silent for the few seconds these nobodies are on screen.

You can practically hear people thinking, "Who's the moustache guy?" and "One-hit wonder." The silence is deafening. Then up pops Donald O'Connor as Francis the Talking Mule, and the applause begins again.

What's worse: being one of the 100 regular people who die in the same plane crash as one famous person? Or being one of the five or six un-applaudable minor celebrities in a televised montage of dead Hollywood stars?



I don't know; sure seems to call for a poll, though!

 

[minsue]

Gregory Hines.

- Mindy, feeling contrary

ps Sher, you've really got to see someone about this poll addiction. Maybe the guy who's helping me with my compulsive need to vote in them?

 

[shereads]

Gregory Hines.

- Mindy, feeling contrary

ps Sher, you've really got to see someone about this poll addiction. Maybe the guy who's helping me with my compulsive need to vote in them?

Your therapist is paying me to post these polls. It's part of your treatment.

Now vote, damn it! And no write-ins candidates.

 

[minsue]

Your therapist is paying me to post these polls. It's part of your treatment.

Now vote, damn it! And no write-ins candidates.

I voted! I always vote, even when I wish for a different candidate. *sigh*

 

[Guest]

I voted for Atticus -

And I think I need to see your therapist after other voting events happening today!

 

[shereads]

No fans of Guy with Hat, huh?

That's sad.

 

[Guest]

LOL

Tsk tsk tsk.

What horrible prejudice do people have against hats these days???

 

[shereads]

LOL

Tsk tsk tsk.

What horrible prejudice do people have against hats these days???

I think stocking caps have spoiled things for serious hats.

 

[Guest]

Laughing -

Stocking caps are just condoms for the head.

Think of - really big dicks!



(OK, so I shouldn't post after this many alcoholic beverages!)

 

[Boxlicker101]

I didn't watch the Oscars; I never do. What were the names of the guys you are talking about? "The guy with the mustache: or "the guy with the hat" Either of them could have been Charlie Chaplin who featured both a hat and a mustache.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

If I could bring back a dead actor, it would be Swedish stand-up comedian/author/actor/racist defying Lasse "Ali Hussein" Lindroth.

That guy had balls. We need more men like him.

 

[Remec]

Your therapist is paying me to post these polls. It's part of your treatment.

Now vote, damn it! And no write-ins candidates.

What about write-in reasons?

I'd vote for John Ritter because he died on his (or just before his) daughter's birthday, and that's gonna make that time of the year really hard for her for decades to come. (She only just turned 5.)

 

[shereads]

Guy with moustache was the mother of a five-year-old, Remec. Appearances can be deceiving.

 

[OldnotDead]

Personally, I would undo all the deaths, if I could. We lost a lot of great ones this year.

To me it was most awkward in that people within the industry didn't seem to know who some of these people were. Of course it didn't surprise me. Overall I have a very low opinion of most of those in the industry and primarily watched because my daughter did.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. There are far too many folks in the enterntainment industry that if given a book would have one of two responses: a) "Have you got the rights to it and is there a role for me?" or b) "Gee, thanks, but I already have a couple of books and I still haven't read those."