THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

SURPRISE ACADEMY AWARD | 2006-03-06

I saw this in the headlines. There my interest ended.

Sometimes the Academy Awards group has an easy time. Somebody makes a film noire movie about the Holocaust like Schindler's List or The Pianist, and they meet, yawn, and hand it all the awards.

Despite the lack of a holocaust movie this time this year's decision was almost equally easy. As I understand it, the movie "Brokeback Mountain" pushed the idea that every real cowboy was a homosexual. In the absence of a holocaust movie, everyody assumed it would get those awards.

I saw in the headlines that there was a surprise winner of Best Picture. It showed a black woman passionately embracing a white man. To everybody's surprise, that theme trumped the homosexual-promotion theme.

Judging True Art is a hard business.

COMMENTS (6)

#1 Shari | 2006-03-06 17:38

No REAL cowboys are queer, only fake hollywood ones are.

#2 Derek | 2006-03-06 22:34

I had the misfortune of seeing Oprah at my mother's house today. It was all about the Oscars and black entertainers. It made me sick. They were all discussing how great it was that blacks are now so dominant at the Oscars. I kept asking myself why? I think that it is because they think that they are replacing us. In order for them to get in to where we are someone has to let them in. They know that now. They want what we have. That is the bottomline that only they are talking about, other than the few of us that are out here on the web. Our opinions are not allowable in public. Theirs are.

#3 | 2006-03-07 03:02

I think that the decision had more to do with laziness than anything else. In that, it's a much harder sell these days to convince people that they're just not "ready" for inter-racial coupling.

#4 Peter | 2006-03-07 15:02

"I saw in the headlines that there was a surprise winner of Best Picture. It showed a black woman passionately embracing a white man. To everybody's surprise, that theme trumped the homosexual-promotion theme.

Judging True Art is a hard business."

Why does it take a genius like Bob to state the obvious?

This pattern is widespread over Hollywood. On TV, you can predict the villain as soon as he walks on. If he's blond and has good manners, that's the one. Even women are villains now. Look for the most beautiful blonde: she's probably a mass-murderess sicko child rapist.

#5 Elizabeth | 2006-03-08 14:22

Too bad the folks who did WALK THE LINE couldn't have

worked Charley Pride or one of the '50s black music

groups in...

WALK THE LINE wasn't even nominated for Best Picture.

AND only a teensy bit of it was filmed in California,

and that was only because Cash had had a house there for

a while.

#6 Shari | 2006-03-16 19:53

I saw Walk the Line last night as my son brought over the DVD. While I can say I enjoyed the movie, when I took a look at the "extras" saint worship,it kind of made me sick. Hollywood ability to entertain and lie overrun,I think.