The Oscars! - Page 20

estranged4life · #**286** 03-06-2006, 05:58 PM

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Originally Posted by skcin

My new goal - to have arms like Jada's:

the lame poser version above or the metalhead lead singer of the band "Wicked Wisdom"?

Johnny Stew · #**287** 03-06-2006, 06:00 PM

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Originally Posted by strandinthewind

Also, when you say "they" who do you mean? I get confused by this because it is thousands of people voting and surely they are not all in on the conspiracy? I am asking without being hateful - but I really do not understand it because people speak of "them" and "they" as if they are Borg listening to and speaking with the one mind.

I'm not a Conspiracy Theorist. My use of "they" refers to each individual voting member of the academy, viewed as a collective... since I don't know 'em by name!

I think they had a chance to really say something with their votes, but they flinched. Or at least the majority of them did.

madformac · #**288** 03-06-2006, 06:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Johnny Stew

I'm not a Conspiracy Theorist. My use of "they" refers to each individual voting member of the academy, viewed as a collective... since I don't know 'em by name!

I think they had a chance to really say something with their votes, but they flinched. Or at least the majority of them did.

Well what is there, about 6000 members? I'm sure there was a good spread amongst the voters. A lot of these people move in the same circles and no doubt openly discuss the nominations. But even if the whole voting process is democratic it doesn't mean to say the counting is. How many people actually have access to the results? That's what I would like to know.

I'm not the world's greatest conspiracy theorist but I thought to myself, could a voting system be manipulated to change the outcome of a result in America? And then I remembered who was in the White House and how he got there....

Livia · #**289** 03-06-2006, 06:42 PM

Food for thought - from Chris Garcia's article in our local paper:

Best picture in 1970 went to "Midnight Cowboy," which at the time was rated X. Jon Voigt was nominated for playing a male prostitute whose gimmick was dressing up as a - what else? - a cowboy.

1976-Al Pacino was nominated for best actor in the best picture nominee "Dog Day Afternoon." He played a bi-sexual hoodlum who robbed a bank to finance his lover's sex change operation. The lover was played by Chris Sarandon, who got a nod for best supporting actor.

William Hurt won the best actor Oscar in 1986 for his vivid and sympathetic performance as a gay prisoner in "Kiss of the Spider Woman," which was nominated for best picture.

Red · #**290** 03-06-2006, 06:47 PM

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Originally Posted by BTFLCHLD

while the dress is pretty, i didnt care for the cut...
it made her tits lopsided and pudged one of them

THANK YOU!!! I felt so bad for her left tit, it was all squashed in.

The dress itself was lovely but perhaps on someone not so well endowed.

IMO, the best dressed was Michelle Williams - the colour was just breathtaking, the cut was unusual and had quite the accessory on her arm.

chiliD · #**291** 03-06-2006, 07:12 PM

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Originally Posted by madformac

And then I remembered who was in the White House and how he got there....

Amen, brudda!!!

skcin · #**292** 03-06-2006, 07:24 PM

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Originally Posted by estranged4life

the lame poser version above or the metalhead lead singer of the band "Wicked Wisdom"?

Brian, I've been meaning to ask you if they're any good. Have you heard any of their stuff?

Red · #**293** 03-06-2006, 07:30 PM

As for Jada, the arms are too much IMO. I'm a little old school, but I don't think women look that good when they're super ripped. Well that and I really don't like the fact that she's a racist. So yeah, I don't like Jada at all.

estranged4life · #**294** 03-06-2006, 07:37 PM

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Originally Posted by skcin

Brian, I've been meaning to ask you if they're any good. Have you heard any of their stuff?

"No"...Just another faceless "Nu Metal" band in a world of metal bands (Sadly, Jada is the weakest link in Wicked Wisdom...Not to mention Nu-Metal is now a dead trend in music. WW was the worse band on the 2005 Ozzfest roster)

Wicked Wisdom will never be confused with the God Forbid (Another pre-dominantly African American metal band, Who added a more traditional metal sound to their overall flavor)

chiliD · #**295** 03-06-2006, 07:49 PM

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Originally Posted by skcin

More bad ones:

Helena. Looks like she just got out of a bar fight:

Who knows...she probably DID.

Red · #**296** 03-06-2006, 08:37 PM

Aw c'mon - no one thinks Helena Bonham Carter will sible handedly bring back the beehive?

Serrart · #**297** 03-06-2006, 08:42 PM

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Originally Posted by chiliD

Exactly HOW difficult (and a stretch of the imagination) is it to play a real life person?

Maybe the Academy needs to make another category for "biographical interpretation". Heath Ledger was robbed.

What? Do you think it's easier to portray a real person on which everybody has already a personal image, than to create in total freedom a fictional character?

Philip Seymour Hoffman is one of the best American actors (probably the best of his generation) it was time he got some recognition, and he totally nailed Capote, IMO.

By the way, Ang Lee won and that was the important for me.

Romy

Richard B · #**298** 03-06-2006, 08:49 PM

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Philip Seymour Hoffman is one of the best American actors (probably the best of his generation) it was time he got some recognition, and he totally nailed Capote, IMO.

I'm right with you on this! Love Hoffman and he certainly deserves the Oscar and recognition.

GiniLeaE · #**299** 03-06-2006, 09:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Red

Aw c'mon - no one thinks Helena Bonham Carter will sible handedly bring back the beehive?

Are we sure that Helena isn't doing back-up vocals for the B-52's (my homegrown Georgia band!) with that horrible hairdo? It is their anniversary tour this year and all...they are ever so popular after their L-Word show appearance this month!