Re: Telecast Discussion
Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2022 10:13 am
Thanks, Flipp. I'm glad my memories of that situation aren't entirely faulty.
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Good for you. Their “character” has been revealed plenty over the decades. Spoiler-alert: They’re both self-obsessed assholes as well as being Scientology-adjacent.OscarGuy wrote:I would not. The more I think about Uri's Macbeth reference, the more it seems to make sense.
Heksagon wrote:"I was ecstatic that I was the 3RD South Asian to win that night - after Riz and Aneil Karia won earlier in the night for The Long Goodbye. 3 South Asians winning on the same night - that’s never happened before! And it’s meaningful! It’s history!"Okri wrote:I did not know this. I haven't seen "Summer of Soul" or any other awards show [this season], though.
I'm tempted to tweet to him that it happened in 2008, when musicians Gulzar and A.R. Rahman, and sound mixer Resul Pookutty won for their work on Slumdog Millionaire.
Would you like to revise any of your statements about their character as a whole?OscarGuy wrote
I apologize. I appear to be wrong about the OscarsSoWhite issue. The most vocal and leading voice I saw was Jada, but apparently it was someone else altogether. Maybe it was amplified and Jada was just taking advantage of it to say Will is an example of someone being specifically dissed by the lack of diversity, which is still a pretty skeezy thing to do, but it wasn't she who started the movement.
I love that idea. And better still, buy back previous shows and offer them on a streaming platform.Greg wrote:Maybe it would be better if the the Academy broke away from ABC and made the show pay-per-view on Oscars.org. In addition to accepting credit and debit cards, they could sell gift cards that people could by with cash in stores, or even from vending machines. These gift-card sales could be used to promote the telecast. Then, after the live telecast, they could sell the video of the show.
It may not have been the optics of his being forced to leave so much as what would happen if he grew more belligerent. It's live television. They only have a couple of minutes in between segments to diffuse the situation, and if he wouldn't leave, then they needed to decide - quickly - whether to risk further on-air disruptions or let the matter go and deal with it after the broadcast. I don't envy them this dilemma, and I can't say I blame them for the choice they made.Big Magilla wrote:
I think the Academy was very careful about the wording of their statement. They wouldn't have said that Smith was asked to leave and refused if it weren't true. Packer has said that what happened was wrong on so many levels that I suspect he did ask Smith to leave but backed down when he allegedly said, "try me". What they didn't say was what they did when he refused, which was obviously to leave him be. Allegedly that decision was made by Dawn Hudson who wanted him gone but didn't like the optics of his being forced to leave.
I know this is small potatoes next to the larger issues raised by this event (and how people are responding to it), but:Sabin wrote:As for the O.J. Simpson Bronco chase: Yes, I was a bit young for that. I certainly knew about it but again it wasn’t really something I watched develop live. When I learned about it… I don’t know, it was a car on the freeway.
I didn’t see the Challenger explode. I didn’t see Budd Dwyer. I’ll keep searching my memory but I’m willing to stand by my assertion than this is the craziest thing tbh I’ve seen on television but I’ll add the word “live.”
Obviously, nobody is comparing Will Smith to Harvey Weinstein. I'll just say I personally don't believe his conduct is worthy of lifetime expulsion.mlrg wrote
The Academy is an organization with governance rules and standards. Members are invited to enter the organization. If they accept, it is implied that they accept the rules this organization is governed by. If they break the rules, the Academy should have the ability to expell. That's what they did with Harvey Weinstein
“Packer said that he and the production ‘officially’ wanted Smith to stay for the remainder of the show,” one of the eyewitnesses reportedly told the magazine. “Another source close to Packer denied that the producer urged Smith to remain.” Neither Packer nor the Academy responded to Variety‘s request for comment.Sabin wrote:This story just gets weirder and weirder.
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