I hear what you guys are saying about the Oscars, and how they're a celebration of life, and the show must go on, blah-blah-blah, so-on-and-so-forth. It all makes a degree of sense, but to me it still feels like Nero fiddling while Rome burns. Or in this case, wearing fancy clothes while LA burns.
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With help from Mel Gibson and Arnold.🙄
My bad.
It clearly says Mel.
So much #gross
I also love how Trump said they'd be Envoys "TO ME".
Not to the U.S. Not to California.
It's all right there, guys.
And who better?
That was Covid-19 and a strike, idiot!
In fact, his cult members won’t even be able to see that part of his post.
And then not pay them.
After dissolving all unions.
Arnold’s alright.
https://youtu.be/AGxL5AFzzMY?si=lvoChdyrRml40HYz
Come on
This is obscene
Tldr: what a wank fest
I thought they were in the thousands...million?!?!?! WTF
Focus on single items/events is pointless. The amount of wealth they hold exists whether they show it or not.
We need to capture the angst and grievance in the country.
Oscar night is a big megaphone that can be turned against Dump, his minions in Congress, and their billionaires.
The billionaires have the media and money to point it against immigrants, women, and minorities ...
They are the ones strangling the life out of our country!
Don’t be stupid, Hollywood
I think if they dropped the designer BS and just showed up as real people, it would make a nice statement.
But I know a lot of people love the glitz. So my idea wouldn't fly.
There's hope. There's promise. And there are people working hard on climate solutions
honor outstanding achievements, thus encouraging higher levels of quality in all facets of motion picture production."
I always thought that the Oscars was their way to drive audiences to watch films!
Never forget the band kept playing when the Titanic sunk to keep people's minds in control and a soft sense of calm.
Yipee! https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/17/politics/joe-biden-equal-right-amendment/index.html
Why not an awards ceremony as full of itself for dry cleaners - who do more for me and never get the attention they deserve? Or sanitation workers? Or TEACHERS. Teachers dressed up to the nines. Best 2nd Grade Finger Painting!!!
Teachers! would be a most informative reality show, i definitely say, give it a go!
Here’s a secret. There are awards ceremonies for all sorts of professions all the time, but you just don’t know about it. You want to know why you don’t know? Because despite your protest, you don’t actually care enough to find out.
Well that is patently wrong. In fact, there are more categories that are not actors than actors. By, like, a lot a lot.
Wheres the Oscars for street cleaners?
Get involved and make the street cleaner Oscar a thing. Great idea so go for it!
Vulgar
As for your question, you’d have to ask City Hall.
Contractors have deposits they won't return
So people will get paid
Not every single one of them...but yes ..most will be paid
The gift bags alone would pay for that
What we don't need is more Hollywood elitist aggrandizing.
It is not just the make up artist for a star, it's the servers employed by the space or the catering company, drivers employed by the limo companies, if you think it through to all the support staff needed you would understand the issue better.
Give fancy awards to actors who aren't rocking the boat.
#Hollywood needs more members like #JenniferGarner, who show up with help, use their status to galvanize support industry contacts, and roll up their sleeves.
🙏🙏🙏🙏 Jen.
https://youtube.com/shorts/m5dbAz8klJc?si=tJ_6tNA-FIxAqBMy
Every member of the Academy & all the people involved should take what they would have spent on clothes, etc & DONATE that amount ( & more) to all the agencies working so hard to save LA & it's citizens & help with the rebuilding
#NoOscarCeremony
Fucking Christ, what does it take for you to actually listen to victims?
All that effort and money could go to caring for people. How about we "celebrate life" after the fires are out.
… Is this just fantasy…?
There's something happening here
What it is ain't exactly clear
Isn’t that Hollywood?
Maybe you are freaked
somebody pulled a Mr. Mercedes in NOLA and Germany?
I sure was OMG
Having just acquired Peacock, viewed it.
Are you tired of life imitating Horror, Mr. King?
Is this the real reason?
Question meant respectfully.
The fact that the two events are geographically and temporally coincident is merely...well... coincidental.
Putting a pause on this year's Awards is respectful to them. Forging ahead with glitz and glamour seems tone-deaf to their losses.
It's the feigned sympathies while not using their voices to call out inequality is the bad part.
https://youtu.be/gO80J7gsDm8?si=TGvsuU82qnKsabeG
It’s sick
The op seems familiar, and its almost as if he's seen this sort of thing transpire in government before 😉 Fascists are coming for entertainment. McCarthiesm is alive and well in the crumbling, infested hearts of this uncreative and dimwitted technofascist cult.
Who cares? Never watched in my life.
I felt that way after 9/11.
I don’t know about in LA, but I’m guessing the two weeks of gig work wages are also desperately needed by many.
Not right now
And don’t the people who are already working also need jobs? Chances are they are Californians too.
❤️✨
Resilience.
But they can all afford to be there partying.
Still a bad look
The one thing that Jews do well besides massacres and banking is SHOW BUSINESS.
I grew up watching Mom go from our Little Theatre to the silver screen so I know the magic of The Show.
Never forget, there's no business like show business!
I don't understand the point of the ceremony. The decisions could be announced, and the statues could be delivered. Why drag it out for hours?
Too bad it's not up to us.
This isn't the moment
many people trying to live in in I have no answer /are we entitled to these moments of distraction , or do we reject them. And if reject them, what moments left?
Are we facing a threat from a bunch of clowns and incompetents - Hitler wasn’t a clown and he surrounded himself with brilliant people. Motnyje case now .
They are a sales pitch
The red carpet needs to not be done and less expensive clothing. Tone that down a bit
I don’t get how shifting the burden onto people who have less resources will help.
The event can raise money but the people working still need to be paid.
Seems to me like it'd be better just to not fuck with everyone's pay for no reason.
Tone-deaf is one way to put it. Self-absorbed is another.
I know it is not your phrase, but I respectfully submit that even without a catastrophic firestorm, it's taking the michael.
Brad Pitt on the phone answering calls receiving donations
Cross live to the phone bank instead of commercials
Kimell or someone like him in there interviewing the celebs
Dial for dollars
The thing would rate
So much goodwill
They could raise a ton of cash
It is pretty obviously the right path to take.
Seems like Hollywood could do the same.
Why call out a wrong, when you can party with the rest of the millionaires.
Awards can be handed out without the pomp and ceremony.
People are in distress. Nothing to celebrate.
I'm not offended btw...but often our personal ethical choices can just be done and moved on and thus avoid being performative.
It’s LAs economy, it’s hope, it’s optimism. The city can’t rebuild fully without the industry. Everybody in the city is affected by the industry. Everybody.
https://www.heinetwork.tv/
Do you think the stage, cameras, sound, lighting, ads, are all made by elves? That those people they show backstage are volunteers?
Am only saying for these that get all the fame and glory.
The ones that usually get all the credit for a films success.
It should have been more clear.
Bring back the 1980’s charity events that went all weekend, but each hour make note of the quiet notice given to stars who for winning an Oscar
Then again at any given time, someone unfortunately suffers somewhere in the world.
I wish most with money, power, & fame would not lose their empathy, & humanity in the process. Those with little usually give all.