The Oscars Are Pretty Much Screwed
LET THE STREETS FLOW WITH THE BLOOD OF THE NON-BELIEVERS, PEOPLE
FITSNews - January 11, 2008 - There’s no way the good folks at Entertainment Weekly could have known that we were unable to sleep last night given our concern over the plight of the Oscars, or that their Dostoevsky-esque four-page article this morning detailing the latest on the Hollywood writers’ strike was just what the doctor ordered. Well, that and two Honey Buns (editor’s note: mmmmm). From the story:
The 10-week-old strike by the Writers Guild of America (WGA) against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) has shut down most film and television production industry-wide, and it just forced the cancellation of the Golden Globe Awards, set for Jan. 13.
You know, our Pakistani data entry people tried to go on strike once here at FITSNews. We responded by rendering them into an emulsion and permitting the streets to flow with the blood of the non-believers. Which we felt was pretty benevolent, all things considered.
America could give a rat’s ass about writers and studio executives, people. There’s a reason those people stay behind the cameras instead of in front of them. We do, however, care a great deal about the disproportionately high number of celebrity nipple slips that take place at awards shows. So for the love of Glaven, Hollywood, let the show go on …
Comments
By piepton on January 11th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
What exactly do the writers do at the oscars anyway? Create those hilarious sketches? Write the witty dialogue? Tell the cameramen to pan to George Clooney 14 times? I’m not entirely sure that the oscars wouldn’t be better if they just let the actors just go up there and try to wing it.
By film dude on March 18th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
i was glad no country for old men won a lot of awards
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