Archive for the ‘Duh Media’ Category
You Don’t See Too Many Commercials Like This Anymore.
3 A.M. Revised.
Courtesy of Gawker:
“Once” Was Enough.
Every Oscars contains at least one terrible mistake, and this year it was Jon Stewart’s inviting back to the stage Marketa Irglova, co-writer of the winning song from Once, to give the acceptance speech she’d been prevented from making because her partner, Glen Hansard, used up all the team’s alloted time making his. (His speech had seemed to speak for both of them, but I guess not.)
I think the young lady deserved her moment in the sun, but she and her partner should have worked out a way to share between them the time they knew they’d be alloted.
To set things right, the Oscars now need to air a make-good show to allow every costume designer, sound mixer, makeup person, film editor, production designer, and director of an animated short subject they’ve ever cut short to come back and finish. It could take nine hours, but since Oscar is now in the “nice” business, fair is fair.
Parsley Sage.
Ellis Weiner has written a lot of funny columns, articles, books, jeremiads, polemics, philippics (never the desultory kind) and screeds, but this one from The Huffington Post today—about CNN’s right-wing election commentators Ralph Reed (above) and William Bennett—especially tickled me. Weiner has a way of making the reader froth at the mouth with indignation and laugh at the same time, which can be messy.
It strikes me that of all the bad names Ellis has for the two of them, the most damning of all (going back to when Reed was in college) is Young Republican.
