Face it, Hollywood — you’re boring viewers with your self-righteous, out of touch, navel-gazing Oscars |
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Face it, Hollywood — you’re boring viewers with your self-righteous, out of touch, navel-gazing Oscars
In his Oscars tribute to slain director Rob Reiner Sunday, Billy Crystal referenced some of his old friend’s most iconic movies — from “Spinal Tap” to “The Princess Bride” to “A Few Good Men,” invoking the star and most famous line from that 1992 classic.
“And Jack Nicholson, who warned us: You can’t handle the truth — which is simply what we all want today.”
The line was meant, I presume, as a jab at the Trump administration.
For a group of people both devoted to make-believe yet, supposedly, hungry for truth, here’s one that Hollywood stubbornly refuses to admit to themselves.
Outside of Los Angeles’ Dolby Theatre, no one gives a rat’s behind about 75% of what goes on at the Oscars.
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The normie audience at home wants to see glamorous A-listers in their red-carpet splendor. They want to laugh at a dazzling monologue. They want showbiz, baby.
Instead, the Oscars increasingly delivers navel-gazing slop thanks........