Award Season Idiocy |
Every year about this time, Hollywood reminds the rest of the country just how disconnected it is from the people who actually make America work.
The Golden Globes start it. The Grammys pour gasoline on the fire. And then the Oscars arrive as the grand finale — an annual evening where the most insulated people in America gather together to congratulate each other for their “courage.”
Courage, of course, usually means reading lines someone else wrote about how terrible Donald Trump is.
This year’s Oscar season is shaping up to be no different. Several nominees and industry figures quoted in recent reporting are already warning that the ceremony may become a “fraught political scene,” with anti-Trump rhetoric expected to spill onto the stage. Apparently, the greatest challenge facing these multimillionaires isn’t global instability, terrorism, or economic uncertainty — it’s navigating how to deliver their anti-Trump commentary while wearing couture gowns and standing under $100 million worth of studio lighting.
Forgive the rest of us if we’re not terribly impressed.
The spectacle would almost be funny if it weren’t so predictable. Actors, directors, and producers who rely on entire teams of writers to supply the words they speak in movies suddenly transform into political philosophers when award season arrives. The same people who spend months memorizing dialogue crafted by others begin lecturing the American public about policy, democracy, and morality.
It’s like asking the person who reads the teleprompter to start........