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no better way to project one's beneficence.

thank you.

how many of these hollywood celebs so endlessly empathetic to the ills and injustices of the world demonstrated their selfless and noble support for green energy by traveling to the awards in electric cars?

I agree. they shouldn't interject their personal views at all... but they did.

did we really need to see neil patrick harris' superman-like physique last nite? "oh well, I guess women like that sort of thing." -fred ziffel

only sane and rational americans. gotcha! you can't really argue that wage equality is a more cutting edge issue than decapitation, can you? point successfully made.

and is wage equality a more pressing issue on the minds of the american people these days then say.... decapitation?

no, what I am objecting to is an arrogant self-important celeb like patricia arquette thinkin' all she has to do is mention wage equality while she is getting her precious little oscar and believing that come tuesday all the politicians on capitol hill will fall to their knees and start chanting in unison "patricia arquette, patricia arquette, all winds down". the american people have long tired of this annual display of self-importance taken to a level of obsurdity. when can we expect ms. arquette to give testimony before a congressional committee on wage inequality?

I doan have any problem with how american sniper did last nite at all. sat though it once and quite frankly I found it only a so-so film. dramatically clint's direction was weak in spots. like when kyle makes the mile-long kill on the iraqi sniper.... clint shoulda made that a gut-shot with the scum writhing in pain for a minute before he expired.

patricia arquette and her silly ramblings about wage equality. this is why alotta people watch. to hear hilarious happy HS like that. what does she, a rich 1% hollywood celeb have to do with wage equality?... nuthin! this is why some viewers will laugh. the utter silliness of the level of self-importance that celebs will chronically attribute to themselves. rich hollywood celebs fretting over wage equality?... silly, silly people. I guess receiving their statuettes makes some of them giddy. maybe a film about hollywood celebrity life is in order... stupidhood.

meaning what? that they can enjoy their palatial mansions, swimming pools and yachts without a pang of concern for the rest of the world? they don't have the same onus on them? they can talk about wage equality and the rain forests when they don't have more pressing matters on their minds like their next movie?... well, that's just so darn nice of them. hollywood films have never exactly been great advocates for moral restraint in human interpersonal relationships (which many feel has done great damage to our country's moral fiber) and as far as those grocery checkout mags are concerned. may I quote the late great victor mature who said... "if you want your phu king privacy then don't become a phu king movie star"

when the first speaker mentioned how much american sniper has grossed, I hope the applause that got didn't weaken the ceiling plaster of the dolby theater

oh c'mon. how is the woman suppose to react to dirt, rocks and plant material being chucked through the kitchen window by shovel? he didn't even say "ronnie, I'll clean it all up later".

but why should the hollywood 1%'s glorification (or is it deification?) go unchallenged by the media when it is always open season on the wall street 1%? are the hollywood 1%'s mansions and swimming pools and yachts smaller than their wall street counterpart's selfsame luxuries? methinks not so... why the free pass?

maybe closing commentary was deemed unimportant because Patton is certainly an old school war film.

I believe that in the film Soldier 2's line is "Yeah, our blood, his guts."

neary's passage on the mother ship should have been an exchange by the aliens for this guy...

well, my understanding is that narcissism is a more extreme word for selfishness. at the end neary is only thinking about his big space ride and completely sets aside his responsibilities as a married family man because his wife refused to comfort his nutso behavior. most housewives are not gonna look past dirt in their kitchen sinks. yeah, neary had an obsession but he did choose to make it all-encompassing to himself. he's talking to his wife on the phone, imploring her to return, pledging that he'll do whatever she wants...until he see devil's tower on the TV then he could give a rock's throw about the alienation from her and his kids. obviously he considers his ufo experience more important than his family. what kinda message be that?

tcm wins this one. I'm gonna watch that circus for the sheer comedics until ten thirty then I will switch to tcm for one flew over the cuckoo's nest followed by dog day afternoon. not a hard choice at all. "huh? yer gonna make us watch the academy awards tah nite???"

I think it is somewhat. roy neary has a ufo encounter and looses his cookies. he looses his job, upsets teri garr who plays his wonderful wife, eventually destroying his nice home's outside shrubbery, steals his neighbor's chicken wire goose enclosure and then shovels dirt into his kitchen sink. so his wife understandably piles the kids into the station wagon and puts distance between her and his idiocies. the boob follows his dream to the big finale on top of devil's tower in wyoming and he's off!... giving absolutely no thought whatsoever to what his wife and children are to think years later. like he cares. he's gonna take a space ride! all of that a narcissistic binge or what? thanks I think are in order to those little rubbery chaps for removing such a silly ay-whole from the earth. oh, and that scene where all the technicians are praying before their big departure was lifted, in my opinion, from above and beyond.

you can definitely pick up tidbits of info from svengoolie. like I never knew Les Tremayne was english. hell, I always thought he was american.

yeah, tcm better not irritate anyone or prints of doctor zhivago and lawrence of arabia might become hard to come by.

tcm sure has not ticked off UA distributors lately as I have yet to see The Flame Barrier from 1958 on tcm.

yeah, denise crosby in a body sock. away all spacefarers. actually, denise crosby was a hot ti e but they sure tried not to make her so. marina sirtis was so hot they couldn't stifle it.