Commentary 6
A newspaper with issues
WEEKEND EDITION, FEBRUARY 17-18, 2007
THESE SURELY AREN’T THE GOLDEN DAYS OF ENTERTAINMENT This week’s Q-Line question asked readers:
“What performance, art installation or creative work — from local to international — made the biggest impression on you this past year? Here are your responses: “FRANKLY, NONE OF THESE VENUES did anything to capture my attention. Not like past years, when real creativity, art and enjoyment were the result for the observing public. Now it is all about ego and the money and not too much talent and sensitivity.” “I DO NOT WISH TO WAX OVERLY CRITICAL of today’s singers and today’s tunes. However, today’s singers and tunes are merely an emulation of those singers who, in the past, have made those tunes famous in the 1940s and ’50s. Still, if I was to pick a female singer of today I would pick Diane Krall and male singer Andrea Bocelli. I am impressed with the fact that they are both excellent at their craft.” “WHAT MADE THE MOST IMPRESSION on me is some of the stuff that they have the nerve to call art. You see pictures of this stuff and it looks like some drunk threw a bunch of paint on the ground and fell on it and rolled over the canvas. If you
can hang it upside down and nobody notices, it is not art. Leonardo DiVinci was an artist. Monet was an artist. Norman Rockwell was an artist. This modern junk that looks like drunkards throwing paint all over the place is not art. Yet, people are stupid enough to spend thousands and thousands of dollars for this stuff. That is amazing more than anything else.” “THE PERFORMANCE AND ART installation that I saw called ‘Blood Diamond’ was so excellent. It was just great. And the performance of (Leonardo) Dicaprio and (Djimon) Hounsou made it a wonderful, wonderful movie. I thought the acting and photography was superb and just marvelous.” “THE OSCAR SHOW IS A JOKE, ASKING some silicon bimbo who she is wearing. Ask her to spell the designer’s name and you’d have to call the paramedics. Besides, anything with Whoopi Goldberg is a disaster. But you have a choice to see what you think is interesting. Locally, you don’t. City Hall’s ministry of cultural awareness and correct thought makes sure that your tax dollars are incorrectly used in supporting questionable presentations of creative work so lazy artists can get cheap housing. Sounds very big brother to me. See if the bimbos at the Oscars can spell Orwellian.”
“AND THE ACADEMY AWARD FOR BEST Acting goes to ... Santa Monica for Renters Rights! The entire city hates how they have completely ruined our once sweet little town, yet two weeks before every election they yell, cry and threaten tenants that their evil landlords will toss them out if they are not elected. Since there are more tenants than landlords, their great acting always gets them reelected.”
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“THE 67TH ANNUAL FAKE AWARDS show at the Fake Gallery in Silver Lake. Better than the real thing, plus we got a real Fake gift bag.”
“YES, I USED TO LOOK FORWARD TO watching the Oscars. Actually, we used to dress up and have a party and pretend to be at the party with all the movie stars. Again, for the second year, I boycott the event for the poor selection for the emcee. If Hollywood can’t do better, then there is no talent. To stay home and watch would be wasted. To watch and listen to that emcee, Ellen Degeneres, makes the entire evening worthless. I do not want to wait for that.”
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“THE MOTION PICTURE THAT I HOPE wins a lot of Academy Awards is “Letters from Iwo Jima,” from Clint Eastwood. It really gives a very human portrayal of the Japanese during that period in time of history. The Japanese are portrayed as having to protect the island for their empire and to die for that empire. As Clint Eastwood has said, Japanese soldiers didn’t expect to return home, but the motion
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