And the winner is … The liberal political agenda!

February 22, 2009 · Posted in Humour, News, Personalities

I really, really wanted Mickey Rourke to win Best Actor. Failing that, it was good to know that Brad Pitt would finally win one. Because everyone knew these were the two best movie actors this year. Well, everybody except “the Academy”, of course.

For anyone who reads my stuff regularly, you probably already know that I’m not some rabid anti-gay neanderthal. (Really, how could I be a neanderthal when the world is only 6000 years old? Whoa, kidding!)

(In my youth I was even been accused by some – in the media, no less – of being a “gay rights crusader”.)

While I didn’t support the gay marriage amendments here, I did support removing the word “marriage” from law (as some smarter countries have done). My logic went something like this: why enrage either side of a debate when you can enrage both. Well, hmmm… something like that.

Anyway.

On to the Oscars…

I haven’t seen Milk. I heard it was great, and I would like to see it. I saw The Wrestler, and Mickey Rourke was simply brilliant. I didn’t see Benjamin Button, but Brad Pitt is looooong overdue for an Oscar (c’mon Academy, it’s time to forgive him for A River Runs Through It).

But the fix is definitely in on Sean Penn. No, I don’t think there’s some Obama-Hollywood conspiracy orchestrated from the Oval Office – but I do think those Hollywood liberal elite have outdone themselves this time by choosing politics over their art.

When a clear toss-up between Mickey Rourke and Brad Pitt results in … “Sean Penn”.

I think this is sad. Not because it’s a movie about a gay man, but because two clearly better actors in what might be the greatest roles of their careers are snubbed.

And maybe Sean Penn’s performance was brilliant. But his little political speech at the end of the show certainly didn’t inspire me. Honestly, Sean, if I wanted politics, I would have changed the station to Fox News (or CNN if I was in Hollywood).

Shame on the Academy for another show of political grandstanding. I guess nobody should be surprised.

Anyway, I guess I best be off to see Slumdog Millionare.

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Comments

JR

This is why I stopped watching years ago. Jane Fonda, Marlin Brando and George C. Scott ended it for me.
Nicola Timmerman

I knew Mickey Rourke wouldn't win. He sealed his fate when he said that George W. Bush wasn't as bad a president as 'everyone' says.

Glad to see Man on Wire won for best documentary instead of the Katrina documentary. The documentary about the French acrobat who walked on a cable he and his team rigged between the twin towers in New York was absolutely amazing. Totally crazy people! You can rent it at Blockbuster.
Kursk

The academy shunned Rourke because he does not play the game.He turned his back on Hollywood when they were non supportive of him, and when you are in the bad books of the Hollywood elites, you are in there forever..
Bec

Oh and now that I am still up, may I add, the little asshole, DID NOT thank his wife.

This is a guy, if any one should thank their wife, he should!

Absolutely my new RTAA's.

Last year, he was a favorite for best director and movie.

I have lost all respect for the Religious Science of Sean Penn today and save the world and insult everyone while I am at it because I am famous and CAN.

The guy will never achieve his ideal but he should quit taking a paycheck to prove his point.
Bec

Sean Penn? The man is angry and if that is what progressive in the US looks like, trouble.

We are so far ahead of them and this guy refers to the new POTUS as the solution?
It will be at least as long as it took for everyone to realize that Clinton, could have had Osama Bin Laden and there would have likely, not been a 9-11, for that to happen.

Canada rocks and our left want to be them now?
Okay, lets be like the US. Canadian conservatives would think that they had died and gone to heaven.
What a joke the left in this country are, seriously!