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This
page is all about that awards ceremony that happens once a
year that all your favourite and least favourite Movie people
just have to attend. Instead of going la la over the la las
we are going to try and reveal how silly or how arrogant some
of the goings on at the Oscars have been over the years.
In
1942 Irving Berlin got up on stage to present the award for
Best Song. He says "I'm glad to present the Award",
"I've known the fellow for a long time" Guess who
the fellow was ? Himself. Aaargh only in Hollywood.
Hows
this for an understatement. " I am practically underprepared"
announces Best Actress in 1943 Greer Garson as she starts
her acceptance speech. Guess who long the speech lasts. 7
minutes. How long would it have been if she had prepared !
Elizabeth
Taylor is nominated for Best Actress (1961). One small problem
though, she is ill in hospital after a throat operation. But
trooper that Liz is she recovers and manages to attend the
ceremony. Well does she not faint backstage with the emotion
and the stress of it all. She recovers mightily quick though
to do a photo shoot fot Time magazine. And considering she
had just had a throat operation, was it wise to smoke cigarettes
during the photos ?
If
there was an award for saying the wrong thing then in 1968
Bob Hope would surely have won it. The Oscars ceremony happened
two days after the murder of Martin Luther King. Bob gaily
opens the show with " I have a deal with the Academy-
they'll negotiate if I stop bombing". And to end the
show "The Moguls shared something with that man in Atlanta.......they
had a dream". Bob, cheap humour is not funny and its
not clever.
Laurence
Olivier's acceptance speech must go down as one of the most
incomprehensible psycho babble speeches ever "In the
great wealth of the firmament of your nations generosities,
this particular choice may perhaps be found by future generations
as a trifle eccentric".......Eccentric he wasn't kidding
was he ?
Sally
Field what are you on about "I wanted to have more than
anything your respect. The first time I didnt feel it and
I cant deny the fact that you like me. Right now you really
like me" That was her acceptance speech on getting her
second Best Actress trophy. Slightly self centred then were
we ?
Great
political speaker Richard Gere warbled on in 1993 the following
intellectual heavyweight speech "If something miraculous
, really kind of Movielike could happen here where we could
all kind of send love and truth and sanity to Deng Xiao Ping
(did he know who Xiao Ping even was ?) right now in bejing
- that he will take his troops and take the Chinese army from
Tibet". Errm Richard the Chinese government don't listen
to the US government so why should they listen to you?
Im
sure there is heaps more of stuff I can add here but thats
all for now.........
First
Update to this section already. At this years Oscar ceremony
Hilary Swank's speech went on and on thanking nearly practically
she had ever known. She forgot just one person though...her
husband ! In the imortal words of Homer Simpson D'oh !
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