Subj : Re: The Oscars
To   : Orbitman
From : Poindexter Fortran
Date : Wed Mar 02 2016 06:28:00

  Re: Re: The Oscars
  By: Orbitman to Caphood on Tue Mar 01 2016 09:02 pm

 Or> I stopped watching awards shows many years ago because of the bullshit
 Or> they spew while "accepting" an award. Just say "Thank you!" and get the
 Or> hell off the stage. Don't go on a rant about something completely
 Or> unrelated. 

Gotta use those 15 minutes wisely.

I think the moment that award shows lost relevancy for me was when Jack
Valenti, then head of the MPAA, came out at the Academy awards to talk about
how piracy was killing the movie industry. Kind of an ironic soapbox when you
think about it.

Valenti famously told a congressional panel in 1982, "I say to you that the VCR
is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston
strangler is to the woman home alone."

I guess he didn't see the market in home video sales.
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