Save some punctuation for the rest of us, sheesh.
I just watched *The Hours[p/i] for the third time in three days.
As far as I’m concerned, Meryl Streep is She Who Must Be Obeyed.
Got a problem with that? Blow me.
That extraneous ‘p’ stands for ‘pished’, and you can blow me if you have a problem with that, too.
In fact, there’s a general open invitation to blow me.
If you’ve got a problem with that, you can just look up “infinitely recurring series” in the dictionary.
I also thought Meryl Streep should have shut the fuck up.
For one thing, she was up there quite awhile and pretty much used up the quota alotted to the relatively minor award she won, it was best actress in a miniseries, not like she won one of the big ones. It’s just about the least significant award they hand out, above only supporting actor/actress in a miniseries.
So she gets done throwing out her thank-yous and then just kind of adds that little jab at Bush out of nowhere. I had flipped over to the show after the Simpsons, and her little drive-by Bush-bashing induced me to just flip elsewhere.
It wasn’t even a particularly insightful statement, as it amounts to a pretty poor summary of the State of the Union address. That remark wouldn’t even have passed muster on MSNBC’s post-speech analysis show. The items she mentioned were discussed in Bush’s speech for maybe a total of one minute, compared to about a half hour on Iraq. If you asked most of these leftie Hollywood types what they thought is the most pressing problem in America, I assume they’d say the war, and a few might say the economy. So by and large, Bush and Streep are probably in agreement on what is the most important issue in America. If her comment had been funny, I could almost cut her some slack. But did we really need another actor using the spotlight to tell us “lol, bush is stoopid”, and to do such a piss poor job of it? Hell, unless you’d seen the State of the Union address, you wouldn’t even understand her comment, and even then you have to think a little to get the connection since those items were hardly the centerpiece of the speech.
I just find it tasteless to use the stage provided to honor you for a major accomplishment in your industry to promote some political agenda. The industry was basically jizzing all over itself for Angels in America tonight, why not just enjoy being a part of that, accept the accolades, note your appreciation, and move on? She’s paid to act, and she’s being honored for acting. She certainly wouldn’t win an award for Outstanding Political Commentary.
The fact that that stuff was included in the SOTU means that the President thinks it’s important. He doesn’t address the entire nation and a joint session of Congress very often. He spoke for about an hour, and the time he devoted to talking about pro athletes in particular was wasted time by any standard. Who gives a shit? If I was talking sports with a buddy, it would be relevant. It’s not an issue the President of the fucking country should be getting involved in. Nevermind the fact that he brought it up as a reason to fund a program to give more drug tests to high school students. Tests he himself would probably not have passed at that age, but like I said- Bush wasted his own and the nation’s time by blabbing about athletes using steroids and keeping gays from marrying. I’m not talking about the time I spent watching the TV. I’m saying making that shit part of his speech and agenda is a waste of time and effort.
I don’t care what the forum is, Meryl is entitled to say it. Hollywood spends enough time celebrating its own little fictional bubble, so any time the people who live there acknowledge the rest of the world exists is well spent. Although I don’t really like it when they run for Governor of California.
Disinterested does not mean uninterested. Disinterested means you don’t have a personal stake in something… you might still find it fascinating. Similarly, you might find a topic completely uninteresing but be far from disinterested. FYI.
It’s obvious to me that the POTA chose those topics because they polled well and he expected a favorable response. It’s also obvious to me that he chose that day because it would take attention away from whoever got a “bounce” off of the Iowa Cauceses. Expect something Wednesday after the NH primary… an announcement, a leak, some kind of “breaking news” from the gov’t… maybe we’ll go back on orange alert. You heard it here first.
[trivia-obsessed nitpick]She’s actually Mrs. Gummer. All things considered, Streep’s The Lesser of Two Evil Stagenames, no?[/trivia-obsessed nitpick]
Carry on…
You know, the OP might want to consider just not watching that tripe at all.
Just some perspective…
She made a snipe in favor of gay rights while accepting an award for Angels in America, a groundbreaking gay play. If she’d won for, say, Elf, it might have been off-topic, but the reason she won the award (And Al, and Mary-Louise) was at least in some part political.
Though Angels in America was excellent, I couldn’t help noticing that nearly award for a miniseries had to do with transsexualism, transvestitism, or homosexuality. Agenda, agenda, agenda. Don’t fault Meryl for being a part of it, and though I didn’t see her remarks, I offer that they came off flat because she was drunk, like everyone else.
Lest you think, hey, it’s 2004, Angels in America is a tired and overdone, let me take you back to me in high school 1995 when the play, on it’s national tour, came to Charlotte, NC. Charlotte, NC is extremely conservative, but it is also very into its theater and arts. Charlotte has a better theater scene than anywhere else I’ve lived, including Washington, DC.
In fact, art funding was frozen until people could vote in a new city council. Art programs for elementary schools, and for the art museum, the science museum (perhaps the number one tourist attraction in Charlotte) and the theater–all lost, because someone desired to put on a play with homosexual characters in a city known for theater.
Al Pacino didn’t say a single word about AIDS victims during his acceptance speech, and I found that crass.
Personally, I’ve yet to find an awards-related political slam better than Ellen’s “Lesbian surrounded by Jews” during the post 9-11 Emmys. I’m sure Meryl was feeble and pathetic, but I don’t think she was coming out of left field.
Obscure Philip K. Dick reference noted and laughed at. I need to set my dial to 68, which is “Desire to dial.”
Carry on.
Frankly, on a scale of one to ten on annoying political diatribes at an award ceremony, I’d rank Meryl’s little remark at a -2. It was two sentences at the end of a usual “I’d like to thank blah blah blah” speech about a play which, as another has pointed out, focused on gay men and AIDS in America. I found Michael Moore’s diatribe last year much more annoying and farcical.
I was thinking something along the lines of the following;
Select the OP, then hit “file copy”. Open up Word and hit “file paste”. “Control P” then “enter”. Take the printed output and smear it with ketchup. Feed to dog. Follow dog till bowel movement has been completed.
Take the results and smear it on bread. Eat and enjoy.
Y’all watch award shows? :rolleyes:
Me neither, I think he`s answered all the questions in GQ and he needs something else to stimulate the old grey matter. 