# Hooray for Hollywood **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 25, 2003, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hooray-for-hollywood/163966 "2003-03-25T05:03:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hooray-for-hollywood/163966/21 "2003-03-25T21:02:15Z")
Well, we are _now_. [sub]I am soooo sleeping on the couch tonight.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Raygun99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Raygun99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raygun99)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2003, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hooray-for-hollywood/163966/22 "2003-03-26T00:15:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kang and Kodos \* > \*\* > And for the first time in Academy history, a song which features mulitple uses of the word “motherfuck” wins Best Song. (Though it was still less offensive than anything by Randy Newman.) \*\* Of course, no Oscar winning films have ever featured any profanity. What? They have? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Avalonian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@Avalonian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avalonian)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2003, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hooray-for-hollywood/163966/23 "2003-03-26T00:19:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bren\_Cameron \* > **I agree with the OP–I mean, everyone knows the Oscars were established as awards for moral rectitude, not actual artistic merit.** Huh? I thought they were both! I mean… check that. Reverse it. They’re neither. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2003, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hooray-for-hollywood/163966/24 "2003-03-26T00:34:27Z")
Yeah, let’s get back to the days of happy, family-oriented Oscar-nominated songs. Like “Blame Canada.” ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2003, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hooray-for-hollywood/163966/25 "2003-03-26T00:47:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kalhoun \* > \*\*If I remember correctly, she put a clause in the pre-nup that states that if he floozes on her, it’ll cost him $1M the first time, $5M the second time, or something like that. Smart cookie, that Catherine! \*\* 😛 Wow ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2003, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hooray-for-hollywood/163966/26 "2003-03-26T01:04:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Anamorphic \* > \*\*Gee **Kang and Kodos** , your collection of books, music, art and film created by artists who have never sinned must be quite extensive. Whadaya got, a couple of Celine Dion albums and a room full of paintings by Thomas Kinkade? > \*\* Well, Dion married a man much older than she is, and Kincade, I believe, is in some sort of trouble relating to his business, so I doubt he even has that. Interesting that your screen name is that of two characters of a man who has been forced to publicly apologize to both Rio and New Orleans. Does that mean you should dump your screen name? (And this is by someone who’s peeved at what won Best Song) ---
**Author:** ![Purd\_Werfect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47c2d/32.png) [@Purd\_Werfect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purd_Werfect)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2003, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hooray-for-hollywood/163966/27 "2003-03-26T01:30:20Z")
Once again I must say “fuck the world” for not behaving the way I think it should. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2003, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hooray-for-hollywood/163966/28 "2003-03-26T10:29:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by yojimbo \* > \*\*Is there a very high level of deaths from guns in the US? > Does Canada have a lower per capita rate? > Did K-Mart(I think) stop selling those bullets? > Where those kids shot? > Is McVeigh a nut? > Are the international incidents made up by MM? > Did he get a gun from a Bank? > Are the militia in the movie real? > Did that moron make lots of napalm? > Are some journalists two faced manipulative pricks? > > God I have to see that film again I’ve forgotten the rest? > > \*\* No, you see, it’s _fiction_ because he doesn’t _agree_ with it. Get this. It wasn’t fiction. It had an agenda. It wasn’t fair and balanced. It was a bit leading manipulative. But wasn’t fiction. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2003, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hooray-for-hollywood/163966/29 "2003-03-26T11:31:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Governor Quinn \* > \*\*Interesting that your screen name is that of two characters of a man who has been forced to publicly apologize to both Rio and New Orleans. Does that mean you should dump your screen name? > \*\* Is that addressed to **Anamorphic** or **Kang and Kodos**? At any rate, who’s had to apologize to Rio and New Orleans? ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2003, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hooray-for-hollywood/163966/30 "2003-03-26T11:48:56Z")
I’d guess K&K, as the cities have taken umbrage to their portrayal in the Simpsons. Mostly due to the Simpsons showing Carnival/Marti Gras, and the cities not seeing it as funny. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2003, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hooray-for-hollywood/163966/31 "2003-03-26T13:25:43Z")
Okay then. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![pizzabrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@pizzabrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pizzabrat)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2003, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hooray-for-hollywood/163966/32 "2003-03-26T13:26:20Z")
> [@](#): > > Mostly due to the Simpsons showing Carnival/Marti Gras, and the cities not seeing it as funny. It wasn’t Mardi Gras for New Orleans, it was “New Orleans! Home of pirates, drunks, and whores… New Orleans! Tacky, overpriced souvenir stores… If you want to go to hell, you should take a trip. To the Sodom and Gomorrah of the Mississip’: New Orleans! Stinking, rotten, vomiting, vile…” etc. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2003, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hooray-for-hollywood/163966/33 "2003-03-26T13:58:28Z")
Oh, right. Streetcar! ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2003, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hooray-for-hollywood/163966/34 "2003-03-26T15:46:49Z")
No IIRC Marge came out after the Streetcar! episode (a seperate episode) and explained how she thought she would have to make an apology to the city of New Orleans but they did not recieve any complaints. My big problem with Roman winning is that I didn’t think The Pianist was a very good film. I don’t think Brody should have won either. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hooray-for-hollywood/163966.md?page=1)