Oscar Offal, But First, A Reminder!

Always a bit boring, the glitterati engaged in a self-regarding fiesta…..

• Oscar Effluent – Glad I Gave Up After 20 Mins!

…as we have noted in previous years, but I’ll have a bash at bashing the event later.

Meanwhile a reminder, that petition…

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….which all good people should sign!

Thousands have signed an online petition to remove Hong Kong actor Donnie Yen as a presenter at this year’s Oscars due to his support of the Chinese government.

No actor, nobody in any sphere of human activity, should be honoured if he or she or it…

.( that ‘it’ is a nod to ‘diversity’ on my part!)

…is known to give aid or comfort to a regime….

Adolf Xi’s Fan Club? Out, Out, Out! 

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  Today’s Question – Is Beijing Better At Hiding Virus Data Or Gulag Gang–Rape?

https://www.nme.com/news/film/petition-remove-donnie-yen-oscars-presenter-earns-thousands-signatures-3410993

 

Adolf Xi’s Fan Club? Out, Out, Out!

We have often drawn attention to the folly of allowing supporters of arguably the worst regime in the world…..

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  Today’s Question – Is Beijing Better At Hiding Virus Data Or Gulag Gang–Rape?

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So why on earth should any such individual be honoured?

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Good For Will Smith!

Having already touched on the absurd Oscars…

Oscar Effluent – Glad I Gave Up After 20 Mins!

…despite my disinclination to waste time on the affront to democratic values – awards bestown on self-regarding celebrities…

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…by fellow-members of the show-biz ‘elite’ in which the paying public get no vote!

…I now have to return briefly to Hollywood…

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Will Smith

Video caption,Best actor winner Will Smith took offence at a joke by presenter Chris Rock

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-60897004

…to applaud Will Smith.

I don’t know much about that black actor, though seem to recall he was fun to watch in those action sci-fi comedies he did with Tommy Lee Jones.

Today’s BBC news showed him taking a quite effective swing…

…at some MC bum who took the mick about Smith’s wife’s medical condition.

(Alopecia)

At any time, that would merit a sock on the kisser.

Before a worldwide tv audience?

Good on ya, Will!

PS – predictably, UK Pravda was awful.

The first report I saw brought in an American ‘show-biz expert’ almost crying about Smith’s admirable move, which inexplicably upset him.

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And hour later, 5pm Jakarta time, they had a woman, more balanced about the sock, but wittering about the ‘politics of black women’s hair,’ for pity’s sakes!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-6089700

Osteria Francescana? Gimana Wartegku?

Shock news on tv tonight, just before I turn in, with an eatery in the Italian city of Modena apparently winning the title of the ‘World’s Best Restaurant! ‘ 

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The Winner! Osteria Francescana

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No disrespect to the Osteria Francescana – never heard of it, to be frank! – but who the heck gets to vote on these awards?

Not you, I’ll bet, any more than I.

It’s like the Oscars, all us folks who spend their dollars and quids and euros and yen that make movies a success – we never get a vote! The decision’s made by a pack of poncey celebs and plutocrats.

And the less said about the Cannes Film Festival the better, a playground for pseudo-intellectuals and posers.

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Jakarta warteg

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I suppose my local Jakarta warteg didn’t get a look-in, despite its prices being much more affordable ( two bucks for a big filling meal!) and its hour of opening far longer – the Osteria shuts at 9.30pm, according to internet info!

But no complaints from me – the warteg is a pleasant, friendly little place and has no need of gawping crowds – they’d make it hard to get one of its maybe twenty seats!

'Sniper' Shot Down! Oscars Illustrate Gap Between People and Gilded Elite

Barely a mention of the best box-office draw! Typical of the Hollywood snobbocracy, which chose to diss the movie-goers who provide them with their glitterati life-style, the Oscars all but ignored American Sniper.

 

 

Even EuroNews this morning felt obliged to mention this bizarre failure to recognise talent, a blatant PC bias against a film that celebrates patriotism.

The in-crowd mind-set is sick, as I noted previously.

My Wallow In The Swamp of Moral Depravity!